Spring 2017 (Weekly Meditation Session)

Hello everyone,

We are very happy to inform you that UCI-Tibet Initiative has successfully invited two Tibetan Buddhist nuns to participate in the 2017 exchange program at the University of California Irvine.

Geshema Chopa Tenzin Lhadron and Geshema Lhamo Gurung from Jamyang Choling Institute in Dharamsala, India are among the first twenty nuns from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition to receive the Geshema degree from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in December 2016.

Geshema Lhadron is from the remote Ladakh region of Indian Himalayas, while Geshema Lhamo is a native of the isolated Mustang region of Nepalese Himalayas. Both nuns became fully ordained and joined the nunnery at their early age. It took them over twenty five years to complete the highest Geshema degree in Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy.

Geshema Lhadron and Geshema Lhamo will lead a weekly meditation session at UCI, on every Tuesday evening from 6 PM to 7 PM. The first session will meet on April 18 in room HIB 135.  Flyer attached.

The meditation sessions are open to UCI students, faculty, staff, and the public, so please feel free to share the information.

Best,

BA

Special event coming up!

Greetings,

We are very happy to inform you that Geshe Tsewang Dorje will lead a one-day talk on the auspicious text of His Holiness the Seventh Dalai Lama: “Instructions for Meditation on the View of Emptiness – The Song of Four Mindfulness”. The talk will be in Tibetan and translated into English by Ven. Tenzin Thokme Wangdu.

Saturday May 14, 2016

HUMANITIES INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING, HIB #135

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Program:

Morning session: 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Lunch break

Afternoon session: 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM

The event is free and open to anyone who is interested in attending, please feel free to invite family and friends. We also welcome any donations to Geshe La in support of his project, Ngari Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Saboo, Ladakh.  http://ngariinstitute.org/

We hope you can join us.

Khen Rinpoche Lobzang Tsetan-Shantideva

Greetings,

We have a very special guest, Khen Rinpoche Lobzang Tsetan, who will be giving us a synopsis of Shantideva’s life story and then discuss that essence of Shantideva’s famous text Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, with emphasis on the method for developing bodhicitta and equalizing and exchanging self and others. We are very honored that he gladly accepted our request.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM 

HIB #135

This event is free and open to the public. Please share this with your friends and colleagues who might be interested.