{"id":3207,"date":"2022-11-15T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berea.edu\/ast\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2022-11-15T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:27:29","slug":"wendell-hotfoot-garnett-05-reaches-milestone-in-tibetan-buddhist-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/ast\/2022\/11\/15\/wendell-hotfoot-garnett-05-reaches-milestone-in-tibetan-buddhist-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendell \u201cHotfoot\u201d Garnett \u201905 Reaches Milestone in Tibetan Buddhist Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/ast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2022\/11\/2022-11-11-19.30.06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3208\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/ast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2022\/11\/2022-11-11-19.30.06-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Wendell &quot;Hotfoot&quot; Garnett \u201905\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/ast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2022\/11\/2022-11-11-19.30.06-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/ast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2022\/11\/2022-11-11-19.30.06-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/ast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2022\/11\/2022-11-11-19.30.06-221x147.jpg 221w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/ast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2022\/11\/2022-11-11-19.30.06.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Wendell \u201cHotfoot\u201d Garnett \u201905, who recently completed the first portion of the 17-year <a href=\"https:\/\/fpmt.org\/mandala\/archives\/mandala-issues-for-2007\/april\/what-is-a-geshe\/\"><em>Geshe <\/em>degree<\/a> program of Tibetan Buddhist studies at the <a href=\"https:\/\/instituteofbuddhistdialectics.org\/\">Institute of Buddhist Dialectics<\/a> in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, India!\u00a0 This program offers an intensive grounding in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy through the traditional method of debating key Buddhist texts.\u00a0 On hand to help mark this achievement by Wendell and others was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalailama.com\/\">His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama<\/a>, who has resided in Dharmashala since fleeing Tibet in 1959.\u00a0 Having completed this initial 8-year portion of his studies, Wendell will continue to study for another 9 years in order to complete the program.\u00a0 Once he has finished his studies, he will receive the title <em>Geshe <\/em>(Tibetan, \u201cone who knows virtue\u201d), the equivalent of a doctoral degree in Tibetan Buddhist academic traditions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wendell describes the occasion as an \u201cincredible and sublimely beautiful opportunity\u2026 [and] an unparalleled experience that left me speechless.\u201d\u00a0 Learn more about Wendell\u2019s astonishing journey from Berea to the heart of Tibetan culture <a href=\"https:\/\/khyentsefoundation.org\/grants-and-scholarships-wendell-garnett-ii\/?\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Wendell \u201cHotfoot\u201d Garnett \u201905, who recently completed the first portion of the 17-year Geshe degree program of Tibetan Buddhist studies at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in McLeod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ast-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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