Additional Materials for Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition with Prof. Jan Willis Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition by Jan Willis. We kindly…
In this course, Jan Willis will explore the ideas of “enlightenment,” of rNam thar (or “liberation life story”), and the life stories of the first six enlightened beings to have gained liberation through a new practice tradition crafted by Tsonkhapa, founder of the Gelukpa, or Ganden, school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Course MaterialsExploring Buddhism: The Bodhisattva Vows(Mind Training, Part II) Exploring Buddhism is a pilot program and may be modified. Please do not share these course materials or recordings with anyone…
In this module, we will discuss the importance of vows, their purpose and benefit, and how to take and renew them. We will then proceed to examine the elements involved in avoiding each of the eighteen root downfalls as well as the forty-six secondary transgressions, coming to appreciate how living in the bodhisattva vows provides a unique guide for engaging in the six perfections of a bodhisattva in daily life.
Chokhor Duchen is the Tibetan Buddhist holiday that marks this great occasion, the Buddha's very first teaching at Deer Park in Sarnath, India.
Create a Tibetan Amulet for Protection, Well-being, Abundance and Longevity. In this workshop you will make your own Protection Amulet according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
Learn about drawing and painting Tibetan thangkas including a short meditation and lecture about the backgrounds and symbolism of Tibetan thangkas.
Learn to draw The Four Harmonious Friends; the Elephant, Monkey, Hare and Partridge according to the tradition of Tibetan Buddhist Thangka. This workshop is suitable for everyone, including people without any drawing experience.
We are excited that Carmen Mensink will be returning to Shantideva Center to teach three courses for both beginners and advanced students.
Geshe Dorji Damdul–distinguished scholar, trusted translator of H. H. Dalai Lama, and director of Tibet House in New Delhi–visits Shantideva Center for a series of three online teachings on “The Rice Seedling” sutra (Śālistambasūtra), which takes as its subject twelvefold dependent arising.
