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First Saturdays with Geshe Ngawang Dakpa
First Saturday of the month 10:00am-12:00pm Pacific Presented via Zoom. Registration is required. Join us as Tse Chen Ling’s longtime resident teacher, Geshe Ngawang Dakpa, shares his wisdom and insight on a series of topics beneficial to our minds and our practice. Geshe-la will choose topics as the series progresses, and they’ll be posted here and announced in our eNews and social media. We’re grateful to have a scholar of Geshe Dakpa’s renown offer these teachings to our community! |
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Upcoming Topic:
Explanation of the Eight Worldly Dharmas
Saturday, July 2, 2022
10:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Presented via Zoom
Registration is required
Program Description:
The eight worldly concerns or Dharmas ('jig-rten-pa'i chos-brgyad) are about the eight transitory things in life. These concerns are listed in 4 pairs: 1) Praise or criticism; 2) Hearing good or bad news; 3) Gains or losses; and 4) Things going well or poorly. When we become disturbed, upset, or uncomfortable with them we can feel overly excited when experiencing the first of each pair, and overly depressed when experiencing the second. Join us as Tse Chen Ling’s longtime resident teacher, Geshe Ngawang Dakpa, gives an explanation of the crucial importance and understanding of how to skillfully navigate these concerns.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche states:
Saturday, July 2, 2022
10:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Presented via Zoom
Registration is required
Program Description:
The eight worldly concerns or Dharmas ('jig-rten-pa'i chos-brgyad) are about the eight transitory things in life. These concerns are listed in 4 pairs: 1) Praise or criticism; 2) Hearing good or bad news; 3) Gains or losses; and 4) Things going well or poorly. When we become disturbed, upset, or uncomfortable with them we can feel overly excited when experiencing the first of each pair, and overly depressed when experiencing the second. Join us as Tse Chen Ling’s longtime resident teacher, Geshe Ngawang Dakpa, gives an explanation of the crucial importance and understanding of how to skillfully navigate these concerns.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche states:
No matter how much we know about emptiness, the chakras or controlling our vital energy through kundalini yoga, it’s all pointless without this crucial understanding of how to practice Dharma, how to correct our actions. There are vast numbers of people who delude themselves and waste their entire life studying the most esoteric aspects of Buddhism but never understand the most fundamental point, the distinction between Dharma and non-Dharma.
Ven. Stephen Carlier will provide English interpretation of Geshe Dakpa’s teaching, and class will be hosted by Stephen Butler. This class is offered in collaboration with Land of Medicine Buddha.
About Geshe Ngawang Dakpa:
Geshe Ngawang Dakpa served as a resident teacher at Tse Chen Ling. He was born in Nakchu, northeast of Lhasa, Tibet and became a monk at the age of ten. At the local monastery of Othok he studied both Dharma and secular subjects extensively before entering Sera Je Monastery eleven years later. He fled Tibet in 1959. Upon his arrival in India, Geshe-la not only continued his monastic studies, but also spent three years at the Sanskrit University in Varanasi, earning an MA with honors. Invited by the Queen of Sikkim, he taught at the University of Sikkim for nearly 20 years before returning to Sera monastery in South India and obtaining his Geshe degree. Additionally, Geshe-la taught in Taiwan before arriving in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999.
About Geshe Ngawang Dakpa:
Geshe Ngawang Dakpa served as a resident teacher at Tse Chen Ling. He was born in Nakchu, northeast of Lhasa, Tibet and became a monk at the age of ten. At the local monastery of Othok he studied both Dharma and secular subjects extensively before entering Sera Je Monastery eleven years later. He fled Tibet in 1959. Upon his arrival in India, Geshe-la not only continued his monastic studies, but also spent three years at the Sanskrit University in Varanasi, earning an MA with honors. Invited by the Queen of Sikkim, he taught at the University of Sikkim for nearly 20 years before returning to Sera monastery in South India and obtaining his Geshe degree. Additionally, Geshe-la taught in Taiwan before arriving in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999.
Previous topics:
Calm Abiding
August 21 & October 22, 2021 
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Dependent Origination
November 6, 2021 & January 8, 2022 
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Explanation and Oral Transmission of Prayers to Padmasambhava
February 5, 2022 |