Lamrim Teaching (The Stages of Path to Enlightenment)

Venerable Geshe Lobsang Chonyi, resident teacher of the Gyuto Center, teaches the Lamrim Text (The Stages of Path to Enlightenment) every Sunday night, from 7 pm to 9 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend the classes as all Gyuto teachings are free, but we would like to request that all members and friends kindly join our membership program to support the Center and its monastery project.

Please check our program calendar before visiting the Center for teachings or pujas. 

Geshe Chonyi was born Tenzin Phuntsok in Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, in 1965 where his parents, Lobsang and Tsering, ran a successful business as traders between Lhasa and Kalimpong. Geshe-la has two brothers; one is a teacher in India and the other is a businessman in Taiwan. In 1956, his mother’s uncle sponsored his family and their teachers to go on a pilgrimage to Lhasa. In 1959 when His Holiness the Dalai Lama was forced into exile, Geshe-la’s family was lucky enough to quickly return to their home in Sikkim.