Intermediate Lectures on Tibetan Religious Culture
Split into Short Sections for Tibetan Language Learning
By Geshe Lhundup Sopa
Arranged by William Magee
With Geshe Sopa’s kind permission, this page presents a digital version of several lessons of the Lectures on Tibetan Religious Culture by Geshe Lhundup Sopa, recorded at the University of Wisconsin in 1971. All together, Geshe Sopa recorded twenty-two lectures for Lectures on Tibetan Religious Culture together with two volumes of English translation, notes, and glossary.
Geshe Sopa’s materials are used here because they include Tibetan and English transcripts, are clear and scholarly, and are representative of the types of lectures a person might hear in a Ge-luk Dharma center.
Included on this page are (1) short-utterance digital sounds made from digitized versions of the original cassette tapes for lesson one and (2) digital scans of the Tibetan text, the English translation, and the glossary pages for lesson one (in .pdf format).
How to Use This Material
- Open the Tibetan text, glossary, and translation for a lesson
- Play the sound files over and over while reading the Tibetan text.
- For best results, repeat the Tibetan and orally translate it into English before moving on to the second page of the text.
Lesson 1
Tibetan text for lesson 1 | Glossary for lesson 1 | English translation for Lesson 1
Click at any of the entries in the table to hear a recorded section of the lesson:
Lesson 2
Tibetan text for lesson 2 | Glossary for lesson 2 | English translation for Lesson 2
Click at any of the entries in the table to hear a recorded section of the lesson:
Lesson 3
Tibetan text for lesson 3 | Glossary for lesson 3 | English translation for Lesson 3
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Lesson 4
Tibetan text for lesson 4 | Glossary for lesson 4 | English translation for Lesson 4
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Lesson 5-13 (only audio files)
These are complete audio files of lesson 5-13. Those lessons are not split into parts and no transcript or glossary is available for these lessons: