Every year, during the Third Spring Religious Festival, the Khenpo gives teachings from the Lamrim Chenmo (Lama Tsongkhapa’s The Detailed Stages on the Path to Enlightenment) to the monks. After the daytime debate, the Chabril invites the Khenpo to the …
The prayer meetings of Pharchin Semkye and Uma Semkye are held after the Second Spring Religious Festival with approval from the Disciplinarian. The former must hold their gathering in the common assembly hall of Drepung University, while saying prayers in …
The seventh abbot of Loseling, Omniscient Lekpae Choejor, also known as Jamyang Gawae Lodoe –whose wisdom spreads like the endless sky – composed many commentaries on the major Buddhist texts and composed many teachings to subjugate those proponents of the …
In general, supervision (tsizhag) means watching over attendance, but here it refers to the periodic visit of the Khenpo to the debate session for observation of the students at the debate. The purpose of the supervision by the Khenpo is: …
Any Tulku (reincarnated lama) who is interested in admittance to the Loseling Monastic College must, first of all, get an audience with the Khenpo, report to the Khenpo about his admission and then obtain the Khenpo’s approval. After approval from …
The Tulku Association of Loseling has become more efficient since 1996. It started to receive and organize a number of teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on sutra and tantra discourses. The principal objectives of the Tulku Association of …
Geshe is an academic degree conferred to a monk who has completed studies of the five major Buddhist texts and who has done academic debate tours with the monastic college or within the monastic university colleges. There are four different …
Practically, the students use six different methods to study the major Buddhist texts: memorization, instruction, debate, recitation, reading and discussion. They also study other subsidiary subjects.From the very beginning, students start memorizing the following root texts: Maitreya’s Ornament for Clear …