Roots of cyclic existence
Roots of cyclic existence
Khensur Jampa Tegchok 
Teachings by Khensur Jampa Tegchok 
Apr 16, 2008 Part of a series of teachings by Geshe Jampa Tegchok on Nagarjuna’s A Precious Garland of Advice to a King given at Sravasti Abbey in 2008.
- The two roots of cyclic existence are self-grasping of the person and self-grasping of phenomena
- The negative karmas binding us to the wheel of cyclic existence
- How does one leave cyclic existence
- Wisdom realizing emptiness is the real antidote to the self-grasping mind
- Emptiness connotes the middle way, free of the two extremes of true existence and non-existence
- The importance of the realization of emptiness
01 Precious Garland with Geshe Jampa Tegchok (download)
Khensur Jampa Tegchok
Born in 1930, Khensur Jampa Tegchok was a Geshe Lharampa and the former abbot of Sera-je Monastic University. He became a monk at the age of eight and studied all of the major Buddhist treatises at Sera-je before fleeing his homeland of Tibet in 1959. His book "Transforming the Heart: The Buddhist Way to Joy and Courage" is a commentary on "The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas" and describes the bodhisattva path. He is also the author of "Insight into Emptiness." He passed away in October, 2014.
