Geshe Ngawang Dakpa serves as a resident teacher at Tse Chen Ling. He was born in Nakchu, northeast of Lhasa, Tibet and became a monk at the age of ten. At the local monastery of Othok he studied both Dharma and secular subjects extensively before entering Sera Je Monastery eleven years later. He fled Tibet in 1959. Upon his arrival in India, Geshe-la not only continued his monastic studies, but also spent three years at the Sanskrit University in Varanasi, earning an MA with honors. Invited by the Queen of Sikkim, he taught at the University of Sikkim for nearly 20 years before returning to Sera monastery in South India and obtaining his Geshe degree. Additionally, Geshe-la taught in Taiwan before arriving in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999.
Events with Geshe Ngawang Dakpa
Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind TrainingSeptember 21, 2024
**Presented via Zoom. Registration required.*** Online only via zoom Check the Schedule as some Saturdays will be omitted Geshe Ngawang Dakpa will will resume commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training, compiled by and attributed to Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (འཆད་ཁ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ།, b.1101 – d.1175). Seven-Point Mind Training is one of the core texts of…
Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind TrainingOctober 5, 2024
**Presented via Zoom. Registration required.*** Online only via zoom Check the Schedule as some Saturdays will be omitted Geshe Ngawang Dakpa will will resume commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training, compiled by and attributed to Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (འཆད་ཁ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ།, b.1101 – d.1175). Seven-Point Mind Training is one of the core texts of…
Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind TrainingOctober 19, 2024
**Presented via Zoom. Registration required.*** Online only via zoom Check the Schedule as some Saturdays will be omitted Geshe Ngawang Dakpa will will resume commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training, compiled by and attributed to Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (འཆད་ཁ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ།, b.1101 – d.1175). Seven-Point Mind Training is one of the core texts of…
Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind TrainingNovember 9, 2024
**Presented via Zoom. Registration required.*** Online only via zoom Check the Schedule as some Saturdays will be omitted Geshe Ngawang Dakpa will will resume commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training, compiled by and attributed to Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (འཆད་ཁ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ།, b.1101 – d.1175). Seven-Point Mind Training is one of the core texts of…
Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind TrainingNovember 16, 2024
**Presented via Zoom. Registration required.*** Online only via zoom Check the Schedule as some Saturdays will be omitted Geshe Ngawang Dakpa will will resume commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training, compiled by and attributed to Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (འཆད་ཁ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ།, b.1101 – d.1175). Seven-Point Mind Training is one of the core texts of…