Last week I made my first trip to Deer Park Tibetan Buddhist Center in Oakland, WI. Geshe Lundrop Sopa, the founder and spiritual energy behind Deer Park Center, is emeritus professor of Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and was the student chosen by their mutual teacher to debate His Holiness, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, at HH's final examination for his geshe degree. Sharp guy!
Geshe-la is in fairly fragile health now, needing a powerchair to get around, but he still teaches for four weeks every summer and draws students like Bikshuni Thubten Chodron, abbess of Srasvasti Abbey in eastern Washington.
How in the world does one *acquire* a personal teacher??? Do they just fall from the sky?? You can't get close enough to someone like Rinpoche to actually ASK. It's a little frustrating, you know?
Still no response to my note from last Sunday. In my dreams, when I get there THIS Sunday there will be a response taped to the door, or something LOL
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