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Venerable Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche Spiritual Director of Palyul Changchub Dargyeling Dallas Dallas Teachings March 18-22, 2005 Living and Dying Consciously: Bardo* Teachings
*Bardo: The Intermediate State After Death or During Dreaming Living Consciously with Inner Peace and Compassion; Dying with Dignity, Inner Peace and Calm Awareness
Impermanence is one of the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths; and also the truth that human beings struggle with most. A significant and unique part of Tibetan Buddhist teachings are the texts and teachings on the Bardo: the intermediate states.
There are bardos of dreaming and meditative states. Of urgent interest to the Western world are the Tibetan Buddhist teachings on helping the dying and deceased – and oneself – to achieve inner peace, release from suffering and complete Enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. There are specific measures for comforting the dying and praying for the deceased, as outlined in the Bardo Thodol.
This text was inaccurately translated in the early 20th century as ‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead” (copying the title of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, then-popular as a result of the excavation of King Tut’s tomb). The accurate translation is “The
Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Intermediate State”. The living benefit from living their lives with inner peace and compassion with wisdom for the benefit of self and all others. And from preparing for their own impermanence with mindfulness, inner peace, positive view and acceptance. Tibetan Buddhist practitioners (and others) engage in spiritual practice to achieve Enlightenment for the
benefit of all sentient beings.
Friday March 18 7pm - 9pm Living and Dying Consciously By knowing how to live consciously with inner peace and compassion for self and others, we can begin to understand the bardo (intermediate) states. There is the possibility of being of help to others during the death process. Also, at death, there is an opportunity for encountering our own Buddha Nature (Clear Light) and attaining Ultimate Enlightenment at that time. The Object: Ultimate Enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient Beings.
Sat March 19 10am - 12 noon Vajrasattva Empowerment (wang) 2pm - 4pm Vajrasattva Teaching (lung and tri) 4 pm Refuge (About Empowerments and Refuge)Understanding and actualization of Vajrasattva practice is vitally important and is one of the most esoteric practices in the Nam Chö lineage and Nyingma tradition. Vajrasattva practice and actualization is one of the Dzogchen Foundational Practice From the Nam Chö: Buddha in the Palm of the Hand and is the basis of the Guhyagarbha Tantra (Secret Essence of Magical Net). The Guhyagarbha Tantra (also known as Vajrasattva Magical Net) is one of the main Inner Tantric texts in the Nyingma tradition and Palyul lineage. Vajrasattva is representative of the 100 Peaceful and Wrathful Deities embodied in each sentient being (See Shitro Empowerment) and also represents the Union of Compassion and Skillful Means. Sattva translates as ‘spiritual hero or heroine’ and Vajra translates as 'diamond thunderbolt' (unbreakable and pure energy). Vajrasattva represents the aspects of compassion and skillful means; and the state of perfected wisdom, in Union for the ultimate goal of Absolute
Compassion and Wisdom (Enlightenment).
Sun
March 20 10am - 12 noon
2pm - 4pm
As one of the major Nam Chö lineage dzogchen transmissions, th is empowerment is an opportunity to directly encounter one'sown Buddha Nature (True Nature of Mind or Absolute True Nature of Reality). The Shitro 100 Deity Empowerment/Teaching is closely related to the Guhyagarbha Tantra (Secret Essence of Magical Net). The Guhyagarbha Tantra (also known as Vajrasattva Magical Net) is one of the main Inner Tantric texts in the Nyingma tradition and Palyul lineage.
Shitro, which translates as the Peaceful and Wrathful Bardo Deities, is a blessing and transmission of the 100 Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Bardo. As the foundation of the Bardo Thodöl , the Shitro is considered part of the Inner Tantrateachings. The Shitro empowerment is an initiation into the 100 Peaceful and Wrathful symbolic deities that personify each practitioner's skandhas (aggregates of form, perception, feeling, mental volitions and consciousness) and the great elements (wind, fire, water and earth). At the moment of death, the elements dissolve and their nature arises as after-death visions. The Bardo Teaching instructions provide us with a body of techniques and practices by which we can recognize the mind's True Nature and achieve liberation. The benefits of receiving the empowerment, practicing it and reciting the mantra are many. With actualization of the practice, practitioners can recognize the stages of the Bardo as they occur, will not fall into lower existences, and have the possibility to attain liberation from cyclic existence and Buddhahood.
Monday
March 21
7pm - 9pm The Bardo Teachings, Part I
The study of
death and dying is one of the most urgent and important study in
which a living practitioner can engage. The Object:
Ultimate Enlightenment. Meditators study the stages of death in order to
gain intimate knowledge of them, since a person familiar with the death experience is less likely to be
frightened when death finally arrives. Also, this knowledge
can be invaluable when helping others with the dying process and beyond.
But possibly even more more importantly,
knowledge of these subtle states of consciousness enable the accomplished
meditation practitioner to recognize
the Clear Light of one's own Buddha Nature at the instant of death
and thus become fully liberated and awakened:
achieving
Ultimate Enlightenment at the moment of death for the benefit of all
sentient Beings.
Tuesday
March 22 7pm - 9pm The Bardo Teachings, Part II
Advance Registration Price until March 15, 2005: $120 Please Mail Checks to Address Below or Charge On-Line ONLY Before March 15
Scholarships Available *
Tuition: $20/weeknight, $40/Sat all day, $40/Sun all day or $25 for Weekend am or pm session only Total Program at Door: $140 (cash or check) *No one turned away due to lack of funds! Please contact us for scholarships*
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Mail Registration Checks to: PCD Dallas, P.O. Box 836408, Richardson, TX 75083-6408
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Venerable Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche Spiritual Director of Palyul Changchub Dargyeling Dallas Short Biography More detailed biography at: www.palyul.org/eng_biokhenpo_tsewanggyatso.htm
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Venerable Khenchen ( Head Professor) Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche is a distinguished lama of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and one of the three senior Khenpos (Professors) at Ngagyur Institute at Namdroling Monastery in Bylakuppe, India; where he is responsible for the last three years of training for Buddhist shedra (seminary) students. His Holiness the Dalai Lama awarded Khenpo a Silver Medal for his academic accomplishments.
Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche has received all of the major lineage empowerments and transmissions of the Nyingma school and has done intensive dzogchen practice under the guidance of His holiness Penor Rinpoche and other eminent dzogchen masters including Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche and Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche.
His Holiness Penor Rinpoche (founder and head of Namdroling Monastery, Bylakuppe, India, see www.palyul.org) has authorized Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche to represent Namdroling Monastery and to teach, confer empowerments and to give personal instruction in Buddhist practice. He is the representative of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche in the US.
Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche has been our best-kept 'secret' in the US for many years! His ability to simply and easily explain and teach even the most complicated concepts has led to his teaching commitments growing expotentially beyond the US. This year, he is traveling and teaching in India, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, The Phillipines, Germany and Australia, as well as the US.
Many people here in Dallas are not aware: Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche has been recognized by the Dalai Lama for his Buddhist academic scholarship. At Namdroling (the main Palyul monastery in Bylakuppe, South India and home of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche), Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso ranks 3rd out of 3000 monks and lamas - in terms of academic achievement, personal understanding of the practice, responsibilities (co-director of the senior students' study at Buddhist seminary - shedra - at Ngagyur Institute at Namdroling Monastery) - and in terms of respect from his peers. The head of the Palyul lineage (and former head of the Nyingma lineage, retired), His Holiness Penor Rinpoche (www.palyul.org), has personally chosen Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche as the most qualified lama to teach and found Palyul dharma centers in the West. Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche has been traveling and teaching in the US for almost 20 years, speaks excellent English, and is a very engaging and humorous speaker. He also has the rare and precious ability to speak to all levels of students at once. Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche and His Holiness Penor Rinpoche will be spending one month with US students this July-August at the annual Palyul summer retreat. The retreat is located at Palyul Ling Retreat Center in upstate NY, more details at www.palyul.org Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche’s fluent English, sense of humor and deep insight into Western culture make him a reputable and popular teacher.
Driving Directions to PCD Dallas 320
Terrace Drive, Richardson, TX
and faces the back of Maxim’s Restaurant; the
Post Office assigned the Terrace Drive address to the building.
PCD Dallas is inside a 2 story tan brick office building just south (facing the back of) Maxim's Restaurant; Maxim's Restaurant is on the corner of Greenville Ave and Terrace Drive. The freeway exit from 75N is (Richardson) Main Street; and closest street intersection is Greenville
Avenue
and (Richardson) Main Street. (Greenville
is east of 75N and runs parallel to 75N, approximately 1 mile east of the freeway.
The closest major intersection from our location is four blocks south of the center; at Greenville Ave and Richardson Main Street.
Traveling north on Greenville Ave, pass Richardson Main Street and continue for approximately 3 blocks. Turn right onto Terrace Drive at Maxim’s Restaurant, and then go to the end of Maxim’s parking lot and turn right.
You
will then see the 320 Terrace Drive Building in front of you. The building is not actually 'on' Terrace Drive, it is just south of Terrace Drive and faces the back of Maxim’s Restaurant.
The 2 story tan brick office building is almost unmarked (small numbers '320' are on the actual front door of the office building). The office building is the last structure at the south end of the strip shopping center. We
hang prayer flags outside whenever possible (in co-operation with the other
building tenants).
PCD Dallas is on the first floor; when you enter the building, walk straight ahead, past the stairs.
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