Empowerment and Teaching

During this Festival,  Venerable Geshe Kelsang will grant the Blessing Empowerment of Je Tsongkhapa. This is a special opportunity to make a strong connection with the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa and to receive his blessings.

Je Tsongkhapa is the Wisdom Buddha who appeared in Tibet and spread a pure Buddhadharma that showed how to combine the practices of Sutra and Tantra. He displayed a perfect example of how to build the foundation for the spiritual path, how to progress on that path and how to complete it. He also embodies the wisdom, compassion and spiritual power of all the Buddhas. By relying upon Je Tsongkhapa and engaging in meditations that focus on him, we can also develop and perfect these qualities within ourselves.

Venerable Geshe Kelsang will then give a three-day commentary to the meditation practice of Je Tsongkhapa, and a blessing transmission of Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom, that will enable us to derive the greatest benefit from our study and practice.

Modern Buddhism, written by Venerable Geshe Kelsang, is a newly published special presentation of Buddha’s teachings from both Sutra and Tantra that communicates the essence of the entire path to liberation and enlightenment in a way that is easy to understand and put into practice. By explaining practical methods for developing and maintaining compassion and wisdom in our daily lives, it shows how we can gain profound realizations that will transform our lives, improve our relationships with others and enable us to look behind appearances to see the way things actually exist. In this way we can solve all our daily problems and accomplish the real meaning of our human life.