Alumni

The IBD Legacy

In the forty-two years since the establishment of the Institute over four-hundred and fifty students have graduated and are working in Tibetan society in various capacities, such as doctors of Buddhist philosophy (Geshe), research scholars, lecturers, teachers, principals, translators, and government officials. Among the foreign students who have graduated, several have attained full academic positions in foreign countries, and among those who were monks a number have gone on to become abbots. All of these hardworking, disciplined and skillful graduates represent the Institute’s greatest accomplishment. 

ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༩༧ ལོར་རིགས་སློབ་སློབ་ཟུར་རྣམ་པར་༸སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་མཇལ་ཁའི་སྐལ་བཟང་ཐོབ་པ།
Former students of IBD during an audience with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in 1997
IBD Alumni at Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India
An IBD alumni reunion, with Geshe Damchoe Gyaltsen (IBD Abbot, seated in middle row, 6th from left) and Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche (Gen Lobsang Gyatso’s reincarnation, seated in middle row, 5th from left) at Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India, on December 26, 2014./ Photo by Yolanda O’Bannon
ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༩ ལོར་གནས་མཆོག་རྡོར་གདན་དུ་མཚན་ཉིད་མཁན་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་རིགས་སློབ་སློབ་ཟུར་རྣམ་པ།
IBD former students with Venerable Tsenyi Khentrul Rinpoche at Bodhgaya in 2019
ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༢ ཟླ་ ༡༢ ཚེས་ ༣༡ ཉིན་གནས་མཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན་དུ་མཚན་ཉིད་མཁན་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་རིགས་སློབ་སློབ་ཟུར་མཉམ་འཛོམས་ཀྱི་སྐབས།
Former IBD students with Venerable Tsenyi Khentrul Rinpoche at Bodhgaya in 2022

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