{"id":19741,"date":"2021-06-17T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jardindelacompasion.org\/team\/guese-jigme-dondup\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:30:53","slug":"lama-guese-jigme-dondup","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/jardindelacompasion.org\/en\/team\/lama-guese-jigme-dondup\/","title":{"rendered":"Lama GESHE JIGME DONDUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the Spiritual Directors of the Madrid Center are Trustees and some are also Directors of the Foundation. They lead the activities of our center: teachings, practices and meditations, social and development aid projects, etc. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In addition to the local activities, they travel to the center of Geyje Norling in India, which is also an officially recognized charity, to help in its management and in development aid projects.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in India in 1970. At the age of 11 he was admitted to the <b>Gaden Jangtse Monastery (India)<\/b>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There he began to memorize the basic rituals.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001 he received Gelong ordination (full monk) from Trichang Rinpoch\u00e9, the former tutor of His Holiness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He successfully passed the <b>Geshe*<\/b> exam at <b>Gaden Jangtse Monastery<\/b> in 2003. Later he was administrator and director of several centers in India.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Guese Jigme carries out practices and meditations in the center of Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* <b>Geshe<\/b> title.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Tibetan word <i>Geshe<\/i> (&#8220;ge&#8221; means virtue and &#8220;she&#8221; friend who helps to know) has as meaning: spiritual friend or friend who knows virtue or who knows what should be practiced and what should be put aside.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is obtained in the universities and institutes of Tibetan Buddhism that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>continue the great intellectual tradition of the ancient Indian Buddhist universities of Nalanda and Vikramasila.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The title is achieved after intensive studies, reflection sessions and debate sessions on classical philosophical texts of Buddhism and their commentaries in different aspects: <b>ontology<\/b> or nature of reality, <b>epistemology<\/b> or the way in which man knows, <b>psychology<\/b> or science of the mind, <b>logic<\/b>, and <b>ethics<\/b> or moral behavior.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0It<\/span>\u00a0requires a minimum of 17 years of study, which can be equivalent to a doctorate or PhD, but it also covers other domains such as, for example, monastic discipline. 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