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 Wednesday/Friday class, "Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas of Emptiness" on January 10, 2024, a fundamental work of Nagarjuna on the Madhyamika system of Buddhist philosophy, and the Prasangika viewpoint.

Geshe Tenzin Sherap began alternating between three different translations of Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas of Emptiness by David Ross Komito, Christian Lindtner, and Fernando Tola y Carmen Dragonetti during the teaching of this class. These translations can be found below and on the YouTube description page of the class.

Handouts:  CL     FD     DK

Text: (Optional): Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: Amazon  

Geshe Sherap began teaching the Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning on Saturday, August 23, 2025. This is the first presentation to the students at Land of Enlightened Wisdom.

The Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning is the work of Arya Nagarjuna (2nd CE), and the commentary by his most influential successor, Chandrakirti (7th CE). These two treatises emphasize the non-foundationalist reasoning for which Madhyamaka thought is famed, here within the context of that quintessential Buddhist topic, universal compassion, thereby illuminating the nondual nature of these two fundamental components of Indian Buddhist thought.

Text: Reason Sixty & Commentary (2nd Edition 2024):    Wisdom        Amazon   

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