Khenpo Kunga Sherab

Khenpo Kunga Sherab was born in Lhoka, near Lhasa, Tibet, and is a monastic scholar and teacher. He is the author of several studies in Tibetan on the Abhidharma and on Middle Way philosophy. He holds several advanced monastic degrees, including the Madhyamaka diploma, and shastri, acharya, and khenpo degrees from Dzongsar Institute for Advanced Studies in Buddhist Philosophy and Research, India. Following his monastic education, in addition to taking on teaching roles at Dzongsar, from 2000–08 Khenpo Kunga served as abbot of Zurmang Monastery in Sikkim, India while teaching continuously at Dharma centers around Asia. In 2014, he received a MA and then, in 2023, a PhD in Buddhist studies from the University of Toronto. His major English-language academic work to date has examined the cultural history of practices used to identify incarnate lamas between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. He has long been involved in teaching Buddhist meditation and philosophy in settings as diverse as traditional Tibetan monastic colleges, interfaith institutes, Dharma centers across North America and Asia, as well as university classrooms. Since 2017, he has served as Buddhist chaplain at Warkworth Correctional Institute, in addition to serving other prisons in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Since 2010, Khenpo Kunga has worked as a team member on various international research projects examining Tibetan Buddhist history with colleagues in Canada, the United States, and Asia.