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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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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Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe (2022)
Commentary by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe on 8th-century Indian master Kamalashila’s "Stages of Meditation," instructions on the paths of meditation that lead to the fully awakened state of Buddhahood.
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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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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Prerequisites for serenity
What is needed to meditate on serenity and insight? Both are n...
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The sixteen aspects of the four truths
How the sixteen aspects of the four truths contradict the sixt...
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Proving past and future lives
Verses proving the existence of past and future lives over whi...
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Causes and conditions
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains inner and outer dependent arising and the link of ignorance.
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Characteristics of dependent arising
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe discusses the characteristics of dependent arising.
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The four fearlessnesses
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains how the Dependent Arising Sutra corresponds with the Buddha's four fearlessnesses.
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The greatness of the dependent arising sutra
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the greatness of the Dependent Arising Sutra.
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More on the 12 links of dependent origination
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe discusses how to contemplate the twelve links of dependent arising.
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The 12 links
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues explaining the wheel of life, going through each of the twelve…
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Positing a dependently existing self
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues analyzing the existence of the self and starts explaining the wheel…
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The chariot is dependently designated
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains how to analyze the mode of existence of the self.
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Positing a dependently existing self
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches how a dependently existing self is posited within dependent arising.
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How the self transitions from this life into the next
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches how the dependent self transitions from this life into the next.
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The self that does exist
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches how the self does and does not exist.
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Do the twelve factors exist in all three realms?
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explores different philosophical positions on whether all 12 links exist in the…
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