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Liberation and tenet schools

Liberation and tenet schools

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.

  • Verse 45: Liberation means free from virtues karma, contaminated karma, throwing karma
  • Verse 46: Behind extreme of non-existence and 4 nobles truth
  • Verse 47: Causes and effects are not inherently existing
  • Verse 48: Beings produce and imputed through depending
  • Verse 49: Different teachings from the Buddha
  • Important philosophical view distinction between the four tenet (schools)
  • Examples of things merely labeled, imputation by conception

05 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.