Hearers and solitary realizers
Hearers and solitary realizers
Geshe Yeshi Lhundup 
Illumination of the Thought 
Apr 18, 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.
- Difference between hearers and solitary realizers
- The seven-point cause and effect method
- How buddhas, bodhisattvas, hearers and solitary realizers are born
- Why Chandrakirti pays homage to great compassion
- How compassion of solitary realizers and hearers differs from that of bodhisattvas’
- The importance of understanding dependent arising to generate great compassion
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.
