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Geshema Covocation { 50 images } Created 8 Feb 2017

The geshema degree, equivalent to a doctorate, represents the highest level of training in the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism. It was previously only awarded to men.
Early in the morning, on the 22nd of December, in Mundgod, India, many monks, nuns, geshes and lay people gathered in profound silence at Drepung Monastery for a historic event. Twenty nuns from the Gelugpa school of Buddhism, from five different nunneries in India and Nepal, received their geshema degrees from the hands of the Dalai Lama himself.
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  • Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo with some of the twenty nuns to be awarded Geshe-ma degrees sitting in the front row in the courtyard of Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Namdol Phuntsok (best results at Geshema examination) from Kopan Nunnery (from Tibet) with relatives at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Western woman contratulating some of the twenty nuns to be awarded Geshe-ma degrees sitting in the front row in the courtyard of Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Nuns attending the first Geshema convocation at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Arrival of HHDL for the ceremony to award nuns the first Geshe-ma degrees at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • a Korean reporter with some of the twenty nuns to be awarded Geshe-ma degrees sitting in the front row in the courtyard of Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama waving to the crowd gathered at the Drepung Lachi Monastery courtyard as he arrives for the ceremony to award nuns the first Geshe-ma degrees at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Joy of some of the twenty nuns to be awarded Geshe-ma degrees sitting in the front row in the courtyard of Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod after a remark of HHDL, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Monks of Drepung are chanting for the opening of the geshema ceremony at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Tibetan women attending the geshema ceremony at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Nuns attending the geshema ceremony at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • citation of gratitude to His Holiness and presented him with a framed copy illustrated and printed in traditional ornamental style of gold on blue at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • HHDL and Ganden Tri Rinpoche, Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin Some of the nuns after receiving their Geshe-ma degree at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Ganden Tri Rinpoche, Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin speaking at the ceremony to award nuns the first geshe-ma degrees at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Each of the nuns receiving their Geshe-mas degrees from His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Each of the nuns receiving their Geshe-mas degrees from His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • The first twenty nuns after receiving their Geshe-ma degree at Drepung Lachi MonasterySome of the nuns after receiving their Geshe-ma degree at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the first twenty nuns to receive a Geshe-ma degree at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the first twenty nuns to receive a Geshe-ma degree at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Namdol Phuntsok (best results at Geshema examination) from Kopan Nunnery after reading out a citation of gratitude to His Holiness and presented him with a framed copy illustrated and printed in traditional ornamental style of gold on blue at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • The first twenty nuns after receiving their Geshe-ma degree at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Bhiksuni Jampa Tsedroen attending the geshema ceremony with Ven Thubten Chödren at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Some of the nuns after receiving their Geshe-ma degree at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Namdol Phuntsok (best results at Geshema examination) from Kopan Nunnery after reading out a citation of gratitude to His Holiness and presented him with a framed copy illustrated and printed in traditional ornamental style of gold on blue at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Namdol Phuntsok (best results at Geshema examination) from Kopan Nunnery after reading out a citation of gratitude to His Holiness and presented him with a framed copy illustrated and printed in traditional ornamental style of gold on blue at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Some of the nuns after receiving their Geshe-ma degree at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking at the ceremony to award nuns the first Geshe-ma degrees at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Some of the nuns after receiving their Geshe-ma degree at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Geshe-ma certificate
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  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking at the ceremony to award nuns the first Geshe-ma degrees at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking at the ceremony to award nuns the first Geshe-ma degrees at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Ven Karma Lekshe Tsomo attending the geshema ceremony with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Ven Thubten Chödren and Bhiksuni Jampa Tsedroen at Drepung Lachi Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016
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  • Nuns attending the geshema ceremony at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Nuns attending the geshema ceremony at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo congratulating one of the first Geshema at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo congratulating one of the first Geshema at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Rinchen Khando Choegyal, director of Tibetan Nuns Project congratulating one of the first Geshema at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Tibetan Nuns Project team with ven Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo and Ven Thubten Chödren at the end of the first Geshema ceremony at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • During lunch with His Holiness Dalai Lama after the first Geshema convocation at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • During lunch with His Holiness Dalai Lama after the first Geshema convocation at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Two Geshemas are paying respect to His Holiness Dalai Lama at the end of the lunch with him after the first Geshema convocation at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Tibetan Nuns Project team with five of the first Geshema and Ven. Thubten Chödren, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Ven. Karma Lekshe Tsomo and Bhiksuni Jampa Tsedroen after the lunch with His Holiness Dalai Lama at Drepung Lachi in Mundgod, Karnataka, India on December 22, 2016.
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  • Namdol Phuntsok (best results at Geshema examination) from Kopan Nunnery (from Tibet)
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  • Joy of the Geshemas gathered in Jangchub Choeling Nunnery one day after the first Geshema convocation, Mundgod, India, 23rd of December 2016
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  • Tenzin Lhadron one of the Geshemas
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  • Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo with Tenzin Lhadron one of the Geshemas
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  • Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo with Yshe Lhamo  one of the Geshema
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