The Geshe/Khenpo Track at Giao Long Monastery is not simply an academic pursuit it is a life path. Rooted in the Tibetan scholastic traditions of Larung Gar, Dzogchen Monastery, and CIHTS, this advanced program guides learners beyond intellectual understanding into lived wisdom. Here, study becomes meditation, debate becomes insight, and service becomes Bodhicitta in action.
Following the tradition of the great Shedras, debate sharpens clarity and dissolves doubt. Students train in:
Each session becomes a mirror revealing the subtleties of mind and the precision of Dharma.
This path does not separate book learning from contemplative realization. Meditation forms the ground of the entire journey:
Here, the Dharma is not only understood it is embodied.
Students engage directly with the great treatises of Indian and Tibetan masters Nāgārjuna, Asaṅga, Vasubandhu, Longchen Rabjam, Mipham Rinpoche, Patrul Rinpoche, and beyond. Courses include:
This is where knowledge is no longer borrowed it becomes your own.
The Geshe/Khenpo Track prepares students not only to master philosophy, but to serve others.
Training includes:
A true Khenpo/Geshe is not recognized by scholarship alone, but by the vastness of their heart.
At GLM, students learn directly from lineage-holding Rinpoche-la, Geshe-la, and Khenpo, receiving oral transmissions, commentary, and experiential guidance rarely available outside the Himalayas.
This transforms learning into a living lineage—warm, direct, and personal.”.
Beyond intellectual and contemplative mastery, the Khenpo/Geshe path is a vow: to use one’s life for the welfare of beings.
Through service projects, compassionate action, and teaching responsibilities, students activate the essence of: Bodhicitta — the enlightened heart-mind.
This is where realization begins to benefit the world.
How the Geshe/Khenpo Track Cultivates Your Realization |
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| To attain the level equivalent to a doctoral degree in Tibetan Buddhism, one must pass through three inseparable stages of formation: deep immersion, penetrating analysis, and contemplative realization. First, immersion in classical Buddhist thought provides the vast intellectual landscape needed to understand the view. Madhyamaka, Yogācāra, Abhidharma, Prajñāpāramitā, and the great commentarial traditions. Without this foundation, higher understanding has no ground to stand on. Next, the discipline of debate trains the student to test every concept against reason and experience; it dissolves uncertainty, sharpens logic, and reveals the subtle patterns of mind. Through debate, the teachings stop being theoretical, they become verified through one’s own discernment. Finally, meditation weaves study into realization, transforming knowledge into lived wisdom. Here, analytical insight settles into the heart, allowing the view to ripen through direct experience. These three stages learning, analysis, and contemplative embodiment,mirror the traditional path of Tibetan monastic universities. Only by integrating all three can a practitioner reach the maturity expected of a Geshe or Khenpo: someone who not only understands the Dharma, but becomes a living expression of it.
ཤེས་རབ་སེམས་ལ་འོད་སྒྲོན་བརྒྱབ་པས། Wisdom sets a lamp within the mind,
analysis purifies what moves within it, and meditation seals the ultimate meaning in the heart |
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The path of a Geshe or Khenpo is not a pursuit of title, recognition, or worldly accomplishment. It is a vow whispered into the depths of one’s own conscience, a lifelong promise to let wisdom and compassion shape every breath and every choice. In the Tibetan tradition, such attainment is not measured by the number of texts mastered or debates won, but by the quiet magnitude of a heart that has learned to listen, to understand, and to give itself endlessly for the benefit of beings. To walk this path is to consent to a life in which insight becomes responsibility, learning becomes service, and compassion becomes the very ground on which one stands. It is a commitment to embody the Dharma so completely that one’s presence itself becomes a refuge for others.
Graduates are prepared to serve as:
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