Dear friends

Last Saturday Geshe la started the teachings on the Foundation of all Good Quality and he briefly gave the explanation of the first four verses of:

The foundation of all good qualities is the kind and perfect, pure guru;
Correct devotion to him is the root of the path.
By clearly seeing this and applying great effort,
Please bless me to rely upon him with great respect.

This coming Saturday (tomorrow) will be the next four of:

Understanding that the precious freedom of this rebirth is found only once,
Is greatly meaningful and difficult to find again,
Please bless me to generate the mind that unceasingly,
Day and night, takes its essence.

Vietnamese version
Thứ bảy trưởc, thầy Geshe la thuyểt giảng bài kệ Nền Tảng của những Phẫm Chẩt Tổt Đẹp của đại sư Tsongkhapa và thầy đã giảng giải bổn câu kệ đầu về phẫm hạnh của bậc thượng sư.

Thứ bảy tới 28 thang 11, Geshe La sẽ giảng bổn câu kệ tiểp theo sau với chủ đề thân người khó gặp.
Kính mời các anh chị vế chùa nghe pháp thoại.

Tibetan word of the day: གཞི་གྲུབ་

January 18, 2026

གཞི་གྲུབ་

Established basis

Spelling (jorlok; Tib. སྦྱོར་ཀློག་) and pronunciation:
གཞི་ – ga-o zha gigu zhi
གྲུབ་ – ga ra-tak dra zhabkyu dru ba drub
zhi drub

From class notes:

“First, what must be understood is this: the established basis (Tib. གཞི་གྲུབ་ gzhi grub), object of knowledge (Tib. ཤེས་བྱ་ shes bya), existence (Tib. ཡོད་པ་ yod pa), and phenomena (Tib. ཆོས་ chos) are all of one meaning.

The meaning of an established basis is that which is established by valid cognition (Skt. pramāṇa).”

Geshe la encourages us to learn Tibetan to help gain deeper
understanding of the teachings, and gain access to prayers and rituals that have not been translated. The Tibetan word of the day is offered to give regular exposure to Tibetan reading and vocabulary.

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