Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. A brief three-minute segment from Geshe Pema Tsering’s Grounds and Paths series opens with a direct student question — “What is a Buddha?” — and builds a crisp working definition: someone who has shed all faults and shortcomings while perfecting every good quality. Geshe Pema then explains what that transformation actually requires: the wisdom directly realising emptiness, and the mind of enlightenment — the sincere wish to reach Buddhahood for the sake of all beings. The exchange closes on a warm note, with Geshe Pema marking the successful communication between a student named Hiro Masa and his translator as “a memorable day.” A useful entry point for students beginning to explore the Mahāyāna path.
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File: 03 2005 10 27 G and P (2).mp3
Teacher: Geshe Pema Tsering
Collection: Grounds & Paths (Geshe Pema Tsering)
Date: 2005-10-27
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~272
So first, Ganassi, Buddha. Right? What is a Buddha? Sorry? So Buddha would be someone Someone.
Someone. Yeah. Someone who does not have any any faults or shortcomings. He has he has ridden himself of all faults and shortcomings, and he has accomplished all good qualities. That’s a Buddha.
So then it’s a the word in in Tibetan for Buddha, right, is. So sun, the first syllable, is good time get and accomplishing all good qualities. Does that Yeah. This is a now the mind of the mind that realizes is something else. You need you need that mind realizing emptiness in order to attain enlightenment, in order to to become a Buddha.
But the Buddha is is more than just that. You also need the mind of enlightenment. You wish to be better sentient beings, and then you attain Buddha holy. Okay? I got one question.
I maybe I I could translate and answer, and you understood. It’s great. It’s a memorable day. Today is seventeen November two thousand and five. And I have understood Hiro Masa’s question, and he has understood the translation of the answer.
Okay. That’s Yeah.