Green Tara Intensive
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Green Tara is the manifestation of power, courage, and action — she is known as the liberator from all the fears in samsara. By meditating on her, and identifying with her, we manifest those very qualities in ourselves: we become our own Tara. This is the essence of the psychology of tantra.
We usually identify with our fears, anxiety, depression, and the rest, believing they are who we really are and that we’re stuck with them. But we’re not.
We can totally transform ourselves by consciously identifying our sense of self in terms of our beauty, courage, compassion, and the other marvelous qualities that are at the core of our being.
Join Ven. Robina Courtin in this one-day intensive retreat focusing on the practice of Green Tara in the framework of the three principal aspects of the path: renunciation, bodhicitta, and emptiness.
All are invited, no initiation required. Welcome to attend one or both sessions in this all-day retreat.
About Venerable Robina Courtin
Venerable Robina Courtin is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.Ordained since the late 1970s, Ven. Robina has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life and work with prisoners have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom. Visit her website here for more on her life and activities.
We usually identify with our fears, anxiety, depression, and the rest, believing they are who we really are and that we’re stuck with them. But we’re not.
We can totally transform ourselves by consciously identifying our sense of self in terms of our beauty, courage, compassion, and the other marvelous qualities that are at the core of our being.
Join Ven. Robina Courtin in this one-day intensive retreat focusing on the practice of Green Tara in the framework of the three principal aspects of the path: renunciation, bodhicitta, and emptiness.
All are invited, no initiation required. Welcome to attend one or both sessions in this all-day retreat.
About Venerable Robina Courtin
Venerable Robina Courtin is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.Ordained since the late 1970s, Ven. Robina has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life and work with prisoners have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom. Visit her website here for more on her life and activities.
WOMEN OF WISDOM
Celebrating the Living Legacy of Buddhist Women
Over the course of a year, Women of Wisdom: Celebrating the Living Legacy of Buddhist Women will highlight and celebrate women teachers and practitioners in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The programs in this series spotlight the history and impact of women in Buddhism and share the wisdom stewarded by a range of female lineage holders, teachers, scholars, monastics, and lay practitioners.
The series coincides with the 35th anniversary of the founding, by two women, of Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies in San Francisco. Women of Wisdom: Celebrating the Living Legacy of Buddhist Women hopes to contribute to ongoing efforts to support global programming featuring female Buddhist teachers and scholars and presenting topics of importance to women on the Buddhist path.
Celebrating the Living Legacy of Buddhist Women
Over the course of a year, Women of Wisdom: Celebrating the Living Legacy of Buddhist Women will highlight and celebrate women teachers and practitioners in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The programs in this series spotlight the history and impact of women in Buddhism and share the wisdom stewarded by a range of female lineage holders, teachers, scholars, monastics, and lay practitioners.
The series coincides with the 35th anniversary of the founding, by two women, of Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies in San Francisco. Women of Wisdom: Celebrating the Living Legacy of Buddhist Women hopes to contribute to ongoing efforts to support global programming featuring female Buddhist teachers and scholars and presenting topics of importance to women on the Buddhist path.
Registration:
Advanced registration is required.
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.
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