Overcoming Fear
with Geshe Thubten Sherab
Tuesdays, June 18 and 25, 2024
6:00pm - 7:30 pm PT
Via Zoom
Registration required
Tse Chen Ling is honored to welcome back Ven. Geshe Thubten Sherab for a two-part series on Overcoming Fear.
Class Description
We are no strangers to fear – having suffered through a worldwide pandemic, experienced growing climate calamities, and enduring “Us vs. Them” divisions of people throughout the world. The classic Tibetan Buddhist texts talk about fears that are external manifestations of internal states of mind. While some external fears in the 21st Century differ from those identified centuries ago, we will recognize the internal ones as touchingly contemporary. They are referred to as the Great Eight Fears: pride, ignorance, anger, jealousy, attachment, miserliness, wrong views, and doubt. Over two sessions, Venerable Geshe Sherab will touch on these, along with the so-called Lesser Fears, and teach us how to apply Dharma practices to transform them with the achievable goal of becoming totally fearless.
About Geshe Thubten Sherab
Geshe Sherab was born in Manang, Nepal in 1967. He attended Kopan monastery at the age of nine and was ordained by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. After 10 years of study in Kopan, he went to Sera Je Monastery for further studies in 1987 and graduated as Geshe at the end of 1999. After that, he joined Gyume Tantric College for a year. Then he taught young monks at Kopan for a year. In 2001 he was sent by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to New Mexico to serve and help at the International Office of FPMT as well as teach at Thubten Norbu Ling in Santa Fe and Ksiti Garba Center in Taos as the resident teacher. He also served as a Board member of FPMT for two years during that period. At the end of 2003, he returned to Nepal to do his own practices. In 2006 he was appointed Head Master of Kopan Monastery and served for four years. He then served as acting Abbot for a year in 2011 when the late Guru Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundup became ill.
Recently, he has been teaching at Kopan during meditation courses and traveling and teaching around the world. Ven. Geshe Sherab teaches in English.
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