Compassion conjoined with wisdom
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.
- Differentiating the observed object of the three commpassions
- Distinction of compassion of the two vehicles
- Ways of practicing the path in general
- Ways of practicing on the grounds of common beings in particular
Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup
Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup is Abbot at Drepung Loseling Monastery, a position he began in 2024. Previously he was a senior Dharma teacher there for over 20 years. He has also frequently taught at Dharma centers in the U.S. Khenpo Yeshi teaches in English. Khenpo Yeshi began his studies 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. Khenpo 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 the Abbey’s other cherished teachers, Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe. Khenpo Yeshi has taught Tsongkhapa’s Illumination of the Thought, a commentary on Chandrakirti’s Supplement to the Middle Way at Sravasti Abbey (and via Zoom) from 2019-2022.