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    Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity
    Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity
    Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity
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    Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity

    By Je Tsongkhapa, Lobsang Gyatso and Graham Woodhouse

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWisdom Publications
    Release dateJan 1, 2012
    ISBN9780861717217
    Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity
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    Je Tsongkhapa

    Tsongkhapa Losang Dragpa (1357-1419) is arguably the finest scholar-practitioner produced by the Buddhism of Tibet. Renowned for both his written works and his meditative accomplishments, he founded the Gelug school, which produced the lineage of the Dalai Lamas.

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    Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity - Je Tsongkhapa

    Introduction

    TSONGKHAPA, the author of Praise for Dependent Relativity, is renowned as one of the greatest scholar-saints that Tibet has ever produced. He composed these verses on the very morning that he abandoned perplexity and attained the final view. In them, he identifies the essence of this view as the harmony of dependent relativity and emptiness. He would later delineate it with fine precision and logical coherence in five great, longer, prose works that are a significant component, if not the core, of his enduring legacy.

    Tsongkhapa was born in 1357 in the Tsongkha district of Amdo in northeast Tibet, where Kumbum Monastery now stands. From childhood, his life was wholly devoted to the study and contemplation of Buddha’s words, and early animated by the bodhisattva ideal, he strove only for the fully evolved stage of buddhahood, with the vast motivation of helping all beings find freedom. He began his monastic education at the age of three, and he left his home province at the age of sixteen to seek teachings from the masters of central Tibet in the peripatetic style of the times, not restricting himself to any one school or tradition but engaging with many. It was not long before he was called on to teach himself.

    His skill in debating and teaching soon brought him fame, but eventually, in 1392, the wisdom-deity Manjushri, with whom Tsongkhapa had established a direct visionary connection, advised him to withdraw from extensive teaching and spend more time in contemplation and

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