Three types of compassion
Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup 
Illumination of the Thought 
Oct 24, 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.
- Great compassion is the root of Bodhisattvas
- Three types of great compassion
- Great compassion observing sentient beings
- The analogy of a bucket in a well
- Two factors necessary for generating great compassion
- Great compassion observing phenomena
- Great compassion observing the unapprehendable
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.
