geshe
Noun
Meaning
geshe (plural geshes)
A Tibetan Buddhist monk or nun who holds a certain academic degree.
Examples
Geshe Rapgyal Kalsang plays Ping-Pong in the George Garvin Brown Garden.
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.
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.