Geshe Tenzin Sherap began teaching the Sunday class, "Candrakirti's Entering The Middle Way" on August 22, 2021.

Candrakirt's 7th century classic was written as a supplement to Nagarjuna's Root of the Middle Way.

This text integrates the central insight of Nagarjuna's thought - the rejection of any metaphysical notion of intrinsic existence- with the well-known Mahayana framework of the ten levels of the bodhisattva.

"Illuminating the Intent" is Lama Tsongkaphas's renowned commentary on Chandrakirti's Entering the Middle Way. Composed in 1418, Lama Tsongkapha set forth the meaning of emptiness in the context of bohisattva's ten perfections.

Geshe Tenzin Sherap began teaching the Saturday class, Nagajurna's Precious Garland on March 07, 2026.

The Precious Garland or Ratnavali discusses the complete pathways to enlightenment. It provides antidotes to deal with our delusions and cultivate compassion and wisdom to be able to realize our fullest potential to be Buddha or Enlightened Being. This course will explain this poetic yet profound treatise of Arya Nagarjuna to enhance our spirituality.

Text: Nagarjuna's Precious Garland: Root Text    Text PDF    Amazon

Geshe Sherap will begin teaching the Refutation of Objections on Monday/Friday, September 09-11, 2026 and will be ongoing.

The Vigrahavyavartani — "Verses on Turning Back Disputes" — is Nagarjuna's defense of the Madhyamaka doctrine of emptiness against the charge that it is self-refuting. Written in India in the second century CE, it is one of the most important texts in Buddhist philosophy.

An opponent poses twenty objections:

If all things lack intrinsic nature, then Nagarjuna's own words lack intrinsic nature

and cannot refute anything. His means of knowledge cannot establish anything. His thesis has no ground to stand on.

In seventy verses of precise dialectic, Nagarjuna dismantles every objection from within, showing that it is the realist who is trapped in contradiction, while the teaching of emptiness — which holds no thesis of its own — is free from all fault.

The Vigrahavyavartani is one of the Five Collections of Reasoning (Yukti corpus) by Nagarjuna, alongside the Mulamadhyamakakarika, the Sixty Verses on Reasoning, the Seventy Verses on Emptiness, and the Vaidalyasutra — all five of which are now in the archive.

The crown verse — "For whom emptiness is possible, all things are possible" — is among the most cited lines in Buddhist thought.

Translated from the Classical Tibetan of the Dege Tengyur (Tohoku 3828) by Rinchen of the Good Works Library, 2026"

Handout:    Refutation of Objections     Dispeller of Dispute      

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