COMPLETED–KHENPO PEMA WANGDAK teaches at EC on Saturday, Aug. 25 & Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012
September 2, 2012 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
Khenpo Pema Wangdak will teach on LOJONG or 7 Point Mind Training. This deep, comprehensive Buddhist mind-training was taught over 1,000 years ago.
PLACE–Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center DAY/TIME—8/25 10 am to 12:30 pm & 2 pm to 4:30 pm (Bring lunch.) 8/26 10 am to 12:30 pm only Donation requested–$45 for all three sessions, $20 for one session.
Brief Biography of Khenpo Pema Wangdak
In 1982, he was sent to the West by His Holiness Sakya Trizin, as the first of the younger generation of Tibetan teachers in America from the Sakya School.
In 1989 Lama Pema founded the Vikramasila Foundation which encompasses the Palden Sakya Centers in New York and three other states.
Lama Pema is the creator of “Bur Yig”–Tibetan Braille, and the founder of Pema Ts’al (English for Lotus Grove) Schools in Mundgod, India (for Tibetan lay children); Pokara, Nepal (monastic schools for boys); and Pema Ts’al School in New York City, with a curriculum modeled on that of Sakya College, India. The Pema Ts’al School in New York City provides a traditional Buddhist education of monastic training and study, in the format of Western university teaching.
Lama Pema was recognized with the title of “Khenpo” by His Holiness Sakya Trizin in 2007. He received the distinguished “Ellis Island Medal of Honor” award by the National Ethical Coalition of Organizations in May, 2009 at Ellis Island for his humanitarian work around the world. Lama Pema is the first Tibetan ever to have received such an award.
COMPLETED Event ! KHENPO MIGMAR TSETEN at Ewam Choden on Sunday, July 1st, 2012
June 21, 2012 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
KHENPO MIGMAR TSETEN at Ewam Choden on Sunday, July 1st, 2012
Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Ewam Choden are pleased to announce that Khenpo Migmar Tseten will offer a practice and a teaching on Sunday, July 1st at the Ewam Choden center. The program is the following:
10:00 a.m. to Noon—The Sixteen Arhart Puja, followed by a dedication to Lama Kunga Ngor Thartse Rinpoche’s long life.
All students will have an opportunity to offer a mandala, and a khata to Rinpoche at the conclusion.
*** Pot Luck Lunch *** from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m. to 5:50 p.m.—Shenpa Shidrel: Freedom from the Four Attachments—This is a Mind Training teaching essential to the Tibetan Buddhist canon and particularly to the Sakya tradition. This classic teaching was handed down by Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092-1158), who received it in a vision from Manjushri.
REQUESTED DONATION, AS A BENEFIT FOR EWAM CHODEN TIBETAN BUDDHIST CENTER
Both morning and afternoon sessions: $100 nonmembers, $80 members
Each session separately—$60
The dana (offering) to the Lama is separate.
Everyone is welcome.
Please arrive early and be considerate of neighbors when parking in our residential neighborhood.
ABOUT LAMA MIGMAR
Lama Migmar Tseten was born in Tibet in 1956. In 1980, he received the Acharya degree from the Tibetan Institute at Varanasi where was recognized for academic achievement by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is currently the Buddhist chaplain at Harvard university, and the director of the Sakya Institute of Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, MA, and of the Sakya Retreat Center in Barre, MA.
Lama Migmar previously taught on Abhidharma at Ewam Choden. His clarity, thoroughness, and familiarity with western thought make him a much sought-after teacher of Tibetan Buddhism.
KHENPO MIGMAR TSETEN at Ewam Choden on Sunday, July 1st, 2012
June 19, 2012 by bhockman
Filed under Uncategorized
Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Ewam Choden are pleased to announce that Khenpo Migmar Tseten will offer a practice and a teaching on Sunday, July 1st at the Ewam Choden center. The program is the following:
10:00 a.m. to Noon—The Sixteen Arhart Puja, followed by a dedication to Lama Kunga Ngor Thartse Rinpoche’s long life.
All students will have an opportunity to offer a mandala, and a khata to Rinpoche at the conclusion.
*** Pot Luck Lunch *** from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m. to 5:50 p.m.—Shenpa Shidrel: Freedom from the Four Attachments—This is a Mind Training teaching essential to the Tibetan Buddhist canon and particularly to the Sakya tradition. This classic teaching was handed down by Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092-1158), who received it in a vision from Manjushri.
REQUESTED DONATION, AS A BENEFIT FOR EWAM CHODEN TIBETAN BUDDHIST CENTER
Both morning and afternoon sessions: $100 nonmembers, $80 members Each session separately—$60
The dana (offering) to the Lama is separate.
Everyone is welcome. Please arrive early and be considerate of neighbors when parking in our residential neighborhood.
ABOUT LAMA MIGMAR
Lama Migmar Tseten was born in Tibet in 1956. In 1980, he received the Acharya degree from the Tibetan Institute at Varanasi where was recognized for academic achievement by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is currently the Buddhist chaplain at Harvard university, and the director of the Sakya Institute of Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, MA, and of the Sakya Retreat Center in Barre, MA.
Lama Migmar previously taught on Abhidharma at Ewam Choden. His clarity, thoroughness, and familiarity with western thought make him a much sought-after teacher of Tibetan Buddhism.
*new* SANGYE MENLA MEDITATION PRACTICE on Monday Evenings
February 5, 2012 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
A group practice of the Medicine Buddha (Sangye Menla) will be held on Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome and the sadhana will be provided. This practice brings countless benefits to oneself and to others. Since reciting the Medicine Buddha’s mantra is a method for healing physical illness, it is especially important now for Rinpoche. The practice is scheduled for the following dates– Feb. 13, Feb. 27, March 5, 12, 26. April 2, 9, 23, & 30. Check the website and the calendar for updates.
Important: Kindly refrain from coming to EC if you or someone with whom you’re in contact is ill and contagious.
CHENREZI MEDITATION on 12-25-2011
December 23, 2011 by bhockman
Filed under Special Events
There will be Chenrezi (Avalokiteshvara) Compassion MEDITATION at Ewam Choden on Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m., December 25, 2011, as usual.
Long Life Prayer of Lama Kunga Rinpoche
December 15, 2011 by bhockman
Filed under Special Events
Click here.
POSTPONED / EMPOWERMENT on January 22, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.
November 30, 2011 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Empowerments
The Empowerment of Mahakala Riding on a Tiger, scheduled for Jan 22 at Ewam Choden, is postponed until a later date to be determined.
POSTPONED / EMPOWERMENT OF VASUDHARA
November 29, 2011 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Empowerments
THIS EMPOWERMENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED and will not be held on the given date.
The Empowerment of Vasudhara, Yellow Tara and a Bodhisattva of wealth, will be rescheduled for a later date to be determined.
COMPLETED EMPOWERMENT OF BLACK DZAMBHALA on November 27th at 1:00 p.m.
October 29, 2011 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Empowerments
Lama Kunga Rinpoche will kindly bestow the Empowerment of the Black Dzambhala at Ewam Choden on Sunday, November 27th. The time is 1:00 p.m. The practice of Black Dzambhala brings material wealth to help alleviate poverty as well as to give one the opportunity to practice generosity. Dzambhala also enhances spiritual wealth and personal growth towards ultimate enlightenment.
COMPLETED Annual Memorial Prayers on Sunday, Nov. 20th, starting at 7:00 p.m.
October 17, 2011 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
On Sunday, November 20th, Lama Kunga Rinpoche will combine Ewam Choden’s regular Sunday meditation on compassion with our annual Memorial Prayers for the benefit of all our friends, relatives and countless beings who have passed away this year and in previous years. Everyone is welcome. You may bring tea candles or flowers to set up near the shrine. (Make sure you arrive a little earlier to do this.)
Everyone is welcome. Please come on time at 7:00 p.m.
