65 min
Interview · Venerable Sangye Khadro
Cultivating Loving-Kindness
Sangye Khadro is interviewed about cultivating loving-kindness as a Buddhist practice.
Overview
What does gelug point to?
The Gelug school was founded by Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) and is the youngest of the four main Tibetan traditions. Its name means "the virtuous way", and its reputation rests on rigour: a curriculum that can run twenty years, ending in the geshe degree.
What marks it out is debate. Students face each other in the courtyard and take positions apart aloud, because a conviction you cannot defend is not yet understanding. Alongside that sits the lamrim, the graded path, which orders the whole teaching into steps a person can actually walk.
The great monastic universities — Sera, Drepung, Ganden — are Gelug, and so are the Dalai Lamas. Sutra study and tantric practice are not treated as alternatives here but as two halves that need each other.
A conviction you cannot take apart is not yet yours.A central teaching within Gelug
Teachers
Teachers across every lineage of Gelug.
Gelug holds many schools and lineages beneath it. Its teachers are gathered below.
Gelug
Dalai Lama
Head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and one of the world's most recognised Buddhist teachers, now teaching mainly from Dharamsala.
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Drupon Ma Gyalten Samten
Tibetan Buddhist teacher who leads the introductory meditation retreats at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, the week-long courses for people with no practice behind them.
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Geshe Dorji Damdul
Director of Tibet House in New Delhi and a former interpreter for the Dalai Lama, who teaches emptiness and the Nalanda philosophical tradition to students in over a hundred countries.
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Gelug
Geshe Tenzin Zopa
Gelug monk and touring FPMT teacher, known worldwide as the searcher in the film Unmistaken Child, who teaches the graded path and mind training in centres across four continents.
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Geshe Thubten Rabten
Resident geshe at Atisha Centre, who teaches the classical Gelug curriculum including Tsongkhapa's Three Principal Aspects of the Path.
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe
Gelug scholar who teaches Nagarjuna's Precious Garland weekly at Sravasti Abbey, and leads retreats on the Pure Land aspiration prayers.
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Talks & videos
Watch across gelug.
Documentaries, interviews and talks connected to this path and its sub-paths.
100 min
Talk · Venerable Sangye Khadro
A Zillion Reasons to Love Sentient Beings
Sangye Khadro teaches on cultivating love for all sentient beings at Tushita Meditation Centre's Miracles 2025 program.
23 min
Talk · Venerable Sangye Khadro
Meditation on Emptiness
Sangye Khadro teaches on meditating on emptiness, a core Buddhist view of how things exist.
109 min
Talk · Venerable Sangye Khadro
Cultivating a Daily Meditation Practice for Emotional Balance
Sangye Khadro teaches how to build a steady daily meditation practice that supports emotional balance.
Listen
Recordings from across gelug.
Talks, guided meditations and podcast conversations from the teachers within this lineage.
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Ven. Sangye Khadro: How to Meditate
Sangye Khadro, author of How to Meditate, talks about the foundations of Buddhist meditation practice.
From the podcast The Wisdom Podcast
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Four Kinds of Happiness
Sangye Khadro discusses four kinds of happiness described in Buddhist teaching.
From the podcast How to Train a Happy Mind
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Meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
Sangye Khadro explains how meditation is practiced within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
From the podcast The Innercraft Podcast
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Guided Meditation: The Natural Goodness of Our Mind
Sangye Khadro leads a guided meditation on the natural goodness of our mind.
From the podcast How to Train a Happy Mind
Listen on Apple PodcastsUpcoming events
Events across gelug.
Events tagged to an unpublished school or lineage automatically remain discoverable here while that level stays unpublished.
20SEP
Three Principal Aspects of the Path and the Four Opponent Powers
Kensington, Australia · Day of teachings
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25SEP
Step-by-Step Path to Developing Compassion and Wisdom
Dresden, Germany · Weekend teaching
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26SEP
Vajrasattva Initiation in Adelaide
Magill, Australia · Weekend initiation
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01OCT
Purification Vajrasattva Retreat
Australia · Hybrid retreat
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