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Day of Miracles

Sunday 28th Feb

The first full moon of the year is celebrated in the Vajrayana as the Day of
Miracles, or Chotrl Duchen, to commemorate the final day of miraculous
display by the Buddha which lasted 15 days. He performed these numerous
miracles to overpower the six heretical teachers who challenged the Buddha.
When the Buddha first received the challenge, he moved to another
kingdom of India and he continued to avoid the teachers until he had visited
all the kingdoms. Finally, he had the kings of these lands and their
retinues accompany him to the final kingdom. There, at an arranged field,
he displayed his miraculous powers for 15 days, it is said, to increase the
devotion and merit of future disciples. Through these acts of this 15 day
period, which are every year observed by the great prayer festival of the
Gelugpa Monlam Chempo. The Buddha defeated the heretical teachers and
introduced all in the audience to the path of Dharma.

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Path & Grounds

Thursdays 7pm

Khensur Kangyur Rinpoche’s personal suggestion, Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen will be teaching “Grounds and Paths” (“Sa Lam’ in Tibetan), which is a general presentation
of all the levels of Buddhist spiritual practice of the three categories of practitioners: Hearers, Solitary Realizers and Bodhisattvas. “Grounds and Paths” acts as a template for the practitioner, enabling him to know exactly what practices are necessary at
what level and what the signs of realization of meditations, such as meditation on emptiness are.

As such, it is highly recommended for all the students who attended the Lorig
teachings of Geshe-la as well as of the students who are following Khensur
Rinpoche’s great teaching on Nagarjuna’s “Bodhicitta-vivarana”.

The text Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen will be relying upon is Jetsün Chö Kyi
Gyeltsen’s (1469-1546) short text on “Grounds and Paths” which has been
the mainstay of teachings on this topic at Sera Je Monastery from the XVIth
century. Most of Sera Je’s monastic textbooks were composed by this extraordinary debater, scholar and yogi, famous for his understanding of emptiness, of
whom it was rumoured that he recited the “Eight Thousand Verse Perfection
of Wisdom Sutra” every day .

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Ilia Durovic Seminars SATURDAYS 2—4 pm

13th February “A Pure Life: Living in the light of Karma and Causality.”
Past-life regression and the evidence
for the existence of karma.

13th March “Buddhism in the forthcoming Dark Ages”
In the face of the forthcoming global crises how can Buddhists be of help to
themselves (yourself) and to others?

24th April “Ugliness, Death and Transience”
Core meditations to enhance disenchantment with the world.

8th May “Faith and Doubt: the place of Reason in Buddhism”
The use of reason on the path to Enlightenment and the place of faith.

SUITABLE FOR ALL

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Calm Abiding Day

Saturday 27th February
9.30 am to 4.30pm

Please Bring Vegetarian Lunch to Share

Stabilisation of your mind on the basis of genuine concentration is serenity (calm abiding). The day will unfold and explain the steps to be taken to
achieve this state. There will be opportunities during the day to practice both
sitting and walking meditation. Led by Ven Jampa Tenzin

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Body Mandala of 5-Deity Heruka Initiation

with Ven Khensur Rinpoche

 27th and 28th March 2010, 2 pm to 5 pm each day.

This initiation most kindly given by the highly esteemed and world recognized Lama Ven Khensur Rinpoche.

This will allow those who have not previously done so to take a highest yoga tantra  empowerment, thus allowing them to attend the Easter Retreat.  However, it is also
an important empowerment in its own right.  The Yoga of the Three Purifications is a powerful practice for purifying body speech and mind. 

Pre-requisite: You should have some understanding of the Three Principal Aspects of the Path; faith in the law of causality, and have taken refuge.

Commitment: Daily recitation of the Six-session Guru Yoga as well as the “Yoga of the Three Purifications”.

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The Easter Retreat : The Six Yogas of Naropa

with Ven Khensur Rinpoche

Dates: 1st to 7th April - Start 8.15am finish 4.30 to 5pm every day

Commitments: no commitment.

Pre-requisite: Highest Yoga Tantra Initiation

Cost: $385 or $360 members and includes breakfast, lunch, am/pm tea.

Deposit: $170 or $150 by 15th Feb and full payment by 15th March

Venue: Tibetan Buddhist Institute

Khensur Kangyur Rinpoche is famous in the Tibetan Community-in-Exile for his exceptional mastery of the Mother Tantras of Heruka and Vajrayogini and has
graciously consented to bestow over seven days the extraordinarily rare
transmission of the “Six Yogas of Naropa” which is the very core of the completion stage of Anuttarayogatantra and which Khensur Rinpoche received from the late
Junior Tutor of H.H. the Dalai Lama, Khyabje Trijang Rinpoche when he conferred
them for the last time in Dharamsala in 1973, almost forty years ago.

Khensur Rinpoche will base his teachings on Je Tsong kha pa’s (1357-1419) great commentary on the “Six Yogas of Naropa”.

Inasmuch as the “Six Yogas of Naropa”, which include the practice of Tummo
represent the innermost essence of the teachings of the Indian Mahasiddha
Naropa (1012-1100), they can only be taught after an Anuttarayogatantra
initiation has been conferred. Khensur Rinpoche has therefore decided to
confer initiation into the Body Mandala of 5-Deity Heruka in the tradition of
Ghantapa as a preliminary. Those who have already received an
Anuttarayogatantra initiation, such as Yamantaka, do not need to
receive the initiation of Heruka. However, since there is a very powerful and
uncommon connection between the practice of Heruka and the “Six
Yogas” of Naropa, it is highly recommended to take this initiation.

While there will be no specific commitments for the teachings of “The Six Yogas
of Naropa”, the commitment for the 5-Deity Heruka initiation will be the daily recitation of the Six-session Guru Yoga as well as the “Yoga of the Three Purifications”.

We hope that many will avail themselves of such an exceptional opportunity, exceptional both in terms of the
rarity and depth of the teachings and of the excellence and realizations of the
Teacher.

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OCTOBER 2010 LONG WEEKEND RETREAT

There will be a long weekend retreat in October 2010 with Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen
(the long retreat in 2010 will be the 7 day Easter Retreat) .  

Ven Khensur Rinpoche has asked Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen to teach over the October
Long Weekend. At this stage, a topic has not been decided on.  This inaugural event will be held at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, and will include a vegetarian lunch and morning and afternoon tea. More information will be available in next newsletter.

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