This 10-day residential course is suitable for beginners and experienced students!
Geshe Dorji Damdul is the Director of Tibet House in New Delhi, eminent scholar and author, and one of the official translators for His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Geshe Dorji Damdul is widely renowned for his highly dynamic, engaging and inspiring teaching style – combining his deep understanding of Buddhist philosophy in the Nalanda tradition with the tender heart of Bodhicitta and a keen interest in modern science. This way Geshe-la makes even the most profound and complex topics accessible to new and experienced students alike.
Bodhisattva Shantideva: A Bodhisattva’s Way of Life
In the whole of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there is no single treatise more deeply revered or widely practiced than A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life. Composed in the eighth century by the Indian Bodhisattva Santideva, it became an instant classic in the curricula of the Buddhist monastic universities of India, and its renown has grown ever since. Santideva presents methods to harmonize one’s life with the Bodhisattva ideal and inspires the reader to cultivate the perfections of the Bodhisattva: generosity, ethics, patience, zeal, meditative concentration, and wisdom.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama said: “If I have any understanding of compassion and the Bodhisattva path, it all comes from studying this text.”
Shantideva composed his text in the form of an inner dialog. He turned his own weapons upon himself, doing battle with his negative emotions. Therefore, when we teach or listen to this text, it is important that we do so in order to progress spiritually, rather than making it simply a subject of academic study.