Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe (2022-2024) Archives

Teaching on the importance of dependent origination and its relationship to emptiness.

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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe outlines and refutes various misinterpretations of the Buddha’s teaching on emptiness.

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The Buddha’s motivation for teaching dependent origination, the two kinds of ignorance, and the instinctual notion of “I” and “mine”.

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Teaching on how we are responsible for creating the causes for joy and sorrow by understanding dependent arising.

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Teaching on the five characteristics of dependently arisen composite phenomena.

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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe clarifies the Prasangika perspective on causal dependency and explains the section, "The General Meaning of Dependent Arising".

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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe begins the section, "Dependent Arising of Composite Phenomena," and explains how effects relate to their causes.

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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains mutual dependence, showing how just as an effect depends on its cause, a cause also depends on its effect.

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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the difference in subtlety between the object of negation for the essentialists and the Prasangika Madhyamakas.

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Teaching on the sections, "How to Seek the View," and "The Contradiction in One Thing Being Both the Basis of Imputation and the Object Imputed".

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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the meaning of the eightfold noble path.

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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the statement, "Whoever sees dependent arising sees the Dharma. Whoever sees the Dharma sees the Buddha".

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