Study His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's Text In Praise of Dependent Origination

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, www.indialink.com.au.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a three-day online teaching on Lama Tsongkhapa's text In Praise of Dependent Origination at the request of Tibetan Youth from August 4-6, 2020.

Two Dharma centers, Tibetan Buddhist Centre in Singapore, and Tushita Meditation Centre in India, independently organized online review sessions following each day's teaching.

Geshe Lobsang Yonten, www.savezanskar.org.

These review sessions were led by Tibetan Buddhist Centre resident teacher Geshe Lobsang Yonten and Tushita Meditation Centre visiting teacher Venerable Tenzin Legtsok.

Venerable Tenzin Legtsok and Pema, www.tushita.info.

The recordings of all of these teachings and review sessions, an official summary of each day's teaching, and Lama Tsongkhapa's text In Praise of Dependent Origination are freely available online for anyone to study.

Read the text In Praise of Dependent Origination

Tushita Meditation Centre described the text In Praise of Dependent Origination on www.tushita.info, "Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the author of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and the teacher of the First Dalai Lama, is renowned as one of the greatest scholar-saints that Tibet has ever produced. 

"He composed his poetic In Praise of Dependent Origination the very morning that he abandoned all doubts about – the final view and attained a clear realization of emptiness, the essence of wisdom. Deeply moved by this experience, his gratitude to Shakyamuni Buddha increased exponentially inspiring him to compose a praise to Buddha for having taught dependent origination, the main reasoning which establishes that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence."

Download the text for free from www.dalailama.com in English, Tibetan, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Japanese, German, Spanish, Korean, Hindi, Mongolian, Portuguese, French, or Italian.

Lama Tsongkhapa, CKSL event listing on www.evensi.com.

Read the Official Summary of Each Day's Teaching

Read "‘In Praise of Dependent Arising’ for Young Tibetans — First Day" on www.dalailama.com.

Read "‘In Praise of Dependent Arising’ for Young Tibetans — Second Day" on www.dalailama.com.

Read "‘In Praise of Dependent Arising’ for Young Tibetans — Third Day" on www.dalailama.com.

Watch the Teachings and Review Sessions

Day 1 - August 4, 2020

Watch the recording of "In Praise of Dependent Origination - Day 1" on the Dalai Lama Archive YouTube channel.

Watch the recording of "04.08.2020 Post Teaching Revision - Je Tsongkapa's In Praise of Dependent Origination" on the Tibetan BuddhistCentre YouTube channel.

Watch the recording of "Review Session Day1" on the Tushita Meditation Centre Dharamkot YouTube channel.

Day 2 - August 5, 2020

Watch the recording of "In Praise of Dependent Origination - Day 2" on the Dalai Lama Archive YouTube channel.

Watch the recording of "05.08.2020 Post Teaching Revision - Je Tsongkapa's In Praise of Dependent Origination" on the Tibetan BuddhistCentre YouTube channel.

Watch the recording of "Review Session Day 2" on the Tushita Meditation Centre Dharamkot YouTube channel.

Day 3 - August 6, 2020

Watch the recording of "In Praise of Dependent Origination - Day 3" on the Dalai Lama Archive YouTube channel.

Watch the recording of "06.08.2020 Post Teaching Revision - Je Tsongkapa's In Praise of Dependent Origination" on the Tibetan BuddhistCentre YouTube channel.

Watch the recording of "Review Session Day 3" on the Tushita Meditation Centre Dharamkot YouTube channel.

Study Anger, Anxiety, Patience, and Gratitude on Sundays with Venerable Tenzin Legtsok

Venerable Tenzin Legtsok and Pema at Tushita Meditation Centre, 2020. Tushita Meditation Centre Facebook.

American Tibetan Buddhist monk Venerable Tenzin Legtsok is teaching online each Sunday from July 26 through Sunday, August 16, 2020.

Venerable Tenzin Legtsok was the teacher for the 10-Day Introduction to Buddhism course I joined at Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, in 2014. He explains things so well. 

Tushita Meditation Centre is offering a lot of online courses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Venerable Tenzin Legtsok taught a few of the past courses.

The Event

Ngarik Gatsal Ling is hosting 1.5 hour Sunday Online Teachings on Zoom given by Venerable Tenzin Legtsok. 

Each session will be based on verses from Bodhisattva Shantideva's text A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. Each session will consist of a teaching followed by a Q&A session.

Schedule

July 26, 2020:

Anger: Understanding and identifying the afflictive emotion to reduce anger through the practice of implementing antidotes.

August 2, 2020:

Anxiety: Understanding and identifying the afflictive emotion to reduce anxiety through the practice of implementing antidotes.

August 9, 2020

Patience: Understanding types and benefits of patience, methods to generate patience and learning meditation on patience.

August 16, 2020

Gratitude: Understanding benefits of gratitude, methods to practice the positive state of mind and learning meditation on gratitude.

5:00 PM IST - 6:30 PM IST

(4:30 AM PT - 6:00 AM PT)

Join the Zoom Sessions

The Zoom meeting ID and password are included in the above graphic. The same information is also listed on the Ngarik Gatsal Ling - Joyous Garden for the Five Sciences Facebook page in the body of the Facebook post where it may be easier to read.

Venerable Tenzin Legtsok

"Venerable Tenzin Legtsok is in the seventeenth year of the Geshe Studies Program at Sera Jey Monastic University in South India where he studies classical Indian Buddhist treatises and their Tibetan commentaries in the tradition of ancient Nalanda University. 

"He has been ordained as a Buddhist monk since 2001. Born in Virginia, USA he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Kenyon College in 1995. For the past ten years he has tried to make basic Buddhist teachings accessible to various audiences in India and the US through lectures, essays, and meditation instruction."

Source: Ngarik Gatsal Ling Centre

Watch recordings of many teachings given by Venerable Tenzin Legtsok on the Choe Khor Sum Ling YouTube channel.