Wishing you and your family a very auspicious Gaden Ngamcho on Sunday, December 14, 2025. Geshe Sherap will teach the Sunday, Entering the Middle Way class on December 14, 2025 at 2:00pm on Gaden Ngamcho.

Gaden Ngamcho celebrates the accomplishments of the saint and scholar Lama Je Tsongkapha and the numerous texts written in his lifetime. He is founder of the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, built on the foundations of the Kadampa tradition, the legacy of Atisha.

Lama Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) was born in Amdo, in northeast Tibet. Interested in the miraculous events that occurred at Tsongkhapa’s birth, the master Choje Dondrup Rinchen took charge of his education when he was seven, giving him many teachings and tantric empowerments.

Lama Je Tsongkhapa left Amdo at sixteen to further his studies, studying under fifty teachers and gaining a wide knowledge of both sutra and tantra, being especially impressed with Dignaga and Dharmakirti’s system of reasoning. There followed an intense period of study and meditation, during which he experienced visions of Manjushri.

He has written many texts in his lifetime including the "Illuminating the Intent", 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 Sherap will teach the Entering the Middle Way Class from Lama Tsongkhapa's text, "Illuminating the Intent" on Gaden Ngamcho, Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 2:00pm.

Geshe Sherap recommends the recitation of A Praise on the Twelve Exemplary Deeds of the Lord Buddha on the holy auspicious days.