Schedule of Events
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Set out below is a list of current and upcoming events at the partner monasteries and nunneries. (All dates are given in day/month/year format.)
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Current Event
Event ID: 165
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: Ven Kunsang Choephel giving an introduction to the ‘Heart Sutra’, one of the most cited and widely known Buddhist texts.
Event details: The central topic of the ‘Heart Sutra’ is the Buddhist understanding of the ultimate nature of mind and phenomena. The Sutra presents a dialogue between the monk Shariputra and the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in which Avalokiteshvara explains how a bodhisattva should meditate in order to realise the ultimate nature of reality, often referred to as ‘emptiness’.
Upcoming Event
Event ID: 164
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: Enthronement ceremony of Ven. Geshe Lobsang Samten as abbot.
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All Events
Event ID: 166
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: This webcast recording of the annual public teaching at Mindrolling is in two parts: ‘The Path to Liberation’ taught on the first three days; and ‘Introduction to Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhism’ taught on the fourth and fifth day. English translation is provided.
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Event details: The first day of the webcast will be available to view from July 6th, with subsequent days of the teaching available to view from each day thereafter. All five days of the webcast will remain available for viewing until July 30th.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 164
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: Enthronement ceremony of Ven. Geshe Lobsang Samten as abbot.
(No payment is required unless you choose to make an optional donation. Please be aware that your registration must be finalised by the registration/payment deadline if you wish to view the webcast and/or make a donation for this event.)
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 165
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: Ven Kunsang Choephel giving an introduction to the ‘Heart Sutra’, one of the most cited and widely known Buddhist texts.
Event details: The central topic of the ‘Heart Sutra’ is the Buddhist understanding of the ultimate nature of mind and phenomena. The Sutra presents a dialogue between the monk Shariputra and the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in which Avalokiteshvara explains how a bodhisattva should meditate in order to realise the ultimate nature of reality, often referred to as ‘emptiness’.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 163
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: Avalokiteshvara is the embodiment of the compassion of all the Buddhas, as visualised in the form of a meditational deity. Ven Kunsang Choephel teaching on the meaning of the six-syllable mantra of Avalokiteshvara: Om Ma-Ni Pad-Me Hum.
Event details: The six syllables represent the perfected, purified states of the six negative emotions (pride, jealousy/self-centred ambition, attachment, delusion, greed/miserliness and anger/hatred). The six negative emotions are the cause of being reborn into the six realms of cyclic existence. If one can abandon the six negative emotions, then liberation from cyclic existence can be achieved.
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Event ID: 162
Event type: Webcast Event
Brief description: Ven Kunsang Choephel giving an introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist perspective on Death and Dying. Contemplation of impermanence, and meditation on the inner processes related to death and dying, are regarded as very important in Tibetan Buddhism.
Event details: Ven Kunsang Choephel also discusses how to prepare for death according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and reviews the modern scientific view of death compared with the Tibetan Buddhist view.
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Event ID: 161
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: This special Lama Chopa Puja, on the auspicious full moon day of Saka Dawa, is dedicated to the long life of all the spiritual masters and for the benefit of all beings, living and dead.
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Event details: The Lama Chopa Puja, written in verse by the first Panchen Lama, Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen, is one of the most popular Guru Yoga practices in the Gelug tradition. ‘Lama Chopa’ literally means ‘making offerings to the guru’.
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Event ID: 159
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: This reading by the assembled monks of Rato Dratsang of Lama Tsongkhapa’s celebrated text ‘Essence of True Eloquence’ (Lekshe Nyingpo) on the auspicious full moon day of Saka Dawa is dedicated to the long life of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
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