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Exploring Buddhism

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Schedule for 2022

​Exploring Common Prayers and Practices
with Ven. Lozang Yönten and 
Gen Don Handrick


Tuesdays
September 6 - December 13, 2022

6:00pm - 7:30pm Pacific


​Online via Zoom / Register here

Class syllabus
​Reading list

How to register: You can register online by clicking on the class title. Course fees are based on a suggested donation for each class with a discount if the series is paid in full on first class. There are also options to sponsor the class; this helps cover our ongoing costs as well as making it possible to offer free registration to those with financial hardship. Platinum level members are entitled to a free DB module each year.

Your generous donation helps to keep programs like this going. No one turned away for lack of funds.

About the FPMT Exploring ​Buddhism Program:
Exploring Buddhism is a new program currently being developed by FPMT to serve as a bridge between Discovering Buddhism and the Basic Program. It is designed to help students of Buddhism delve more deeply into a broad array of topics that form a solid foundation for furthering one’s study and practice. The program will initially be run as a pilot program in FPMT centers to further test and refine the curriculum.
Prerequisites:
Previous study of at least some modules of Discovering Buddhism, either in a center or online, is highly recommended before enrolling in this program. Students are welcome to review the class syllabus for more information on topics that will be covered. ​

Exploring Buddhism Teachers:

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About Ven. Lozang Yönten
Ven. Lozang Yönten is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003. Her (merely labeled) pronouns are she/her and she is a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition.

Buddhist since her teenage years, Ven. Yönten moved to Chenrezig Institute in QLD, Australia when she was 19 and studied intensively under Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering (Lharampa Geshe from Sera Je Monastery and former Abbot of Gyü-me Tantric College) for seven years, completing their Buddhist Studies Program (including FPMT’s Basic Program as well as other advanced topics) and retreats.

She then continued to study, retreat and offer service at Dharma Centers in India and Taiwan as well as Australia and New Zealand, becoming an In-Depth Registered Teacher within the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)in 2012.

Ven. Yönten was then the Resident Teacher of Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia from 2012 – 2015 and then at Mahamudra Centre for Universal Unity in New Zealand until 2018. She continues to offer classes and retreats at both Centres annually (unless there is a global pandemic). 

Ven. Yönten also offers Buddhist classes 4–5 months a year in Israel. With FPMT’s Shantideva Study Group and also, from a secular perspective, for a seven-year postgraduate program called Human Spirit which is a Buddhist Psychoanalytic Training Program.

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​About Gen Don Handrick
Don Handrick is a touring teacher for the FPMT, sharing the Dharma with centers and study groups in North America and other parts of the world, both in-person and online. From 2006 through 2020, he served as the resident teacher at Thubten Norbu Ling, in Santa Fe, NM. During that time, he also taught regularly at Ksitigarbha Tibetan Buddhist Center in Taos, NM, and volunteered for the Liberation Prison Project, teaching Buddhism once a month at a prison in nearby Santa Rosa. Beginning in 2016, Don became a touring teacher for half of each year, visiting and teaching at other centers around the world. Since 2012 he has been an active member of the Interfaith Leadership Alliance of Santa Fe.

Don has received teachings from many esteemed lamas in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Ribur Rinpoche, Choden Rinpoche, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. In 1998 he attended the FPMT's Masters Program of Buddhist Studies in Sutra and Tantra, a seven-year residential study program conducted at Lama Tzong Khapa Institute in Tuscany, Italy. He successfully completed all five subjects of this program in 2004, receiving an FPMT final certificate with high honors.  In 2015, he had the honor of being selected to lead the renowned November Course, a one month teaching and meditation retreat held annually at Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal.

This program is being offered jointly by:
  • ​​​​Ksitigarbha Tibetan Buddhist Center (Taos, NM)​
  • ​Osel Shen Phen Ling (Missoula, MT)​​
  • ​​Thubten Norbu Ling (Santa Fe, NM)​​​
  • Tse Chen Ling (San Francisco, CA)

Past Courses:

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Exploring the Mind
with Gen Don Handrick
September 7 - October 12, 2021
Class syllabus

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Exploring Meditation
with Gen Don Handrick
Nov 2 - Dec 14, 2021

Class syllabus

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Exploring the Truths
with Gen Don Handrick
January 4 - February 22, 2022
Class syllabus

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​Exploring the Path
with Gen Don Handrick
March 15 - April 26, 2022
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Class syllabus
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Exploring Mind Training
with Gen Don Handrick
May 17 - July 5, 2022
​Class syllabus

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Exploring Common Prayers and Practices
with
Ven. Lozang Yönten and 
Gen Don Handrick
Sept 6 - Dec 13, 2022
​Class syllabus

Location

​302 Jules Ave.
​San Francisco, CA 94112

About 

Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies is a Dharma Center dedicated to cultivating compassion and wisdom. Inspired by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, we provide teachings and practices in the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhist tradition. We offer meditation and a wide-range of Buddhist and secular programs as well as other basic life improvement classes. We are a 501c3 non-profit organization located in the Ingleside neighborhood of San Francisco.

Contact 

[email protected]
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