Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel's Upcoming Teaching Schedule

We are delighted to announce the following teachings by our spiritual teacher Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel in the coming months.  Khensur Rinpoche has not given extensive commentary on Highest Tantra Yoga at our center for many years due to his busy schedule elsewhere. After repeated requests from his students, Rinpoche has graciously agreed to confer an 8-day long teaching on the "Commentary on Paths and Grounds of Guhyasamaja according to Arya Nagarjuna" and also lead a Cittamani Tara Retreat in December, 2008. This is a rare and precious opportunity to receive instruction on how to do deity yoga practice from such an accomplished spiritual teacher; therefore we are extremely excited and are most grateful to his kindness in accepting our requests.  

 

 

Current 2008 Fall Schedule

Weekly group practice:

1:30 PM every Sunday

(No practice session when special events or classes are scheduled)

 

1st Sunday - Medicine Buddha Puja

2nd Sunday - Prostration to 35 Buddhas

3rd Sunday - Twenty-one Tara chanting

4th Sunday - Chanting the Names of Manjushri

Weekly Classes:

Introduction to Buddhist Tenets

Tuesdays, September 16 ~ October 21   9:30 AM ~ 12:30 PM (Chinese Translation Only)

Saturdays, September 20 ~ October 25   2:00 ~ 5:00 PM (Englsih Only)

 

Geshe Tenzin Sherap

The basic philosophicalperspective is that afflictive emotions, such as desire, hatred, jealousy, etc. that bind beings in a round of uncontrolled birth, aging, sickness and death, are founded on the misperception of the nature of persons and phenomena. Since it is no easy matter to penetrate the thick veil of misconceptions withinour consciousness, Buddhist philosophy includes the study of not only the best and final system of thought, but also the supposedly “lower” systems. This provides a gradual way to approach extremely subtle topics and develops the capacity to investigate appearances so as to penetrate their reality, which leads to liberation and the ability to help a vast number of beings. In this first class of the tenets series, Geshe-la will focus on overviews of all schools of tenets to prepare students for the details introduction of each tenet in the subsequent classes.

 

Essence of Refined Gold (Lam Rim Sershoonma)

Sundays, September 21 ~ October 26   9:30~11:30 AM (English and Chinese Translation)

 

Geshe Jangyang Chozin Rinpoche

The Third Dalai Lama's "Essence of Refined Gold" is a commentary on Lama Tsongkapa's "Songs of Experience" which lays out the stages of the path to enlightenment by ways of practices and experiences. The original source of Lama Tsongkapa's "The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment" (Lam Rim) is Prajnaparamita Sutra which contains the highest teachings of the Buddha. Another source of this teaching is from Maitreya's "Ornamentof Clear Realization". Lam Rim is by essence the oral transmission of the Ornament of Clear Realization. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has made the following comment: Lam Rim is the most excellent teaching. It combines all the Buddha's instructions in one, which includes the Mahayana and the Vajrayana paths. Because it contains both the generation and completion stage practices, it is suitable for the practitioners of the beginning scope and the highest scope. It is like an ocean of dharma treasure that will benefit us not just one life, but in all future lives until one gains full liberation and reaches complete enlightenment.

 

Previous Schedules
Spring 2007, Summer 2007, Fall 2007


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