Geshe Kelsang Wangmo is a German-born Buddhist nun, scholar, and teacher.
10 Facts About Kelsang Wangmo
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Kelsang Wangmo is the first woman to be awarded a Geshe title, considered equivalent to a Ph.
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Kelsang Wangmo was raised in a Roman Catholic family in Lohmar, a small town between Cologne and Bonn in Germany.
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Kelsang Wangmo had planned to stay for a couple of weeks before returning to start university, studying medicine.
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Kelsang Wangmo joined an introduction to Buddhism course at Tushita Meditation Centre, at Dharamkot above McLeod Ganj in Himachal Pradesh.
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Kelsang Wangmo's studies started in McLeod Ganj, and after completing several courses and attended teaching by different Tibetan Lamas, she had developed great faith in Tibetan Buddhism and wanted to become a nun.
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Kelsang Wangmo took ordination as a nun in April 1991.
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Kelsang Wangmo later enrolled in the traditional geshe curriculum at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamshala.
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Kelsang Wangmo made history by being the first women to graduate from a Geshe exam in 2011, and therefore achieve the Geshe title.
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The event of Kelsang Wangmo becoming the first geshema has written history, and prompts a new period in which gender inequality is leveled, and nuns have the opportunity to excel within the education system and take positions of teachers and leaders, which were previously occupied by monks.