Land of Enlightened Wisdom

Geshe Tenzin Sherap

Geshe Tenzin Sherap, spiritual director and the resident teacher of Land of Enlightened Wisdom is fully qualified to bestow teachings in the Buddha Dharma. Geshe Sherap was born in 1964 at the refugee's camp established in North India shortly after the Tibetan uprising in 1959. He had refugee status in India while attending school at the Tibetan Monastaries established by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He entered Namgyal Monastery at the age of 14, where for five years he studied all types of Buddhist ceremony and ritual. At 19, he joined Gaden Jangtse Monastery in South India. He studied for 17 years at Gaden Jangtse, where he was awarded the Geshe Lharampa degree, the highest

academic degree in Tibetan Buddhism. He then went for a year to Gyumey Tantric University, where he studied Tantra and polyphonic chanting. He began teaching the young monks and then the senior monks debate techniques at the Gaden Jangtse Monastery and Namgyal Monastery in India. Geshe Sherap has returned to Namgyal Monastery to again teach classes to the monks during the Monsoon Teaching Retreat in 2018 and 2019.

Now since 2003, he has taught western students in the United States and is known for his great sense of humor, personal warmth, and his enthusiasm to teach students who are eager to learn the Buddha Dharma. Geseh-la has been teaching beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of Buddhist Philosophy in English to western students at Namgyal Institute in Ithaca, NY and Land of Compassion Buddha in West Covina, CA. In May 2010, Geshe Sherap established the Land of Enlightened Wisdom dharma center in Pomona, CA at the requests of and with the help of several dedicated Dharma friends. Its aim is to benefit everyone who is interested in learning and practicing Tibetan Buddhism based on the Great System of Nalanda Monastic University of Ancient India.

Guest Teachers

Geshe Ngawang Kunchen

Geshe Sherap has extended an invitation to Geshe Ngawang Kunchen to become a residential monk at the Pomona center. Geshe Ngawang Kunchen was born on January 15, 1980 in the Ngyachu region of Kham, Tibet. In 1996, he left Tibet to join Gajang Dora Khangtsen House to study the five great treaties at Gaden Jangtse Monastery, in Mundgod, Karnataka State, India.

Geshe Kunchen received the Geshe Lharampa degree, the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhism, in 2017 and he received his certificate from Guymed Tantric Monastery, in 2018.

The five great treaties that are studied for his degree are: 1. Monastic Discipline, 2. Knowledge from Pali Tradition, 3. The Perfection of Wisdom, 4. The Valid Cognition - Training of Logic and Reasoning, and 5. The Middle Way - Emptiness.

In 2018, Geshe Kuchen was invited to the Lab-Sum Shedrub Ling, a Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Korea to flourish the Buddha Dharma by conducting a three day Mo-Lam Chen Mo Puja, creating in two weeks the Avalokiteshvara Sand Mandala, leading events and prayers on Saka Dawa Duchen such as Water Offering and Flower Offering to Buddha Statue and chanting the two hour the Long Life Prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s birthday as well as offering daily prayers and pujas upon request.

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