Geshe la is a Lharampa Geshe of Sera Jey Monastery born in Penpo, Tibet. He is one of the monastery’s main philosophy teachers, the Director of the Sera Jey Modern Education Department, and performs many other roles both in the monastery and in society.

Geshe Thabkhe is a graduate of the five-year ETSI pilot program and the Tenzin Gyatso Science Scholars Program at Emory University. He completed the two-year residency program at Emory in 2013.

He has attended and participated in numerous conferences and symposia, and served on the faculty of the 2025 Mind & Life Dialogue on “Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics.”

This profile was last updated on November 21, 2025

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