Jeffrey Hopkins

Geshe Lhundup Sopa

Bstan-paʼi-nyi-ma (Panchen Lama IV)

Practice and Theory of Tibetan Buddhism

Prior to his thirty-year career in the first-ever academic Buddhist studies program in the United States, Geshé Sopa was the son of peasant farmers, a novice monk in a rural monastery, a virtuoso scholar monk at one of the prestigious central monasteries in Lhasa, and a survivor of the Tibetan uprising and perilous flight into exile in 1959. In Like a Waking Dream, Geshé Sopa frankly and observantly reflects on how his life in Tibet, a monastic life of yogic simplicity, shaped and prepared him for the unexpected. The account of his years in Tibet preserves, as well, valuable insight and details about a now-vanished era of Tibetan religious culture. His is a tale of an exemplary life dedicated to learning, spiritual cultivation, and the service of others from one of the greatest living masters of Tibetan Buddhism.

Geshe Lhundup Sopa

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