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.

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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches in the Meditation Hall.

Aryadeva’s 400 Stanzas with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe (2013-17)

Teachings by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe on Aryadeva’s Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way given at Sravasti Abbey and Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, New Jersey. With interpretation into English by Joshua Cutler.

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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe (2018–21)

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches Dharmakirti's commentary on Dignaga's Compendium on Valid Cognition. With interpretation into English by Joshua Cutler and Katrina Brooks.

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

The eightfold path

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the statement, "Whoever sees dependent arising sees the Dharma. Whoever sees…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

How to seek the view

Teaching on the sections, "How to Seek the View," and "The Contradiction in One Thing…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Dependent arising refutes the object of negation

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the difference in subtlety between the object of negation for the…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Another way of establishing dependence

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains mutual dependence, showing how just as an effect depends on its…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

All phenomena are dependently arisen

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe clarifies the Prasangika perspective on causal dependency and explains the section, "The…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Dependent arising of composite phenomena

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe begins the section, "Dependent Arising of Composite Phenomena," and explains how effects…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

How to seek reality by means of dependent arising

The Buddha’s motivation for teaching dependent origination, the two kinds of ignorance, and the instinctual…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Wrong views of emptiness

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe outlines and refutes various misinterpretations of the Buddha’s teaching on emptiness.

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