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Geshe Thubten Sherab – “The Four Seals of Buddhism”January 5th, 2021
January 12th, 2021
January 19th, 2021
Each class from 6pm-7:30pm US PST
This course is presented online via Zoom. Registration is required, click "Find Tickets" to sign up.
About the course
The Four Seals represent the core philosophical tenets of Buddhism.
They are:
1. All compounded phenomena are impermanent.
2. All contaminated things are suffering.
3. All phenomena are selfless.
4. Nirvana is true peace.
– Extracted from Emptiness, The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Vol. 5 translated by Geshe Tashi Tsering (Wisdom, 2009)
As His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama writes:
“When a Buddhist and a non-Buddhist are differentiated by way of behavior, the difference is whether or not the person takes refuge in the Three Jewels. When they are differentiated by way of the view, the difference is whether or not the person asserts the views which are the four seals testifying to a doctrine’s being the word of the Buddha.”
– Extracted from The Key to the Madhyamika written by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, translated by Jeffrey Hopkins
Join us as Geshe Thubten Sherab returns to Tse Chen Ling to guide us through the general and finer points of these basic tenets of Buddhism.
About Geshe Thubten Sherab
Geshe Sherab was born in Manang/ Nepal in 1967. He attended Kopan monastery at the age of 9 in around 1976/1977 and was ordained by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. After 10 years of study in Kopan, he went to Sera Je Monastery for further studies in 1987, and graduated as Geshe at the end of 1999. After that he joined Gyume Tantric College for a year. Then he taught young monks at Kopan for a year. In 2001 he was sent by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to New Mexico to serve and help at International Office of FPMT as well as teach at TNL in Santa Fe and Ksiti Garba Center in Taos as resident teacher. He also served as Board member of FPMT for 2 years during that period. By end of 2003 in December he returned back to Nepal to do his own practices. In 2006 he was appointed as Head Master of Kopan monastery and served for 4 years. He served as acting Abbot for a year in 2011 when the late Guru Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundup became ill. He has been teaching at Kopan during meditation courses as well as traveling and teaching around the world, in US, Canada, many parts of Europe, Asia, Mexico, Guatemala and Australia.
Course fee:
$20 per class
$50 for all three classes
Course Sponsorship
$108
$300
Ordained sangha members are always welcome to attend free of charge.
Please note: No one turned away for lack of funds. If this applies to you, please email the Tse Chen Ling Office at [email protected].
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies, 302 Jules Ave, San Francisco, CA 94112, United States
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