The benefits of omniscience
19 Kamalashila's "Stages of Meditation"
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe 
Meditation 
May 21, 2022 Part of an online course on Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation given by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe for Sravasti Abbey in 2022
- Love and compassion for self and others
- A main goal of bodhisattvas: actualizing non-abiding nirvana versus nirvana
- Meaning and benefits of having a union of method and wisdom
- Benefits of uncontrived bodhicitta
- Benefits of becoming an arya (first ground)
- Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta
- Benefits of omniscience: the qualities of a buddha
- Refuting Hvashang’s view
- Method and wisdom and the conventional and ultimate truths
- Method and wisdom and the resulting buddha bodies
- Knowledge that accords with reality
- Resolve to pursue the path lifetime after lifetime
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe was born in 1930 in Lhokha, Central Tibet and became a monk at the age of 13. After completing his studies at Drepung Loseling Monastery in 1969, he was awarded Geshe Lharampa, the highest degree in the Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism. He is an emeritus professor at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies and an eminent scholar of both Madhyamaka and Indian Buddhist studies. His works include Hindi translations of The Essence of Good Explanation of Definitive and Interpretable Meanings by Lama Tsongkhapa and Kamalasila's commentary on the Rice Seedling Sutra. His own commentary, The Rice Seedling Sutra: Buddha’s Teachings on Dependent Arising, was translated into English by Joshua and Diana Cutler and published by Wisdom Publications. Geshela has facilitated many research works, such as a complete translation of Tsongkhapa’s The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, a major project undertaken by the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center in New Jersey where he teaches regularly.
