Center for Healthy Minds

Thupten Sherap was born on October 8, 1988 in Ladakh to his father Tundup Namgial and mother Sonam Choskit. He studied English for ten years in his first monastic school. He completed the seven-year course on Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom); the three-year course on Madhyamika (Middle Way Buddhist Philosophy); the three-year course on Vinaya (Monastic Ethics); the two-year course on Abhidharma (Treasury of Knowledge); and the two years of Karam (Higher Philosophical Teachings before Geshe exam). He received his Gelugpa degree from Drepung Loseling Monastic University in 2024, and appeared in the first year Lopön exam. In 2010, he served as Editor of the Monastic School magazine. He was also Editor of all volumes of Geshe Palden Dakpa's books and the Editor and Copy-editor of the Khangtsen magazine for three years. He taught the first three annual monthlong workshops on Buddhist dialectics entitled “Introduction to Buddhism and the Inter-relationship between Science and Buddhism” for students of Lamdon Model Senior Secondary School organized by Drepung Loseling and Dre-Lukhil Khangtsen Education Society. From 2010 to 2020, he served as a Tibetan grammar teacher for the Dre-Lukhil Khangtsen Education Society. From 2017 to 2023, he attended the Emory Tibetan Science Initiatives (ETSI) summer teaching program in South India, & finished all 6 years of the monastic science curriculum. In 2019, he attended the “Middle-Way Approach in Neuroscience" Training Program for Monks-Researchers organized by Institute of Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University in Moscow and St-Petersburg, Russia and began to serve as a member research field team of the Collaborative Tukdam Study. From 2021 to 2023, he attended the ETSI Program Translation Workshop in Drepung Loseling Science Center. In 2024, he was selected as a science scholar for the 8th cohort of the Tenzin Gyatso Science Scholar Program (TGSS) and in Oct 2024 began ten months of preparatory training in science, math, english, and computer literacy to participate in the two years’ of courses at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia to start in August 2025. He is eager to serve humanity and benefit others whenever possible.