Saturdays with Geshe Ngawang Dakpa
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Via Zoom only / Registration required Join us as Tse Chen Ling’s longtime resident teacher, Geshe Ngawang Dakpa, shares his wisdom and insight on a series of topics beneficial to our minds and our practice. Geshe-la will choose topics as the series progresses, and they’ll be posted here and announced in our eNews and social media. We’re grateful to have a scholar of Geshe Dakpa’s renown offer these teachings to our community! |
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Current Topic:
In Praise of Dependent Origination
with Geshe Ngawang Dakpa
Saturdays 2025: November 8 and 22
10:00am - 12:00pm PT
Via Zoom / Registration required
Ven. Stephen Carlier will provide English interpretation of Geshe Dakota's teaching, and class will be hosted by Stephen Butler.
This class is offered in collaboration with Land of Medicine Buddha.
with Geshe Ngawang Dakpa
Saturdays 2025: November 8 and 22
10:00am - 12:00pm PT
Via Zoom / Registration required
Ven. Stephen Carlier will provide English interpretation of Geshe Dakota's teaching, and class will be hosted by Stephen Butler.
This class is offered in collaboration with Land of Medicine Buddha.
Program Description:
Geshe-la will give a commentary on In Praise of Dependent Origination, composed by the great Jé Tsongkhapa. This text details the correct view of emptiness in the form of a moving praise to the Buddha Shakyamuni for delivering the teaching on the view.
According to the website of His Holiness the Dalai Lama:
"The ultimate profundity of Buddhism is rooted in the notions of dependent arising and designation in dependence on other factors. Jé Tsongkhapa reflected and meditated on these ideas for many years. He also engaged fervently in practices of purification and the accumulation of merit and wisdom.
While in retreat in Wölkha, one night he had a dream of Nagarjuna with five close disciples. One of them, described as having a bluish complexion, stepped forward and touched Jé Rinpoché’s head with a book. Next day, he consulted the treatise known as ‘Buddhapalita’ and gained insight into emptiness and dependent arising. As a consequence, he composed this text, ‘In Praise of Dependent Arising’, which expresses his strong conviction in the Buddha’s teachings."
About Geshe Ngawang Dakpa:
Geshe Ngawang Dakpa was born in 1932 in Nakchu, northeast of Lhasa, Tibet, and became a monk at the age of ten. At his local monastery of Othok, 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 Varanasi, 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. Additionally, Geshe-la taught in Taiwan before arriving in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999, where he served as a resident teacher at Tse Chen Ling for more than 20 years.
Geshe-la will give a commentary on In Praise of Dependent Origination, composed by the great Jé Tsongkhapa. This text details the correct view of emptiness in the form of a moving praise to the Buddha Shakyamuni for delivering the teaching on the view.
According to the website of His Holiness the Dalai Lama:
"The ultimate profundity of Buddhism is rooted in the notions of dependent arising and designation in dependence on other factors. Jé Tsongkhapa reflected and meditated on these ideas for many years. He also engaged fervently in practices of purification and the accumulation of merit and wisdom.
While in retreat in Wölkha, one night he had a dream of Nagarjuna with five close disciples. One of them, described as having a bluish complexion, stepped forward and touched Jé Rinpoché’s head with a book. Next day, he consulted the treatise known as ‘Buddhapalita’ and gained insight into emptiness and dependent arising. As a consequence, he composed this text, ‘In Praise of Dependent Arising’, which expresses his strong conviction in the Buddha’s teachings."
About Geshe Ngawang Dakpa:
Geshe Ngawang Dakpa was born in 1932 in Nakchu, northeast of Lhasa, Tibet, and became a monk at the age of ten. At his local monastery of Othok, 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 Varanasi, 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. Additionally, Geshe-la taught in Taiwan before arriving in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999, where he served as a resident teacher at Tse Chen Ling for more than 20 years.
Registration:
Advanced registration is required – please make sure to register for each session you’d like to attend on a class-by-class basis. Once you register, the Zoom link will be included on your registration ticket/receipt.
We offer all Dharma teachings and center events on a “dana” basis. This means we’re grateful for your generosity but there is no required cost to attend and no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested donation amounts are provided, and we welcome you to offer what you can to help us sustain our programming and make the dharma and events like this possible. And of course, ordained sangha (ordained nuns and monks) are always welcome free of charge.
If you're not donating at this time but would like to attend, please email [email protected].
Advanced registration is required – please make sure to register for each session you’d like to attend on a class-by-class basis. Once you register, the Zoom link will be included on your registration ticket/receipt.
We offer all Dharma teachings and center events on a “dana” basis. This means we’re grateful for your generosity but there is no required cost to attend and no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested donation amounts are provided, and we welcome you to offer what you can to help us sustain our programming and make the dharma and events like this possible. And of course, ordained sangha (ordained nuns and monks) are always welcome free of charge.
If you're not donating at this time but would like to attend, please email [email protected].
Previous topics:
Commentary on Mind Training by Way of Poem
February - April 2025 |
Dependent Origination
November 6, 2021 & January 8, 2022 
All the Important Points of the Lam Rim
May 2025 |
Explanation and Oral Transmission of Prayers to Padmasambhava
February 5, 2022 
Commentary on Seven-Point Mind Training
2023, 2024 to January 2025 |