New York Programs, January – April 2013

Open to All

We are excited to have Rimpoche teach at Jewel Heart New York for the second time in two months! Rimpoche is particularly distinguished for his thorough familiarity with modern culture and special effectiveness as a teacher of Western practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism. Please join us.

No prior registration is required.

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2013 Jewel Heart Memorial Day Weekend Retreat

Annual Spring Retreat with Gelek Rimpoche

Friday, May 24 – Monday, May 27, 2013

Held at Garrison Institute, c/o Glenclyffe 14 Mary’s Way, Route 9D Garrison, New York 10524

We invite you to spend Memorial Day weekend with Gelek Rimpoche. What could be better than dharma teachings amidst the Garrison Institute’s spring-time beauty?! The Garrison Institute offers lodging and grounds steeped in a long history of care and contemplation.

The weekend retreat is open to all, with no previous background necessary; those who are new are especially welcome. Even better, due to the kindness of an anonymous sponsor, the program fee has been waived for the first 100 people to register!

Programs include guided morning meditation, sessions with Gelek Rimpoche throughout the day as well as afternoon break-out facilitated discussion groups

To register, please follow this link.

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White Tara Teachings

With Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche

Saturday, April 20, Noon – 3:00 PM

Jewel Heart New York

Tara, mother goddess in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, responds quickly to calls for help. As female Buddha of enlightened compassionate activities, White Tara is particularly associated with healing, longevity, and protection from fear. Join Gelek Rimpoche for teachings on this powerful healing practice.

 Due to limited space, pre-registration is required.

To register, e-mail [email protected] with your name and contact information.

You will receive a confirmation email informing you have reserved space or on the waiting list. If conditions change and you are unable to attend, please notify us at [email protected]  as soon as possible in support of those on the waiting list.

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Teachings by Gelek Rimpoche at Jewel Heart New York

Saturday, March 23
Noon to 3:00 PM

All are Welcome

We are pleased to announce that Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche will be teaching at Jewel Heart New York on March 23!

Mark your calendar now.

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White Tara Initiation

Meeting the Healing Mother:

An Introduction for Those
Who May Wish to Perform the
Role-Modeling Practice of
Invoking the
Female Buddha, Noble Tara

Granted by Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche,

Spiritual Director, Jewel Heart International

Co-Sponsored by
Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science
and Jewel Heart International

The introduction will be held
Saturday, April 6, 2013
From 12-3:30 PM
at Tibet House US
22 West 15th Street
New York City

Please note that this event is sold out. Thank you!

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2013 Jewel Heart Vajrayana Winter Retreat

With Gelek Rimpoche

Thursday, February 21 – Sunday, March 3
Jewel Heart Center, Ann Arbor, MI

We are delighted to invite you to join Gelek Rimpoche at the 2013 Jewel Heart Vajrayana Winter Retreat. The focus if this retreat is Lama Chopa, a tremendously important devotional practice that draws us close to the guru and ultimately to our own enlightenment.

Setting conditions to deepen our relationship with the guru and our own spiritual development through offerings, purification and blessings for our path, this time-honored practice provides us with the perfect base for full accomplishment of our purposes to benefit ourselves and others. To register, please follow this link.

The retreat is open to those who have highest yoga tantra initiation. A two-day initiation (tba) will open the retreat. To learn requirements for the initiation, please contact Programs at [email protected] or 734 994 3387, extension 2.

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Meeting the Medicine Buddha:

Initiation into the Art of Invoking the Field of the Seven Healing Buddhas

Empowerment to Perform the Role-Modeling Practice of the Healing Mentor, Bhaishajyaguru

Granted by Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche

Co-Sponsored by Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science And Jewel Heart International

Saturday, January 19, 2013
12-3:30 PM

Tibet House US
22 West 15th Street
New York City

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2013-14 Group Practice with Tsoh Dates

Please follow this link for a complete calendar of Water Snake Year Tsoh dates. Tsoh dates at Jewel Heart New York are adjusted to fall on Sundays, unless otherwise noted in the calendar.  Tsoh times are noon, unless otherwise noted in the calendar. Tsohs to celebrate special occasions, such as Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche’s birthday, will be shared in the newsletter well in advance.

PLEASE NOTE: Waning Moon Day practices are restricted to those with Highest Yoga Tantra, Mother Tantra initiation unless otherwise noted.

New York Weekly Courses, September – December 2012

TIBETAN BUDDHISM WITH GELEK RIMPOCHE

SUNDAY MORNING VIDEO WEBCASTS
10:00 to 11:00 AM

We are pleased to announce that Gelek Rimpoche will give weekly Sunday morning talks from 10 – 11am beginning Sunday, January 1. Speaking from Ann Arbor and New York and other locations, these talks will also be a live video webcast.

To become a Jewel Heart webcast subscriber, visit this site.

**PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO WEBCASTS ON DECEMBER 23 AND 30.**

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Group Meditation Practices

Thursdays, 7-8:30pm

October 4, 11, 18, 25; November 8, 29

Free to All

On Thursdays when Jewel Heart retreats in the US are not being held, Jewel Heart New York will feature group practice sessions, led by senior students.

October 4, 18, and 25 as well as Nobember 29 will feature a White Tara practice.  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. October 4 and November 29 will led by Fredericka Foster, October 18 by Amy Hertz, and October 25 by Kathleen White.

The October 11 and November 8 sessions will be a Medicine Buddha practice.  Medicine Buddha is an extremely powerful form of enlightened energy directed at helping us to accomplish our spiritual goals as well as healing. This practice benefits those who are ill and even those who have died.

Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche has emphazied this practice at two successive Fall retreats.  The Medicine Buddha practice will be facilitated by Mya Myint.

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LAMA CHOPA COURSE WEBCAST

Mondays, 7–8:30pm

September 10, 24; October 1, 15; November 26; December 3, 10.

Lama Chopa is a complete guru yoga practice integrating aspects of sutra and tantra into a common framework, based on Gelek Rimpoche’s commentary Guru Devotion: Integrating the Primordial Mind.  The transcript is available in hard cover from the Jewel Heart Store and as a PDF file from the Digital Dharma portion of this web site. The Digital Dharma site will also allow you to subscribe to the webcast of this course.

This course is open to all.