Theology
1357 to 1419 CE, Amdo and central Tibet
The great reformer who rebuilt Tibetan Buddhism on a union of rigorous scholarship, ethical discipline, and the precise view that emptiness and dependent arising are one.
Start learning Tsongkhapa →How Tsongkhapa rebuilt Tibetan Buddhism around a single conviction - that ethical discipline, rigorous study, and meditation are not rival paths but one path - and founded Ganden monastery, the Great Prayer Festival, an…
Tsongkhapa’s famously concise distillation of the entire Buddhist path into three essentials - the determination to be free (renunciation), the awakening mind of compassion (bodhicitta), and the correct view (of emptine…
Tsongkhapa’s precise and influential insistence that liberating insight requires identifying exactly what is being denied - intrinsic or inherent existence, and nothing more - because negating too much collapses into ni…
Tsongkhapa’s thesis, poured into a hymn of devotion, that emptiness and cause-and-effect are perfectly compatible and even reinforce each other - so that dependent arising is itself the reason for emptiness - and his gr…
Tsongkhapa’s mapping of the swift tantric path onto the sutra foundation in his Great Exposition of Secret Mantra , and his insistence that the whole soaring structure - sutra and tantra alike - must rest on the base of…
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