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、上師或教誡師。一位金剛阿闍黎或金剛上師（藏文：多傑洛本）是能以善巧和經驗領導會眾進行金剛乘修持的人。以敏卓林寺院所遵循的傳統而言，阿闍黎的學位是在完成所有佛學院學習課程後所授予的。至於阿闍黎是否會被陞座為堪布，則要根據個人善德和其他資格而定。