Turning the Mind Upside Down: Living a Life
that Matters
with Ven. Gyalten Lekden
Facebook LIVE, Sunday, November 8, 2020
10:30 AM-12:00 PM PDT (US Time)
This course will be presented via Facebook livestream on Tse Chen Ling Center for Buddhist Studies’ Facebook page.
On what is known as the Mahayana Buddhist path, we take as our aim that of the bodhisattva. Bodhisattvas selflessly dedicate themselves to free others from suffering, holding that responsibility as paramount. Yet the work of liberation, for self and others, is that of completely upending our conventional ways of engaging with the world and developing new outlooks and practices. That is work we have to do ourselves, no one can do it for us. In this talk, Ven. Gyalten Lekden will examine how the Buddhist tradition of mind training teachings can reorient our habitual way of being in the world in order to prioritize others, and simultaneously bring about personal peace and happiness.
About the Presenter:
Ven. Gyalten Lekden was born and raised outside of Boston. He first started studying and practicing Buddhism during his undergraduate studies, and after completing BAs in Theatre and Religious Studies he continued on to complete his Masters of Divinity in Buddhist Ministry at Harvard Divinity School. Ven. Lekden started leading Buddhist communities while an undergrad, and has studied, served, and taught at various Dharma centers since then. In 2012 he joined Sera Je Monastery in southern India, where he continues to study and practice. Ven. Lekden is a registered teacher in the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, and has given talks and meditation instruction in India and the USA.
Ven. Lekden is also a co-founder of The Union of Teaching and Accomplishment Publishing Group comprised of a few monks living and studying at Sera Je Monastery in south India. The members of the group are studying full-time as part of the geshe curriculum and use their free time to produce Tibetan-language critical editions of are mostly texts that are useful for study but are not easily available, especially not in book format and not in critical editions. The texts they translate are most often aimed at practice, not theory, and help all strive for the union of study and practice, or of teaching and accomplishment. For more on The Union of Teaching & Accomplishment Publishing Group, please visit http://publishing.simplebuddhistmonk.net/index.php/about-us/
10:30 AM-12:00 PM PDT (US Time)
This course will be presented via Facebook livestream on Tse Chen Ling Center for Buddhist Studies’ Facebook page.
On what is known as the Mahayana Buddhist path, we take as our aim that of the bodhisattva. Bodhisattvas selflessly dedicate themselves to free others from suffering, holding that responsibility as paramount. Yet the work of liberation, for self and others, is that of completely upending our conventional ways of engaging with the world and developing new outlooks and practices. That is work we have to do ourselves, no one can do it for us. In this talk, Ven. Gyalten Lekden will examine how the Buddhist tradition of mind training teachings can reorient our habitual way of being in the world in order to prioritize others, and simultaneously bring about personal peace and happiness.
About the Presenter:
Ven. Gyalten Lekden was born and raised outside of Boston. He first started studying and practicing Buddhism during his undergraduate studies, and after completing BAs in Theatre and Religious Studies he continued on to complete his Masters of Divinity in Buddhist Ministry at Harvard Divinity School. Ven. Lekden started leading Buddhist communities while an undergrad, and has studied, served, and taught at various Dharma centers since then. In 2012 he joined Sera Je Monastery in southern India, where he continues to study and practice. Ven. Lekden is a registered teacher in the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, and has given talks and meditation instruction in India and the USA.
Ven. Lekden is also a co-founder of The Union of Teaching and Accomplishment Publishing Group comprised of a few monks living and studying at Sera Je Monastery in south India. The members of the group are studying full-time as part of the geshe curriculum and use their free time to produce Tibetan-language critical editions of are mostly texts that are useful for study but are not easily available, especially not in book format and not in critical editions. The texts they translate are most often aimed at practice, not theory, and help all strive for the union of study and practice, or of teaching and accomplishment. For more on The Union of Teaching & Accomplishment Publishing Group, please visit http://publishing.simplebuddhistmonk.net/index.php/about-us/
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