Word info

geshe

Noun

Meaning

geshe (plural geshes)

A Tibetan Buddhist monk or nun who holds a certain academic degree.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Geshe Rapgyal Kalsang plays Ping-Pong in the George Garvin Brown Garden. Source: Internet

Meyer visited one of the main libraries of Dharamsala with Geshe Lhakdor, Director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives and translator for the 14th Dalai Lama; the library was filled with many sacred texts that were smuggled out of Tibet. Source: Internet

Monks need to study the five major shastras of Exoteric Tibetan Buddhism and graduate from the Exoteric Dratsangs with any of the above mentioned Geshe degrees. Source: Internet

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