Khenpo Sodargye

Khenpo Sodargye was born in 1962 in the eastern region of Tibet, known as Kham. In 1985, he received monastic tonsure at the famous Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, which is the largest Buddhism institute in the world ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} and is located in Sichuan Province in China. He was taught by one of the great masters of the time, Khenchen Jigme Puntsok Rinpoche. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

Khenpo Sodargiye studied the traditional philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism, and also mastered all the teachings of Tantrayana. Subsequently, he was appointed head of the Institute, where he became one of the leading teachers. He was also the main translator of Jigme Puntsok Rinpoche for Chinese students and was then appointed Rinpoche to become their teacher. ^{[9] [10] [2]}

Khenpo Sodargye Teaching at Hong Kong Buddhist Tri-Virtues Advocate Center in Jul 2011

Khenpo Sodargye has become one of the most prominent modern Buddhist masters ^[3] . He is a Tibetan lama, a Buddhist scholar and teacher, a prolific Chinese translator and a modern thinker of Buddhism; he is known throughout Asia and the West because of his interest in combining traditional Buddhist teachings with global issues and modern life.

He gave lectures throughout China and other parts of East, South and Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and also in Europe and North America. He recently lectured at several prestigious universities, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Columbia University, Yale, Princeton ^[11] , Stanford ^[12] , University of Toronto, McGill University, University of Auckland, University of Melbourne, National University of Singapore, National Taiwan University, University of Hong Kong and the University of Gottingen.