Gelug

The basic features of the Gelug presentation of the Chittamatra system according to the textbook tradition of the 16th-century master Jetsun Chokyi Gyaltsen, followed by Ganden Jangtse and Sera Je Monasteries.

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.

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.

The Gelug assertions of the various ways in which tendencies and habits differ.

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

The four Tibetan traditions have much in common, with most of the differences coming down to their interpretations of cognition theory, voidness when cognized conceptually or non-conceptually, and the methods for attaining non-conceptual cognition of voidness.

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.

The monastic education system in the Gelug monasteries covers five major topics, based on five great Indian scriptural texts studied through the medium of logic and debate: Prajnaparamita, Madhyamaka, Pramana, Abhidharma and Vinaya.

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...

Based strictly on logic and scriptural references, Tsongkhapa radically re-interpreted almost everything in Buddhist philosophy, revising completely the understanding of Prasangika-Madhyamaka of his day, such as its teachings on cognition theory and voidness.