Commentary on Buddha Nature August 4, 2008

Geshe Wangdak Khensur Rinpoche Aug 4-Aug 10, 2008

Maitreya's Uttaratantra (Buddha Nature)
Commentary by Geshe Wangdak Khensur Rinpoche
Mon Aug 4, Tue Aug 5, Wed Aug 6, Fri Aug 8 all at 7:00 PM
(Thur Aug 7 no teaching)
Sat Aug 9, Sun Aug 20 at 10:00 AM (morning session only)

Buddha Nature refers to the innate potential within every sentient being to reach the state beyond all suffering, cleansed of all possible obscurations, the actualization of the fully perfected state of complete enlightenment. Beginning with an explanation on refuge, this classic text of the bodhisattva Maitreya discusses the meaning, qualities and benefits of the enlightened state. This text offers tremendous hope and guidance in difficult times, enabling us to transcend distorted and limited views of human potential, offering a glimpse of our sublime nature.

Lobsang Tenzing Geshe Wangdak, Khensur Rinpoche was born in 1934 in the Kham province in Tibet. At age ten he entered Ba Zingon Monastery and at eighteen joined Loseling College at Drepung Monastery where he studied until 1959. In 1960 he resumed his studies at Buxa and in 1970 moved to the new Drepung Monastic University in south India. Soon after completing his Geshe exams in 1977, he was invited to teach at Namgyal Monastery in Dharamsala, India, where he was senior teacher for fourteen years.

While at Namgyal, Rinpoche received initiations and teachings in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1991, he was appointed Abbot of the monastery by H.H. the Dalai Lama, until 1994. In 1995, His Holiness appointed Khensur Rinpoche Abbot and Senior Resident Teacher at Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, NY. He retired from Ithaca in 1998, and now resides at the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center in Middletown, Connecticut.
Rinpoche teaches in Tibetan with English translation by Ven Tsenla

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