TOPIC: Foundation of All Good Qualities - Weekend Intensive Teaching Through Zoom with Geshe Ngawang Gyatso from September 19 to 21, 2025

Weekend Intensive Teaching - 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:  Foundation of All Good Qualities

 Cost: $100   Through Zoom meeting.

 Date:  September 19 to 21, 2025

Description:

The Foundation of All Good Qualities is a short text by Lama Je Tsongkhapa which covers all the stages of the path to enlightenment leading up to Tantric practice. As such it provides a systematic overview of all the practices necessary for the attainment of enlightenment including all the levels of teaching and practices that are essential to a practitioner’s gradual and sustained development on the path.  The foundational teachings and practices of the initial scope include contemplating the preciousness of this human life, reflecting on impermanence and going for refuge.  Middling scope teachings include reflections on karma, the twelve-dependent links of dependent origination and the aspiration for personal liberation from cyclic existence (samsara).  Finally, teachings on the great scope of the bodhisattva path include generation the mind of awakening (bodhichitta), cultivation of the wisdom realizing emptiness and the practice of the six perfections. During this weekend intensive Geshe la will provide explanation of the practices outlined in this text. This is an excellent teaching for students at all levels of experience as it will provide a clear framework to newcomers to understand the stages of the path and it will help deepen understanding and practices for more experienced students. Given the brevity of this text, it can be recited daily to assist practitioners in reflecting on the stages of the path.  There are several translations of this text that can be downloaded from the internet.

 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: September 19^th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.

 Saturday:

 9:00-10:15: Morning Session

10:15-10:30Tea Break
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00- 3:15 Afternoon Session

3:15 - 3:30 Tea Break

3:30-5:00PM Afternoon Session

Sunday:

9:00 - 10-15 Morning Session

10:15 - 10:30 Tea Break

10:30 - 12:00 Last Session