Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup
Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup is Abbot at Drepung Loseling Monastery, a position he began in 2024. Previously he was a senior Dharma teacher there for over 20 years. He has also frequently taught at Dharma centers in the U.S. Khenpo Yeshi teaches in English. Khenpo Yeshi began his studies Drepung Loseling in 1975 and obtained his Geshe Lharampa degree in 1996. Beginning in 1998, he studied at Gyuto Tantric Monastery for seven years, ranking the highest position in his class in 2005. He later served for a year as the chief disciplinarian of Gyuto Tantric Monastery. Khenpo Yeshi has studied with many great masters of the 20th Century, especially with the great scholar Khensur Yeshi Thupten and Gen Nyima Gyaltsen. He is also the nephew of one of the Abbey’s other cherished teachers, Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe. Khenpo Yeshi has taught Tsongkhapa’s Illumination of the Thought, a commentary on Chandrakirti’s Supplement to the Middle Way at Sravasti Abbey (and via Zoom) from 2019-2022.
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Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup The perfection of morality
How ethical conduct acts as the foundation for all spiritual perfections, leading to higher rebirths…
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Generosity supported by morality
Morality is the foundation for the long-term benefits of generosity and achieving all good qualities.
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The second ground, the Stainless
How a bodhisattva's morality is perfected on the second bodhisattva ground.
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Divisions of generosity
How true generosity is perfected by the wisdom realizing emptiness and the intention to benefit…
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Do Hearers and Solitary Realizers realize emptiness?
How different teachings on emptiness are adapted to suit the varied capacities of students.
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Emptiness and different Buddhist vehicles
Exploring whether the different Buddhist vehicles are really distinct and outlining obstacles to liberation.
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Three different kinds of cessations
Exploring different views on whether Solitary Realizers and Hearers realize emptiness or not.
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Cessation and emptiness
How different Buddhist traditions understand cessation and emptiness.
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Emptiness in the two vehicles
How emptiness is presented in the fundamental vehicle and the Mahayana.
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Examples illustrating emptiness
Three pathways that keep us trapped in cyclic existence and how understanding emptiness frees us.
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Cutting through misconception
Clarifying how understanding emptiness and the Four Noble Truths leads to liberation
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