Emptiness in different tenet systems
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.
- Differences between Prasangika and others tenet systems
- How all phenomena are merely labeled
- Highest view
- Conventional phenomena as objects of valid minds
- Prasangika are superior from the point of view of reality
- What comes first, the object or the label?
08 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.