THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
The Truth Of Suffering
The Truth Of Origin of Suffering
The Truth Of Cessation of Suffering
The Truth of Path to Cessation of Suffering

The First Noble Truth - The Truth of Suffering has four subdivisions:
1. Impermanence 2. Suffering 3. Emptiness 4. Selflessness

Meditation on the impermanence of the body is an excellent way to commemorate when Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths.

A Medicine Buddha Puja was held on Saturday, March 05, 2022 at 11:30am. The Medicine Buddha Puja was lead by Geshe Sherap in English.

It has been two years since we have held a Medicine Buddha puja, before the pandemic on Sunday, February 16, 2020.

The puja was followed by a potluck.

Geshe Tenzin Sherap will continue with "Chapter 12 - Analysis of Suffering"  on Wednesday, January 06, 2021 from "The Great Commentary of the Nagarjurna's Root of the Middle Way" by Mabja Jangchub Tsondru. There are 27 chapters in this text.

Geshe Tenzin Sherap's teaching of this text is the third presentation at Land of Enlightened Wisdom which began with "Chapter 1 - Analysis of Conditions"  on Friday, November 06, 2021

Geshe Tenzin Sherap resumed teaching the new Sunday class, "Candrakirti's Entering The Middle Way" on January 02, 2022.

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. This presentation of Entering the Middle Way began on August 22, 2021.

"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.

On March 20, 2020, the center closed to onsite classes due to the spread of the covid virus. Thinking initially it would be only for a few weeks or months, we began broadcasting on Zoom which allowed students to ask questions directly to Geshe Sherap. Now, almost 2 years later, we continue to broadcast classes online on Zoom and YouTube, with a few weeks of hybrid classes.

Not long ago, the Delta variation peaked in August 2021 and now the Omicron variation has spread so quickly with 16,500 covid cases on December 29, 2021 and jumped to 27,091 covid cases on December 31, 2021 and 44,753 on January 1-2, 2022. We will continue with Zoom and YouTube Classes until the Pandemic has wanned.

We look forward to the time we are able to again open the center for classes, but we are committed to keeping our dharma and local community safe from this spread. We appreciate your patience during the pandemic.

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