Gampopa Center

Lama’s visit to Indonesia is now over and he should now be in Tibet. More photos from his teaching are on the web. Some pictures are candid shots during his teaching, others posed portraits after. You can also see him chowing down on lo mein and broccoli and enjoying some time off by a lake.

Some photos of Lama Phurbu Tashi teaching in Jakarta have been posted on the Internet. You can see copies of The Seven Point Mind Training Book on the table in front of him.

Lama emailed us the schedule of what he plans to teach in Jakarta:

1. Ordinary beings entering the gate of dharma.
2. Awakened mind.
3. Tonglen.
4. The transformation of bad circumstances into the way of enlightenment.
5. The discipline of mind training.
6. Bardo.
7. Nyungne.

For those of you not familiar with the Tibetan terms, tonglen is the meditation practice of sending out all your good karma as you breathe out and accepting the bad karma of others as you breathe in. The bardo is the interval between death and rebirth. And nyungne is practice that combines one day vows with meditation on the one thousand armed form of Avalokiteshvara.

The Annapolis Capital ran an article about Lama Phurbu Tashi in their Thursday paper, which you can read online. I want to correct two mistakes in the article, one big and one small. The article infered that Lama had 200 students! Our correction is that Lama has encountered 200 students in Annapolis, with these he made a spiritual connection. Of these two hundred people he has a core group of serious students now.  I think we would have a hard time fitting 200 people into Michael’s house every week! The small error is that the name of the Palpung monastery was misspelled. You can read the history of the Palpung monastery on the web, it is the largest monastery in the Karma Kagyu tradition in East Tibet (Kham). There’s not so much information about the Gangkar monastery on the web, but there is a picture of the Gangkar monastery on Flickr.