We are honored to host Tibetan Buddhist Monk
Venerable Geshe Thubten Sherab
Three Days of Teaching:
Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
Saturday, Feb. 21st, 10 am - 4 pm
(Vegetarian potluck planned 12-2 pm.)
Sunday, Feb. 22nd, 12 pm-3 pm
Also on Sunday
The Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta
Sunday, Feb. 22nd, 3 pm - 4 pm
The Practice of 1000-Arm Chenrezig & Eight Verses of Thought Transformation Tibetan root text by Langri Tangpa Dorje Senghe.
Text translated and practice composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
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Transforming the Mind:
Remaining Happy in Spite of Circumstances
Friday Feb. 20th, 7 pm-8:30 pm
Free Public Talk
This mind training (lo-jong) root text was composed by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa (1054–1123). The verses were translated by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, 1980.
Composed by the Buddhist Master Langri Tangpa (1054-1123), Eight Verses for Training the Mind is a highly-revered text from the Mahayana Lojong (mind training) tradition. These instructions offer essential practices for cultivating the awakening mind of compassion, wisdom, and love.
This eight-verse lojong enshrines the very heart of Dharma, revealing the true essence of the Mahayana path to liberation. By way of these treasured practices we eliminate our competitive, selfish, and reactive nature, as well as our false and exaggerated concepts of self (also called self-grasping and self-cherishing). Therefore, these precious lojong practices can purify our misperceptions and delusions completely, revealing the natural radiance, clarity, wisdom, and compassion of our true nature. H.H. the Dalai Lama refers to this work as one of the main sources of his own inspiration and includes it in his daily meditations.
Composed by the Buddhist Master Langri Tangpa (1054-1123), Eight Verses for Training the Mind is a highly-revered text from the Mahayana Lojong (mind training) tradition. These instructions offer essential practices for cultivating the awakening mind of compassion, wisdom, and love.
This eight-verse lojong enshrines the very heart of Dharma, revealing the true essence of the Mahayana path to liberation. By way of these treasured practices we eliminate our competitive, selfish, and reactive nature, as well as our false and exaggerated concepts of self (also called self-grasping and self-cherishing). Therefore, these precious lojong practices can purify our misperceptions and delusions completely, revealing the natural radiance, clarity, wisdom, and compassion of our true nature. H.H. the Dalai Lama refers to this work as one of the main sources of his own inspiration and includes it in his daily meditations.
Geshe Sherab was born in Manang, Nepal in 1967 as the second of 5 sons. He attended Kopan monastery at the age of 9 in around 1976/1977 and was ordained by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche and given the ordained name as Thubten Sherab.
After 10 years of study in Kopan, he went to Sera Je Monastery for further studies in 1987, and graduated as Geshe at the end of 1999. After that he joined Gyume Tantric College for a year. Then he taught young monks at Kopan for a year.
In 2001 he was sent by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to New Mexico to serve and help at the International Office of FPMT as well as teach at TNL in Santa Fe and Ksiti Garba Center in Taos as resident teacher. He also served as a Board member of FPMT for 2 years during that period. By the end of 2003 in December he returned back to Nepal to do his own practices. In 2006 he was appointed as Head Master of Kopan monastery and he served Kopan in that position for 4 years till he resigned in the beginning of 2010. Than he served at Kopan as acting Abbot for a year in 2011 when their late Guru Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundup got sick.
He has been teaching at Kopan during meditation courses as well as traveling and teaching around the world, in the US, Canada, many parts of Europe, Asia, Mexico, Guatemala and Australia.
After 10 years of study in Kopan, he went to Sera Je Monastery for further studies in 1987, and graduated as Geshe at the end of 1999. After that he joined Gyume Tantric College for a year. Then he taught young monks at Kopan for a year.
In 2001 he was sent by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to New Mexico to serve and help at the International Office of FPMT as well as teach at TNL in Santa Fe and Ksiti Garba Center in Taos as resident teacher. He also served as a Board member of FPMT for 2 years during that period. By the end of 2003 in December he returned back to Nepal to do his own practices. In 2006 he was appointed as Head Master of Kopan monastery and he served Kopan in that position for 4 years till he resigned in the beginning of 2010. Than he served at Kopan as acting Abbot for a year in 2011 when their late Guru Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundup got sick.
He has been teaching at Kopan during meditation courses as well as traveling and teaching around the world, in the US, Canada, many parts of Europe, Asia, Mexico, Guatemala and Australia.
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