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
Venerable Tenzin Tsepal 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
Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup 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...
Venerable Sangye Khadro 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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Cutting through misconception
Clarifying how understanding emptiness and the Four Noble Truths leads to liberation
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Examples illustrating emptiness
Three pathways that keep us trapped in cyclic existence and how understanding emptiness frees us.
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Emptiness in the two vehicles
How emptiness is presented in the fundamental vehicle and the Mahayana.
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