Events Calendar

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MEDITATION: Every Sunday 11:00 am - 12:00 pm.

Dawn Mountain Tibetan Buddhist Temple provides a guided meditation every Sunday which is appropriate for the entire community. The meditation is lead by our senior sangha members who are happy to answer questions about the practice and Dawn Mountain. Come and join us for an hour of serenity and fellowship. Donations welcome.

WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR:

SPRING SERIES
The Heart of Practice: Words and Guided Meditations from the Tibetan Tradition
Begins Tuesday, January 19 with an Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
Continues 1st & 3rd Tuesdays through May, 7-9 pm

By popular request, we open this series with an introductory talk on Buddhism that lays the groundwork for newcomers and helps everyone deepen experiential of central Buddhist principles. Each class, especially the Intro, can be taken as a stand-alone In this sequence we continue to reflect on the Tibetan classic, Treasury of Precious Qualities, emphasizing its teachings on opening and stilling the mind. This course is an important preliminary for participation in our Spring Retreat in April.

Mark you Calendars!
January 19, February 2, February 16, March 2, March 16
April 6, April 20, May 4, May 18
1st & 3rd Tuesdays 7:00 pm
$10 members/$12 non-members
$85 /series-members $100/series-non-members

MINDFULNESS FOR EVERYONE

Eight Mondays beginning January 18 - March 15, 2010
7:00 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.

ABOUT THE COURSE: This eight-week course will introduce beginners to the basics of meditation, including what to do during a session as well as how to make meditation a part of daily life. These are simple and enjoyable techniques that anyone from any background can practice, both now and for years to come. More advanced students are invited to review the basics of sitting and enjoy beginner's mind again. This course will be perfectly suitable for adolescents and teens that are interested.

ABOUT THE COURSE LEADER: Claire Villarreal started practicing meditation in 1997 and has made several long trips to Asia to practice various meditation techniques in traditional cultural contexts. She graduated from Rice in 1999 and began leading eight-week courses in 2004, and she is currently a third year graduate student in the Rice University Religious Studies Program.

DAWN MOUNTAIN TIBETAN BUDDHIST TEMPLE CELEBRATES LOSAR (Tibetan New Year)

February 14, 2010: Tibetan New Year Losar Begins! Celebrations Open To The Public.

Bring Your Friends & Family and Come Celebrate!

Dispatching the Old, Blessing the New
Evening Begins 6:30 pm
Traditional dispatching of negativities, vegetarian pot-luck and the Tibetan tradition of reading fortunes.

February 15
6:30- 8:00 pm
We will open our celebration and practice with an introductory talk on the Buddhism of Tibet

PRACTICE
Daily, 6:30 p.m.
Feb 15-28
Dawn Mountain Tibetan Buddhist Temple will conduct instructional services on the Tibetan Buddhist Nyngma tradition foundational practices each evening at 6:30 pm during the 15 days of Losar. This is a time when the power of practice is multiplied 100,000 times. It is also a good time to become acquainted with these main practices which also includes the calming practices which are essential to the foundational practices.

THE KNOWING BODY: ART AND THE DISCOVERY OF SELF

During this weekend of events sponsored with Dawn Mountain and Rice University, renowned Tibetan artist Ang Tsherin Sherpa and Rice Professor and Contemplative, Anne C. Klein explore the practice and deep spiritual significance of Tibetan art.

Tibetan Art, Mirror of the Self

Saturday, May 1
10:00 am-12:00 pm.
$20 ($15 Jung Center and Dawn Mountain members)
Location: The Jung Center, 5200 Montrose Blvd.

Encounter traditional Tibetan painting, a spiritual practice for the artist and a way of furthering spiritual opening in others, during this presentation. The symbolism of Tibetan painting is both universal pointing the way to love and wisdom and unique, with images going back two millennia.

Artist Ang Tsherin Sherpa will open the ancient world for us, discussing his own evolution as a traditionally trained Tibetan artist now working in the West and producing contemporary works alongside traditional ones. Scholar Anne Klein will respond by reflecting on the spiritual significance of Tibetan art for the West.

Tibetan Scroll (Thanka) Painting Workshop.

1:30 – 4 pm
$45 ($40 Jung Center and Dawn Mountain members)
Limit: 25
Location: The Jung Center, 5200 Montrose Blvd.

Learn the first steps of this ancient art as Tsherin guides participants in laying out the proportions of the Buddha’s face with the traditional grid pattern, a heritage of 2000 years of Thanka painting. The medium for this workshop will be pencil.

Meditation & Meaning

Sunday, May 2
11 am - 12:30 pm
Free
Location: Dawn Mountain,1925-B Richmond Ave

Tsherin will reflect on how art infuses meditation and Anne will offer a simple yet profound guided meditation showing how this works in practice.

Reception and Art Show

Sunday, May 2
12:30 - 2pm
Free
Location: Dawn Mountain,1925-B Richmond Ave

Tsherin will have originals and prints available for order or purchase. The artist will sign, explain, and demonstrate his technique.

Ang Tsherin Sherpa was born in 1968 in Kathmandu, Nepal. He started studying thangka painting at the age of twelve under the skillful guidance of his father, Master Urgen Dorje, a renowned thangka artist from Ngyalam, Tibet. Tsherin came to the US in 1998 and worked as a thangka artist and as an instructor at The Healing Buddha Center in California. He has sold numerous traditional paintings to museums and collectors, and most recently sold four contemporary style paintings to the Rubin Collection in New York.

Anne C. Klein, Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University and founding Director of Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple, a center for contemplative study & practice., is author of five books, including Meeting the Great Bliss Queen, Unbounded Wholeness with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and the forthcoming Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: A Story of Transmission. She lectures and leads meditation retreats widely.

EVENTS AWAY

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FRIDAY, Feb 5, Maitripa Institute, Portland, OR

ANNE KLEIN, PhD, PUBLIC TALK: OPEN HEART, OPEN MIND, 7:30 pm; $20 suggested donation at the door; All are welcome! for registration go to www.maitripa.com

FEB 6 & 7, 2010 Basics of Buddhist Practice: Stillness and the Ocean of Stillness, Saturday Morning & Afternoon and Sunday Afternoon with Anne Carolyn Klein, PhD

First Unitarian Church
12th & Salmon, Portland, OR

Tibetan traditions have unique practices for opening into stillness, and
for using this as a way to experience more completely one's own natural
way of being. These practices can be experienced at multiple levels
and therefore are useful for new meditators as well as experienced
ones.

In particular, our way of entering stillness invites participation of
the senses, especially sight and sound. During our time together, easyto-
follow guided meditation will alternate with lectures and
discussion.

We will explore the significance of our practice through unfolding
some of its Buddhist context as well as touching on contemporary science's
ways of appreciating the power of meditation.
Open to everyone. Basics of Buddhist Practice

More information: jacqueline.mandell@gmail.com

Portland State University: Ways of Knowing: Contemplation, and Community in Tibet, Age of the Pacific Lecture Series, Monday, February 8th, 2010, For more information go to: Age of The Pacific

Being Wisdom: A weekend retreat at Berkeley, hosted by Osel Thegchog LingOpening Talk, Friday, March 26, 7-10pm, Saturday, March 27, 10am-5pm; Sunday, March 28, 10am-1pm, $125 for the Complete Retreat/$25 for the Friday Opening Talk

Seeking wisdom sometimes masks for us the fact that we are wisdom. This is a paradox at the heart of practice, and we resolve it through combining practice with understanding. In this retreat we deepen experience through simple practices unique to a contemporary transmission of Jigme Lingpa that emphasizes direct access to fresh experience. We also further our understanding through select sacred writings, including some newly translated by Anne. In this way, participants are able to unify practice with understanding, gaining clear experience and cohesive meaning to take back home and to integrate into life and purpose.

To register contact OselThegchogLing@gmail.com or call 415-509-5613, More Information

Victor Mansfield Memorial Lecture, Wisdom Visions: Styles of Meditation and Tibet's Recent Heart Essence Traditions (talk with slides) April 23 - 25, 2010 Ithaca, NY, Registration required: Namgyal Monastery

Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse is one of the most beloved Dzogchen transmissions in Tibet, revealed by Rigzin Jigme Lingpa in the 18th century. In the 20th century, one of this transmission's greatest adepts, Adzom Drukpa, revealed the "child" of the Heart Essence transmission, known as the Secret Treasure, Luminous Vajra. The Tara practice we will learn is from this cycle, and we explore its different resonance with Jigme Lingpa's own words in the foundational practices from his Heart Essence, the Vast Expanse cycle.

All this helps us see how Tara is swift and tender. We invite and cultivate these same qualities, learning to align with Tara’s enlightened perspective amd trust it as our own.

To do this we recognize and then relinquishing our false, ordinary sense of ourselves. This requires trust, purification, and wisdom in dealing with our own emotions, We work with these ancillary practices in order to truly meet Tara on her own ground, which is our ground.

For more information contact: Jeanine Rose Mollica at Namgyal Monastery: office@namgyal.org or 607-273-0739

AMITABHA PRAYER

Samantabhadra Mon Lam "The King of Prayers".

Ad_zom Rinpoche Long Life Prayer