Geshe Tenzin Chophel

The Venerable Geshe Tenzin Choepel was born in 1974. He entered religious life and received his pre-novice and novice vows in 1989. In 1991 he went to the Holy Land of India and he studied in Sera Mey monastic college. 

During more than 20 years, he perfectly learned and pondered the vast and encompassing Buddhist authoritative texts at the feet of numerous eminent teachers headed by His Eminence, the Incomparable Jangtse Choje Kyabje Gosok Rinpoche Vajradhara. 

During the examinations held in the monastic college (tratsang), he was almost every year ranked among the top three examinees and he acquired the rank of a defendant during the debates. 

During the “Jangphu winter Dharma assembly”, in front of almost ten thousand of scholars coming from the Three Great Gelukpa monasteries, he perfectly asserted his thesis and expressed his gratitude to the feet of His Holiness who had come to see the debates. His Holiness was really highly delighted by the way Geshe Tenzin Choepel answered with a confidence free of any fear to whatever analysis and refutation made by numerous scholars and to the questions on the authoritative texts raised by eminent senior teachers. 

Not only did all the scholars unanimously praised him, but also the senior teachers lauded him with great joy and granted him with reward. Clouds of unexcelled offerings that pleased the Victorious were presented. 

Then during six years, he took all the Geluk examinations and in 2011, he passed the final examination of all the exams of the Geluk monastery institutions and was ranked second among the Karam, the Acarya and the Lharam. In 2012, he passed the Geshe Lharampa exam. In 2013, he joined the Dharma sessions of the illustrious Tantric monastic college Megyu tratsang. There he studied and pondered the Tantric authoritative texts. During the Tantric examination he ranked first.

Nowadays, he is continuously teaching the great authoritative texts to the students of almost ten classes of the monastic college of Sera Mey and thus, he is greatly working for the Teaching.

Lamrim Books

The following is a list of the most important Lamrim texts and their authors :

1) Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མེ (byang chub lam gyi sgron me) by Jowo Je Atisha ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨཏིཤ (jo bo rje dpal ldan atisha)
2) The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལམ་རིམ་ཆེན་མོ (lam rim chen mo) by Je Tsong Khapa མཉམ་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཤར་ཙོང་ཁ་པ་ཆེན་པོ (mnyam med chos kyi rgyal po shar tsong kha pa chen po)
3) The Medium Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལམ་རིམ་འབྲིང་པོ (lam rim ‘bring po) by Je Tsong Khapa མཉམ་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཤར་ཙོང་ཁ་པ་ཆེན་པོ (mnyam med chos kyi rgyal po shar tsong kha pa chen po)
4) The Concise Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལམ་རིམ་བསྡུས་དོན (lam rim bsdus don) also known as Song of the Stages of the Path ལམ་རིམ་ཉམས་མགུར (lam rim nyams mgur) by Je Tsong Khapa མཉམ་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཤར་ཙོང་ཁ་པ་ཆེན་པོ (mnyam med chos kyi rgyal po shar tsong kha pa chen po)
5) The Essence of Refined Gold – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལམ་རིམ་གསེར་ཞུན་མ (lam rim gser zhun ma) by His Holiness the Third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso རྒྱལ་མཆོག་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་གསུམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgyal mchog sku phreng gsum pa bsod nams rgya mtsho)
6) The Easy Path – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལམ་རིམ་བདེ་ལམ (lam rim bde lam) by Panchen Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen པན་ཆེན་བློ་བཟང་ཆོས་རྒྱན (pan chen blo bzang chos rgyan)
7) The Sacred Words of Manjushri – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལམ་རིམ་འཇམ་དཔལ་ཞལ་ལུང (lam rim ‘jam dpal zhal lung) by His Holiness the Fifth Dalai Lama, Lobsang Gyatso རྒྱལ་མཆོག་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་ལྔ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgyal mchog sku phreng lnga pa chen po ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho)
8) The Swift Path – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལམ་རིམ་མྱུར་ལམ (lam rim myur lam) by Panchen Lobsang Yeshe པན་ཆེན་བློ་བཟང་ཡེ་ཤེ (pan chen blo bzang ye she)
9) Essence of Fine Speech – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལམ་རིམ་ལེགས་གསུང་ཉིང་ཁུ (lam rim legs gsung nying khu) by Ngawang Drakpa of Dagpo དྭགས་པོ་སྒོམ་ཆེན་ངག་དབང་གྲགས་པ (dwags po sgom chen ngag dbang grags pa)

The texts above are Atisha’s Lamp for the Path together with the Eight Great Commentaries on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam Rim)
10) The Three Principle Aspects of the Path ལམ་གཙོ་རྣམ་གསུམ (lam gtso rnam gsum) by Je Tsong Khapa རྗེ་ཙོང་ཁ་པ (rje tsong kha pa)
11) Foundation of All Good Qualities ཡོན་ཏན་གཞིར་གྱུར་མ (yon tan gzhir gyur ma) by Je Tsong Khapa རྗེ་ཙོང་ཁ་པ (rje tsong kha pa)
12) Destiny Fulfilled: The Spiritual Biography of Lama Tsong Khapa རྟོགས་བརྗོད་མདུན་ལེགས་མ (rtogs brjod mdun legs ma) by Je Tsong Khapa རྗེ་ཙོང་ཁ་པ (rje tsong kha pa)
13) The Essence of Nectar – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལམ་རིམ་བདུད་རྩི་སྙིང་པོ (lam rim bdud rtsi snying po) by Kongpo Lama Yeshe Tsondru ཀོང་པོ་བླ་མ་ཡེ་ཤེས་བརྩོན་འགྲུས (kong po bla ma ye shes brtson ‘grus)
14) The Southern Lineage – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལྷོ་རྒྱུད་ལམ་རིམ (lho rgyud lam rim) by Je Gendun Jamyang རྗེ་དགེ་འདུན་འཇམ་དབྱངས (rje dge ‘dun ‘jam dbyangs)
15) Zhamar Pandita’s Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ཞྭ་དམར་ལམ་རིམ (zhwa dmar lam rim) by The Fourth Amdo Zhamar, Gendun Tenzin Gyatso ཨ་མདོ་བླ་མ་དགེ་འདུན་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ (a mdo bla ma dge ‘dun bstan ‘dzin rgya mtsho)
16) Zhamar Pandita’s Treatise on Special Insight ཞྭ་དམར་ལྷག་མཐོང (zhwa dmar lhag mthong) by The Fourth Amdo Zhamar, Gendun Tenzin Gyatso ཨ་མདོ་བླ་མ་དགེ་འདུན་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ (a mdo bla ma dge ‘dun bstan ‘dzin rgya mtsho) 
17) Liberation in the Palm of One’s Hand ལམ་རིམ་རྣམ་གྲོལ་ལག་བཅངས (lam rim rnam grol lag bcangs), Spoken by Pabongka Rinpoche སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཕ་བོང་ཁ་བདེ་ཆེན་སྙིང་པོས་གསུང (skyabs rje pha bong kha bde chen snying pos gsung), Compiled by Trijang Rinpoche སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་ཁྲི་བྱང་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས་མཛད (skyabs rje yongs ‘dzin khri byang rin po ches phyogs bsgrigs mdzad)
18) Textual Outline for the Medium Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ལམ་རིམ་འབྲིང་པོའི་ས་བཅད (lam rim ‘bring po’i sa bcad) by Trijang Rinpoche སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་ཁྲི་བྱང་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས་མཛད (skyabs rje yongs ‘dzin khri byang rin po che)