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Latest Event at Gyuto Vajrayana Center - Updated 3 June 2008(Saka Dawa) Month of Buddha's Birth Water Bowl Offerings Wednesday, June 4 - 18 at 6 pm -7 pmSaturday, June 7 at 6 pm -7 pm Venerable Gyuto monks will be offering prayers for the victims of the recent earthquakes in China, as well as the cyclone in Burma. We are requesting all our members and friends join us in prayer with the venerable monks at the Gyuto Center. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has also asked all his followers to both pray and to offer help to the victims and their families in China and Burma. Dr. Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D.Official Translator of His Holiness the Dalai LamaTibetan Mind TrainingSunday - June 29, 2008 - 2 pm - 4 pm at Santa Clara Convention Center, Room J 5001 Great America Pkwy Santa Clara, CA 95054
Dr. Thupten Jinpa has been a principal English translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama since 1985. He was born in Tibet in 1958 and trained as a monk at Zongkar Chode Monastery in southern India. He later joined the monastic university at Ganden Shartse College where he received the highest academic degree of Geshe Lharam (equivalent to a doctorate in divinity) and taught Buddhist epistemology, metaphysics, Middle Way philosophy, and Buddhist psychology. Dr. Jinpa also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Western Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, both from Cambridge University, UK, where he also worked as a research fellow for three years.
Friday, July 4 - 6 at 5.30 am 5 pm Nyung-Ney (Fasting Retreat) is an intensive practice to purify obscurations and negativities and accumulate merits. A Nyung-Nye retreat consist of taking the 8 Mahayana precepts, reciting praises and prayers to Avalokiteshavara, the Buddha of Compassion (Chenrezig) and making offerings and prostrations. This is one of the most common practice in all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Space is limited, so please register by email: info@gyutocenter.org or call (408)-926 9430 Please log on our website for more information. Thank you. Ven. Thupten Donyo ********************************************************* May all sentient beings have happiness and its causes. May all sentient beings be free from suffering and its causes. May all sentient beings never be separated from sorrowless bliss. May all sentient beings abide in equanimity free of bias, attachment and anger. Gyuto Vajrayana Center 1439 Old Piedmont Rd. San Jose, CA 95132 Tel: (408) 926 9430 Fax: (408) 272 1275 Email: gyutovc@aol.com Website: http://www.gyutocenter.org For all past events, please Click Here to read them. ********************************************************* Note: All the above events are published are for information basis. It is not in any way related or affiliated with our website. If you are interested in attending or finding out more, please contact the above website or email to the above email address. |
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