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Date: 

Sun, May 22, 2016

Time: 

10:00 am - 12:00 pm 

Event: 

The Medium Scope: Developing Thoughts of Yearning for Liberation with Geshe Ngawang Tenley

 

 

The medium scope (also know as the middle scope) of the lamrim teaches on the need to develop yearning for liberation from cyclic existence (Samsara).

In Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand Pabonka Rinpoche teaches:
Here liberation means being released from bondage. Suppose you were freed from the ropes binding you; you would be "liberated from them". We are similarly bound by karma and delusions to the aggregates with which we are inflicted.

About the text:
Pabongka Rinpoche's Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand is the seminal lam-rim text of the 20th century. It is a transcription of a 24 day lamrim teaching given in 1921. Offered as a "practical teaching," it is less scholarly than Je Tsongkhapa's Jang chub lam rim chen mo or The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and as such it is the text from which most modern lamas teach lamrim.

Geshe Ngawang Tenley was born in 1969 and in 1989 began preparation to become a monk under the guidance of his uncle, Geshe Tsulga. He was ordained by the late Gyume Khensur Geshe Urgyen Tseten Rinpoche in 1990 and began the program of studies to become a geshe at Sera Je Monastery. During the course of his studies, he has received many teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama as well as other highly qualified masters. In 1998, he received his full ordination (gelong) vows from His Holiness, and in November 2008, after eighteen years of rigorous studies, he completed his final exams to be conferred the geshe degree at Sera Je Monastery. He began teaching at Kurukulla Center in 2009, and was appointed the resident teacher by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 2010 following the passing away of Geshe Tsulga. His cheerfulness and humility endear him to everyone he meets.

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