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Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master to Teach in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, September 19 and 20, 2007: Tibetan Buddhist master and lineage holder of the Dzogchen tradition, Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche will be giving two public teachings in Tucson on September 19th and 20th. A vibrant and dynamic teacher, Khenpo is recognized for his lucid and direct way of teaching timeless truths to contemporary western audiences. His aspiration for this teaching tour is that all students of Buddhism integrate Buddhist principles and practice into their daily lives, and that those people he meets who have the right karma will come attend retreats at the new Dzogchen Retreat Center USA near Eugene, Oregon so that they can truly learn and go on to transmit the Buddhadharma.
The two Tucson, Arizona events are:
Title: Teaching on Self-Healing with Wisdom Power and Medicine Buddha
Description: In this life we experience both mental and physical suffering. True healing comes when we can face the experience of suffering and illness with courage, while undertaking the causes that yield true wellness and happiness in the future. Tonight, Rinpoche will discuss how, through working with our present moment thinking, we can heal ourselves and others.
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 19, 2007; 7-9 PM
Location: Bookmans Tucson East, 6230 E. Speedway Road, Tucson, AZ 85712
Cost: There is a suggested donation of $20, but no one will be turned away for financial reasons
Event Contact: Betsi Drayman at: 702-219-1191 or
Title: Buddhist Prophecy and the Energy of Five Elements
Description: According to Tibetan Buddhism there is no predestination and no fate, whatsoever. How is it then that one may still make predictions about future events? First, one must understand the nature of thinking and time. Tonight, Rinpoche will discuss these foundational truths along with thinking’s relationship to the five elements of space, wind, fire, water, and earth.
Date & Time: Thursday, September 20, 2007; 7-9 PM
Location: Skin Hygenics, 2626 N. Park Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719
Directions: Skin Hygenics is located between Grant and Glenn on the east side of Park. Look for the bright blue fence with purple decorations. Additional parking is available across the street in the church parking lot.
Cost: There is a suggested donation of $20, but no one will be turned away for financial reasons
Event Contact: Betsi Drayman at: 702-219-1191 or
These teachings are open to the public and part of Khenpo Choga’s Fall 2007 North American Dharma Teaching Tour which will take him to over 45 public teachings in over 27 cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico in just over six weeks. For his complete schedule visit: www.dzogchenlineage.org/schedule.html
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ABOUT KHENPO CHOGA
His Eminence Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche is a 33rd-generation lineage holder of the Buddhist wisdom lineage of Dzogchen, a lama of Dzogchen Monastery, and professor of the Dzogchen Shri Singha University. Rinpoche was born in Tibet, where he began training in Buddhism at the age of five at the Dzogchen Monastery. He studied and taught for ten years at the Dzogchen Shri Singha Five Sciences University and meditated for seven years in high Himalayan caves under difficult conditions. He embodies the qualities of an erudite scholar and a realized practitioner while training thousands of students in more than forty countries around the world. An author of several books in Tibetan, Khenpo Choga’s English practice book The Buddha Path is being published in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Russian and German.
More: www.dzogchenlineage.org/masters.html
ABOUT THE DZOGCHEN LINEAGE OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM
The teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni have been studied, transmitted, and protected unwaveringly up to the present day by the masters of the Dzogchen Lineage. Dzogchen literally means “Great Inclusion” and synthesizes the entirety of the Buddha’s teaching in a vast collection of teachings in 84,000 sutras and 6,400,000 tantras. In its broadest sense, the Dzogchen Lineage refers to the limitless expanse and continuous wisdom of Vast Awakening, the Buddha Nature which is the natural enlightened lineage of wisdom and compassion that exists in the mind of every single sentient being. The intention of all Dzogchen Masters is to help all beings increase positive thinking while transforming anger into peace, hatred into compassion, jealousy into love, ignorance into wisdom, fear into bliss, stinginess into generosity, and suffering into true happiness—the enlightenment of vast awakening.
More: www.dzogchenlineage.org
ABOUT THE DZOGCHEN RETREAT CENTER USA
The new Dzogchen Retreat Center USA, acquired in May 2007, is located in a secluded river valley of the Coastal Range of Western Oregon, with the closest major city being Eugene. The varied landscape contains forested rolling hills, several meadows, a river, two creeks and ponds. Improvements include miles of private graveled roads, hiking trails, bridges, agricultural fencing, the large main Dzogchen Gonpa building, numerous agricultural buildings and a large area that was developed as a 42-unit campground by a previous owner.
The goal behind the Retreat Center has been to establish a permanent Dharma Base facility where all people can eradicate the roots of suffering in this world which are negative thinking and destructive emotions. Bringing ancient wisdom to the modern world, the Retreat Center is implementing programs that will be instrumental in training this and future generations in the Tibetan Buddhist methods that increase personal happiness, foster social harmony, and thus plant the seeds for world peace.
Along with training teachers and students in a direct, one-on-one setting, the Retreat Center is also developing a major translation initiative. A copy of the entire Tibetan Buddhist canon containing over 370 volumes with thousands of individual texts is now housed at the Center. The translation project intends to convey all these teachings from Tibetan into the English language.
More: www.dzogchenlineage.org/drc
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