Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel

PersonType	Category:Geshes Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
MainNamePhon	Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel
SortName	Rigsel, Lhundrup
bio	Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel (sometimes called Lama Lhundrup) was abbot of Kopan Monastery in Nepal. He was born in 1941 to a poor peasant family in Tibet, and joined Sera Monastery as a boy. In 1959 he fled from the Chinese invasion of Tibet and went to India. In Buxa, a refugee camp in Northern India, he met Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa. In the late sixties he journeyed to South India to start the clearing of land for the new Sera Monastic University. He received his Doctor of Divinity in Buddhist studies from Sera. In 1972 Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel was called to Kopan Monastery by Lama Yeshe, to teach Buddhist philosophy to the monks. The Dalai Lama appointed him abbot of Kopan Monastery in February 2000. As of 2011, Geshe Rigsel was on the board of directors of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. On September 7, 2011, Lama Lhundrup died due to cancer. (Source Accessed May 14, 2026)
YearBirth	1941
YearDeath	2011
associatedwebsite	https://kopanmonastery.org/lama-lhundrup/
Other wikis	research:Rigsel, Lhundrup buddhanature:Rigsel, Lhundrup bca:Rigsel, Lhundrup rtz:Rigsel, Lhundrup dnz:Rigsel, Lhundrup dudjom:Rigsel, Lhundrup khyentselineage:Rigsel, Lhundrup lcp:Rigsel, Lhundrup If the page does not yet exist on the remote wiki, you can paste the tag {{PersonCall}} inside the destination page. But please first make sure you are on the right page. Some wikis have the person page on Person/<COMMONS PERSON PAGENAME>, in which case the page <COMMONS PERSON PAGENAME> needs to be redirected. Ask if you need clarification.