Guy Newland explores the idea of the Dharma as refuge, the teaching that “wishlessness” is a door to liberation, and consider how emptiness shows that hope is ultimately based in reality itself.
Ju Mipham Gyatso, was one of Tibet’s greatest scholar-yogis. Guy Newland will explore Mipham’s Buddhist system, his critique of Tsongkhapa, and talk about how his philosophy looks to Tsongkhapa’s followers.
This joyful prayer embodies the bodhisattva path. It invites us to envision atoms and oceans of buddha fields, eons in a single moment, and our own limitless positive potential.
Prof. Newland explains the distinctive power of Tsongkhapa’s articulation of what Buddha realized as the Profound Reality and contrasts it with the approaches of other Tibetan masters.