Bodhisattva grounds
Bodhisattva grounds
Ganden Tripa Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche 
Grounds and Paths 
Aug 27, 2006 Part of a series of teachings on the bodhisattva paths and grounds according to the Yogācāra Svātantrika Madhyamaka given by Venerable Gyume Khensur Rinpoche at Sravasti Abbey in August 2006.
Three vehicles grounds and paths
- The grounds and paths of the three vehicles: hearer, solitary realizer and bodhisattva
- The 10 grounds (or bhumis) in terms of the objects of abandonment and practices
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Progressing through the bodhisattva bhumis
- Objects of abandonment for hearers, solitary realizers, and bodhisattvas
- Dividing the 10 delusions according to the paths on which they are abandoned
- Innate versus acquired wrong views and on which paths these are abandoned
- How generating merit and meditative equipoise are combined to allow transference from one bhumi to the next
Paths and grounds of bodhisattvas 07 (download)
Questions and answers
- When the student is abandoning delusions on the paths is the student or teacher aware of that?
- Can you explain how the bodhisattva on the path of seeing is meditating on impermanence?
- What would be good practices when you feel discouraged?
- Is the meditation on impermanence present in meditative equipoise on emptiness?
- Can you explain the three exalted minds of the path of seeing?
- Is grasping at “I” an artificial view or an innate view?
Paths and grounds of bodhisattvas 08 (download)
Ganden Tripa Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche
Kyabje Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin Palsangpo was appointed the 104th Ganden Tripa, spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, in April, 2017. Born in Tibet in 1934, Rinpoche was ordained as a monk at the age of seven. Following His Holiness the Dalai Lama into exile in 1959, he entered Sera Je Monastery at the age of seventeen. Following a rigorous study of the Buddhist philosophies, he obtained the highest honor of Geshe Lharampa degree in 1979 after debate examinations attended by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other senior Buddhist scholars. After receiving the Geshe Lharampa degree, he entered Gyume Tantric University and two years later became a master of discipline. Rinpoche also studied the esoteric teachings of the Mahayana tradition extensively while he was there at Gyume Tantric University. In 1985, His Holiness the Dalai Lama appointed him as the abbot of Gyume Tantric University, a position he held for 6 years. He was appointed to the position of Jangtse Choje in 2010, which placed him second in line for the position of Gaden Tripa after former Sharpa Chojey late Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin at that time. He has taught widely in India and the West, including teaching the summer courses at Deer Park Buddhist Center in Wisconsin, taking over after the retirement of his teacher, Geshe Lhundup Sopa.
