{"id":4256,"date":"2016-09-14T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T01:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2022-07-31T10:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:48:43","slug":"new-khenpo-lama-pema-wangdak-will-teach-at-ec-on-sunday-november-20-2016-at-200-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=4256","title":{"rendered":"Completed KHENPO LAMA PEMA WANGDAK will teach at EC on Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 2:00 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Khenpo Lama Pema Wangdak<\/span><\/em> returns to Ewam Choden for an afternoon of teaching on The First Paramita, generosity (in Tibetan, \u0f66\u0f56\u0fb1\u0f72\u0f53\u0f0b\u0f54 sbyin-pa) and on The Third Paramita, patience (tolerance, acceptance, endurance) (in Tibetan, \u00a0\u0f56\u0f5f\u0f7c\u0f51\u0f0b\u0f54 bzod-pa)<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0 The teaching may include meditative insight.\u00a0 Speaking in fluent English, Lama Pema is known to teach with a keen and incisive, and sometimes challenging, presentation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The starting time is 2:00 p.m.\u00a0 There is a requested donation of $20.00.\u00a0 Everyone is welcome.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"khenpo-pema\"<\/a><\/p>\n

ABOUT KHENPO PEMA WANGDAK<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Biography of Khenpo Pema Wangdak<\/strong><\/span>
\nKhenpo Pema Wangdak was born in Purang, Tibet in 1954,\u00a0 and escaped to India as a child in 1959. Having graduated from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Benares, India, he received his Acharya (masters) degree from Sanskrit University in 1980, while studying with the highest Sakya Lamas..\u00a0 In 1982, he was sent to the West by His Holiness Sakya Trizin,\u00a0 as the first of the younger generation of Tibetan teachers in America from the Sakya School.<\/strong>
\nIn 1989 Lama Pema founded the Vikramasila Foundation which encompasses several Palden Sakya Centers in New York,\u00a0 three other states, and in some other countries. Lama Pema is the creator of \u201cBur Yig\u201d\u2013Tibetan Braille, and the founder of Pema Ts\u2019al (English for Lotus Grove) Schools in Mundgod, India (for Tibetan lay children); Pokara, Nepal (monastic schools for boys); and Pema Ts\u2019al School in New York City, with a curriculum modeled on that of Sakya College, India. The Pema Ts\u2019al School in New York City provides a traditional Buddhist education of monastic training and study, in the format of Western university teaching.<\/strong>
\nLama Pema was recognized with the title of \u201cKhenpo\u201d by His Holiness Sakya Trizin in 2007. He received the distinguished\u00a0 \u201cEllis Island Medal of Honor\u201d 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. Recently, Khenpo Pema has been doing translations of sadhanas for his Holiness Sakya Trizin, as well as, traveling to give teachings in various places. He maintains his focal Centers in New York.<\/strong>
\nCheck out Khenpo Pema\u2019s interesting website at\u00a0 http:\/\/www.vikramasila.org\/\u00a0 and find him on Twitter at https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaldenSakya\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Khenpo Lama Pema Wangdak returns to Ewam Choden for an afternoon of teaching on The First Paramita, generosity (in Tibetan, \u0f66\u0f56\u0fb1\u0f72\u0f53\u0f0b\u0f54 sbyin-pa) and on The Third Paramita, patience (tolerance, acceptance, endurance) (in Tibetan, \u00a0\u0f56\u0f5f\u0f7c\u0f51\u0f0b\u0f54 bzod-pa).\u00a0\u00a0 The teaching may include meditative insight.\u00a0 Speaking in fluent English, Lama Pema is known to teach with a keen and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-4256","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\/4256","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}