
Past Events 2025
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2026 LEW TEACHING PROGRAM |
| NAGARJUNA'S LETTER TO A FRIEND |
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Geshe Tenzin Sherap began teaching the Saturday class, Nagajurna's Letter to A Friend" on December 20, 2025. This is the second presentation of Letter to a Friend (The first presentation was in 2018-19)."Nagarjuna's poetic presentation of the fundamental teachings of the Great Vehicle, or Mahayana, is remarkable for its concise style and memorable imagery, making it one of the most widely quoted sources in other commentaries on the Mahayana path. The great Indian Buddhist master Nagarjuna (first-second century C.E.) wrote his celebrated poem "Letter to a Friend" as a gift of advice to a South Indian king, and it has since become a monument in the Indian shastra tradition." |
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| MEDICINE BUDDHA | |
| SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025 |
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SIXTY STANZAS OF REASONING
TEXT BY ARYA NAGARJUNA
COMMENTARY BY ARYA CHANDRAKIRTI |
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On August 23, 2025, Geshe Sherap began the first presentation of Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning to the students at Land of Enlightened Wisdom. This clas will be ongoing. 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: The Reason Sixty & Commentary: Wisdom Amazon Handout: Reason Sixty Root Text |
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NEW FALL SCHEDULE |
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| SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2025 |
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| AUGUST MEDICINE BUDDHA | |
| SATURDAY, AUGUST 09, 2025 |
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| SEVENTY STANZAS ON EMPTINESS | |
| FRIDAY, AUGUST 08, 2025 |
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Geshe Tenzin Sherap completed Acarya Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation text on Saturday, August 02, 2025. This class began on April 19, 2025. There will be a short pause of the Saturday class until a new class is announced.
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| JULY MEDICINE BUDDHA | |
| SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2025 |
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Wishing His Holiness The Dalai Lama An Auspicious 90th Birthday |
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| JUNE MEDICINE BUDDHA | |
| SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2025 |
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| MAY MEDICINE BUDDHA | |
| SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025 |
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| LEW 2025 SPRING TEACHING PROGRAM | |
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Geshe Sherap continues the 70 Stanzas on Emptiness (since 01/10/24) and Entering the Middle Way (since 08/22/21). Geshe Sherap began the new class Stages of Meditation - Middle Volume (on 4/19/2025) |
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| STAGES OF MEDITATION - MIDDLE VOLUME | |
| ACARYA KAMALASILA | |
| SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2025 |
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Geshe Tenzin Sherap began a new class on April 19, 2025, "Stages of Meditation -Medium Volume" by Acarya Kamalasila, a great scholar-saint of the ninth century and a disciple of the great abbot Shantarakshita.
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| APRIL MEDICINE BUDDHA | |
| SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2025 |
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| CHOTRUL DUCHEN | |
| MARCH 14, 2025 |
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| FEBRUARY MEDICINE BUDDHA | |
| SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2025 |
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| LUNAR NEW YEAR MEDICINE BUDDHA AND ARYA TARA | |
| WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2025 |
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| JANUARY MEDICINE BUDDHA | |
| SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2025 at 11:00am |
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| The Medicine Buddha monthly practice is about 1 hour in length and is recited in English. |
| LEW 2025 TEACHING PROGRAM | |
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Geshe Sherap continues the 70 Stanzas on Emptiness (since 01/10/24), 400 Stanzas on Middle Way (since 07/01/23), and Entering the Middle Way (since 08/22/21). |
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