The Deer Park Buddhist Center. And Monastery in Oregon, Wisconsin is headed by, Geshe Lhundub Sopa, the first Tibetan tenured professor in an American University who taught Buddhist philosophy, language and culture at the University of WisconsināMadison for 30 years. During that time, Geshe Sopa trained many of the United States first generation of respected Buddhist scholars and "translators," including Jeffrey Hopkins and John Makransky.
The Deer Park Corp. is in the process of building new $2.7M temple projectāāto house an extensive collection of Tibetan art and artifacts, "provide greater capacity for group meetings and educational sessions," continue the expansion of Tibetan Buddhism in the "United States by training successive string of new monks." Andāāto continue the promotion of the cause of Tibetan freedom from China. Part of the project also includes restoration work that will be, "done on the current temple," which was originally an open-air pavilion erected to house the first Kalachakra Initiation performed by the Dalai Lama in the western world. That event, performed in 1981, is commemorated by the stupa that was erected the following year near the current temple.
Geshe Sopa founded Deer Park Buddhist Center in 1975, after students began requesting instruction outside the formal academic setting. Deer Park today remains the only full-scale monastic and teaching center upholding the Dalai Lama's tradition in the Midwest, attracting students from around the world to its annual programs.
Geshe Sopa has facilitated an ongoing relationship between the Dalai Lama and the University of WisconsināMadison, which he has visited five times, and from which he has received an honorary doctoral degree.
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- ^ "Geshe Sopa". www.deerparkcenter.org. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ "University of WisconsināMadison". www.wisc.edu. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ "New Temple". www.deerparkcenter.org. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
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