Introduction to Tantra
with Lama Thubten Yeshe
Tuesday, October 13 7:00pm – 9:00pm We will be watching the YouTube video "Introduction to Tantra, part 1" by Lama Yeshe.
In 1980, Lama Yeshe gave a commentary to the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method. This video is Lama's introduction to this series and constitutes a wonderful explanation of the fundamentals of tantric practice. This video forms a companion to the second half of the free book "The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism." See the video "Three Principal Aspects of the Path" for the first half. For more information, please visit www.lamayeshe.com. Everyone is welcome!
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Portrait of Lama Yeshe taken by Carol Royce-Wilder during the Yucca Valley course, 1977. © Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
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Lama Thubten Yeshe was born in Tibet in 1935. At the age of six, he entered the great Sera Monastic University, Lhasa, where he studied until 1959, when the Chinese invasion of Tibet forced him into exile in India. Lama Yeshe continued to study and meditate in India until 1967, when, with his chief disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, he went to Nepal. Two years later he established Kopan Monastery, near Kathmandu, in order to teach Buddhism to Westerners. In 1974, the Lamas began making annual teaching tours to the West, and as a result of these travels a worldwide network of Buddhist teaching and meditation centers—the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)—began to develop.
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In 1984, after an intense decade of imparting a wide variety of incredible teachings and establishing one FPMT activity after another, at the age of forty-nine, Lama Yeshe passed away. He was reborn as Ösel Hita Torres in Spain in 1985 and recognized as the incarnation of Lama Yeshe by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1986. Lama’s remarkable story is told in Vicki Mackenzie’s book, Reincarnation: The Boy Lama (Wisdom Publications, 1996) and Adele Hulse’s official biography, Big Love, (forthcoming from Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive).
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