Je Tsongkhapa’s Spiritual Autobiography
Demo Rinpoche
Je Tsongkhapa Day (Ganden Ngam Chö) is a celebration of the anniversary of Je Tsongkhapa’s passing away. It is celebrated on the 25th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan calendar. 2019 is the 600th year anniversary with Je Tsongkhapa Day, which falls on December 21.
Demo Rinpoche will present this weekend teaching based on Je Tsongkhapa’s Spiritual Autobiography. Expressed through poetic verse, Je Tsongkhapa illustrates the path of his spiritual experiences and realizations and inspires us to consider it as a guide for own journey.
Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) was a great fourteenth-century scholar and teacher who founded the Gelug tradition. His many treatises finalized the work begun by Atisha, which brought together the vast body of Indian scriptures and schools of practice into a unified exposition of the sutrayana and tantrayana paths. He wrote several lam rims. The most well-known is The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path of Enlightenment (Lam rim chen mo). There is also a medium-length lamrim text by Tsongkhapa (200 pages) and a short one, called Lam-rim Dü-dön (Tib.), which is recited daily by many Gelugpas and is about ten pages long.