Special Events January – March
GELEK RIMPOCHE
INTRODUCTION TO THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
Tentatively rescheduled for mid-May
Cancelled Public Talk Monday, March 12, 7:30 – 9pm Cancelled
Birmingham Unitarian Church
38651 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
Just north of Lone Pine Rd. on the west side of Woodward Ave.
Join us for the RECEPTION preceding the talk from 6:30 – 7:30pm with refreshments and hors d’oeuvres generously provided by OM Café of Ferndale, MI.
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Teacher, Translator, Award winning Author and Himalayan Tour Guide
GLENN MULLIN VISITS JEWEL HEART BLOOMFIELD HILLS
SACRED SITES OF THE DALAI LAMAS
Birmingham Unitarian Church
38651 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
6:30 – 7:30pm Reception preceding the talk
$10 Suggested Donation
Contact [email protected] (734) 239-5985
Glenn Mullin studied in Dharamsala continuously for 12 years, from 1972 to 1984, and then six months a year for the six years to follow. His main tantra teachers were Kyabje Ling Dorjechang and Kyabje Trijang Dorjechang. After their passing in the early 1980s, his root guru became Kyabje Denma Locho Rinpoche, the lama who raised Gelek Rimpoche. Glenn is the translator of more than a dozen Tibetan Buddhist classics, and the author of numerous books on Tibetan Buddhist art, history and culture. His “The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation” was nominated for the prestigious NAPRA award, and his book “The Female Buddhas” won Foreword Magazine’s “Book of the Year Award.”
He is the director and main meditation teacher of the Stone Lotus Tantra Buddhism center in Korea. He spends four months a year in Mongolia, and the remainder travelling and teaching Buddhism. He also leads pilgrimages to Tibet every spring.
Programs January – March 2012
The Healing Practice of White Tara
8 weeks: Mondays, October 24 – December 19, 7 – 8:30pm
(please note: no session on Halloween, October 31)
8 weeks: Tuesdays, March 20 – May 8, 7 – 8:30pm
Tara is the mother goddess of Tibetan Buddhism, known for her quick and compassionate activity. She is particularly associated with healing and long life. This course uses visualization techniques relying on feminine energy of White Tara to overcome physical, mental and emotional suffering.
$80/Jewel Heart members free
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The Four Noble Truths
8 weeks: Thursdays, March22 – May 10, 7 – 8:30pm
This course introduces Buddha’s revolutionary message that suffering can come to an end through one’s own efforts. Following Gelek Rimpoche’s transcript Four Noble Truths participants rely on readings, discussion and meditation.
$80/Jewel Heart members free
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Good Life, Good Death
8 weeks: Thursdays, October 27 – December 22, 7 – 8:30pm
(please note: no session on Thanksgiving, November 24)
We long for meaning, for an effective way to bring insight and heart to the ordinary circumstances and inevitable challenges of our daily lives. On the basis of Gelek Rimpoche’s book, Good Life, Good Death,
this course will explore pragmatic methods to bring depth, meaning and joy to our lives.
$80/Jewel Heart members free
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Creating Space
8 weeks: Thursdays, January 5 – March 8, 7 – 8:30pm
Meditation provides a clear stable mind, necessary for a happy life and foundation for deepening our spiritual journey. This course offers hands-on experience with the basic elements of meditation, using breath, posture and techniques for coping with distractions and laxity of the mind
$80/Jewel Heart members free