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Up-Coming Events


Fundraising Dinner for Green Tara


Saturday, May 9, 2009 •
7pm

DLM will host a dinner on Saturday May 9, 2009 to raise funds to pay for a four foot Green Tara statue to add to the shrine. Held in our community room the evening will consist of a four course sit down dinner, live music and the unveiling of the Green Tara statue and accompanying Avalokiteshvara statue that will eventually sit on either side of the Shakyamuni Buddha that currently sits on the shrine.

The Avalokiteshvara statue was donated to DLM last year. For numerous auspicious reasons connected to the history and lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and for the relevance of balancing the
energy of the shine, a matching Green Tara statue was purchased. This will provide a suitable and authentic shrine in consonance with the ancient traditions to house the entire collection of Kaangyur & Tengyur, Buddha’s original teachings and treatises by great Indian master-scholars (running into more than 300 volumes) donated to the Center by His Holiness the Dalai Lama during his last visit to Atlanta.


Our goal is to raise $6,000 to cover the costs of the statue, shipping costs and in having the statue consecrated.

Tickets for the dinner are $50 per person with all money raised going directly towards achieving this goal. The dinner is generously sponsored by various individuals from the Sangha. Only 40 tickets are available so early registration is suggested.


To RSVP
for the dinner email
wendy@ducshop.com
Enquiries should be directed to
the office at 404-982-0051. RSVP deadline is May 5, 2009


Nyung Ne


June 5 - 8, 2009


To commemorate Saka Dawa, the month of Buddha's enlightenment, DLM will offer a Nyung Ne retreat for purification and the accumulation of positive energy. Geshe Ngawang Phende will lead this three day intensive retreat based on Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion.


The retreat is open to those who have received the Avalokiteshvara Empowerment or any Highest Yoga Tantra Empowerment. This intensive practice involves maintaining the eight Mahayana precepts, as well as additional vows on the second full day to abstain from eating, drinking or
talking for 24 hours. The meditation sessions include chants, prostrations and mantra recitations.


The retreat is being offered free of cost. A voluntary offering is recommended. Space
for this retreat will be very limited. To ensure a place, please register as soon as possible. Registration will close when the space is filled or by June 2. To register please call 404-982-0051.



Foundation Series II

July 11 to November
14, 2009 - Second Saturday of each month


Due to popular demand, Geshe Lobsang Tenzin will teach a second round of the Foundation
Series on the second Saturday of each month. Beginning with Shamatha
Mediation, this five-part series introduces the essential elements of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, theory and practice. Though the subjects will be the same as the current Foundation Series, which concludes on May 9, the teaching will be very different as they are coming from our spiritual director Geshe Lobsang Tenzin.


These teachings provide a basis for individual and group practice at the center and serve as a prerequisite for more advanced retreats. First session begins on July 11; the four subsequent sessions will be held on the 2nd Saturdays of each month.


Registration deadline March 10 for the third session. Register by calling our Administrative Office: 404-982-0051. Fee: $60 (non-members)/ $54 (members) or $250 (non-members)/ $225(members) for the five–part series or free to members who are repeating.



Where are the Monks?

Please share this information with
your family and friends who may not have had a chance to meet our monks or
experience their unique Tibetan art and culture.


CALIFORNIA
Santa Barbara APR 20-25,
2009
University of California - Santa Barbara


WEST VIRGINIA
Shepherdstown APR 28-MAY 1, 2009
Shepherd University


Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc.

1781 Dresden
Drive
Atlanta
GA
30319

www.drepung.org

Phone: (404) 982-0051

Fax: (404) 982-6435

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Ridgzin Dorje Rinpoche: Healing Chod

Event Details, New York

When?
Saturday, May 23, 2009 At 01:00 PM
Where?
Tibet House Gallery
Details
Note: This program is meant to be taken as a whole. Individual sessions are not available. Attendees MUST bring their own cushion or mat.

Presenter
Rigdzin Dorje Rinpoche
Type
Tibetan Buddhist Practice
Register
Please Call 212.807.0563, Monday-Friday 10 AM-5 PM to Register.

About the Event


The Healing Chöd is a ritual derived from Macig Labdro’s thousand-year-old practice that the recently deceased, deeply revered Kunzang Dechen Lingpa Rinpoche revealed. As per his final wishes, Rinpoche's son and spiritual heir, Rigdzin Dorje Rinpoche will lead monks and nuns of the Zangdokpalri community in this three-session healing in which participants lie down on the floor and absorb healing songs and music designed to pacify the causes of physical, emotional and spiritual discord. An explanatory lecture will be offered between sessions although there is no text study or discussion. This will be the 5th year Rinpoche and the nuns and monks have performed this powerful ceremony with many of the participants returning to experience the relief from stress and chronic ailments which this effective practice gives.



The last evening ends with a traditional tsok feast
Attendees MUST bring their own cushion or mat.



A Two Day Ceremony

Saturday, May 23rd & Sunday, May 24th, 1-5 P.M.



$195 - No Member Discount



Space is Limited. Pre-Registration is Required.





About the Presenter

Rigdzin Dorje Rinpoche is the son and spiritual heir of the deeply revered Kunzang Dechen Lingpa Rinpoche. His training included many years of solitary retreat, especially practicing Chöd, and his use of this healing practice is renowned as especially efficacious


Date: Saturday, May 23, 2009 At 01:00 PM
Repeat Event: Every Day until May 24, 2009

http://www.mingyur.org/


Venerable Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY


The Heart of Meditation

June 25 – 30, 2009
During this retreat, Mingyur Rinpoche will guide participants in the core meditation practices of the Buddhist tradition with an emphasis on developing loving kindness and learning transform the issues and frustrations of everyday life into joy.

Mahamudra Level 1
June 30 - July 5, 2009
Rinpoche will explore the view and practice of the profound tradition of Mahamudra. He will focus on the practice of Bodhicitta, as well as the preliminary practices (ngöndro) that form the basis of path of Mahamudra.

Registration
You are welcome to attend either or both retreats. If you are new to the path, you will need to attend the ‘Heart of Meditation’ retreat before qualifying for the ‘Mahamudra Level I’ retreat.

Alternatively, to qualify for the ‘Mahamudra Level I’ retreat you must have a basic understanding of Buddhism and some prior meditation experience. To register for these retreats with Mingyur Rinpoche at Garrison Institute please down load and print out the registration form, fill out the details, including your payment, and mail or fax it to the address provided on the form. Please make checks payable to Garrison Institute.

Deposit
In order for your registration to be accepted you must include payment in full if you are attending either
the ‘Heart of Meditation’ or ‘Mahamudra Level I’. If you are attending both retreats you must include
payment for ‘Heart of Meditation’ and the balance of your retreat fee is due and payable at check in on opening day.



For more information about attending retreats at Garrison Institute including directions of how to get
there, please go to http://www.garrisoninstitute.org/retreats.php?type=guests

**Shangpa Kagyupa Empowerment's



For 19 days from August 13 to August 31, 2009 Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa Rinpoche will give the Empowerments and Transmission of the complete Shangpa Kagyu Lineage at Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat at the request of His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche.

The Shangpa Kagyu, one of the main Kagyu lineages, was founded by the great yogi, Khyungpo Nyaljor (978-1079). Khyungpo Nyaljor traveled to Nepal where he met Acharya Sumati and received training as a translator and then traveled to India. He received teachings from one hundred and fifty scholars and yogis and mastered the Vajrayana teachings. Some of the main practices of the Shangpa Kagyu lineage are Chakrasambhava, Hevajra, Mahamaya, Guhyasamaja, the Six Doctrines of Niguma, Mahamudra, the Six-armed and the White Mahakala, and others.



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** very rare opportunity, Sherab