Teaching on Meditations from Mahayana Buddhism for Peace and Wisdom

PR Log (Press Release) – May 28, 2009 – DHARMA SUBHASHITA (Thubten Lekshey Ling) Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and Study Center (www.dharmasubhashita.org) is organizing a one-day workshop on Meditations from Mahayana Buddhism for Peace and Wisdom. The acclaimed master Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche, affectionately known as Khenpo Guru, will be teaching this.

This workshop will introduce the participants to the two types of meditations from the Mahayana Buddhism - Shamata (calm-abiding) and Vipashyana (special-insight, pali: vipassana). During shamata meditation, we train to calm the thoughts that continuously arise, one after the other, like waves on the ocean. With this practice, peace of the mind is attained and primordial awareness shines forth. During vipashyana, we examine the mind and its source. By penetrating the surface level of thoughts and emotions, we recognize the true nature of the mind - unborn, unceasing and free from concepts. When the mind relaxes in its natural state, all usual perceptions of solid existence are experienced as nothing more than a dream. Developing shamata and vipashyana needs regular practice. The workshop includes general explanation of shamata (calm-abiding) and vipashyana (special-insight, pali: vipassana) practice as in Mahayana Buddhism as well as specific instructions on how to begin the practice of shamata.

The program will be conducted at Ashirvad, St. Marks Road Cross, Opposite SBI, St. Marks Road, Bangalore from 10:00am to 5:00pm on 30th of May. There will be a follow-up practice session on the next day. This workshop is open to all and free of charges.

Time & Venue
30th May 2009, Saturday
10:00am to 5:00pm (with a break from 12:00pm to 2:00pm)
Xavier Hall, ASHIRVAD,
#30, St. Marks Road Cross,
Opposite SBI, St. Marks Road,
Bangalore

About the Master:
Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche (Khenpo Guru) is a distinguished master of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, and one of the three Khenchens (great abbots) overseeing the education at Ngagyur Nyingma Institute of Namdroling Monastery in Bylakkuppe. He is a great scholar and practitioner authorized by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche to give personal instructions to disciples. He received recognition from His Holiness Dalai Lama for his Buddhist scholarship during his studies at the Central University of Higher Tibetan Studies, Saranath. He received all the major lineage transmissions of the Nyingma tradition from HH Dudjom Rinpoche, HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and HH Penor Rinpoche. Khen Rinpoche speaks good English and had been teaching extensively in America and Asian countries. He is affectionately known among his disciples as ˜Khenpo Guru".