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SUNDAY PROGRAM
11a.m.-12:15p.m. In person only: Prayer and Meditation Session
Each month, TBLC holds a prayer and meditation session in the Temple. Recited in English, these prayers have been translated from a Tibetan non-sectarian liturgy originally arranged for large assemblies of Tibetan monks and nuns when gathering in Bodh Gaya, India, the place of Buddha’s enlightenment.
2p.m.-3:30p.m. In person and Via Livestream: Dharma Class
After a break for lunch (students either go downtown to a restaurant or bring their own lunches and eat in our facilities), there will be a class on Tibetan Buddhism. TBLC Visiting Monastic Scholar Ven. Geshe Yeshi Lhundup will continue his Sunday afternoon series on the topic of “Minds and Mental Factors.” TBLC Dharma classes are appropriate for both beginning and advanced students of Buddhism and all are welcome.
For a link to our livestream channel, click here:
PREPARING FOR DEATH AND BEING WITH DYING:
A LEARNING INTENSIVE WITH VEN. GESHE YESHI LHUNDUP & DR. NANCY LONG
Buddha taught that our human lives are very precious and that familiarizing ourselves with life’s impermanence, as well as it’s inevitable end in death, is a sobering, yet important contemplation to help us to extract its essence. This learning intensive will discuss preparing for death by developing an awareness of what the dying process entails. We will also learn about compassionate ways to care for loved ones as they move through this important juncture. For this topic, Visiting Monastic Scholar, Venerable Geshe Lhundup, will be joined by Dr. Nancy Long. As a senior Dharma teacher from Drepung Loseling Monastery, Geshe-la is an experienced and talented Dharma teacher and will give his classes in English. Dr. Long, a long term TBLC associate and Medical Director of University of Vermont Home Health and Hospice, will also bring insights on caring for the dying based on her years of experience working in hospice and palliative medicine.
TBLC learning intensives are relevant for any student of Tibetan Buddhism, beginning or advanced, and all are welcome. Students are not required to attend both days and may attend any or all sessions they are able to attend.
Geshe Jampa Thegchog, Transforming Adversity into Joy and Courage: An Explanation of the Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas. Edited by Thubten Chodron. Available through Amazon.
For Geshi Yeshi Lhundup’s “Tibetan Teachings on Consciousness” Series:
Jeffrey Hopkins, Meditation on Emptiness. See Part Three, chapter 1: “The Selfless” pages 235-268. Available through
Wisdom Publications.
Thupten Jinpa, ed. Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, volume 2: The Mind. See all of part 2. Available through Wisdom Publications.
Georges Dreyfus and Evan Thompson, “Asian Perspectives: Indian Theories of Mind.” Chapter 5 in Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness.
Paul Ekman, ed. Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion, A Conversation Between The Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman, Ph. D. Amazon
See also: Study Buddhism by Berzin Archives: Dr. Alexander Berzin, “Primary Minds and the 51 Mental Factors.” Click here
For the Learning Intensive:
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Advice on Dying: And Living a Better Life, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins.
Amazon
LIVE STREAM AND VIDEO
ANNUAL EVENTS AND PROGRAMS
ANNUAL LEARNING INTENSIVES
TBLC annual learning intensives take place over a two or three-day weekend and are an opportunity for an in-depth exploration of different Buddhist topics. Each day is usually divided into four one-hour sessions, but this sometimes varies to accord with the main teacher’s preference. Plenty of time is set aside for questions and answers. Besides intellectual inquiry, there is often guided meditation, depending on the subject matter. The classes are appropriate for both beginning and advanced students of Buddhism.
MAITREYA FESTIVAL
The Maitreya Festival is the biggest day of the TBLC annual calendar. This event includes a procession, a taped message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, prayers from the assembled monks, a Talk given on the Teachings of Maitreya, and delicious Festival food. All your friends and family are welcome to attend this auspicious event. For further details, click here.
FOUNDER’S DAY
Founder’s Day is a celebration of Geshe Wangyal’s arrival in the United States on February 5, 1955, and was started by Geshe-la a few years before his death on January 30, 1983. As Geshe-la died on a date nearby his arrival date, Founder’s Day is also a remembrance of his passing away. This event includes a luncheon, prayer recitation in the TBLC Temple, and a talk by Executive Director Joshua Cutler.
Click here to download a biographical sketch of Geshe Wangyal.
Joshua W. C. Cutler gave the following talk on Founder’s Day February 5, 2007.
Joshua W. C. Cutler gave the following talk on Founder’s Day February 3, 2008.
Joshua W. C. Cutler gave the following talk on Founder’s Day February 7, 2010.
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
In general: Geshe Wangyal’s Door of Liberation, The Prince who Became a Cuckoo: A Tale of Liberation, and The Jeweled Staircase, Je Tsong-kha-pa’s Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment(Lam Rim Chen Mo).