Tag: geshe thupten phelgye

Instead of packing his things, Phelgye spent the summer slinging a hammer and renovating a 92-year-old, 3,700- square-foot church building into Spokane’s Buddhist Institute of Universal Compassion.

Venerable Geshe Thupten Phelgye, Gonzaga University’s Global scholar in residence, will gift a Peace Pole to Gonzaga in a special installation and blessing ceremony that begins at 3 p.m., May 6 on the lawn behind College Hall.

“I would like to offer a Peace Pole to Gonzaga University for its institutional birthday celebrating the 125th anniversary of living out the Jesuit educational mission of the service of faith in the promotion of peace and social justice,”