Mind Training in Challenging Times & Heruka Vajrasattva Tsog
with Geshe Tenzin Zopa
Samsara—the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is inherently challenging due to the constant dissatisfaction we experience and our tendency to try and compensate by striving to attain remedies that will not endure. Moving between these poles of dissatisfaction and striving can feel like an unending emotional rollercoaster, which our minds do not have the strength to counter.
Geshe Tenzin Zopa will discuss approaches to training the mind to overcome suffering. Dharma practice provides many different tools to overcome challenges caused by attachment and grasping. This program will focus on a very concise set of instructions that are well suited to integrating mind training into everyday life. Since quality of life is defined by the quality of the mind, the purpose of practicing Dharma is to transform the mind and achieve liberation from suffering.
Heruka Vajrasattva Tsog
This Heruka Vajrasattva tsog offering ceremony has the power to purify negative energy, which is the main thing preventing us from actualizing the path to enlightenment. The practice consists of a series of requesting verses combined with the recitation of the hundred-syllable mantra of Vajrasattva. This Heruka Vajrasattva practice includes tsog: an offering ceremony that represents assembling all of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in a visualization of a sacred dance. All are welcome to participate. For more information and to register, please click here.
Additional Materials
Our general prayer book is here.
8 Verses of Training the Mind by Geshe Langri Tangpa
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Recordings
Recordings will be posted here, Archive page and on our YouTube channel afterwards.
About the Teacher
Geshe Tenzin Zopa holds the honoured Geshe (Doctorate) degree from Sera Jey Monastic University, South India. He was born in the remote Himalayan region of Tsum valley in Nepal and was ordained at the age of 9 in Kopan Monastery by the late Great Mahasiddha Geshe Lama Konchog. He received novice ordination from H.E. Geshe Lundrup Sopa Rinpoche and full ordination from H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama. Geshela was under the direct tutelage of H.E. Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, H.E. Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup Rigsel, The Great Mahasiddha Geshe Lama Konchog and Eminent Gurus including those from the Sera Jey Monastic University H.E. 104th Ganden Tri Rinpoche Losang Tenzin, 70th Abbot of Sera Jey Monastic University H.E. Khensur Losang Tsering Rinpoche and the 76th Abbot of Sera Jey Monastic University H.E. Logoan Tulku Tenzin Jampa Choesang Rinpoche.
Geshela possesses vast scriptural knowledge, holds many rare transmissions and initiations lineages, has completed many retreats, extensive teaching experience and is skilled in rituals and astrology. Geshela has also undertaken many meaningful projects for many years.
He is the principal and focal point of the award winning documentary film titled ”Unmistaken Child” which chronicles the search for the reincarnation of his master Geshe Lama Konchog. Now he is taking responsibility of overseeing the overall wellbeing of H.E Tulku Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche, the reincarnation of late Great Mahasiddha Geshe Lama Konchog. He has frequently taken part as a speaker at many Buddhist, interfaith and peace dialogue conferences for many years. He has taught at Oxford University (UK) under “Visitorship for Traditional Scholars” in the Tibetan and Himalayan Studies program. Since 2000 he has been actively teaching in FPMT centers as a visiting and resident teacher. Currently, he is serving as a touring teacher for the FPMT centers.
Additional Information About Geshe Tenzin Zopa
Unmistaken Child is a documentary film, which follows a Tibetan Buddhist monk’s search for the reincarnation of his beloved teacher, the renowned master Geshe Lama Konchog.
This film follows the 4-year-journey of the deceased lama’s closest disciple – a young monk named Geshe Tenzin Zopa – as he travels far and wide to identify the child who is his master’s reincarnation.
This is a playlist from Geshe Zopa’s teachings at Shantideva Center in 2024: Attachment and Enjoyment – Licking Honey from a Razor’s Blade; Breaking Free from the Endless Prison of Samsara; The Heart of the Path – Guru Devotion
Looking for a quick pick-me-up of Dharma teachings? Geshe Zopa has created Dharma on the Go. A collection of short video clips filled with concise teaching gems including Awakening Within Your Pre-Existing Buddha Nature, How to benefit others with prayers /dedications, Dharma for Pets, and many more.
