Geshe

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Geshe (T. dge bshes) is a Tibetan abbreviation for dge-ba'i bshes-gnyen (Skt. kalyāṇamitra), meaning "virtuous friend."[1]

This term is used in two senses:[2]

  1. In general Mahayana usage, it refers to a spiritual friend (kalyāṇamitra)
  2. Within the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, it is also a title conferred upon a person who has completed a high level of training at a monastic academic institution

Notes

  1. ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. dge bshes
  2. ↑ Internet-icon.svg dge bshes, Christian-Steinert Dictionary

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