Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor
UNDERSTANDING THE TWO TRUTHS
A Weekend Teaching
In Buddhism existence can be understood as both absolute and relative. The relative truth is how we usually see the world, a place full of diverse and distinctive things and beings. The absolute truth is that in fact nobody or nothing, anywhere, has anything that inherently makes it what it is.
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe is currently a professor of Mool Shastra (Indian Tradition of Buddhist Philosophy) at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, the only Tibetan university in India, and is regarded as one of the most eminent scholars of both the Madhyamaka tradition and Indian Buddhist studies. As one of the greatest learned scholars of Drepung Loseling Monastery he facilitated the completion of numerous research works, including a complete translation of Lama Tsongkhapa’s ‘Lam rim chen mo’ or ‘Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment’.
Saturday, September 15, 10am – 12 & 2 – 5pm & Sunday, September 16, 2 – 4pm
$50 – 75 sliding scale – Register in advance by calling
(734) 994-3387 extension 223 or email [email protected]
Weekly Courses, September – December 2012
MEDITATION MONDAYS
White Tara Group Meditation Practice
Mondays, 7–8:30pm
October 21; November 5, 19; December 3, 17
Free and open to all
On Mondays when the Lama Chopa course is not being broadcast from Ann Arbor and Jewel Heart retreats in the US are not being held, Jewel Heart New York will feature White Tara group practice sessions, which will be led by senior students.
White Tara, healing protector and mother goddess of Tibetan Buddhism, is called upon around the world by those in need of healing guidance and safe-keeping. Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche, like many Gelugpa lamas, has a particularly close connection with White Tara and has taught numerous facets of the White Tara practice over the past 3 decades in the West.
White Tara healing practices were the focus of the Memorial Day 2011 retreat and these monthly group practices will follow in that same pattern.