Berkeley Open Teaching: Love in Times of Hate
With Pema Khandro
February 24, 2017
Explore a Buddhist perspective on love and compassion during the era of the mainstreaming of hate-speech. This evening is a public teaching open to the public, held at the MahaSiddha Center in Berkeley California. Taught by Tibetan Buddhist teacher and scholar, Lama Pema Khandro Rinpoche.
The evening will begin with the performance of a Tibetan Dance of Vajrakilaya – by students in the Buddhist Yogis sangha. This dance is a ritual practice and prayer for the transformation of aggression into compassion and the transformation of anger into clarity. It is performed on the eve of the Tibetan New Year in order to clear negative karma and obstacles.
Following the dances will be an lecture and discussion on Tibetan Buddhist principles for transforming aggression and discovering decisive clarity which loving and powerful at the same time.
Leader
Pema Khandro is an internationally renowned teacher and scholar of Buddhist philosophy. Ordained in the Nyingma lineage, enthroned as a tulku, and trained as an academic, her teachings celebrate the dynamic coalescence of tradition and the modern context. She is the founder of Ngakpa International and its three projects: The Buddhist Studies Institute, Dakini Mountain and the Yogic Medicine Institute. In her work as a Buddhist teacher she is an authorized Lama and lineage holder of the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions and was enthroned to carry on the lineage of her predecessor, the first Pema Khandro, an early twentieth century…
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