We’ve been going through this text by Tsongkhapa. Almost every week we have gone through an extensive review of it before starting class. Since we’re a bit late today, we will skip the review and just come to the topic, which is voidness.  Cause and Effect Last time, we...

We have been looking at this text by Tsongkhapa, which he has written to his friend, a great meditator, explaining some of the most important points concerning sutra and tantra and how to practice them. In this he mentioned how it’s important to know for ourselves the various...

We’ve been going through this text of Tsongkhapa in which he gives many wonderful points concerning how to actually put into practice the complete path of sutra and the anuttarayoga class of tantra. Without going through a review of the entire text, we are on the discussion of...

The Correct View of Voidness We have been studying in great detail this letter by Tsongkhapa. Before we continue with our discussion of it, there’s one question that was hanging over us for the last two weeks, which was why Tsongkhapa refuted the previous theories about...

Summary of Previous Sessions We have started our study of this Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra which the great Tibetan master Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug tradition, wrote to his friend and meditator (with whom he had exchanged teachings already, so a...

Review of Previous Sessions We have been studying this text, which is a letter that the great Tibetan master Tsongkhapa — who lived the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th centuries in Tibet (he was the founder of the Gelug tradition) — this letter that he wrote to a...

Review of Previous Sessions We have been going through this letter that the great Tibetan master Tsongkhapa wrote (he lived at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th centuries), and he wrote this letter to his friend the meditator Konchog-tsultrim. In this letter,...

Review of Previous Sessions We’re going through this text by Tsongkhapa, A Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra, which he wrote to his friend the meditator Konchog-tsultrim. In it, Tsongkhapa starts with his humility, and then how we have… if he is forced to give...

Verse 4 We have been going through the fourth verse of the Letter to a Friend, where Nagarjuna says: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the Dharma, the Sangha, generous giving, ethical discipline, and the gods. Be...

End of Verse 4, Verse 5 We have been going through the early verses of Letter to a Friend by Nagarjuna. We’ve been spending quite a bit of time with verse four: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the Dharma, the Sangha,...