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KHENCHEN LAMA - I will be going to Wales and spending time with our Spiritual Director for two weeks. Details below.
FALL CLASSES - Fall classes start in September and will include (1) Natural Liberation Part 1, the first of a series of 8 classes covering the entire path of Tibetan Buddhism, available online and in Tucson, (2) Introduction to Dzogchen online, and (3) Khorde Rushen in Tucson. See details below. A complete listing of our courses is available on our website under "classes". See details below
TIBETAN BUDDHIST MEDITATION HOUR continues on Sunday mornings at 11:15am, a great chance to join in group practice. Also available online (on Skype). Please see the details below.
PRAYER REQUESTS - We are now accepting Prayer Requests. We will recite prayers for you or anyone you designate, including pets or other beings. See details below or on our website under "Community."
INNATE HAPPINESS: REALIZING COMPASSION-EMPTINESS is my book on the complete path of Tibetan Buddhism, available as an eBook from Amazon.com. A paperback version will be released this fall. Please see details below.
We are always working on new ideas to enrich our offerings.
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In Buddhanature,
Khenpo Dean
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Khenpo Dean will be going to Wales for 2 weeks to meet with Khenchen Lama - Awam Institute's spiritual director and receiving more teachings.
Khenchen Parchhimbha Dorjee Rinpoche - Khenchen Lama Rinpoche - comes from Kham (Eastern Tibet). Since very early childhood he displayed unusual compassion and inclination towards meditation. At the age of three, the head of Nyingma lineage - His Holiness Sera Yangtul Rinpoche - recognized Khenchen Rinpoche as a reincarnation of Padma Dagnag Lingpa, a high Rinpoche of Nyingma lineage.
Padma Dagnag Lingpa was a reincarnation of Nupchen Sangye Yeshe, one of the five closest disciples of Padmasambhava and the founder of the yogi lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. H.H. Sera Yantul Rinpoche also prophesized, that Khenchen Rinpoche would especially benefit students in Europe and the USA in this lifetime.
Despite the pressures to take over abbot responsibilities at four monasteries at an early age, Khenchen Lama Rinpoche was encouraged by his mother to undergo rigorous study and practice. For 25 years he studied and practiced primarily Buddhist philosophy and meditation, but also logic, medicine, astrology, languages, grammar, lexicography, dance, and drama. During this time his root teacher His Holiness Jigmed Phuntsok Rinpoche provided him with teachings and instructions over a period of ten years at Larung Buddhist University.
While studying, Rinpoche spent two to three months each year in silent solitary retreat summing up to about four years of retreat in total. After receiving his Khenpo and Khenchen titles, Khenchen Lama taught debate, astrology, sutra and tantra at many different monasteries and centers in Tibet, Nepal, India, Malaysia, Singapore, China and the United States. The main focus of his teachings is on Dzogchen and the Six Bardos, especially dream yoga. Besides teaching, his main efforts have concentrated on building and sustaining an orphanage in Tibet that currently provides accommodation, food, clothing and education to 150 children (see www.awamfoundation.org). He would also like to build a retreat center for yogis in Tibet in the future. He authored three books on sutra and tantra, and wrote a book of songs. Rinpoche is the Spiritual Director of the Awam Tibetan Buddhist Institute and head of the Tibetan Yoga Center in Bangor, Wales.
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Tucson: Natural Liberation Part 1 (Sundays at 9:15 - Little Chapel; 6 weeks, $60)
and Khorde Rushen (Sundays at 1:00 pm - Library; 8 weeks, $80)
Ada Peirce McCormack Building, U of A, Tucson AZ
Online: Natural Liberation Part 1 (6 weeks, $60)
and Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (8 weeks, $80)
REGISTER at AwamInstitute.org (classes)
Natural Liberation - Natural Liberation is a direct approach to study and practice divided into eight, 6-week parts. The teachings by Khenpo Drimed Dawa are all on video, supplemented with printable handouts. This program is organized around a very concise series of practices given by Padmasambhava in a text translated as Natural Liberation and is supplemented by similar concise practices from other masters. After an introduction to the history of Buddhism in India and Tibet, the practices follow a sequence known as the nine vehicles. These practices are particularly appropriate for householders as most take little time to learn or master and were taught specifically for such practitioners. Together they form a concise set of incremental steps leading to the deep inner peace of innate happiness or enlightenment.
More specifically, the teachings are divided into an introduction and four main paths of practice that are sequential within Tibetan Buddhism: (1) the Path of Individual Liberation, (2) the Path of Altruism, (3) the Path of Tantra, and (4) the Path of Great Perfection. Within each path, the courses follow a teaching by the Buddha called the Three Trainings: (1) ethics, (2) meditation, and (3) wisdom. So within each path, the courses cover that view of ethics, its main meditation practices, and its view of wisdom. At the end, there is a review and focus on the realization of the deep inner peace of the innate happiness of enlightenment.
The text for this course is INNATE HAPPINESS:Realizing Compassion- Emptiness, by Khenpo Drimed Dawa, available as an eBook from Amazon.com. This text was written specifically for this course, as well as to benefit others who might read it.
Natural Liberation Part 1 - provides a survey of Buddhism in India and Tibet, an overview and introduction to key Vajrayana principles and practices, and the first part of the Path of Individual Liberation: ethics and shamata meditation - single-pointed calm abiding.
Introduction to Dzogchen - Dzogchen or the Great Perfection is the highest level of the Vajrayana teachings. It deals directly with self-liberation into our innate Buddhanature, abiding in the state of rigpa. This overview describes the three branches of Dzogchen teachings-the mind series, the space series, and the special instructions (including trekcho and togal).
The texts for this class are Quintessential Dzogchen: Confusion Dawns as Wisdom translated and compiled by Eric Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt and The Golden Letters translated, introduction and commentaries by John Myrdhin Reynolds.
Khorde Rushen - Khorde Rushen is the separation of samsara (delusion) from nirvana (non-delusion). These are a series of practices designed to help the yogi realize and directly experience the difference between samsara and nirvana by transforming the mind, i.e., our way of seeing the world. Khorde Rushen is sometimes referred to as the Dzogchen preliminary practices.
The texts for this class are The Great Perfection, Vol. II by the Third Dzogchen Rinpoche (restricted text), The Supreme Source: The Fundamental Tantra of the Dzogchen Semde Kunjed Gyalpo by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu and Adriano Clemente, and selections from Yeshe Lama by Vidyadhara Jigmed Lingpa (restricted text).
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AWAM TIBETAN BUDDHIST MEDITATION HOUR
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TIBETAN BUDDHIST MEDITATION HOUR
Sundays, 11:15 am - 12:15 pm (MST) or on Skype
Ada Peirce McCormack Building's Little Chapel, U of A Campus
"Sangha" refers to our dharma companions on the path. This includes practicing together, which is said to multiply the effects for each person by the number of participants. Please join our group of regular participants for the Meditation Hour. Khenpo Dean leads a one-hour practice including chanting, a variety of deity practices, a short dharma talk, and blessing. This is an opportunity for group practice in a convenient weekly format. Everyone is welcome to attend. FREE (donations gratefully accepted)
The Meditation Hour is also available via Skype each week. Please send a contact request to "Awam Tibetan Buddhist Institute" at least one day before the event. On the day of the event, to avoid disruption, please call in before the start time of 11:15 Pacific Time. Please turn off your microphone during the event to eliminate feedback. The Meditation Practice Manual is available on our website at www.AwamInstitute.org under Resources/Texts so you may chant and practice with us online.
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We are now accepting Prayer Requests. We will recite prayers for you or anyone you designate, including pets or other beings. It is customary to make a donation - based on your circumstances - to help support the Sangha when making prayer requests. Below are examples with suggested donations:
- White Tara or Medicine Buddha - for sickness, injury or surgery ($20)
- Vajrasattva - prayer for purification ($20)
- White Tara or Amitayus - long life prayers ($20)
- Chenrezig or Green Tara - stressful or negative situations ($20)
- For a person or an animal who has recently died. *
- Phowa - ($20)
- Nei Dren - guiding the deceased to higher realms ($40)
- Tibetan Book of the Dead - seven day version ($100) or full forty-nine day version. ($250)
- Special Tsok offerings ($40)
- Puja Smoke offerings ($40)
*For Phowa, Nei Dren or the Tibetan Book of the Dead, please include the person's name and, if possible, a photo.
Please email your request to [email protected]. To make donations, please go to our website under the "Donate" tab. For any other requests, please send an email to [email protected].
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INNATE HAPPINESS: REALIZING COMPASSION-EMPTINESS
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An eBook by Khenpo Drimed Dawa
(A paperback version will be released this fall)
Khenpo Dean is known for his concise, clear explanations of the dharma. Innate Happiness provides background and a series of concise, incremental steps toward compassion-emptiness - enlightenment - for Western householders in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It is largely adapted from the teachings of Padmasambhava, the second Buddha. The book guides the reader through a brief history of Buddhism in India and Tibet, as well as its major principles.
This is followed by 52 concise daily practices on the Path of Individual Liberation, the Path of Altruism, the Path of Tantra, and the Path of Great Perfection. Each path takes the reader through the Three Teachings: ethics, meditation, and wisdom. These are then summarized into an explanation of the innate happiness we know as enlightenment, the realization of compassion-emptiness. Thus, it covers a complete cycle for study, contemplation, meditation and realization. Each practice is highly suitable for the busy lives of Westerners with little time for formal meditation. This is also the core text for our Natural Liberation classes.
The eBook is available from Amazon.com for only $9.99. Free readers are available for most computers and other devices.
May ALL beings be happy!
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Bodhicitta, the excellent and precious mind.
Where it is unborn, may it arise.
Where it is born, may it never decline,
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