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Event ID: 196
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: The 100,000 recitations of the Praise to the Twenty-One Taras are performed every year by the full assembly at Sakya Nunnery. Tara is the female embodiment of the enlightened activity of all the Buddhas and the recitation of the praises to the twenty-one forms of Tara is said to pacify and bring protection from all the myriad causes of danger and suffering for ourselves and others and bring the fulfilment of positive good wishes. You are cordially invited to participate, rejoice, and send a dedication for this special event.
Event details: The proceedings will be conducted in Tibetan.
Upcoming Event
Event ID: 197
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: Rinpoche’s teaching at Namo Buddha on “Clarifying the Natural State” by the celebrated Tibetan master Dagpo Tashi Namgyal. This is the first annual teaching of a three year course on Mahamudra. Translation available in English and Chinese.
Event details: The text “Clarifying the Natural State” elucidates the path from mindfulness to complete enlightenment, simply and methodically according to the profound path of Mahamudra, the path which takes the nature of the meditator’s own mind as a primary focus.
中文版線上直播註冊指南 (PDF, 1.6MB).
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Event ID: 197
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: Rinpoche’s teaching at Namo Buddha on “Clarifying the Natural State” by the celebrated Tibetan master Dagpo Tashi Namgyal. This is the first annual teaching of a three year course on Mahamudra. Translation available in English and Chinese.
Event details: The text “Clarifying the Natural State” elucidates the path from mindfulness to complete enlightenment, simply and methodically according to the profound path of Mahamudra, the path which takes the nature of the meditator’s own mind as a primary focus.
中文版線上直播註冊指南 (PDF, 1.6MB).
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Event ID: 196
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: The 100,000 recitations of the Praise to the Twenty-One Taras are performed every year by the full assembly at Sakya Nunnery. Tara is the female embodiment of the enlightened activity of all the Buddhas and the recitation of the praises to the twenty-one forms of Tara is said to pacify and bring protection from all the myriad causes of danger and suffering for ourselves and others and bring the fulfilment of positive good wishes. You are cordially invited to participate, rejoice, and send a dedication for this special event.
Event details: The proceedings will be conducted in Tibetan.
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Event ID: 195
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: This teaching on the Guru Yoga preliminary practice continues a new series of Saturday morning teachings by the Venerable Kunsang Choephel, who is becoming widely appreciated for the clarity and approachability of his teachings, which are given in English.
Event details: Guru Yoga is an important preliminary meditation in which the practitioner visualizes the spiritual teacher as inseparable from the meditational deity, thus assisting the aspirant to cultivate a direct experience of the enlightened attributes of body, speech and mind. A correct relation to one’s main spiritual teacher (who must possess the qualifications of a teacher as set down in the authoritative literature) is considered vital in the Tibetan tradition, as this lays a successful foundation for progress on the spiritual path. An essential point to understand however is that ultimately the guru is one’s own Buddha-nature.
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Event ID: 194
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: This teaching on Vajrasattva meditation continues a new series of Saturday morning teachings by the Venerable Kunsang Choephel, who is becoming widely appreciated for the clarity and approachability of his teachings, which are given in English.
Event details: The Venerable Kunsang Choephel will teach on the method and benefits of meditating on Vajrasattva. In the context of the preliminary practices, in preparation for entering the Vajrayana (tantric) path, meditation on Vajrasattva and recitation of Vajrasattva’s hundred-syllable mantra is said to be a powerful, requisite method for purifying one’s mind of the resonances of previous negative karma and accelerating one’s preparedness for fulfilling the aims of the Vajrayana path, that is, for developing all-encompassing compassion and realisation of the ultimate nature of mind for the benefit of others.
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Event ID: 192
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: The ‘Three Wrathful Ones Initiation’, which comprises the empowerments of Vajrapani, Hayagriva and Garuda, is considered a profound practice for clearing away all obstacles, sicknesses and negativities that hinder our practice of Dharma and the well-being of ourselves and others. Initiation conducted in Tibetan.
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Event ID: 191
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: This teaching on the Mandala Offering preliminary practice continues a new series of Saturday morning teachings by the Venerable Kunsang Choephel, who is becoming widely appreciated for the clarity and approachability of his teachings, which are given in English.
Event details: Mandala Offering is a ritual of offering which involves visualisation of the entire universe and mentally offering this to an object of refuge such as one's guru, a meditational deity or the Three Jewels. Together with Taking Refuge; Vajrasattva Meditation; and the practice of Guruyoga; Mandala Offering is a prerequisite for a successful practice of Vajrayana (the path of the tantras).
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Event ID: 190
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: H.E. the Jangtse Choeje, Kyabje Gosok Rinpoche teaches in Tibetan on Je Tsongkhapa’s renowned verse text ‘The Foundation of All Good Qualities’ (Yön-ten-shir-gyur-ma) on February 22nd to 24th, followed by a Long Life ceremony and Longevity Empowerment on February 25th.
Event details: Tsongkhapa’s short prayer beautifully and succinctly sets out in verse the essential points of the path to the attainment of buddhahood for the sake of all beings.
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Event ID: 188
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: Continuation of the annual teachings by the Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche on the “The Way of the Bodhisattva” (Bodhisattvacharyāvatāra) given this year by Drupon Khenpo Lhaibu Rinpoche. This year’s teaching is on Chapter 6 “Patience” which explains how to reduce and even completely remove anger by understanding its causes and contemplating bodhicitta. Translation available in English and Chinese.
Event details:
The teaching is scheduled for February 18th to 22nd and February 25th to March 1st.
中文版線上直播註冊指南 (PDF, 1.6MB).
The Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is recovering from a recent health problem and therefore not able to travel to Sarnath this year. Drupon Khenpo Lhaibu Rinpoche is the retreat master for Thrangu Rinpoche’s monks and also oversees almost a hundred practitioners, Chinese and western, who are carrying out long retreats. Drupon Khenpo Lhaibu Rinpoche has travelled extensively in Asia, North America, Europe, UK and Africa and is becoming widely known and respected as a master of the Kagyu Lineage.
“The Way of the Bodhisattva” is one of the most celebrated expositions in classical Indian literature on the Bodhisattva doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism, written by the 8th century Indian poet and saint Shantideva. The text is written in verse and has ten chapters. It deals extensively with the stages of training one’s mind in the generation of bodhicitta, and also with the essential practices of the Bodhisattva’s conduct and way of life. It is considered one of the most authoritative texts on the study and practice of the Bodhisattva ideals within the Tibetan tradition.
(Photo of Drupon Khenpo Lhaibu Rinpoche courtesy of Karma Jangchub Gurung)
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Event ID: 189
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: This teaching is the first in a new series of Saturday morning teachings by the Venerable Kunsang Choephel, who is becoming widely appreciated for the clarity and approachability of his teachings, which are given in English.
Event details: Taking refuge is the formal act of entrusting one’s spiritual development to the Three Precious Jewels. The nature of the refuge sought from each of the Three Precious Jewels is: in the Buddha, the fully enlightened teacher, one seeks guidance on the path to enlightenment; in the Dharma, one seeks realisation of the path; and in the Sangha, the spiritual community, one seeks perfect companionship on the path to Buddhahood. The Tibetan tradition considers the seeking of refuge in the Three Precious Jewels as the mark of becoming a practicing Buddhist and metaphorically it is said that one becomes a child of the heart of the Buddha.
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Event ID: 179
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: This ten day study and meditation course is the second part of a five part program titled ‘A Curriculum for Progressing towards Liberation’ which comprises a preparation for and guide to key practices of the Vajrayana (tantric) path. There will be two sessions of teachings daily, with English translation.
Event details:
In this second ten day program, Drupon Khenpo Lodro Namgyal will teach on the perspectives and practices related to the cultivation of Bodhicitta. Bodhicitta is the altruistic aspiration to attain full enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. Literally,
Bodhi means ‘enlightenment’, and
citta, ‘mind’. Bodhicitta is cultivated on the basis of specific mental attitudes, principal among them being the development of love and great compassion towards all beings equally. Mahayana literature speaks of two types of Bodhicitta: conventional Bodhicitta and ultimate Bodhicitta. Conventional Bodhicitta relates to the altruistic aspiration to attain full enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. Ultimate Bodhicitta relates to the wisdom directly realising emptiness, which is induced by the altruistic intention of Bodhicitta. Fundamentally, the cultivation of Bodhicitta, in its relative form, overturns our self-cherishing and, in its ultimate form, overturns our habitual tendency to regard appearances as existing independently, i.e. as independently ‘real’.
For details of the five part program titled ‘A Curriculum for Progressing towards Liberation’, see:
http://www.jamgonkongtrul.org/section.php?s1=3&s2=3.
Drupon Khenpo Lodro Namgyal is the Principal of Rigpe Dorje Monastic Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies at Kagyu Thekchen Ling Monastery, Lava, India. He was also the Drupon (retreat master) for the traditional 3-year Mahamudra retreat at Pullahari Monastery from 1998 to 2001. Drupon Khenpo-la completed his three-year retreat in 1997 at Pullahari under the guidance of the Very Ven. Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. In 1991, prior to undertaking the retreat, he completed the nine year Acharya program at the Nalanda Institute, Rumtek Monastery, studying under the guidance of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. Drupon Khenpo-la is greatly admired for his skill in making even the most complex and subtle Dharma subjects inspiring and accessible to his students.
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Event ID: 193
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: The Abhidharma teachings are a detailed and systematic analysis of phenomena, comprising both the outer world of our surroundings and the inner world of our experience, and their relationship. These teachings examine the phenomenal world on the relative level of experience from the point of view of enlightened beings, thus establishing the foundation for authentic Buddhist practice. [This event was originally webcast on 13-31 August 2018 as Event ID 169.]
Event details: Khenpo Dr Ngawang Jorden, Principal of IBA, teaching for one and a half hours in the mornings and again in the afternoons Monday to Friday (five days each week).
Khenpo Dr Ngawang Jorden’s teaching will be based on the celebrated Abhidharma text ‘Opening the Door to All Objects of Knowledge: A Presentation of the Skandhas, Dhātus and Āyatanas (Aggregates, Elements of Perception and Senses of Perception)’ which was composed by the revered Sakya master Gorampa Sönam Senge (1429-1489).
For more details, please refer to:
http://internationalbuddhistacademy.org/2018-3/
註冊指南(pdf 1.6MB)
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Event ID: 173
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: H.E. Minling Khenchen Rinpoche teaching on the fundamental importance of the cultivation of Bodhicitta (the altruistic intention to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings) in our practice of Dharma (the process of spiritual transformation). English translation available.
[This event was originally webcast on 14 April 2018 as Event ID 152.]
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