Key to the Middle Way is a comprehensive text composed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, wherein he presents the philosophical and spiritual intersection of the Buddhist view of emptiness.

With Geshema Dawa Dolma, participants will explore how our deep-seated habit of solidifying identity, suffering, and the world as fixed and inherently real creates unnecessary limitations—and how the Middle Way opens a path to freedom from these patterns. Through guided teachings, you’ll learn to recognize the interdependence of thoughts, emotions, and experience, and to let this understanding shape a more spacious, responsive, and compassionate way of being.

Geshema’s teachings are known for her lively, engaging and down-to-earth approach. She meets participants where they are, creating a conducive space for practitioners of all levels.

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Geshema was born in Tibet in 1982 to a nomadic family. She escaped to India in 1993 with 62 other people via Nepal. Initially she lived with an Indian family for three years.

She joined Dolma Ling Nunnery in Sidhpur, Dharamsala in 1996. She studied all the Buddhist topics as part of a study program of Buddhist Philosophy that culminated in the Geshema degree. Moreover, she attended classes on Tibetan Language and grammar, Tibetan History, modern science, composition, and learnt how to make mandalas. She studied Sanskrit and Hindi at Sarah College near Dharamsala as well as Varanasi University for 3 and a half years where she attended a teacher training course as well.

At Dolma Ling Nunnery, she successfully completed the seventeen-year course in Buddhist and Tibetan studies as well as the four-year Geshema Degree Program (the latter being conducted from 2015 to 2018). Then having successfully presented her thesis, she was conferred the Geshema Degree (PhD in Buddhist Philosophy) at Khachoe Gakhyil Ling Nunnery in Nepal on November 5th 2018. Subsequently, she entered Gyuto Tantric Monastery, Sidhbari, Dharamsala as an external scholar and received tutorials on the major texts as part of a study program of the Tantric teachings. She passed well in both the dialectical debate examination as well as the written examination and, she obtained the highest grade.

Geshema joined Thosamling Nunnery for International Buddhist Women in Sidhpur in 2014. She worked as a conversation partner as part of the Tibetan Language Program and taught the Tibetan Language and several Dharma courses. She is a delightful, enthusiastic teacher and teaches with great joy and inspires her students to study hard and to do well in life.