Geshe Lhundub Sopa

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Geshes Category:Ordained (Monks and Nuns) Category:Professors Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
MainNamePhon	Geshe Lhundub Sopa
bio	Born in the Tsang region of Tibet in 1923, Geshe Lhundub Sopa was both a spiritual master and a respected academic. He rose from a humble background to complete his geshe studies at Sera Je Monastic University in Lhasa with highest honors and was privileged to serve as a debate opponent for the Dalai Lama’s own geshe examination in 1959. He moved to New Jersey in the United States in 1963 and in 1967 began teaching in the Buddhist Studies Program at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he professor emeritus. In 1975, he founded the Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin, site of the Dalai Lama’s first Kalachakra initiation granted in the West. He is the author of several books in English, including the five-volume comprehensive teaching, Steps on the Path to Enlightenment. (Source accessed April 10, 2020)
YearBirth	1923
YearDeath	2014
BornIn	Shang region of Tsang province, Tibet
associatedwebsite	http://www.deerparkcenter.org/NewFiles/sopa.html
religiousaffiliation	Tibetan Buddhism; Geluk
publications	Cutting through appearances: Practice and Theory of Tibetan Buddhism, co-authored with Jeffrey Hopkins Wheel of Time: the Kalachakra in Context, co-authored with Roger Jackson and John Newman Peacock in the Poison Grove: Two Buddhists Texts for Training the Mind Steps on the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo       Volume 1: The Foundation Practices       Volume II Karma       Volume III Way of the Bodhisattva       Volume IV Śamatha       Volume V Insight Teachings from Tibet: Guidance from Great Lamas, co-authored Like a Waking Dream: The Autobiography of Geshe Lhundrub Sopa The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems: A Tibetan Study of Asian Religious Thought
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Names

Tibetan: ལྷུན་གྲུབ་བཟོད་པ།
Wylie:

• lhun grub bzod pa
  
• lHun grub bzod pa
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• Lhundub Sopa
  
• Lhundup Sopa
  
• Lhundrup Sopa
  
• Geshe Lhundub Sopa
  

Dates

Born 1923, Tsang, Tibet

Affiliation

Deer Park Center

Other Biographical Information

• Wikipedia Entry

• Biography in the dedication section of Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre

Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered.

Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered.

A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.