| Geshe Thubten Dawa was born in 1931 in the
Kongpo region of Central Tibet. He began his religious education at the age of sixteen
when he entered the Jangtse college of Ganden Monastic University. In 1978 he completed
the rigorous geshe training from Ganden Jangtse Monastery and was awarded the Geshe
Lharampa degree, the highest of the geshe degrees. In 1980 he was assigned to teach
dialectical debate, philosophy and Buddhist practice at Namgyal Monastery in Dharamsala,
India, where he taught until he was appointed to a position at the Library of Tibetan
Works and Archives teaching Buddhism to Western students. |
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