The Tibet Gift House

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Teaching with Geshe Jinpa Sonam

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Topic to be announced

Donation : $ 10

Geshe la is will be available for house blessings and personal blessings by appointment from January 25-30th, 2011.

The Tibet Gift House is honored to host Geshe Jinpa Sonam. is currently the resident teacher at the Indiana Buddhist Center. He is a Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy Scholar, and comes from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in south India, where the practice is in Gelugpa Buddhism. His students call him “Geshe-la”.

The Gelug (Tradition of Virtue, sometimes known as the ‘Yellow Hat’) School came into being in the early fifteenth century as a result of the extraordinary insights of Tsongkhapa, who commenced his studies at the age of three. After spending some twenty years studying with Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu and Kadam (Oral Instruction) teachers, he convened a great council to review monastic discipline, and this provoked a new wave of monastic renewal that affected all of Tibet. Towards the end of his life his disciples founded the three great Gelugpa monastic universities of Ganden, Drepung and Sera near Lhasa. The institutions and lineages of both the Panchen Lamas and the Dalai Lamas developed within the Gelug school

For more information about Geshe Sonam: indianabuddhist.org

Buddhist Philosophy Study Group

Saturdays
3-5pm
$10.00

In this group, we will come together to study and discuss the text of the Bodhisattvacharyavatara by Shantideva.. This text is the Way of the Boddhisatva and includes instruction for practice. It is a long poem describing the process of enlightenment from the first thought to full buddhahood. This group is for practitioners or anyone else interested in a serious study group.

Geshe Ngawang Gedun

Born in Domo, Tibet, Geshe la escaped across the Himalayas with his family as an infant. He studied at Sera Mey Monastery in Southern India from an early age and received ordination from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at the age of 20. Geshe la spent the next 18 years studying the six principle subjects.

Geshe la has been teaching in Australia since 1996 and in the U.S. since 2000. He is the Spiritual Director for both the Australian Tibetan Buddhist Center in Gold Coast, and Tara Tibetan Buddhist Center in Washington State. He is fluent and teaches in English to his western students.