We are fortunate to have Geshe Sherab return to teach for Lama Yeshe Ling this September, sharing his profound wisdom and compassion with us online. Geshe la understands and connects well with Western students. He presents the Dharma in English with warmth and clarity.
Part One of the Teaching Series with Geshe Sherab 2025: Developing Concentration
Geshe Sherab will give a teaching about how to use visualization and mantra to develop concentration.
When: Friday, September 5, 2025, 7 pm – 8:30 pm EDT Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator (timeanddate.com)
Where: Register ahead to watch on Zoom (the same Zoom link will be used for all of Geshe Sherab’s teachings this weekend)
Or watch the sessions live-streamed on Facebook or YouTube.
Part Two of the Teaching Series with Geshe Sherab 2025: Commentary on Shatideva’s Chapter 8 on Meditation
We are very happy to share that Geshe Sherab has kindly agreed to teach once again for Lama Yeshe Ling this year. Geshe la understands and connects well with Western students. He presents the Dharma in English with warmth, clarity and openness.
Geshe la will complete Shatideva’s Chapter 8 on Meditation, which he began in October of 2024. We will continue where we left off last year at verse 89 of Chapter 8.
Everyone is welcome, regardless of whether they have watched the previous year’s teachings.
The Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Bodhicaryāvatāra) by Shantideva is a particularly important, inspiring, and practical guide for spiritual seekers. His Holiness the Dalai Lama praises the Bodhicaryāvatāra as one of the most influential texts he has studied. In this classic masterpiece, Shantideva provides instruction on how to practice compassion and wisdom in everyday life, describing the ‘perfections’ of the Bodhisattva, which are generosity, ethics, patience, joyous effort, meditative concentration, and wisdom.
This chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra emphasizes the importance of meditation in the bodhisattva path: the development of a profoundly calm and powerful mind turned towards an altruistic concern for others, and towards the wisdom that understands and directly perceives how we can emerge from suffering.
There are several translations of Shantideva’s Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life available. Śāntideva’s text by Stephen Batchelor can be found here, and another translation by Vesna A. Wallace and B. Alan Wallace can be found here.
The event is sponsored by many individual benefactors, cultivating the generosity of giving the Dharma. Please see below for ways to contribute to the success of these teachings.
When:
Saturday, September 6th, 2025
- Session 1 – 10:00 am – 11:30 am EDT Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator (timeanddate.com)
- Session 2 – 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm EDT Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator (timeanddate.com)
Sunday, September 7th, 2025
- Session 3 – 10:00 am – 11:30 am EDT Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator (timeanddate.com)
Where: Register ahead to watch on Zoom (the same Zoom link will be used for all of Geshe Sherab’s teachings this weekend)
Or watch the sessions live-streamed on Facebook or YouTube.
About Geshe Thubten Sherab
Geshe Thubten Sherab was born in 1967 in a small village in the province of Manang, the western part of Nepal, to a Kagyu-Nyingma family. He entered Kopan Monastery at the age of nine and completed his Geshe studies at Sera Je monastery in South India, followed by a year at Gyume Tantric College. He then completed retreat and teaching assignments both in the U.S. and Asia. He served as Head Master of Kopan Monastery’s school for four years, overseeing debate training and tantric training activities. Geshe Sherab understands and connects very well with Western students, presenting the Dharma in an accessible, warm, and open manner.
Geshe Sherab taught and helped in FPMT International Office for two and a half years in Taos, New Mexico, from 2001-2003, and also served as Director of the FPMT Board for a few years. After he returned to Nepal from the United States, Geshe-la was in retreat for a year and was then appointed as Head Master of Kopan. For the last few years, he has been travelling and teaching at FPMT Centers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Asia and Europe.
Opportunity to Make an Offering to Geshe Sherab and the Centre
Sponsoring the teachings helps to make the teachings available to everyone. In this way, we are able to practice the generosity of giving of the Dharma and thereby create vast amounts of merit.
Remember to make an aspiration/dedication to accomplish your goals for yourself and others before making the offering. With clear intention, we can create causes to accomplish the welfare of both ourselves and all sentient beings, or of any heartfelt cause.