Winter 2010-2011 season
The new season's winter program is really coming together and you will find below some proposed courses and retreats scheduled. Some of them are still to be confirmed regarding dates so keep in touch as we finalise the details.
We hope to see you all at Root Institute for another inspiring season in the holiest place on earth, Bodhgaya India.
Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (24th Chapter of the Mulamadhyamakakarika)
1st - 7th January, 2011
We are pleased to welcome Geshe Dorje Damdul - one of the official translators of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama , deputy director of Tibet House in Delhi, and a popular and respected teacher, particularly for his teachings on emptiness. Geshe-la will teach from the 24th Chapter of the Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way) by Nagarjuna, which analyses the Four Noble Truths with a focus on emptiness.
The Heart Sutra: Nature of Reality
2nd – 8th December, 2010
With a pilgrimage to Vulture's Peak on the 8th - Where the Buddha first taught the Heart Sutra!
Glen is a graduate of FPMT's Masters Program, who has completed the philosophical studies and the lam-rim retreat.
Glen Svensson was born and bred in Ipswich (Australia). Attained a BSc in IT at the University of Queensland. After four years working in Brisbane, spent the next eight years working and travelling around the world.
"Having 'bumped' into Buddhism during my travels (I read a book about Buddhism and it seemed so logical and many things resonated extremely well with my innate beliefs), I attended my first Dharma teaching in Dharamsala, India in 1995 and after completing the two following Kopan November courses in Kathmandu, Nepal, went on to enrol in the Masters Program at the Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in Tuscany, Italy in 1998."
Glen is one of the most popular Western teachers around and has done extensive courses both at Tushita in Dharamsala and here at Root Institute in Bodhgaya. Glen's students always say they get so much out of his courses due to his straight forward, simple to understand approach.
INSIGHT MEDITATION
21 days with Ven. Antonio Satta
Seven days: Shamata
Seven days:Four Foundations of Mindfullness
Five days: An Approach to the Practice of Mahamudra
CONFIRMED DATES FOR FEBRUARY 2011:
8th to the 28th February
Venerable Antonio Satta, from Italy, has been ordained as a Buddhist monk for 31 years. Ven. Antonio has studied Buddhism and Tibetan language extensively from various Tibetan Masters. He practiced Vipassana meditation in Sri Lanka at Kanduboda Insight Meditation Centre (in the Mahasi Sayadaw Burmese tradition) and at the Island Hermitage in Dondanduwa, South Sri Lanka. Over the last 12 years he has been concentrating on leading Vipassana and Basic Mahamudra retreats around the world. Due to his many years of experience teaching and leading retreats, Ven. Antonio is one of the most respected and sought-after teachers in the FPMT. Root Institute is pleased to host this special opportunity for students to learn under Ven. Antonio’s experienced, skilful guidance.
Applicants need to have had some introductory courses as a minimum prerequisite - not brand new to buddhism.
Click here to learn more about 'The Purpose of Vipassana'
- Registration now open!
VEN. KHANGSER RINPOCHE
The Three Principles of the Path
DATES TO BE CONFIRMED
Khangser Rinpoche, a
great Tibetan scholar and yogi, serves as a spiritual teacher in Sera Jey monastic university in South India, teaching Buddhist philosophy to
several hundreds of monks and novice of the monastic university. He also teaches in monasteries in Dharmsala and Nepal and also to the Indian people.
This young Tibetan Lama
completed his Geshe Lharam (Ph. D in Buddhism) as a topper amongst the top division in 2002. Khangser RInpoche speaks fluent English which will make this course even more amazing. Please keep in touch for more details and confirmed dates as they come to hand.
OTHER TEACHERS WILL INCLUDE: dates and topics to be confirmed.
Jimi Neal
James (Jimi, Jigme) Neal was born in Trieste Italy in 1948, and grew up near Seattle, USA. Studied Acting, music and revolution at university until 1971 when he departed to India overland via Europe. On his second journey to India and Nepal in 1974 he first met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 7th Kopan meditation course in Nepal and has been studying, practicing and teaching Buddhism from then up to the present time.
Jimi was a fully ordained monk from 1980 to 1995. In 1981 he was one of the founding monks at Nalanda Monastery in France at the request of Lama Yeshe.
He has had the good fortune to have taken extensive teachings, initiations and commentaries in Sutra and Tantra from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Song Rinpoche, Ling and Serkong Rinpoche, Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche, Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche, as well as his own root Lamas: Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. He has completed retreats on the preliminary practices, Vajrayogini, Heruka, Yamantaka and others over the span of the last thirty years.
He has lead retreats and taught the Dharma at FPMT centers India, Nepal, America, France and Spain as well as teaching throughout Israel.
Jimi has amazing passion for the Dharma and when leading retreats, puts all his energy into making it the best he can for his students to achieve to their highest potential. Very inspiring!
As well as the Introductory courses, Root Institute this season will host pilgramages to the holy sites in the area with practice and meditation - Vulture's Peak, Nalanda, Mahakala Cave and the Mahbodhi Stupa. These are always wonderful places to visit, especially with a Root Institute resident sangha member to walk you through the history of these amazing places.
And as always, there are many many different activities happening throughout the season. Daily morning meditations, yoga, regular puja, sutra recitations, DVD days, short workshops and much much more.
