Illumination of the Thought with Geshe Yeshi Lhundup (2019–22)

Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup, abbot of Drepung Loseling Monastery, teaches on Lama Tsongkhapa's Illumination of the Thought, a commentary on Chandrakirti’s Supplement to the Middle Way.

Review session: The first two bodhisattva grounds

An overview of the bodhisattva paths and grounds and review of the section “Four Features of Birth on the First Ground".

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Outshining through intelligence

How bodhisattvas outshine hearers and solitary realizers in intelligence and beginning the section on how hearers and solitary realizers realize selflessness.

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Review session: Bodhisattvas outshine through i...

A review of the attainments of seventh ground bodhisattvas and the different levels of selflessness.

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Hearers and solitary realizers realize emptiness

Further explanation why Hearers and Solitary Realizers realize the emptiness of inherent existence and the reasonings supporting this position.

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Review session: Coarse and subtle selflessness

A review of Chandrakirti's assertions that hearer and solitary realizer arhats realize the emptiness of inherent existence.

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Common and uncommon afflictions

The difference between uncommon and common afflictions, and the distinction between the coarse and subtle four noble truths.

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Review session: Identifying the root of samsara

A review of topics including identifying the correct root cause of samsara and the different conceptions of self.

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Proving the realization of emptiness

Proving hearers’ and solitary realizers’ cognition of the absence of inherent existence.

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Grasping at the four truths for aryas

How those who have not realized emptiness may mistakenly grasp the four truths to be inherently existent.

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