Palpung Kagyu Thigsum Chokyi Ghatsal
Buddhist Institute presents:
TEACHING WEEKEND: The Seven Points Of Mind Training (Lojong)
Date: Saturday 26th July 10-12 & 1-3pm. Sunday 27th July 10-12 & 1-3pm
Venue: 13 - 15 Bryan St, Invermay Launceston.
The Seven Points of Mind Training (Lojong in Tibetan) constitutes a system of practices. We review the seven points and focus on selected aphorisms to elucidate the practices and principles of this meditation system. Lojong practice is easy to approach, even for the novice and is well suited for application in the ordinary circumstances of contempory life, transforming our ordinary relationships with others and ourselves with the cultivation of loving kindness and insight. This Buddhist practice was initially brought to Tibet in the 11th century by the great Indian Dharma Master, Atisha. Since then all the Tibetan schools have come to treasure it. This system of training includes instruction on both ultimate and relative Bodhicitta.
Cost $50 per day - Please bring a plate of vegetarian food for a share lunch.
Bookings: office@kagyu.org.au
BIOGRAPHY - Venerable Lama Samten was born in West Tibet in 1944. He fled his homeland with his brothers, sisters and parents in 1959 when the Communist Chinese invaded. His entire
family of 13 members died crossing the Himalayas, only Lama Samten survived. He took his ordination in exile in India with the Very Venerable Khyabje Kalu Rinpoche and completed 10 years of solitary retreat under his guidance in the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
In 1980 Lama Samten was sent to New Zealand by HH 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and spent 23
years there developing the Buddha Dharma. He retired in 2004 and now teaches internationally, guiding his many students in their practice and taking them on pilgrimage to holy Buddhist places around the world. He is the author of several books including “Living with Death and Dying” and has recorded a series of chanting Cds called “The Sounds of Liberation”.
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