The Lamp on the Path to Enlightenment, composed by the great Indian master Atīsha Dīpaṅkara, is one of the most influential works in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Offering a clear and practical roadmap for spiritual transformation, this concise text distills the entire Buddhist path into accessible, step-by-step guidance.

Geshema Dawa Dolma la will guide participants in understanding how to cultivate a spacious and grounded motivation for spiritual practice, and how that motivation can be skillfully directed to support genuine inner transformation. With her practical and structured approach, she will offer a clear, step-by-step understanding of the path for practitioners at all stages—showing how we can begin exactly where we are, and how even the simplest virtuous actions, when rooted in bodhicitta, become meaningful steps toward awakening.

Be part of our 5-day course with Geshema Dawa Dolma and discover the relevance and practicality of these teachings as a guide for living a fulfilling life. This course is designed for everyone and offers an opportunity to study, contemplate and meditate in a supportive environment. Geshema Dawa Dolma is renowned for her practical approach and keen insight into the modern mindset.

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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.