Like a waking dream: the autobiography of Geshe Lhundub Sopa

Prior to his thirty-year career in the first-ever academic Buddhist studies program in the United States, Gesh Sopa was the son of peasant farmers, a novice monk in a rural monastery, a virtuoso scholar monk at one of the prestigious central monasteries in Lhasa, and a survivor of the Tibetan uprising and perilous flight into exile in 1959.

In Like a Waking Dream, Gesh Sopa frankly and observantly reflects on how his life in Tibet, a monastic life of yogic simplicity, shaped and prepared him for the unexpected.

The account of his years in Tibet preserves, as well, valuable insight and details about a now-vanished era of Tibetan religious culture.

His is a tale of an exemplary life dedicated to learning, spiritual cultivation, and the service of others from one of the greatest living masters of Tibetan Buddhism.