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Sunday
Morning Pujas and Teachings
10am-12noon Newcomers Always
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Retreats
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Fri, Jun. 29 -
Sat, Jul. 7, 2007
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Mahamudra Retreat with Lama Dawa Tarchin
In Santa Barbara
During a 9-day retreat in Santa Barbara, Lama Dawa Tarchin will give teachings
on The Mahamudra Prayer and lead practitioners in meditation and practice in a residential
environment.
"The Mahamudra Prayer by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, is a short yet thorough and profound
text which presents all the essential points of Mahamudra teaching in terms of view, practice,
and fruition. It is a classic that, especially in the tradition of the Karma Kagyü School of Tibetan
Buddhism, has been and is widely used whenever a disciple is given a first introduction into Mahamudra." (SLP Newsletter)
Lama Dawa teaches throughout Europe and the US after completing two consecutive three-year retreats at Dhagpo
Kundreul Ling Monastery in France. He devotes his time to practice, deepening studies on dharma and languages,
and aiding those on the spiritual path.
you would like more information about joining the retreat, please click here.
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Apr. 6 - 8
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Spring Program with
His Holiness Shamar Rinpoche
with His Holiness Shamar Rinpoche
Friday and Saturday, April 6 & 7, 10 am - 12 noon & 2 - 4 pm
The Four Stages of Mahamudra Meditation by Kunchen
Pema Karpo
Teachings will be held at Stanford University's Florence Moore Hall
Main Lounge, 436 Mayfield, Stanford University, CA 94305
Easter Sunday, April 8, 9 am - 2 pm
Bodhisattva Vows
Rinpoche will give the vows at the Menlo Park Bodhi Path Center,
2179 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025
Monday, April 9, 9 am - 5 pm
Bodhi Path Member's Meeting and lunch
Rinpoche will meet with organizers and engaged members of the
international Bodhi Path Centers at the Hidden Villa Hostel,
Main Building, 26870 Moody Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Monday, April 9, 6 - 9 pm
Program Participants Picnic
A celebratory picnic with music for all attendees of the program and their
families and friends at Dana Hall, 26870 Moody Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
(about a five minute walk from the hostel)
His Holiness Shamar Rinpoche is 14th in this line of highly realized lamas who, since the 14th century,
has reincarnated as teacher and disciple to the Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage.
As predicted by Buddha Shakyamuni, "In the future, a great bodhisattva with a ruby red crown will
come to help the suffering of the multitude, leading them out of their cyclic bewilderment and
misery." In the Sharmapa or red hat lineage, the Buddha's prediction is fulfilled. Shamar
Rinpoche is the founder of the worldwide Bodhi Path Karma Kagyu Buddhist Centers.
For complete information and registration details click here
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Feb. 15 - 20
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Five Day Retreat with Lama Tsony
Teachings on the Sutra of the 35 Buddhas and Losar Celebration
led by Lama Tsony
Location: Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, San Jacinto Mountains, CA
February 18th is Losar or the Tibetan New Year.
To liberate our mind from suffering requires letting go of our dualistic,
habitual tendency to grasp at mind's illusory manifestation. Once freedom is
realized, we will have the capacity to deeply help others. Meditation prepares
our mind to realize its true quality of freedom and ease by progressively
clearing away the obscurations caused by ego-clinging. Buddha offered the
"baby bodhisattva" a very skillful means of purification: The 35 Buddhas Sutra.
According to the Tsurpu Calendar, "From the first to the fifteenth day, out of
compassion for beings, Lord Buddha subdued Mara and the demons." In the first
month of the New Year, practice is stressed because the effects of actions are
multiplied 100,000 times.
A Buddhist monk for over 25 years, Lama Tsony completed two traditional
three-year retreats under the great meditation master Lama Gendun Rinpoche.
Lama Tsony serves as Abbot of Kundreul Ling Monastery in the Auvergne region
of France, where hundreds of Westerners have also completed long-term retreats.
For the past 15 years, Lama Tsony has taught Buddhism and meditation practices
throughout Europe and the U.S.
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