To everyone who respects and acknowledges common sense, reason, and our common needs, I highly recommend participating in Dr. Thomas Doctor’s upcoming interactive course on the profound view of the Middle Way.

I have emphatically requested Dr. Thomas Doctor to teach on Madhyamaka. Please listen, and if you have any doubts, you can ask him and clarify your doubts. If you can, I suggest that you also participate in the optional exercises that the course will include. These teachings are very profound and ever helpful. Please listen well and study well. It will help you forever.
Love and blessings,

Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

There will be six two-hour sessions, beginning on Monday, May 17th, and continuing every Monday for the following 5 weeks. The live Zoom sessions will be from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. CET. If you cannot attend the live sessions, recordings will be available. The teaching will be in English, but recordings with translation in Chinese, Nepali, Russian, Vietnamese and other languages will soon be available.

These teachings are free of any charge. Please register at DharmaSun.org here: https://dharmasun.org/courses/middleway

If you have any questions, please contact seminar@shedrub.org

Dr. Thomas Doctor is an Associate Professor at Kathmandu University, Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute. He has studied with authentic teachers in the Tibetan scholarly tradition here at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery since he was a young man and is a genuine scholar-practitioner. With the Dharmachakra Translation Committee and 84000: Translating the Words of Buddha, he has translated classic Buddhist sūtras, tantras, and treatises.

These include Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā with commentary by Mabja Jangchub Tsöndrü (Ornament of Reason), Śāntarakṣita’s Madhyamakālaṁkāra with commentary by Ju Mipham (Speech of Delight), Maitreya’s Mahāyānasūtrakālaṁkāra, Madhyāntavibhāga, and Dharmadharmatāvibhāga with commentaries by Khenchen Shenga and Ju Mipham (Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sūtras, Middle Beyond Extremes, and Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature), the Aryaratnameghanāmamahāyānasūtra (The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra, The Jewel Cloud), the Aryasaddharma­smṛtyupasthāna (The Noble Application of Mindfulness of the Sacred Dharma), the Hevajratantra with commentary by Ngog Zhedang Dorje (Like a Jewel Ornament, a Commentary on the Sovereign Tantra of the Two Sections), the Aryatārakurukullākalpa (The Practice Manual of Noble Tārā Kurukullā), and others.