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.
View SeriesPramanavarttika 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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Chapter 4: Verses 90–100
What does it take to be an ethical leader? Is it appropriate f...
View PostProving past and future lives
Verses proving the existence of past and future lives over whi...
View PostThe sixteen aspects of the four truths
How the sixteen aspects of the four truths contradict the sixt...
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Chapter 7: Verses 151-158
Geshe Thabkhe teaches on the disadvantages of being attached to the pleasures of cyclic existence…
View PostChapter 6: Verses 141–150
Practical advice on how to work with anger especially that which arises from hearing abusive…
View PostChapter 6: Verses 135–140
Identifying ignorance grasping at true existence and cultivating its antidote by reflecting on dependent arising.
View PostChapter 6: Verses 127–135
Teachings on the methods that help eliminate anger and attachment from the mindstream.
View PostChapters 5-6: Verses 123–126
Causes for accomplishing bodhisattva deeds and how to overcome contaminated actions and disturbing emotions.
View PostChapter 5: Verses 115-122
Benefits of cultivating faith and confidence in bodhisattvas who benefit innumerable sentient beings by skillful…
View PostChapter 5: Verses 107-114
A teaching on how to achieve long-lasting happiness followed by a commentary on how bodhisattvas…
View PostChapter 5: Verses 103–106
Teachings on skillful means applied by the Buddha to benefit sentient beings and the great…
View PostChapter 5: Verses 101-102
A reflection on the determination to be free of suffering: what role mindfulness of death…
View PostChapter 4: Verses 90–100
What does it take to be an ethical leader? Is it appropriate for a country's…
View PostChapter 4: Verses 85–89
Teachings on how cultivating the correct view of self leads to compassion and explanation of…
View PostChapters 3-4: Verses 75-85
Geshe Thabkhe begins teaching on Chapter 4, speaking about the antidote to overcome manifest conceptions…
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