Gelug

Drepung Monastery was founded by Jamyang Choje Tashi Palden, a direct disciple of Tsongkhapa. Since the time of the First Dalai Lama, also a direct disciple of Tsongkhapa, the lineage of the Dalai Lamas has had a special connection with this monastery.

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.

To know how to cognize voidness, both conceptually and non-conceptually, and thus how to rid ourselves of the true causes of our true sufferings, we need to know the steps that each Indian Buddhist tenet system explains for the meditative process for realizing voidness.

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

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

Cognitions have numerous cognitive objects and the various Indian Buddhist schools of tenets differ in their explanations of them for the various ways of knowing.

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.

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.

The Tibetan monastic tradition of wearing yellow hats began with the revival of the monk ordination in the 11th century and was later adopted by the Gelug tradition as a symbol of renewed monastic purity.

A portrait of the life and deeds of one of the most famous masters of Tibetan Buddhism.