Theology
1357 to 1419 CE, Amdo and central Tibet
The graduated path, emptiness as dependent-arising, and the union of vast method with profound view - the synthesis that founded the Gelug school.
Start learning Tsongkhapa →Tsongkhapa's Lamrim - the Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path - organizes the whole of the Buddhist path into a single graduated sequence, so that every teaching finds its place and every practitioner knows the nex…
Tsongkhapa's subtlest teaching: to realize that things are empty of intrinsic existence is not to deny them but to understand how they exist - dependently. Emptiness and dependent-arising are two sides of one truth, and…
The signature of Tsongkhapa's whole synthesis: awakening requires two wings held in union - the profound view of emptiness and the vast method of compassion, and equally study and practice, sutra and tantra. Neither win…
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