Gelug

The primary connotation of “ngondro” is preparation. These practices are absolutely essential preparation for undertaking and sustaining our “spiritual journey.”

To attain either liberation or enlightenment, we need to cognize correctly and decisively the two truths and the inseparable voidness of both.

Learn more detail of how Tsongkhapa gained his great qualities and how he was able to reform and revitalize Buddhism in Tibet.

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.

Nonexistent phenomena can be objects of cognition, but not objects of valid cognition, only of distorted cognition.

Tsongkhapa was keen for his disciples to carry on his tantric teachings. Gyuto was established in 1433 by his disciple Gyu Sherab Sengge, followed by Gyume in 1474 by Gyuchen Kunga Dondrub, a disciple of Gyu Sherab Sengge. The main study at Gyume and Gyuto is of the tantric...

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...

Understanding the difference between affirmation phenomena, which are known simply by affirming the presence or existence of something, and negation phenomena, known by negating the presence or existence of something, enables us to understand nonstaticness and voidness.

Svatantrika and Prasangika are two divisions of the Madhyamaka tenet system, but according to the Gelugpa presentation, Svatantrika asserts self-established (inherent) existence, while Prasangika refutes it.

There are two major sets of mental obscurations: emotional obscurations and cognitive obscurations.