Acharya 阿闍黎

Acharya (Skt. ācārya; Tib. lobpön; Wyl. slob dpon) means a teacher, master or instructor. A vajra acharya or vajra master (Tib. dorje lobpön) is someone with the skill and experience to lead an assembly in vajrayana practice. In the tradition followed at Namdroling Monastery, the degree of acharya is awarded upon completion of the full course of Shedra studies. Whether an acharya will be enthroned as a khenpo then depends upon "personal virtue and [other] qualifications".[1]

阿闍黎（梵文：ācārya; 藏文：lobpön）意思是老師或指導上師。一位金剛老師或是金剛上師（藏文：多傑洛本）是位具有能力和經驗引導弟子的密乘修行。在遵循敏卓林寺院的傳統，阿闍黎的學位是需要完成所有南卓林寺學習課程。那麼，阿闍黎將會以堪布的身份陞座，是根據個人美德和其他資格。