Snow Lion / Toronto Mindfulness Community Lecture Series 2012
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
“How We Heal: The Practice of Medicine Buddha “with: Zasep Tulku Rinpoche
At the Toronto Mindfulness Community
842A Danforth Avenue (Soleil Vitality)
Time: 7:30PM to 9:00PM*
Cost: Dana / donation (according to your means)
Medicine Buddha embodies the healing qualities of all the Buddhas, whose realizations overcome the ‘diseases’ of physical sickness, delusion and other obstructions to our practice. Medicine Buddha practice gradually brings these special qualities into our own life, and is a profound method for healing the causes and basis of our own and others’ suffering.
This talk is open to everyone, and will be especially helpful for those planning or are interested in attending the Healing Retreat Nov. 30-Dec. 2 with Zasep Tulku Rinpoche.
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Acharya Zasep Jamseng Rinpoche embarked upon ten years of intensive meditation and study with the highly realized teacher Geshe Thubten Wangyal In 1961. Rinpoche then completed his Acharya (Master’s) Degree in Buddhist philosophy at Varanasi Sanskrit University in 1975, at which time he was sent to Southeast Asia to study Vipassana Meditation and Theravada Buddhist traditions in the forest temples of Thailand. In mid-1976, Rinpoche moved to Australia to translate and teach at the Chenrezig Institute for Wisdom Culture at the request of Lama Thubten Yeshe.
In 1980, Zasep Rinpoche accepted the invitation of his Canadian students and came to British Columbia. That autumn, during the visit to Toronto of H.H. Ling Rinpoche, Toronto’s first Gelugpa centre was created. H.H. Ling Rinpoche bestowed the name “Gaden Choling Mahayan Buddhist Meditation Centre” and appointed Zasep Rinpoche as the resident teacher. Since then, Rinpoche has given countless teachings, discourses, commentaries, initiations, private interviews and meditation retreats at Gaden Choling for students of all levels. Rinpoche has also hosted many fundraising events for the centre, Gaden Relief, Gaden for the West and other charitable organizations, as well as conducted life cycle rituals such as funerals for members who have passed on.
Zasep Rinpoche now resides in Nelson, BC., close to the Gaden for the West retreat centre (Gaden Tashi Choling Retreat). For more Information see: www.gadenforthewest.org www.gadencholingtoronto.org
*Please arrive early as the doors will be closing at 7:30pm
(no admittance after doors close)
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