By Yönten, on August 14th, 2010%
Toronto’s Khenpo Sonam Topgyal Rinpoche will be bestowing Guhyagarbha teachings at the Blazing Wisdom Institute in New York State this autumn. Here is the info from Blazing Wisdom’s site:
Teachings on The Guhyagarbha Tantra with Khenpo Sonam Topgyal Rinpoche
Khensur Rinpoche Sonam Topgyal, senior Khenpo of Riwoche Monastery, . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on October 26th, 2009%
The Tibetan Cultural Centre in Etobicoke hosted this event on September 23, 24 and 25, 2009.
www.maitreyaproject.org
Cristian Cowan, who is travelling with the exhibition, is keeping an excellent blog full of interesting facts . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on October 11th, 2009%
Here are some links to information about His Holiness’ recent visit to Montréal. Sorry I wasn’t able to post them before . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on August 22nd, 2009%
The first time I met Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was in the Montreal Zen Centre on Versailles Street in Pointe-St-Charles, in 1969.
Trungpa had just arrived from Samye Monastery in Scotland after having given up his vows. He wore a beige suit with a . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on July 16th, 2009%
Here’s a great video about Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, celebrating the 50th anniversary of his parinirvana, from a great blog called “Remembering . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on July 2nd, 2009%
Thrangu Rinpoche, one of the great living Vajrayana masters, will visit Canada this summer:
Aug. 12 – 14
Ottawa, Canada
Teaching: Seven Points of Mind Training of Atisha
Program: August 13 – 14
(Contact details to be posted)
Aug. 15 – 25
Toronto, Canada
KTZL Toronto Thrangu Centre
Aug.18-21 – Teaching on The Hundred Verses of Advice
Aug. . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on June 22nd, 2009%
Recently began to converse on Facebook with Chagdud Tulku’s lineage in Uruguay.
Their web address is http://pt.chagdud.org/en/
Their sister site of Tibetan music may also be of . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on June 12th, 2009%
With tickets still available, Calgarians have a chance to secure a seat at “connect NOW” for the historic address from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama when he visits the city this fall for the first time in nearly 30 years.
Tickets for connect NOW, . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on June 12th, 2009%
The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education is honoured to host His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Vancouver, September 26-29, 2009 for the Vancouver Peace Summit: Nobel Laureates in Dialogue. Joining the Dalai Lama will be Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other Nobel Laureates: . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on March 25th, 2009%
Sumeru has it here! Check out our “Ephemera” page . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on March 10th, 2009%
When Panchen Otrul Rinpoche returned to Toronto from Lindsay, he bestowed the Yamantaka initiation. Since the hall at Tengye Ling was too small for the event, a room was rented on the top floor of the Library Sciences tower in Robarts Library on the U of . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on March 10th, 2009%
In 1992, Panchen Otrul Rinpoche visited Toronto. He gave a number of teachings and initiations at Tengye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple and was then heading off to Lindsay to visit a number of Tibetan families who lived there. I volunteered to drive him and . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on March 7th, 2009%
In 1972, Piyadassi Mahathera visited the Zen Meditation Centre of Montreal, to give a series of two afternoon lectures on a summer week-end.
The centre was housed in a former estate home on Mountain Street above Pine Avenue. Public lectures were . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on March 4th, 2009%
The first time I met Samu Sunim, he was living in a very sparsely furnished walk-up apartment on l’Avenue du Parc near the mountain in Montréal. It was 1969 and I was 18 years old. Eastern religion was sweeping the west. I had . . . Read More.
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