Ganden Lha Gyama (Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga)
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with Geshe Dakpa
Monday, October 8, 7:00pm – 9:00pm and Sunday, October 14, 10am - noon
"The Hundred Deities of the Land of Joy" (Ganden Lha Gyama), also known as Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga, is a core practice of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The short text forms a practice of guru yoga centered upon the great adept-scholar Je Tsongkhapa Lobsang Drakpa (1357-1419), the founder of the Gelug tradition. Through verses that illustrate how best to interact with the spiritual teacher and the recitation of the Migtsema, one seeks to purify the mind and accomplish the realizations of the path. This inspiring practice has been recited by ordained and lay practitioners for hundreds of years.
Geshe Ngawang Dakpa will be giving commentary on this precious text and practice. Geshe Ngawang Dakpa served as a resident teacher at Tse Chen Ling. He was born in Nangchu, northeast of Lhasa, Tibet. He became a monk at the age of ten. At the monastery he studied both Dharma and secular subjects extensively before entering Sera Je Monastery eleven years later. He fled Tibet in 1959. Upon his arrival in India, Geshe-la not only continued his monastic studies, but also spent three years at the Sanskrit University in Benares, earning an MA with honors. Invited by the Queen of Sikkim, he taught at the University of Sikkim for nearly 20 years before returning to Sera monastery in South India and obtaining his Geshe degree.
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