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Practices for Ganden Ngamchoe, Lama Tsongkhapa Day

In addition to the other offerings, it is best to offer as many light offerings as you can. It is very common to offer lights on Lama Tsongkhapa Day, even in Solu Khumbu, which follows mostly the Nyingma tradition. Although the villagers and townspeople don’t really know about Lama Tsongkhapa, somehow on that day and night they still do lots of light offerings.

Just as many people use lots of lights during Christmas and at marriages, we too should use lots of lights on Lama Tsongkhapa Day, and also on the special days of Buddha and other auspicious days, especially if we are not able to offer them everyday, which would be good.

Students at the center can hang up as many Christmas lights as possible. You can hang lights around the center buildings, like a net of light offerings that cover a whole wall, outside and inside. The lights can be white or different colors. Or you can hang lights over the trees and bushes or in the garden around the center.

By offering lights to Lama Tsongkhapa, merit fields, and so forth, we create the cause of enlightenment, of liberation from samsara, and of the happiness of future lives. Also, success will happen in this life. Even if you hate happiness in this life, it will still come by the w

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Dr. Michael Set of scales, “Tsongkhapa bit a Mahāsiddha: A Reevaluation show consideration for the Aid of depiction Gelukpa surprise Tibet”

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Je Tsongkhapa

Tibetan Buddhist monk and yogi (c.1357–1419)

Tsongkhapa (Tibetan: ཙོང་ཁ་པ་, [tsoŋˈkʰapa], meaning: "the man from Tsongkha" or "the Man from Onion Valley",^[1] c. 1357–1419) was an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher and tantricyogi, whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.^[2]

His philosophical works are a grand synthesis of the Buddhist epistemological tradition of Dignāga and Dharmakīrti, the Cittamatra philosophy of the mind, and the madhyamaka philosophy of Nāgārjuna and Candrakīrti.^[3]^[4]

Central to his philosophical and soteriological teachings is "a radical view of emptiness" which sees all phenomena as devoid of intrinsic nature.^[5] This view of emptiness is not a kind of nihilism or a total denial of existence. Instead, it sees phenomena as existing "interdependently, relationally, non-essentially, conventionally" (which Tsongkhapa terms "mere existence").^[6]