{"id":3736,"date":"2016-04-22T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2022-07-31T11:01:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:01:47","slug":"khenpo-migmar-tseten-will-teach-at-ewam-choden-on-thursday-june-16th-2016-at-730-p-m-topic-the-differences-between-sutrayana-and-tantrayana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=3736","title":{"rendered":"COMPLETED – KHENPO MIGMAR TSETEN will teach at Ewam Choden on Thursday, June 16th, 2016 Differences between Sutrayana and Tantrayana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ewam Choden is very pleased to welcome back Khenpo Migmar Tseten<\/span> to the Center. During his last visit, he taught on the Heart Sutra<\/em> and on the Four Noble Truths<\/em>.\u00a0 His teachings, in fluent English,\u00a0 are always clear and compassionate, combining straightforwardness for a beginner with depth for the more advanced student and practitioner.\u00a0 He kindly explains comprehensively and answers questions patiently.\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone is welcome.\u00a0 REQUESTED donation: $30.\u00a0 Dana (offering) to the Lama is separate.
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LAMA MIGMAR’S SUBJECT for this teaching is the differences between Sutrayana (mdo\u2019i-theg-pa) and Tantrayana or Vajrayana (rgy\u00fcd-kyi-theg-pa, rdo rje theg pa). Specifically, the topic is\u00a0 How four philosophical schools of Vaibhashika, Sautrantika, Chitamatrin and Madhyamika are relevant to the understanding and practice of four classes of Kriya, Charya, Yoga and Anutarayoga of Tantra.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\u00a0ABOUT KHENPO MIGMAR TSETEN<\/span><\/strong>
\nLama Migmar has been serving at Harvard University as a Buddhist Chaplain since 1997.\u00a0\u00a0 Born in Tibet, he received both a traditional and a contemporary education in India. He graduated with an Acharya degree in 1979 from Tibetan Institute of Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India,\u00a0 with the first position among four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He was awarded a medal for academic excellence by His Holiness The Dalai Lama.\u2028\u00a0 Lama Migmar served as the head of Sakya Center in Rajpur, India, and the Sakya Monastery in Puruwalla, India, from 1981 to 1989, taking care of the well-being of several hundred monastic residents. During this time he reintroduced the original form of the geshe educational system of Tibet, with degrees from kazhipa up to the rabjampa degree, with a curriculum that included all of the eighteen major texts, which are known as the Dragchen Chogyed.\u2028\u00a0 Additionally, Lama Migmar supervised the editing and publication of over 50 rare volumes of Sakya literature including the 31 volumes of Sakya Lamdre and the rare Golden Manuscripts of the Five Founding Masters of Sakya. He founded Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, MA, USA in 1990. \u00a0 He was recognized as Khenpo for his scholarship and service to the Dharma by His Holiness Sakya Trizin.\u00a0 Lama Migmar leads retreats at Buddhist centers throughout North America and Europe.\u00a0 He is the author, editor and translator in a series of four Vision books and of the Treasures of the Sakya Lineage.\u00a0 He has also written explanatory commentaries on the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path and on the Heart Sutra. These books are available for purchase on Amazon.\u00a0 He generously shares his teachings in podcasts and videos through the website, http:\/\/mangalamstudio.com\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 His other website for his Buddhist center, Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies, is sakya.net<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ewam Choden is very pleased to welcome back Khenpo Migmar Tseten to the Center. During his last visit, he taught on the Heart Sutra and on the Four Noble Truths.\u00a0 His teachings, in fluent English,\u00a0 are always clear and compassionate, combining straightforwardness for a beginner with depth for the more advanced student and practitioner.\u00a0 He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-completed-special-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}