The Sun Behind the Clouds is a powerful documentary on . . . Read More.]]> “The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom”: at the 2011 Amnesty International Film Festival, Vancouver
Friday November 18, at 7:15pm, at SFU Harbour Centre – 515 West Hastings Street – Room 1900

The Sun Behind the Clouds is a powerful documentary on the Tibetan struggle, made by the award winning filmmaking duo Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam.
Canada Tibet Committee is delighted that this film will be screened along with a host of other compelling films. The film festival runs from Nov 17 to 20.
Mati Bernabei, of Canada Tibet Committee, will introduce The Sun Behind the Clouds.
Amnesty Film Festival program and ticket purchase information:http://www.amnestyfilmfest.ca/vancouver.html

Description of “The Sun Behind the Clouds”
Film by Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam / India-UK / 2009 / 79m
50 years have passed since the fall of Tibet. In March 2008, the biggest uprising since China took control, spreads across the Tibetan Plateau. Exile Tibetans in India march on their homeland, convinced that this is the only action they can take to support their countrymen. There is a huge groundswell of international sympathy for Tibet. This is a year of dramatic possibilities. Can the Dalai Lama’s strategy of non-violence and compromise finally make a breakthrough in his efforts to resolve the Tibet issue and silence the growing voices of dissent among his own people?

The film explores the interplay between the personal and the historic, spirituality and politics, and the tension between the Dalai Lama’s efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Tibet situation based on compromise and dialogue, and the impatience of a younger generation of Tibetans who are ready to take a more confrontational course.

Film website: http://thesunbehindtheclouds.com/
Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi175376153/

Here’s the web poster:

For full info, follow this link: A Day in . . . Read More.]]> “A Day in Tibet”, Montreal’s annual Tibetan bazaar is happening later this month – and this year it’s TWO days, since it has become so popular.

Here’s the web poster:

For full info, follow this link: A Day in Tibet

“Of the profound and inexhaustible ocean of teachings that Guru Padmasambhava possessed, Vajrakilaya is one of the most important. Its empowerment, teachings and pith instructions were given to one . . . Read More.]]> HH Sakya Trizin will bestow the
Vajrakilaya Empowerment and Teachings
Vancouver, BC
August 19-20, 2011

“Of the profound and inexhaustible ocean of teachings that Guru Padmasambhava possessed, Vajrakilaya is one of the most important. Its empowerment, teachings and pith instructions were given to one of his most important spiritual disciples, Khön Nagendra Rakshita (Lü’i Wangpo Sungwa), who then practised it until he achieved both ordinary and supreme siddhis. As a sign of his great attainment, he managed to display the great miracle of keeping his vajra and bell suspended in space. Guru Padmasambhava himself declared that Nagendra Rakshita had attained the eighth stage of the great bodhisattva path…” His Holiness Sakya Trizin

For information and registration, please visit:
www.sakyatsechenthubtenling.org/kila/index.html

Sakya Tsechen Thubten Ling
5231 Maple Road, Richmond, BC, V7E 1G2
604-275-5506
E-Mail: vancouver.vajrakilaya@gmail.com

For information about other Sakya Trizin events in Canada, view our other Sumeru posts on this subject.

Read it HERE.

For more information about the events (and to register when that portion of the website goes live), please visit:

RIMEY LAMA CHOPA, composed by Kyapje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910 -1991) was the archetype of a spiritual teacher, someone whose inner journey led him to an extraordinary depth of knowledge and enabled him to . . . Read More.]]> Coming very soon from The Sumeru Press…

RIMEY LAMA CHOPA, composed by Kyapje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910 -1991) was the archetype of a spiritual teacher, someone whose inner journey led him to an extraordinary depth of knowledge and enabled him to be, for whoever met him, a fountain of loving kindness, wisdom and compassion. To achieve these extraordinary qualities, Khyentse Rinpoche spent more than twenty years in retreat, in remote hermitages and caves. After and in between his retreats, Khyentse Rinpoche worked constantly for the benefi t of all living beings with tireless energy. He became one of the main teachers of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, of the Royal Family of Bhutan, and of countless disciples. He was thus a master among masters.

While his personal practice was centered upon the Nyingma tradition, he was deeply committed to receive, preserve and transmit the teachings from all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He was not just paying lip service, but was deeply concerned by the need to prevent rare transmissions from becoming extinct and greatly saddened when realizing that the lineage for the transmission of certain texts and empowerments was about to vanish. His knowledge of the enormous range of Tibetan Buddhist literature was probably unparalleled, and he inherited Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo’s determination to preserve and make available texts of all traditions, particularly those in danger of disappearing. It is therefore understandable that Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, at the request of Kyapje Trulshik Rinpoche, wrote a complete set of prayers, praises and Offering to the Masters of the lineage of the Eight Great Chariots of Accomplishments, integrated in a single text known as “Invoking The Nectar Of Wisdom: Prayers, Praises and Offering [inspired by] the Remembrance of the Assembly of Supreme Beings from the Various Lineages of the Muni’s Teachings”. The present Rimey Lama Chopa is that text.

We are very grateful to Glenn Mullin to have taken upon himself the task of translating this ritual into English, thus making it available for the fi rst time to countless practitioners around the world. His poetic translation was first used on the most auspicious occasion of celebrating the 100th anniversary of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s birth, in February 2010, at Shechen Monastery in Nepal where over a hundred masters from the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism together with foreign disciples from twenty five countries gathered for three days, practicing the Rimey Lama Chopa. Similarly, we thank the Venerable Matthieu Ricard, one of Dilgo Khyentse’s closest students, for writing a wonderful foreword to the text and providing a variety of personal photos from the Shechen Archive. We are equally grateful to the Chicago Rimey Dharma Center and Roberto Sanchez to have made the request for this translation.

May it be dedicated to the temporary and ultimate benefit of all beings, and the long life of all the great masters of all lineages, more especially to those of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi, Orgyen Tendzin Jigme Lhundrup and His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of all Tibetans, who more than anyone in this century has succeeded in having the Rimey perspective and pure views not only towards all schools of Tibetan Buddhism but towards all major religions at large. May this be widely accepted as the norm by all genuine practitioners.

To register as a volunteer, please contact:

Jessica . . . Read More.]]> Registration for volunteers at the retreat led by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh and associated lecture in August, 2011, in Vancouver, will be managed by two of his Vancouver sangha members, Justin Loveless and Jeanie Seward Magee.

To register as a volunteer, please contact:

Jessica Main
Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Chair,
Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program
http://ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com/

University of British Columbia
C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2
jessica.main@ubc.ca
Tel: (604) 822-9305
Fax: (604) 822-5207

This exegesis of the pivotal events of Buddha’s enlightenment, from the . . . Read More.]]> We are pleased to announce Sumeru’s forthcoming publication of “REBIRTH as a basis for the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths” by renowned Canadian Buddhist scholar and activist, Dr. Suwanda Sugunasiri.

This exegesis of the pivotal events of Buddha’s enlightenment, from the point of view of his retelling of the unfolding experience of his meditation, focuses on the centrality of rebirth in the Buddhist understanding of being.

The work will be available initially as an eBook. Digital print-on-demand hard and soft cover editions (8″ x 8″, 36 pages) will follow.