In their preserving the pure teachings and lineage, they have crossed geographical borders and discriminatory boundaries and made the Dharma available to all regardless. How wonderful is that?

Into all this is the preservation of the Vinaya code as well, true to Lama Tsongkhapa teachings.

I fold my hands in respect to these lamas for their courage and commitment, for their kindness and compassion.

May Dagom Gaden Tensung Ling Buddhist Monastery flourish and benefit the local laity and beyond.

The founder of the Gelugpa lineage, Je Tsongkhapa, had actually integrated the essence and all the best of the old Kadampa lineage teachings beginning from Lord Atisha, as well as the best of the teachings of the existing lineages at that time – the Nyingma, Kagyu and Sakya lineages. – to form this lineage’s teachings. Je Tsongkhapa’s Lamrim, the Graduated Stages of the Path to Enlightenment( a detailed and structured recreation of Atisha ‘s ‘Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment’ in a manner that would be most efficacious for beings with degenerated minds and mindsets), encompasses all of Lord Buddha’s 84000 teachings designed to address the 84000 afflictions of the mind and the different mindsets.

Much later, and closer to our time, Je Pabongka, also painstakingly acquired and realized the important teachings of other lineages, like the Sakya and Nyingma lineages, as well as other venerated sources to add to the existing Gelugpa lineage teachings. He then carefully transmitted this complete set of teachings of both Sutra and Tantra to a single heart disciple, Trijang Rinpoche. Through Trijang Rinpoche – the Tutor and Root Guru of the 14th Dalai Lama and the Lama to many other great Tibetan teachers of the Gelugpa lineage – all the transmissions were carried safely to India and passed to Trijang Rinpoche’s students(the high Lamas of the Gelugpa lineage). This became ‘the living foundation that is the Gelugpa lineage’ today.

It is most fitting that this monastery’s Dharmapala is Dorje Shugen, the protector sworn to protect Je Tsongkhapa’s lineage teachings (which are also Lord Buddha’s teachings in their entirety), in particular Je Tsongkhapa’s unexcelled clear teaching on Nargajuna’s Middle View on Emptiness , so very necessary for the liberation of all beings from the root cause of suffering.