Winter Solstice: Aspiration Prayer for Samantabhadra - Nalandabodhi Seattle

Winter Solstice: Aspiration Prayer for Samantabhadra

Join us on Zoom for this annual practice on the eve of winter solstice. This year the change of season is accompanied by a pandemic that has raised emotional turbulence and fear for many.

The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra is particularly powerful during times of great disruption.

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5:30 p.m.  The Causes of Fear and its Antidote, taught by Dr. Stuart Horn.

6  p.m.       Practice and recitation of the Aspiration Prayer.

Please register at least 24 hours prior to the teaching to allow time to send participant information.

Dr. Stuart Horn has been a student of Buddhism since 1996, and a student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche since 2002. He holds a PhD in history with a focus on the history of ideas. He is a distinguished professor of humanities at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he teaches courses on Asian philosophy and death and dying.

He been teaching at Nalandabodhi and Nitartha Institute since 2008, and was authorized as a full faculty member of Nitartha Institute in 2010. His passion is the study and teaching of Buddhist philosophical systems and practice.

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