Je Tsongkhapa Day 2020

Je Tsongkhapa Day 2020
10th December

by 

Geshe G. Tharchin 

Je Tsongkhapa's day is the celebration of his parinirvana, the Great Gaden Ngachhod. Je Tsongkhapa has passed away and attained the state of full enlightenment in the Bardo. This auspicious occasion falls on December 10.

Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) is the founder of the Gedenpa lineage, the Gelug tradition and great reformer of Buddhist doctrine in the Land of Snow. Je Tsongkhapa clarified the teachings of the Sakyamuni Buddha and composed a series of treatises, including several works by Lamrim that outline the complete path to enlightenment.
 

The celebration of Gaden Ngachhod's offering of light in Tibet considered similar to that of Diwali in India and Christmas in the West. On this special occasion one can practice meditation on the three main aspects of the path, https://geduntharchin.blogspot.com/2012/07/three-principles-of-path.html composed by Je Tsongkhapa to commemorate his life and teachings for the benefit of all sentient beings.

 

In Tibetan communities the event celebrates with the chanting of the following mantra of Je Tsongkhapa. 

དམིགས་མེད་བརྩེ་བའི་གཏེར་ཆེན་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས།།
MIG MEY TZE WAY TER CHEN CHENREZIG

དྲི་མེད་མཁྱེན་པའི་དབང་པོ་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས།།
DRI MEY KHYEN PI WANG PO JAMPAL YANG

བདུད་དཔུང་མ་ལུས་འཇོམས་མཛད་གསང་བའི་བདག།
DU PUNG MA LU JOM DZEY SANG WEY DAG

གངས་ཅན་མཁས་པའི་གཙུག་རྒྱན་ཙོང་ཁ་པ།།
GANG CHENG KE PEY TSUG GYEN TSONGKHAPA

བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པའི་ཞབས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།།
LO SANG TRAG PEY SHAB LA SOL WA DEB

OM AH GURU VAJRA DHARA SUMATI KIRTI SIDDHI HUNG