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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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 Chapter 4: Verses 90–100
What does it take to be an ethical leader? Is it appropriate f...
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Proving past and future lives
Verses proving the existence of past and future lives over whi...
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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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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Chapter 12: Verses 281-285
Teachings explaining the difficulty of understanding emptiness and why emptiness should not be feared.
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Chapter 12: Verses 278-280
Teachings on how to prove the Buddha’s omniscience based on reasoning and experience.
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Chapter 12: Verses 277-278
Geshe Thabkhe answers questions on subtle impermanence, emptiness, and continues teachings on refuting the wrong…
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Chapters 11-12: Verses 275-277
Teachings on refuting the wrong views start with explaining the qualities of a proper Dharma…
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Chapter 11: Verses 266-274
Teachings on refutation of substantially existent duration and on impermanence.
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Chapter 11: Verses 259-265
Refutation of lower Buddhist schools’ view of permanent future phenomena.
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Chapter 11: Verses 251-258
Does time exist substantially? How do past, present, and future really exist?
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Chapter 10: Verses 247-250
Does selflessness mean nonexistence? How to avoid the two extremes of nihilism and eternalism and…
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Chapter 10: Verses 238-246
Geshe Yeshe Thabke continues to challenge our instinctive view of the self as permanent and…
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Chapter 10: Verses 226-228
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe starts teaching on individual refutations of the self that is put forward…
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Chapter 10: Verses 229–237
Individual refutation of the self posited by non-Buddhist schools, in particular by Vaisesikas and Samkhyas.
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Chapter 9: Verses 219-225
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches verses refuting the existence of permanent partless particles and truly existent…
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