Understanding emptiness, attaining liberation
Part of a series of teachings by Geshe Jampa Tegchok on Nagarjuna's A Precious Garland of Advice to a King given at Sravasti Abbey in 2008.
- How to attain liberation by understanding emptiness
- Verses 39-41: Fear of teachings on emptiness, fear of emptiness but not nirvana
- With or without remainder
- Verse 43: Nihilism and wrong view
- “I” grasping mind and self-grasping is the root of cyclic existence
- Distinction between innate I grasping mind and valid conventional I grasping mind
- Questions and answers
02 Precious Garland with Geshe Jampa Tegchok (download)
Khensur Jampa Tegchok
Born in 1930, Khensur Jampa Tegchok was a Geshe Lharampa and the former abbot of Sera-je Monastic University. He became a monk at the age of eight and studied all of the major Buddhist treatises at Sera-je before fleeing his homeland of Tibet in 1959. His book "Transforming the Heart: The Buddhist Way to Joy and Courage" is a commentary on "The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas" and describes the bodhisattva path. He is also the author of "Insight into Emptiness." He passed away in October, 2014.