Two-day teaching by Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche

Date

31st May & 1st June 2008, 10:00am - 12:30pm & 2:00pm to 4:30pm

Venue

Xavier Hall, ASHIRVAD, #30, St Marks Road Cross, Opposite SBI, St Marks Road, Bangalore

Description

Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche will give a practical overview on how to practice in various yanas (vehicles) towards enlightenment and how to progress from one vehicle to another to speed up the journey as one sharpens the faculties and develops conviction through lower vehicles. The teaching would provide an overview of the three sutric vehicles of Sravakayana, Pratyekabuddhayana, Bodhisatvayana and the six vajra (tantric) vehicles of Kriya-tantra, Ubhaya-tantra, Yoga-tantra, Mahayoga, Anuyoga and Atiyoga.

About the Teacher

Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche (Khenpo Guru) is a distinguished lama of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, and one of the three senior Khenchens overseeing the education at Ngagyur Nyingma Institute of Namdroling Monastery in Bylakkuppe. He is a great scholar and practitioner authorized by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche to give personal instructions to disciples. He received recognition from His Holiness Dalai Lama for his Buddhist Scholarship during his studies at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Saranath. He received all the major lineage transmissions of the Nyingma tradition from HH Dudjom Rinpoche, HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and HH Penor Rinpoche. Khenchen Rinpoche speaks good English and had been teaching extensively in America and Asian countries. He is affectionately known among his disciples as ˜Khenpo Guru".