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Talk · Study Buddhism · 2025The art of Buddhist debate
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What the monastic debate courtyard is actually for, and why it is a form of study rather than argument.

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Meet Geshe Kelsang Wangmo.

Geshe Kelsang Wangmo

Geshe Kelsang Wangmo was born in Germany and ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1991. She entered the traditional geshe curriculum at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, a seventeen-year course of study, and in 2011 became the first woman to be awarded the geshe degree. Since 2004 she has taught Buddhist philosophy in English in Dharamsala, and she also serves as a translator for senior Tibetan teachers.

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