Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity

Download or read book Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity written by Je Tsongkhapa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the author of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and the teacher of the First Dalai Lama, is renowned as one of the greatest scholar-saints that Tibet has ever produced. He composed his poetic Praise for Dependent Relativity the very morning that he abandoned confusion and attained the final view, the clear realization of emptiness that is the essence of wisdom. English monk Graham Woodhouse, a longtime student of Buddhism, was living near the Dalai Lama's residence in northern India when he translated Tsongkhapa's celebrated text, and he conveys for modern readers the explanation of it he received from his teacher, the late Venerable Lobsang Gyatso.