Lhakdor, Geshe

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English Phonetics	Geshe Lhakdor
Sort Name	Lhakdor

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	Smithsonian Global

About

Biographical Information

Venerable Geshe Lhakdor is the Director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala. Geshe La was born in western Tibet and came to India, completing advanced degrees at the University of Delhi and Punjab and continuing on to complete a full Geshe degree at Drepung Loseling Monastic University in south India. He has held many posts in support of the Dharma, as well as translating many texts, some from Tibetan to English, and some from English to Tibetan including:

• Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Shikshasamucchaya)
• The Three Essential Meanings (Nyingpo Donsum)
• Tsongkhapa's Three Principal Aspects of Path
• Words of Manjushri by the Fifth Dalai lama (into English)
• Versified Lamrim by Dvagpo Ngawang Drakpa (Into English)
• Universe in a Single Atom (into Tibetan)
  • Co-translator, co-editor, co-producer (partial list)
    • The Way to Freedom, by HH Dalai Lama, HarperCollins (USA)
    • The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace by HH Dalai Lama, HarperCollins
    • Awakening the Mind and Lightening the Heart by HH Dalai Lama, HarperCollins
    • Stages of Meditation by HH Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca NY, USA
    • His Holiness's Commentary of Nagarjuna's Fundamental Wisdom (into Tibetan)
    • Kindness, Clarity and Insight by HH Dalai Lama (into Tibetan)
    • His Holiness's Commentary on Nagarjuna's Letter to the Friend (into Tibetan)
    • His Holiness's Extensive Commentary on Thogme Zangpo's 37 Bodhisattava Practices.

Links

Wiki Pages

• Lhakdor, Geshe on the DRL
• Lhakdor, Geshe on the LIB
• Lhakdor, Geshe on the BNW

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All beings have Buddha-nature
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Which Wheel Turning
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Zhentong vs Rangtong
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Promotes how many vehicles?
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda
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Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.