Gelug

Our minds give rise to many different kinds of appearances. To avoid confusion, we need to recognize and discriminate among the various different ways in which our minds make things appear to us.

It’s very important to try to understand the various appearances of the mind, how they exist and do they correspond to reality or not.

A question-and-answer session between Dr. Alexander Berzin and Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II on the Prasangika view of voidness according to the Gelugpa and Nyingma assertions.

Gelug Prasangika’s presentation of coarse disturbing emotions, which are based on grasping for a self-sufficiently knowable “me,” and the underlying subtle disturbing emotions, which are based solely on the automatically-arising grasping for self-established existence.

An overview of the two general positions regarding the main points of cognition theory of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

An outline of the main points of the relationships with objects in the context of the cognition theory found in the Sautrantika system according to the Gelug presentation.

Ganden Nampar Gyalweling Monastery was founded in 1409 by Tsongkhapa, who named the monastery Ganden, Tushita in Sanskrit, after the pure land realm of the future Buddha, Maitreya. Since its founding, Ganden has been the seat of the Ganden Tripa, the Holder of the Golden...

Kumbum Jampaling Monastery was founded in 1583 by the Third Dalai Lama in Amdo at the site where Tsongkhapa was born. Kumbum has four monastic colleges: the Debate College, Tantric College, Kalachakra College and Medical College.

Grasping for truly established existence entails both projecting an appearance of such an impossible mode of existence and believing it corresponds to reality. Dormant grasping for it occurs when one or both aspects of grasping are not manifest.

The Indian Buddhist tenet systems present graded levels of understanding of how things exist like an illusion, which we can use in our daily lives.