January Classes and Events
Happy New Year Everyone!
Due to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings and the Kalachakra event in Bodh Gaya, India in January, several classes this month will be canceled. Two special events will take place this month. Please see below for details.
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Special Events
Lunar New Year is on January 23 this year. To bring in the New Year, Lamrim Center will hold two special ceremonies on Sunday, January 22. This is an opportunity for purification and accumulation of merits.
1) Heart Sutra: Purification Ceremony.
The Heart Sutra is a presentation of profound wisdom on the nature of emptiness and selflessness. Understanding of emptiness leads to a view of reality and to a deep and compassionate understanding. Let us start the New Year off by purifying our negativities from the past year.
Everyone is welcome to bring offering items. Please make sure you take them with you at the end of the ceremony. If you wish to make dedications for the living or deceased family and friends, please notify us through email lrcenter2009@gmail.com before January 22nd .
● Location: Lamrim Center
● Date/ Time: Sunday, January 22 from 9:30am ~ 11:30pm
● Attachment: Heart Sutra Purification Ceremony Registration Form
2) Green Tara Sadhana
Tara is a female Buddha, a manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all the Buddhas. Each of the Twenty-one Taras is a manifestation of the principal Tara, Green Tara. When we are young, we turn to our worldly mother for help. She protects us from dangers, provides us with our worldly needs, and guides us in our learning and personal development. In the same way, during our spiritual growth we turn to our Holy Mother, Tara, for refuge. She protects us from all internal and external dangers, she provides us with all the necessary conditions for our spiritual training, and she guides us and inspires us with her blessings as we progress along the spiritual path. In the past, the great Indian masters such as Nagarjuna, Atisha and more have practiced the Green Tara and received great blessings and made great accomplishments in their Dharma practice.
If we recite 21 Tara Praises and the Green Tara Mantra, we’ll receive inconceivable benefits. These praises are very powerful because they are Sutra, the actual words of Buddha. We will also take this time to give our sincere New Year Greeting to our teacher.
● Location: Lamrim Center
● Date/ Time: Sunday, January 22 from 2:00pm ~ 4:00pm
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Class Announcement:
No class for the following schedules:
WED. 【Kamalashila’s The First(Primary) States of Meditation】 1/4、1/11、1/18、1/25
THR. 【”Special Insight” (Vipassana) section of the “Great Treatise”】 1/5、1/12、1/19、1/26
FRI. 【Lamrim Chemo】 1/6、1/13、1/20
FRI. 【Entering the Middle Way】1/6、1/13、1/20
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Special Notice
Sunday, January 29: Purification and Practice event will be cancelled, but the class on “Eight Categories and Seventy topics” (Ornament of Clear Realizations) will continue.
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January Classes taught by Ven. Zilkar Rinpoche :
《《Classes through V2 conference》》
●WED. 5:30pm ~ 7:30pm 《Kamalashila’s The First(Primary) States of Meditation》
●THR. 6:00pm ~ 8:00pm 《”Special Insight” (Vipassana) section of the “Great Treatise”》
●FRI. 5:30pm ~ 7:00pm 《Lamrim Chemo》
●FRI. 7:30pm ~ 9:00pm 《Entering the Middle Way》
《《Classes Through Ustream》》
●SAT. 10:00am ~ 3:30pm《Lamrim Chemo “Calm-Abiding”》
●SUN. 10:00am ~ 3:30pm 《Eight Categories and Seventy topics (Ornament of Clear Realizations)》
Discussion Classes :
●TUE 9:30am ~ 12:00pm 《Collected Topics 》Discussion
●TUE 7:00pm ~ 9:00pm 《Online Lamrim 》Discussion
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Please refer to Calendar行事曆 for class details