Common and uncommon afflictions
Common and uncommon afflictions
Geshe Yeshi Lhundup 
Illumination of the Thought 
Oct 30, 2020 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.
- Definition of common afflictive emotion
- Grasping at the conception of the substantially existent person
- Two levels of the four truths and the 16 attributes
- Temporarily halting the gross afflictions in meditative absorption
- Common and uncommon afflictive emotions
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.
