]> 2026-10-16T13:59:53-04:00 People/Sopa, Lhundub 0 en http://www.deerparkcenter.org/NewFiles/sopa.html Born in the Tsang region of Tibet in 1923, Geshe Lhundub Sopa was both a spiritual master and a respected academic. He rose from a humble background to complete his geshe studies at Sera Je Monastic University in Lhasa with highest honors and was privileged to serve as a debate opponent for the Dalai Lama’s own geshe examination in 1959. He moved to New Jersey in the United States in 1963 and in 1967 began teaching in the Buddhist Studies Program at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he professor emeritus. In 1975, he founded the Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin, site of the Dalai Lama’s first Kalachakra initiation granted in the West. He is the author of several books in English, including the five-volume comprehensive teaching, ''Steps on the Path to Enlightenment''. ([https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/geshe-lhundub-sopa/ Source Accessed April 10, 2020]) Shang region of Tsang province, Tibet Person People File:Sopa Lhubdub Wisdom.jpeg https://commons.tsadra.org/images/9/9c/Sopa_Lhubdub_Wisdom.jpeg true true true File:Sopa Lhubdub Wisdom.jpeg File:Sopa Lhubdub Wisdom.jpeg Geshe Lhundub Sopa;ལྷུན་གྲུབ་བཟོད་པ།;lhun grub bzod pa;Sopa, Lhundub false Tibetan Geshe Lhundub Sopa ལྷུན་གྲུབ་བཟོད་པ། lhun grub bzod pa Sopa Lhubdub Wisdom.jpeg Sopa, Lhundub Geshe Lhundub Sopa ལྷུན་གྲུབ་བཟོད་པ། lhun grub bzod pa Authors of English Works Geshes Ordained (Monks and Nuns) Professors and Tibetan Buddhist Teachers * ''Cutting through appearances: Practice and Theory of Tibetan Buddhism'', co-authored with Jeffrey Hopkins * ''Wheel of Time: the Kalachakra in Context'', co-authored with Roger Jackson and John Newman * ''Peacock in the Poison Grove: Two Buddhists Texts for Training the Mind'' * ''Steps on the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo''       Volume 1: The Foundation Practices       Volume II Karma       Volume III Way of the Bodhisattva       Volume IV Śamatha       Volume V Insight * ''Teachings from Tibet: Guidance from Great Lamas'', co-authored * ''Like a Waking Dream: The Autobiography of Geshe Lhundrub Sopa'' * ''The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems: A Tibetan Study of Asian Religious Thought'' Tibetan Buddhism Geluk Classical Born in the Tsang region of Tibet in 1923, Geshe Lhundub Sopa was both a spiritual master and a respected academic. He rose from a humble background to complete his geshe studies at Sera Je Monastic University in Lhasa with highest honors and was privileged to serve as a debate opponent for the Dalai Lama’s own geshe examination in 1959. He moved to New Jersey in the United States in 1963 and in 1967 began teaching in the Buddhist Studies Program at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he professor emeritus. In 1975, he founded the Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin, site of the Dalai Lama’s first Kalachakra initiation granted in the West. He is the author of several books in English, including the five-volume comprehensive teaching, ''Steps on the Path to Enlightenment''. ([https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/geshe-lhundub-sopa/ Source Accessed April 10, 2020]) Sopa, Lhundub;ལྷུན་གྲུབ་བཟོད་པ།;lhun grub bzod pa;Geshe Lhundub Sopa;;; ; ; 1923 2014 2020-04-10T16:17:56Z 2458950.1791204 2020-04-10T16:17:56Z 2458950.1791204 true People/Sopa, Lhundub 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Sopa, Lhundub]] People/Sopa, Lhundub# QUERYe3c110030b9006cc5d43b7214eb2c1af 0 200 1 template 13 <q>[[BuNayAuthor::Sopa, Lhundub]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[People::Sopa, Lhundub||People/Sopa, Lhundub]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[Performer::People/Sopa, Lhundub]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]]</q> People/Sopa, Lhundub# QUERYe38a815b754ff5d6618723e1b539e509 0 200 1 template 3 [[Category:Library Items]] [[BuNayTopicTags::People/Sopa, Lhundub]] People/Sopa, Lhundub# QUERY1fc5b981ed024909687d548c86ab1a64 Books/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems 0 en The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems 0 Steps on the Path to Enlightenment, Vol. 4# 2dae3b0a713d659d909d71eca3dbe269# 2dae3b0a713d659d909d71eca3dbe269 0 The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems# 2dae3b0a713d659d909d71eca3dbe269# 2dae3b0a713d659d909d71eca3dbe269 Books/Steps on the Path to Enlightenment, Vol. 4 0 en Steps on the Path to Enlightenment, Vol. 4 Media/David Germano: On the Concept of Buddha-Nature and the Questions It Generates 0 en David Germano: On the Concept of Buddha-Nature and the Questions It Generates Sopa, Lhundub 0 en Sopa, Lhundub Translator 102 en Translator PersonPage 102 en PersonPage BuNayAuthor 102 en BuNayAuthor PeopleMentioned 102 en PeopleMentioned REDI 102 en REDI