Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness - Nalandabodhi Seattle

Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness

 

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In his clear and insightful book, Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche teaches the main schools of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and their progressively more subtle and refined views of reality. In this series of eight Sunday classes, Lama Tenpa will discuss the different philosophical views described by Khenpo Rinpoche and present a means to realize these views through a series of meditation practices. The practices are progressive. When a practice is fully understood, it prepares the mind for the next stage of practice.

In 2021, Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen taught a series of eight classes on the first stages of realizing emptiness as described in Khenpo Rinpoche’s book.

In this new series of eight Sunday classes, Lama Tenpa will discuss the Mind Only and Madhyamaka teachings on emptiness and present a means to realize these views through a series of meditation practices.

Recordings of the 2021 class series will be made available to those who register for this 2022 series of teachings.

Live translation and recordings into Chinese, Spanish, French and German will be offered, and available to registered participants for 4 weeks.  The Portuguese translation is not confirmed as yet.

About Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen

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 has been 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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Once you have registered you will automatically receive an email with a link to the Zoom session and a link to the 2021 resource page that includes the English teaching text as well as links to the recordings of Acharya Lama Tenpa’s 2021 teaching sessions.  Also, a link to the Resource page for 2022 teachings.

 

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