With Geshe Sopa's kind permission, this page presents a digital version of Lesson One of Lectures on Tibetan Religious Culture by Geshe Lhondup 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.
I use Geshe Sopa's materials 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 .gif format).
2. In the lesson table choose the first page of the Tibetan. Since your browser can probably open three tabs or pages to display Tibetan, English, and Glossary, you can also load the first page of the English and the Glossary as well. Switch between them with alt-esc or whatever your browser allows.
3. 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.
Scanned pages are arranged below in tabular form. Sounds are at the bottom.
| Tibetan page 1 | Tibetan page 2 | Tibetan page 3 |
| Tibetan page 4 | Tibetan page 5 | Glossary page 1 |
| Glossary page 2 | Glossary page 3 | Glossary page 4 |
| English page 1 | English page 2 | English page 3 |
