Dec 17, 2022
A live online conversation with Khenpo Dakpa Senge of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism and co-hosts Geshe Tenzin Wangyal and Jhama Lhamo. Conversation is in Tibetan language only.
The major Buddhist traditions of Tibet have distinctly different teachings and rituals, yet they also share many commonalities, among them the jewel-like teachings of the Five Wisdoms. In Part 8 of an ongoing series of live online broadcasts, our panelists go deeper into the previous discussions — dialogs between esteemed teachers of six Buddhist traditions of Tibet — to further clarify the essence of these ancient teachings.
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About the Five Wisdoms
Many ancient Tibetan traditions refer to wisdom according to five characteristic aspects known as the five wisdoms. For example, the Yungdrung Bön tradition describes wisdom as a state of open awareness that is absent of ego identity, or the mistaken belief in one’s own inherent existence; and it refers to the five wisdoms as the wisdom of emptiness, mirror-like wisdom, wisdom of equanimity, discriminating wisdom and all-accomplishing wisdom. In each broadcast of the series, invited presenters will each present the teachings according to their own tradition’s unique perspective, quoting from original texts and offering commentary and heart advice.
Full Schedule
- April 30, 2022: Part 1 (six teachers, introduction to the Five Wisdoms) — view recording
- June 16, 2022: Part 2 (Bön teacher’s perspective) — view recording
- June 25, 2022: Part 3 (six teachers, Mirror-Like Wisdom) — view recording
- July 21, 2022: Part 4 (Nyingma teacher’s perspective) — view recording
- August 20, 2022: Part 5 (six teachers, Wisdom of Equanimity) — view recording
- September 18, 2022: Part 6 (Kagyu teacher’s perspective) — view recording
- November 5, 2022, 11 a.m. New York time: Part 7 (six teachers, Discriminating Wisdom) — view recording
- December 17, 2022, 10 a.m. New York time: Part 8 (Sakya teacher’s perspective). View above on this page.
- February 26, 2023: Part 9 (six teachers, All-Accomplishing Wisdom & Wisdom of Emptiness) — view recording
About the Panelists
མཁན་པོ་གྲགས་པ་སེངྒེ།
Khenpo Dakpa Senge (Sakya) was ordained in childhood as a monk at the residence monastery of the great Pal Sakya. He has received major initiations and sacred teachings of the Great Five Founding Masters of Pal Sakya from His Holiness the Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche and other esteemed teachers. At age 20 he received full ordination in the Bhikshu Sangha, and was later admitted to Sakya College where he studied the Six Volumes of Fundamental Buddhist Scriptures and 18 Major Volumes of Buddhist Philosophy. There, he received the acharya degree and was appointed as philosophy teacher. In 2001 he became a lecturer of Sakya Sampradaya at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, Varanasi, India, where he continues to teach philosophy.
ཐོག་མར་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ལྷ་ཁང་ཆེན་མོའི་སྒྲིག་ཁོངས་སུ་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་ཀྱིས་འདོན་ཆོག་སོགས་སྒྲིག་ཁོངས་སྦྱང་དགོས་རིམ་པ་སྦྱངས་ཟིན་རྗེས་ས་སྐྱ་མཐོ་སློབ་ཏུ་གཞུང་ཆེན་ཁག་ལ་སློབ་གཉེར་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ཏེ། དེ་གར་སྐྱོར་དཔོན་དང་། དགེ་རྒན་གྱི་ལས་འཁུར་ལོ་ཤས་ཁུར་ཞིང་། དེ་ནས་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་༧ས་སྐྱ་གོང་མ་ཁྲི་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་བཀའ་དགོངས་བཞིན་ཝཱ་ན་དབུས་བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་ཁང་དུ་སློབ་འཁྲིད་དགེ་རྒན་ལོ་ཉི་ཤུ་ལྷག་ཙམ་ཞུས། ད་ལྟའི་འཆར་ཡང་ཞུ་མུས་ལགས། ལོ་རྒྱུས་སྙིང་བསྡུས་སུ།
Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (co-host) was born in India in 1961, following his parents’ journey from Tibet to India in 1959. At age 11 he began formal studies as a monk at Menri Monastery near Dolanji, India, where he completed an 11-year course of traditional studies at the Bön Dialectic School. He was awarded his geshe degree in 1986. He now lives as a householder, and has been living and teaching in the West for more than 30 years. An accomplished scholar in all aspects of sutra, tantra and dzogchen, Rinpoche is an acclaimed author and a respected teacher of students worldwide. As the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha International, Rinpoche has established numerous centers and institutes of learning in the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe and India. Fluent in English, he regularly offers online teachings in the form of live webcasts, online workshops and YouTube videos. He is renowned for his depth of wisdom; his clear, engaging teaching style; and his dedication to making the ancient Tibetan teachings highly accessible and relevant to the lives of Westerners. More about Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Jhama Lhamo (co-host) of Solan, India, completed her high school education at Tibetan Children’s Village School in Bangalore, South India. She is now pursuing her bachelor of pharmacy degree at Shoolini University, Himachal Pradesh, India.