Saturdays with Geshe Ngawang Dakpa
Current Topic:
Commentary on Seven-Point Mind Training
Saturdays: May 6, June 3, August 5 & October 7, 2023 / 2024-January 2025
10:00am - 12:00pm PT
Via Zoom / Registration required
Ven. Stephen Carlier will provide English interpretation of Geshe Dakota's teaching, and class will be hosted by Stephen Butler.
This class is offered in collaboration with Land of Medicine Buddha.
Saturdays: May 6, June 3, August 5 & October 7, 2023 / 2024-January 2025
10:00am - 12:00pm PT
Via Zoom / Registration required
Ven. Stephen Carlier will provide English interpretation of Geshe Dakota's teaching, and class will be hosted by Stephen Butler.
This class is offered in collaboration with Land of Medicine Buddha.
Program Description:
Join us as Geshe Ngawang Dakpa will provide a commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training, compiled by and attributed to Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (འཆད་ཁ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ།, b.1101 - d.1175). Seven-Point Mind Training is one of the core texts of the lo-jong (“mind-training”) tradition, “...a specific approach to cultivating the awakened mind. That approach entails a disciplined process for radically transforming our thoughts and prejudices from natural self-centeredness to other-centered altruism.” (from Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training; The Great Collection.) Geshe-la will be giving his commentary on the basis of the Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo’s (ཕ་བོང་ཁ ༠༢ བདེ་ཆེན་སྙིང་པོ།, b.1878 - d.1941) edition of the root text.
As with previous dates in this series, Geshe-la will move through the text slowly, using as many dates of the class as needed to complete the text.
About Geshe Ngawang Dakpa:
Geshe Ngawang Dakpa was born in 1932 in Nakchu, northeast of Lhasa, Tibet, and became a monk at the age of ten. At his 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, where he served as a resident teacher at Tse Chen Ling for more than 20 years.
Join us as Geshe Ngawang Dakpa will provide a commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training, compiled by and attributed to Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (འཆད་ཁ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ།, b.1101 - d.1175). Seven-Point Mind Training is one of the core texts of the lo-jong (“mind-training”) tradition, “...a specific approach to cultivating the awakened mind. That approach entails a disciplined process for radically transforming our thoughts and prejudices from natural self-centeredness to other-centered altruism.” (from Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training; The Great Collection.) Geshe-la will be giving his commentary on the basis of the Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo’s (ཕ་བོང་ཁ ༠༢ བདེ་ཆེན་སྙིང་པོ།, b.1878 - d.1941) edition of the root text.
As with previous dates in this series, Geshe-la will move through the text slowly, using as many dates of the class as needed to complete the text.
About Geshe Ngawang Dakpa:
Geshe Ngawang Dakpa was born in 1932 in Nakchu, northeast of Lhasa, Tibet, and became a monk at the age of ten. At his 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, where he served as a resident teacher at Tse Chen Ling for more than 20 years.
Registration:
Advanced registration is required – please make sure to register for each session you’d like to attend on a class-by-class basis. Once you register, the Zoom link will be included on your registration ticket/receipt.
We offer all Dharma teachings and center events on a “dana” basis. This means we’re grateful for your generosity but there is no required cost to attend and no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested donation amounts are provided, and we welcome you to offer what you can to help us sustain our programming and make the dharma and events like this possible. And of course, ordained sangha (ordained nuns and monks) are always welcome free of charge.
If you're not donating at this time but would like to attend, please email [email protected].
Advanced registration is required – please make sure to register for each session you’d like to attend on a class-by-class basis. Once you register, the Zoom link will be included on your registration ticket/receipt.
We offer all Dharma teachings and center events on a “dana” basis. This means we’re grateful for your generosity but there is no required cost to attend and no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested donation amounts are provided, and we welcome you to offer what you can to help us sustain our programming and make the dharma and events like this possible. And of course, ordained sangha (ordained nuns and monks) are always welcome free of charge.
If you're not donating at this time but would like to attend, please email [email protected].
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