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March 16 – 18: Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche will present a teaching seminar on “Loving Kindness and Compassion as the Path to Buddha Nature.” Loving kindness is the wish that all sentient beings experience happiness and the causes of happiness; compassion is the wish that suffering and the causes of suffering are alleviated. During this teaching, Rinpoche will discuss how cultivating these qualities allows us to realize our inherent Buddha nature. Lama Yeshe Gymastso will translate.
Rinpoche will deliver the weekend teachings the from our home monastery, Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, KTD. Simultaneously, the presentations will be broadcasted to KTC’s around the country. At Columbus KTC, we will host the live web telecast with Rinpoche in our main shrine room. After each teaching session, our resident teacher, Lama Kathy Wesley, will be at Columbus KTC and available to answer any questions from our local Sangha.
On Saturday and Sunday, a light vegetarian lunch will be available at our Sangha Cafe.
Check back soon for more details.
Refuge Workshop
Date: Saturday January 28, 2012
Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: Columbus KTC
Presenter: Cathy Lhamo Jackson
Registration: Free – but please email cathylhamo108@gmail.com
Remember to bring your Refuge Card (which you will receive during the ceremony)
Saturday’s workshop will be relaxed yet informative! I will allow plenty of time for Questions & Answers.
Class topics include:
- Quick review of the Refuge Ceremony
- How to begin a Daily Practice
- Your Career as a Buddhist – what’s next!
- Courses offered at Columbus KTC
- How to get an interview with Lama Kathy Wesley
- Membership and Volunteering at CKTC
- How to join our Yahoo Group
- Protocol and much more!
Daily life is full of ups and downs – sometimes things go well, sometimes we feel buffeted by the winds of change and uncertainty. According to the teachings of the Buddha, the one certain method for “holding steady” in the midst of difficulty is Bodhicitta – also known as the “mind of awakening.” By understanding the awakened nature of mind, developing the attitudes as intentions that subdue ego-clinging, and seeing the pure and empty nature of all things, we gradually develop awakening from within.
This program describes the view and action of this gradual path, with instructions on how to contemplate and meditate on the ultimate view and the skillful relative path of love.
Lama Kathy will be sharing this weekend of teachings January 13th-15th. Friday night will feature a public talk from 7pm-8:30pm. Saturday and Sunday will be comprised of two sessions each, one from 10am-12pm, and another from 2pm-4pm. Between sessions, a light lunch will be available at our Sangha Cafe for just $5. Also, at the end of Saturday afternoon’s session Lama Kathy will be offering refuge and lay precepts, and after Sunday afternoon’s session, the Bodhisattva Vow.
Join Lama Kathy and your dharma siblings for a book study group on Monday nights from 7 pm to 9 pm at Columbus KTC. We’ll be reading “Vivid Awareness”, based on the Khenpo Gangshar wisdom teachings that Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche shared with us in September.
Suggested donation: $5.00 per class, a total of $30 for six evenings of wonderful dharma! Donations will help cover the cost of parking lot security coverage during the class.
His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, has asked his students around the world to accumulate 
“Mani” mantras to benefit the lives of his gurus. Here in the US, His Holiness’ main seat, Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, is organizing a nationwide “Mani Accumulation” as part of this project. We’ve all been invited to accumulate as many Manis as we can – either within a practice of Chenrezig, or outside of the practice, as we engage in our daily activities.
Please report your progress to Chuck at chuckty01@aol.com. Please title the subject line of your email with “Mani Accumulation” or something similar. Report your mantras weekly, monthly, or however often you wish. We will be collecting mantras until July 21, 2012.
Cathy Lhamo Jackson will be offering a new program to learn the Medicine Buddha Sadhana –details below. Registration is required for each event. To register, send an an email to cathylhamo108@gmail.com or call 614-602-7894.
Medicine Buddha Level 1 – Saturday, 11/26/11, 9 am to 12 noon: During this workshop you will learn what is a Sadhana practice, the history of the practice, and how to visualize during the practice. The pace will be slow to allow time to study the actual practice.
Medicine Buddha Level 2 - Saturday, 12/10/11, 9 am to 12 noon: During this workshop, you will briefly review of the importance of sadhana practice and then thoroughly learn the Medicine Buddha Sadhana.There will be a focus on expanded visualizations.
Medicine Buddha Level 3 - Saturday, 12/17/11, 9 am to 12 noon: During this workshop you will learn the ritual side of the practice so that you will feel comfortable during group practice. This includes learning Mudras [hand gestures], Music and Chanting.
Medicine Buddha Public Talk – Friday, 2/10/12, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm: There will be a public talk regarding the retreat.
Medicine Buddha Retreat – Saturday, 2/11/12, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm: This is the finale – an all day Saturday Practice Retreat ! The day will be divided into four sessions and include music and offerings. There will be plenty of time to accumulate mantras.
Fundraiser for our home monastery, KTD
Lunch on Sept 25: During Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche’s visit to Columbus KTC, our very own Chef Martin Ripple will prepare and cook a delicious lunch to benefit our home monastery, KTD. The lunch will be served at our center on Sunday, September 23rd, 2011 from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. Tickets are $10/each. All money collected from the lunch will be donated to the monastery to help pay for the new building loan.
KTD Raffle: Raffle to benefit our home monastery, KTD! Raffle prizes in include a small Guru Rinpoche rupa, prayer wheel pendant, and bell and dorje. Tickets are $5/each or 5 for $20 and can be purchased on Sunday mornings at Columbus KTC bookstore OR by mail. Please send a check and how many tickets you wish to purchase to Columbus KTC, KTD Raffle, 231 S, Grubb St, Columbus, OH 43215. Drawing will take place on Sunday, September 25th. The winning tickets will be drawn by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche. You do not need to be present to win!
September 23 – 25
Friday Evening Public Talk
Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave., Columbus, OH
Finding Wisdom In Compassion: The Buddhist Path
According to Buddha’s teaching on the Four Noble Truths, suffering is part of life; it has a cause; it has a solution; and there is a path that leads to the end of suffering. When the causes of suffering are discussed, selfishness, or ego-clinging, emerges as a root cause of the suffering we encounter. But how can we uproot ego-clinging? In this talk, Khenpo Rinpoche will describe the role of love and compassion (Relative Bodhicitta) and wisdom (Ultimate Bodhicitta) as steps on the path to liberation.
Weekend Seminar
Location: Columbus Karma Thegsum Chöling, 231 S. Grubb St., Columbus, OH
Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet: Instructions to Guide You on the Profound Path
In 1958, Communist armies invaded Kham in Tibet, destroying monasteries and imprisoning monks. The previous summer, Khenpo Gangshar foresaw that the difficulties in Tibet were going to escalate. To help dharma pr
actitioners in Tibet progress rapidly on the path so they could meet these challenges skillfully, he gave this teaching on Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet. Thrangu Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche received this profound cycle of teachings, which describe how to progress rapidly by engaging with practice whatever happens to you. It includes advice on the wisdom of emotions, and taking the bardo state as well as sleep as the path.
Only a few people who actually received this teaching remain alive; it is a rare opportunity for us to host Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, who received this teaching, and who can transmit to us the wisdom of being able to work with whatever comes to us in life.
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Aug19: This workshop will cover everything from creating a home shrine to how to begin and end one’s day as a Buddhist practitioner (or beginner).
Time: 9am to 12 noon
Location: Columbus KTC
All are invited to participate
Home Shrine: learn to create and care for one (simple to elaborate!)
How to daily begin tand end the day from the Buddhist perspective
Prayers for emergencies
If you have a shrine, bring pictures
6:45 AM Opening prayers
7:00 AM Green Tara Sadhana Practice
8:30 AM One hour open practice session
5:30 PM Open practice session
6:45 PM Opening prayers
7:00 PM Shinay Meditation Practice
Please feel free to come for as much or as little of the retreat as you are able to; Chokhor Duchen is one of the days on the Tibetan Buddhist calendar when the merit accumulated by any practice or virtuous act is multiplied.