May 16 to 18, 2025 Weekend Intensive Teaching.

Weekend Intensive Teaching In-person and Through Zoom with Geshe Ngawang Gyatso

Note:  To register please sending an email to office@namgyal.org.  Please register by noon of the Friday of the weekend intensive start date.  This is necessary so there is time to send Zoom invitation.  Payment can be made through the website. www.namgyal.org   Click - Donation page and make payment OR send a check to Namgyal Monastery, 201 Tibet Drive, Ithaca, NY 14850

TOPIC: Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Cost: $140   In-person : includes breakfast and tea breaks on Saturday and Sunday as well as lunch on Saturday

Cost: $100   Through Zoom meeting.

Date:  May 16 to 18, 2025

Description:

 Three Principal Aspects of the Path is an important concise text written by Lama Je Tsongkapa that encompasses the core practices of Mahayana (Great Scope) Buddhism.  The Three Principal Aspects are: renunciation, mind of enlightenment (bodhichitta) and wisdom realizing emptiness. Renunciation is the determination to gain freedom from ignorance, attachment, and aversion which bind us in cyclic existence. The mind of enlightenment bodhichitta arises when one realizes that all sentient beings wish for happiness, yet in confusion create the causes of more suffering.  Hence, one generates the wish to develop great compassion (Bodhichitta) and to achieve Buddhahood so one can help lead all beings to complete freedom of enlightenment.  Finally, one realizes that in order to achieve Buddhahood one must uproot the causes of suffering by penetrating the ultimate nature of existence.  This requires development of wisdom realizing emptiness, which is the realization  the union of the two truths of relative and ultimate reality.  These three, Renunciation, The Mind of Enlightenment (Bodhichitta), and Wisdom Realizing Emptiness serve as the foundation for understanding the philosophy and practice of all the Sutra and Tantra. During this teaching, Geshe la will provide commentary and explanation of the essential points of this important text and instructions on their practice.  This is an excellent teaching for both newcomers and more experienced students.  Newcomers will be introduced to these important aspects of practice and for more experienced students this is a wonderful opportunity to continue to deepen one’s understanding and experience.   

Biography:

Geshe Ngawang Gyatso joined Sera Je Monastery in India in 1993.  He studied for twenty two years on five major Buddhist Philosophical texts.  He received his doctorate in Buddhist Philosophy in the year 2013 and Tantrayana Degree from Gyudmed Trantric monastery.  He was Buddhist Philosophy teacher for two years in Serjhi Jamyang Choehorling Mopnastery in Arunachal Pradesh. 

 He attended special Buddhist Philosophy teacher's training organized by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama office at Central institute of higher Tibetan Studies and received two years courses in English at Bangalore.

 At present he is faculty at Namgyal Monastery – Tantric College in Dharamsa-la, India and Geshe Ngawang Gyatso will be the main teacher at Namgyal Mon-astery Institute of Buddhist Studies, Ithaca, NY.

Schedule:

Friday - Introductory Talk: May 16^th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.

 Saturday: 
 9:00-10:15: Morning Session

10:15-10:30TeaBreak
12:00-2:00LunchBreak
2:00- 3:15 Afternoon Session

3:15 - 3:30 Tea Break

3:30-5:00PMAfternoonSession
Sunday:

 9:00 - 10-15 Morning Session

10:15 - 10:30 Tea Break

10:30 - 12:00 Last Session