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Bodhicitta Immersion I and II
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Bodhisattva Peace Training
Lama Shenpen Drolma
at Iron Knot Ranch
Grant County, New Mexico
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Immersion I
Saturday, July 1, 2017, at 9:00 a.m.
through
Sunday, July 9, 2017, at noon
Register by June 18
Immersion II
Monday, August 21, at 9 a.m.
through
Sunday, August 27, at noon
Bodhisattva Peace Training
Friday, August 18, at 6:00 p.m.
through
Sunday, August 20, at 5:00 p.m.
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For the power of peace to touch every person, community and nation on this earth, it must radiate out from a profound peace within our own minds. The Bodhisattva Peace Training, developed by Tibetan meditation master H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, makes accessible to people of all religions and walks of life the profound methods of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition for awakening the positive qualities of wisdom and compassion—the basis of enduring peace—inherent in each of us.
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Lama Shenpen Drolma was ordained as a lama in 1996 by her teacher, Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. She is resident lama at Iron Knot Ranch in New Mexico, where she established the Bodhisattva Peace Institute for Bodhisattva Peace Training. She has taught the Bodhisattva Peace Training widely since 1991.
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Immersion Retreats
This July and August, Lama Shenpen will offer the second and third in a series of nine Immersion Retreats, which comprise part of the Bodhisattva Peace Institute curriculum for the ongoing study and practice of bodhicitta, the awakened heart/mind. Retreats are sequential. Immersion I is open to anyone who has attended both a Bodhisattva Peace Training and a Change of Heart Immersion, and has undertaken a thorough review and practice of these teachings and is sincerely interested in deepening their practice of bodhicitta. If you’re interested but don’t meet the prerequisites, you can explore the possibility of attendance by contacting Lama Shenpen (via
dana@ironknot.org
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The Immersion Retreats emphasize contemplations and meditations that are indispensable to integrating these teachings and experiencing transformation. As with the introductory Change of Heart Immersion, the subsequent Immersion Retreats include training in meditation practices introduced in
Change of Heart: The Bodhisattva Peace Training of Chagdud Tulku
. They also include daily discussion and meditation-in-activity sessions designed to help integrate the teachings into daily life.
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Bodhisattva Peace Training
The Bodhisattva Peace Training, offered in August, shares profound methods for awakening the positive qualities of wisdom and compassion—the basis of enduring peace—inherent within each of us.
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Registration
The cost for Iron Knot Ranch retreats—which covers food, facilities, and camping, dorm-style rooms, or private casita—is $350 – $490 for Immersions, and $120 – $180 for the BPT weekend. Cost range is based on type of accommodations. Iron Knot Ranch sponsorship and BPI membership discounts apply. We will do whatever we can through work-trade and partial scholarships to make the event financially feasible.
To help us keep costs as low as possible and to support participants' accumulation of merit, we ask that everyone join the ranch staff in a daily work activity.
Please register by June 18 for Immersion I. Your early registration for all teachings is a great help to us in planning. To register or for further information, please contact events@ironknot.org or call (510) 315-1960.
Please note: Iron Knot Ranch follows Mountain Standard time, which is the same as Pacific time during daylight savings time.
Thank you so much.
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