07/04/2009 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC & POTLUCKDate: July 4, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Carkeek Park
Sakya Monastery celebrates Independence Day with a picnic & potluck lunch at Carkeek Park. We have reserved tables 25, 26, 29, and 30 which are located near the campfire (in the same general area as in previous years).
Directions: Carkeek Directions
Download the Flyer: Independance Day Flyer
07/12/2009 H. H. DALAI LAMA'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONDate: July 12, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Shrine Room
Reception: Cultural Hal
H.H. J.D. Sakya and members of Sakya Monastery and the Tibetan Association of Washington cordially invite you to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s birthday celebration. A traditional service will be held which includes mandala offerings and long life prayers.
This is the celebration of the birth of the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet who is recognized as an emanation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, known in Tibetan as Chenrezi. Through the concerted efforts of the Tibetan community and its friends, H.H. Dalai Lama's birthday is now also known as World Tibet Day.
We’ll enjoy tea, long life rice and birthday cake at the end of the ceremony.
07/13/2009 DHARMA LECTURE: VIPASSANA MEDITATION CLASS, Part 1Sundays: July 13, 20, & 27
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Shrine Room
Instructor: Ven. Lekshay Sangpo
Suggested Contribution: $15 Public, $12 Members
All are welcome
This will be a beginners class for those wishing to learn how to practice Vipassana meditation. This is an ancient meditation practice, practiced long before the Buddha. It's roots precede Hinduism. There will be three classes, but attending the first one is the most important. Complete instructions for how to practice Vipassana will be given during the first class. There will be instructions and then a meditation followed by discussion. The subsequent two classes will open with discussions of how people did that week, followed by more “sits” and further discussions.
Please wear loose and comfortable clothing.
Venerable Lekshay Sangpo (aka Alan Muller) studied Zen Buddhism for 20 years. He saw the Dalai Lama in Seattle in 1993 and became a Tibetan Buddhist then. He has been a student of H.H. Dagchen Rinpoche ever since. He received his getsul (novice) vows in 2001 and his gelung (Bhikshu) vows in 2004, both from H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche in Nepal. He has been living, teaching and studying at Tharlam Monastery in Nepal six months a year since 2000.
07/19/2009 DHARMA LECTURE: LONGCHEN NYINGTHIG NGONDRO, Part 1Sundays: July 19 & 26
Time: 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Location: Shrine Room
Instructor: Tulku Yeshi Gyatso
Suggested Contribution: $25 Public, $20 Members
All are welcome
Tulku Yeshi Gyatso will give two lectures on the Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro, which is the root text by Dhodrub Rinpoche, renowned Dzogchen master as well as the The Words of My Perfect Teacher, by Patrul Rinpoche. Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro is a seminal teaching on the path to enlightenment. Although it is part of the Nyingma tradition, it is practiced by many masters and monastics of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Ven. Tulku Yeshi Rinpoche is a Dzogchen master and the reincarnation of Dzogchen Gyaltsab Thodo Rinpoche. He was recognized by H.H. Dalai Lama's Nyingmapa teacher Kyabje Trulshig Rinpoche. He received teachings from twenty-five masters representing all five schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Tulku Yeshi has written eight books, seven of which have been published, on the subject of Tibetan Buddhism and culture including A One Thousand Year History of Sakyapa. He also writes novels, poetry for mind training, provides Tibetan astrology readings, and can bestow empowerments. Currently he working on Dharma activities at Sakya Monastery in Seattle.
07/20/2009 DHARMA LECTURE: VIPASSANA MEDITATION CLASS, Part 2Sundays: July 13, 20, & 27
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Shrine Room
Instructor: Ven. Lekshay Sangpo
Suggested Contribution: $15 Public, $12 Members
All are welcome
This will be a beginners class for those wishing to learn how to practice Vipassana meditation. This is an ancient meditation practice, practiced long before the Buddha. It's roots precede Hinduism. There will be three classes, but attending the first one is the most important. Complete instructions for how to practice Vipassana will be given during the first class. There will be instructions and then a meditation followed by discussion. The subsequent two classes will open with discussions of how people did that week, followed by more “sits” and further discussions.
Please wear loose and comfortable clothing.
Venerable Lekshay Sangpo (aka Alan Muller) studied Zen Buddhism for 20 years. He saw the Dalai Lama in Seattle in 1993 and became a Tibetan Buddhist then. He has been a student of H.H. Dagchen Rinpoche ever since. He received his getsul (novice) vows in 2001 and his gelung (Bhikshu) vows in 2004, both from H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche in Nepal. He has been living, teaching and studying at Tharlam Monastery in Nepal six months a year since 2000.
07/26/2009 DHARMA LECTURE: LONGCHEN NYINGTHIG NGONDRO, Part 2Sundays: July 19 & 26
Time: 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Location: Shrine Room
Instructor: Tulku Yeshi Gyatso
Suggested Contribution: $25 Public, $20 Members
All are welcome
Tulku Yeshi Gyatso will give two lectures on the Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro, which is the root text by Dhodrub Rinpoche, renowned Dzogchen master as well as the The Words of My Perfect Teacher, by Patrul Rinpoche. Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro is a seminal teaching on the path to enlightenment. Although it is part of the Nyingma tradition, it is practiced by many masters and monastics of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Ven. Tulku Yeshi Rinpoche is a Dzogchen master and the reincarnation of Dzogchen Gyaltsab Thodo Rinpoche. He was recognized by H.H. Dalai Lama's Nyingmapa teacher Kyabje Trulshig Rinpoche. He received teachings from twenty-five masters representing all five schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Tulku Yeshi has written eight books, seven of which have been published, on the subject of Tibetan Buddhism and culture including A One Thousand Year History of Sakyapa. He also writes novels, poetry for mind training, provides Tibetan astrology readings, and can bestow empowerments. Currently he working on Dharma activities at Sakya Monastery in Seattle.
07/27/2009 DHARMA LECTURE: VIPASSANA MEDITATION CLASS, Part 3Sundays: July 13, 20, & 27
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Shrine Room
Instructor: Ven. Lekshay Sangpo
Suggested Contribution: $15 Public, $12 Members
All are welcome
This will be a beginners class for those wishing to learn how to practice Vipassana meditation. This is an ancient meditation practice, practiced long before the Buddha. It's roots precede Hinduism. There will be three classes, but attending the first one is the most important. Complete instructions for how to practice Vipassana will be given during the first class. There will be instructions and then a meditation followed by discussion. The subsequent two classes will open with discussions of how people did that week, followed by more “sits” and further discussions.
Please wear loose and comfortable clothing.
Venerable Lekshay Sangpo (aka Alan Muller) studied Zen Buddhism for 20 years. He saw the Dalai Lama in Seattle in 1993 and became a Tibetan Buddhist then. He has been a student of H.H. Dagchen Rinpoche ever since. He received his getsul (novice) vows in 2001 and his gelung (Bhikshu) vows in 2004, both from H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche in Nepal. He has been living, teaching and studying at Tharlam Monastery in Nepal six months a year since 2000.
