MASTERS PROGRAM 1998: AVAILABLE
STUDY MATERIALS AND COSTS
The following is a list of all materials produced by the Masters
Program 1998 and available in pdf format on CD. Please note that
since the materials related to the five main subjects will be used
as study material during the Masters Program 2008, they will gradually
be revised and improved in the coming years.
For the costs of material in printed format please contact the Masters
Program Coordinator.
Ornament
(Abhisamayalamkara) (approximately 2800
pages)
Materials include:
• translations of Maitreya’s
Ornament for Clear Realizations and Haribhadra’s
Commentary Clarifying the Meaning, which are embedded in the
transcripts
• transcripts of the commentary
to these two texts by Geshe Jampa Gyatso
• a translation of Geshe Jampa
Gyatso’s “A Short Explanation of the Ornament for
Clear Realizations” together with transcripts of his
commentary based on this text
• transcripts of review classes
with Jampa Gendun
• miscellaneous study material
including charts, outlines, quizzes, exams, and answer keys
Middle
Way (Madhyamakavatara) (approximately
3800 pages)
Materials include:
• translations of Chandrakirti’s
Supplement to [Nagarjuna’s] 'Treatise on the Middle
Way' (Madhyamakavatara) and his auto-commentary,
which are embedded in the transcripts
• a translation of Lama Tsongkhapa’s
Illumination of the Thought, which is embedded in the
transcripts
• transcripts of Geshe Jampa
Gyatso’s oral commentary
• transcripts of review classes
with Jampa Gendun
• miscellaneous study material
including charts, quizzes, exams, and answer keys
A CD-ROM of the Middle Way material
is available exclusively from the FPMT
Shop (this material has been indexed and
transformed into pdf files to facilitate consultation).
However, when ordered in combination with materials related to
other MP subjects it is also available from Istituto Lama Tzong
Khapa at a cost of €25.
Treasury (Abhidharmakosha)
(approximately 2500 pages)
Materials include:
• translations of Vasubandhu’s
Treasury of Manifest Dharma (Abhidharmakosha)
and the First Dalai Lama’s Clarifying the Path to Liberation:
A Complete Explanation of the Treasury of Manifest Dharma,
which are embedded in the transcripts
• transcripts of Geshe Jampa
Gyatso’s previous oral commentary from 1991-1997
• transcripts of Geshe Jampa
Gyatso’s oral commentary from September 2001-December 2002
• transcripts of a review of
the Treasury of Manifest Dharma by Geshe Jampa Gyatso
from January-February 2003
• transcripts of review classes
and notes by Jampa Gendun
• miscellaneous study material
including charts, quizzes, exams, and answer keys
Grounds and Paths
of Secret Mantra (approximately 1100 pages)
(To study this subject it is necessary to have received
a highest yoga tantra initiation)
Materials include:
• a translation of Kirti Losang
Trinle’s Essence of the Nectar of the Great Secret,
which is embedded in the transcripts
• a partial translation of Lama
Tsongkhapa’s Great Exposition of the Stages of Secret
Mantra, which is embedded in the transcripts
• transcripts of Geshe Jampa
Gyatso’s oral commentary
• transcripts of review classes
and notes by Jampa Gendun
• miscellaneous study material
including charts, quizzes, exams, and answer keys
Guhyasamaja
Tantra (approximately 800 pages)
(To study this subject it is necessary
to have received the Guhyasamaja initiation)
Materials include:
• a translation of Aku Sherab
Gyatso’s Sacred Words of Akshobhya, a commentary
to the generation and completion stages of the Guhyasamaja Tantra,
which is embedded in the transcripts
• a new translation of the long
Guhyasamaja sadhana
• transcripts of Geshe Jampa
Gyatso’s oral commentary
• miscellaneous study material
including charts, quizzes, exams, and answer keys
Awarenesses
and Knowers (approximately 100 pages)
Materials include:
• a translation by Elizabeth
Napper of Explanation of the Presentation of Objects and Object-Possessors
as well as Awareness and Knowledge [from within] “The Greater
Path of Reasoning” [Section] of The Magical Key to the Path
of Reasoning, Presentation of the Collected Topics Revealing the
Meaning of the Treatises on Prime Cognition by Purbujok
• transcripts of Geshe Tenzin
Tenphel's oral commentary
Tenets
(approximately 125 pages)
Materials include:
• a translation of Presentation
of Tenets by Jetsun Chogyi Gyeltsen
• transcripts of Geshe Tenzin
Tenphel's oral commentary
Interpretable
and Definitive Meanings (approximately 170
pages)
Materials include:
• transcripts of Geshe Jampa
Gyatso’s oral commentary to the Chittamatra section of Lama
Tsongkhapa’s Essence of Eloquence
Naturally
Abiding Lineage – Buddha Nature (approximately
70 pages)
Materials include:
• a translation of The Naturally
Abiding Lineage that is the Basis of Mahayana Achievings According
to Sublime Continuum from Jetsun Chogyi Gyeltsen’s
Ocean of Sport (Rol mtso)
• transcripts of Geshe Tenzin
Tenphel's oral commentary
Twenty
Sangha (approximately 35 pages)
Materials include:
• translations of Notes
Summarizing the Twenty Sangha and Approachers and Abiders
by Lama Tsongkhapa
• transcripts of Geshe Jampa
Gyatso's oral commentary
