Sundays with Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen: Realizing True Connection through the Power of Mind - Nalandabodhi Seattle

Sundays with Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen: Realizing True Connection through the Power of Mind

Nalandabodhi Seattle presents

Sunday Open Meditation:

Realizing True Connection through the Power of Mind

with Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen

a series of Sunday teachings
March 2–April 13, 2025

In the new year it is common to make aspirations and resolutions. Start the Year of the Wood Snake with a commitment to deepen your understanding of mind, interconnectedness, and meditation! Immediately following Losar (Tibetan New Year), Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen will guide us in dealing with our minds through meditation and contemplation.

How can we work with the power of mind to realize true connection to our true selves, to others, and to the phenomenal world?

Please join us for this series of Sunday teachings by our esteemed Nalanbodhi Chancellor, Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen. These teachings are open to new and experienced meditator alike.

Registration

Click on a date to register for the Sunday series or for a single Sunday.

Sunday, 2 March 2025
Sunday, 9 March 2025
Sunday, 16 March 2025
Sunday, 23 March 2025
Sunday, 30 March 2025
Sunday, 6 April 2025
Sunday, 13 April 2025

Registered participants have access to recordings of the teachings for 2 weeks after the last class.

Format

Onsite at Nalanda West and online via zoom.

Recordings will be available for registered participants on the resource page until 2 weeks after the last Sunday class.

Details

Zoom and Resource Page links will emailed after registering.

Please practice generosity when registering so that Nalandabodhi Seattle can continue to offer precious teachings like these to all who are interested in the dharma.

Schedule

10:00 Opening Chants
10:10 Shamatha (Calm Abiding) and Walking Meditation
11:00 Dharma Talk with Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
12:00 Community Lunch

Questions?

If you have questions about this series or would like to volunteer to help support the presentation of these teachings, please contact seattle@nalandabodhi.org.

Teacher Bio

Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was born in Nepal and entered the monastery at age thirteen. In 1981, Lama Tenpa and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche enrolled in the first class of Rumtek Monastery’s Karma Shri Nalanda Institute in Sikkim, India. Lama Tenpa completed his studies with an Acharya degree in 1991. Following his graduation, he taught Buddhist philosophy at the institute for two years. Under the guidance of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, he then entered a three-year retreat in Pullahari, Nepal.

From 1997 to 2004, Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was the resident teacher at H.H. the 17th Karmapa’s Theksum Tashi Chöling Center in Hamburg, Germany. Since 1998, Lama Tenpa has also been one of the main teachers at Nitartha Institute. Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen is a professor of Buddhist studies and Tibetan language at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches regularly at Nalandabodhi centers around the world.

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