Compassion as cause of bodhisattvas
Compassion as cause of bodhisattvas
Geshe Yeshi Lhundup 
Illumination of the Thought 
Apr 17, 2019 Geshe Yeshi Lhundup, a senior Dharma teacher at Drepung Loseling Monastery, teaches on Lama Tsongkhapa’s “Illumination of the Thought,” a commentary to Chandrakirti’s “Supplement to the Middle Way,” a classic Buddhist text on Middle Way philosophy and great compassion. Also available as a series.
- Why Chandrakirti supplements Nagarjuna’s text with additional practices
- Three types of bodhisattvas who have not realized emptiness
- Methods to achieve the ten bodhisattva bhumis
- Homage to three types of great compassion
- Key differences between hearers, solitary realizers, and bodhisattvas
- Exploring compassion, great compassion and great resolve
Geshe Yeshi Lhundup
Geshe Yeshi Lhundup is a senior Dharma teacher at Drepung Loseling Monastery, where he has taught for over 20 years. He has also frequently taught in English at Dharma centers in the U.S. Geshe Yeshi began his studies at Drepung Loseling in 1975 and obtained his Geshe Lharampa degree in 1996. Beginning in 1998, he studied at Gyuto Tantric Monastery for seven years, ranking the highest position in his class in 2005. He later served for a year as the chief disciplinarian of Gyuto Tantric Monastery. Geshe Yeshi has studied with many great masters of the 20th century, especially with the great scholar Khensur Yeshi Thupten and Gen Nyima Gyaltsen. He is also the nephew of one of Sravasti Abbey’s other cherished teachers, Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe.
