"What is this thing called Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha?"
We have likely all heard these terms, we may even already consider ourselves Buddhist, we may or may not have taken refuge, we may be practicing on this path for years, or we may have no idea what the dharma or sangha means to us personally. This course will serve all of you!
WHEN:
Sundays, for 1.15 hours.
It will also be recorded so you can rely on that.
USA: 10 - 11:15 PST, 11 - 12:15 MST, 12 - 1:15 CST, 13 - 14:15 EST
UK: 18 - 19:15 GMT
EU: 19 - 20:15 CET
WHAT:
January 12, 2025 - Talk with Justin Kirkwood on "What is the meaning of the Triple Gem"
January 19, 26, February 2, 9 - Kum Nye, Tibetan Healing Yoga, with Eliza to explore how we relate to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha within our own embodiments. These sessions are incredible tools to get us out of our habitual thinking, conceptualizing, mindlessly doing, and judging. What is our inner Buddha? What is Dharma in relation to our bodies, our daily activities? What is the Sangha if I am alone in an apartment? And much more...
February 16 - Talk with Justin on "The Path"
WHO:
This course fuses together aspects of practice, learning, and being with open questions. A bit of history on this collaboration - Justin and I both set off to India, with one way tickets, from the USA to begin multi-year, life changing journey's to study with living lineage masters. We both recognize most people will not or cannot take such a path so we deeply share the wish to make these ancient practices of awakening available to everybody, in an accessible way that leads to ease, peace, and awakening right within our very lives as they are. We also work together on translating and editing sacred texts for the Namchak Translation Team.
HOW MUCH:
We are keeping this course as affordable as possible! Therefore, it's Sliding Scale $150 - $300 USA and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. I trust you all to give in an honest way, that understands our time and effort and keeps in mind your own financial situations.
You can register by sending via PayPal to: [email protected] or with this link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/YogaNidra62
Transfers to my IBAN are very welcome too.
WHERE:
In the holy zoom room.
Advance registration is immensely helpful for us to really fine tune the course content according to who is joining. And if you think of a friend, family member, colleague who would benefit or who has asked you questions about the buddha, dharma, and sangha, please do invite them in.
WHEN:
Sundays, for 1.15 hours.
It will also be recorded so you can rely on that.
USA: 10 - 11:15 PST, 11 - 12:15 MST, 12 - 1:15 CST, 13 - 14:15 EST
UK: 18 - 19:15 GMT
EU: 19 - 20:15 CET
WHAT:
January 12, 2025 - Talk with Justin Kirkwood on "What is the meaning of the Triple Gem"
January 19, 26, February 2, 9 - Kum Nye, Tibetan Healing Yoga, with Eliza to explore how we relate to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha within our own embodiments. These sessions are incredible tools to get us out of our habitual thinking, conceptualizing, mindlessly doing, and judging. What is our inner Buddha? What is Dharma in relation to our bodies, our daily activities? What is the Sangha if I am alone in an apartment? And much more...
February 16 - Talk with Justin on "The Path"
WHO:
This course fuses together aspects of practice, learning, and being with open questions. A bit of history on this collaboration - Justin and I both set off to India, with one way tickets, from the USA to begin multi-year, life changing journey's to study with living lineage masters. We both recognize most people will not or cannot take such a path so we deeply share the wish to make these ancient practices of awakening available to everybody, in an accessible way that leads to ease, peace, and awakening right within our very lives as they are. We also work together on translating and editing sacred texts for the Namchak Translation Team.
HOW MUCH:
We are keeping this course as affordable as possible! Therefore, it's Sliding Scale $150 - $300 USA and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. I trust you all to give in an honest way, that understands our time and effort and keeps in mind your own financial situations.
You can register by sending via PayPal to: [email protected] or with this link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/YogaNidra62
Transfers to my IBAN are very welcome too.
WHERE:
In the holy zoom room.
Advance registration is immensely helpful for us to really fine tune the course content according to who is joining. And if you think of a friend, family member, colleague who would benefit or who has asked you questions about the buddha, dharma, and sangha, please do invite them in.
Justin's Bio:
Justin began his study and practice of Buddhism and the Tibetan language in his home state of Indiana. He was quickly inspired by the idea of learning Buddhism through the Tibetan language in a traditional setting and so he set off with a one-way ticket to India. By living with Tibetans and avoiding the English language at all costs, he quickly became fluent in Tibetan and began his studies in earnest. After studying essential topics of functions and categories of mind, Buddhist logic and epistemology, and tenet systems at Sera Monastery and the Thosamling Institute (where he also served as interpreter), he ordained and formally entered the Sherabling Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies (Lungrik Jampeling). There he studied The Way of the Bodhisattva, Collected Topics, the Pamanavarttika, the Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning, the Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way, and other branch topics of Buddhist philosophy.
Following his studies, he returned his monastic vows and spent another couple of years receiving practice instructions and doing retreats in Tsopema, an important pilgrimage site of Padmasambhava. He finally returned to the United States after eight years in India. Soon after, Justin met Namchak Khen Rinpoche, and both instantly felt a connection as if they were old friends. They have worked together as teacher and student as well as teacher and interpreter ever since. Over the years, Justin has studied with and served as an interpreter for many other excellent teachers such as Gochen Tulku Sangak Rinpoche, Jigme Namgyal Rinpoche, Lho Ontrul Rinpoche, Chamtrul Rinpoche, Dzogchen Ganor Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsulnam Rinpoche, Drupon Tsering, Lama Wangdor Rinpoche, and Geshe Tsewang Nyima.
His teachers in India instructed him that he must teach when returned home. To fulfill their wishes, he teaches meditation and sutra-level Buddhist philosophy as well as assists Namchak Khen Rinpoche with all his programs and students at the www.namchak.org
Eliza's Bio:
Eliza Bishop is a professional teacher, lecturer, coach, writer and editor, with degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Oxford Universities. She is a Level 2 Internationally Certified Iyengar Yoga
Instructor and an editor and proofreader for Namchak Translation Committee specializing in sacred texts.
She is a Tibetan Buddhist and Yoga practitioner for more than twenty years, who has studied extensively in India and Europe, and now resides in North America, sharing her time between Canada and the
USA. Her main teachers are His Holiness Sakya Trinzin the 41st and Her Eminence Jetsun Kushok. She has been under their guidance since 2007 and kept a daily practice since then. She has done years of cumulative meditation retreat as a way to deeper understand the profound path of Buddha-Dharma.
She appreciates and shares these modalities as tools for developing the mind of the heart. She has given accredited courses in universities, 6-week webinars to Superior Court Judges, Child Protective Services, a team of Book Publishers, Social Workers, and numerous other organizations.
As a Kum Nye facilitator, her focus is on the inner healing and greater well-being that naturally occurs by expanding one’s ability to be fully embodied and present. The aim is to learn to be at ease – with on-the-spot presence – which is healing and awakening, simultaneously, for one’s self and others. She works globally, online, and in person.
Justin began his study and practice of Buddhism and the Tibetan language in his home state of Indiana. He was quickly inspired by the idea of learning Buddhism through the Tibetan language in a traditional setting and so he set off with a one-way ticket to India. By living with Tibetans and avoiding the English language at all costs, he quickly became fluent in Tibetan and began his studies in earnest. After studying essential topics of functions and categories of mind, Buddhist logic and epistemology, and tenet systems at Sera Monastery and the Thosamling Institute (where he also served as interpreter), he ordained and formally entered the Sherabling Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies (Lungrik Jampeling). There he studied The Way of the Bodhisattva, Collected Topics, the Pamanavarttika, the Treasury of Valid Cognition and Reasoning, the Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way, and other branch topics of Buddhist philosophy.
Following his studies, he returned his monastic vows and spent another couple of years receiving practice instructions and doing retreats in Tsopema, an important pilgrimage site of Padmasambhava. He finally returned to the United States after eight years in India. Soon after, Justin met Namchak Khen Rinpoche, and both instantly felt a connection as if they were old friends. They have worked together as teacher and student as well as teacher and interpreter ever since. Over the years, Justin has studied with and served as an interpreter for many other excellent teachers such as Gochen Tulku Sangak Rinpoche, Jigme Namgyal Rinpoche, Lho Ontrul Rinpoche, Chamtrul Rinpoche, Dzogchen Ganor Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsulnam Rinpoche, Drupon Tsering, Lama Wangdor Rinpoche, and Geshe Tsewang Nyima.
His teachers in India instructed him that he must teach when returned home. To fulfill their wishes, he teaches meditation and sutra-level Buddhist philosophy as well as assists Namchak Khen Rinpoche with all his programs and students at the www.namchak.org
Eliza's Bio:
Eliza Bishop is a professional teacher, lecturer, coach, writer and editor, with degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Oxford Universities. She is a Level 2 Internationally Certified Iyengar Yoga
Instructor and an editor and proofreader for Namchak Translation Committee specializing in sacred texts.
She is a Tibetan Buddhist and Yoga practitioner for more than twenty years, who has studied extensively in India and Europe, and now resides in North America, sharing her time between Canada and the
USA. Her main teachers are His Holiness Sakya Trinzin the 41st and Her Eminence Jetsun Kushok. She has been under their guidance since 2007 and kept a daily practice since then. She has done years of cumulative meditation retreat as a way to deeper understand the profound path of Buddha-Dharma.
She appreciates and shares these modalities as tools for developing the mind of the heart. She has given accredited courses in universities, 6-week webinars to Superior Court Judges, Child Protective Services, a team of Book Publishers, Social Workers, and numerous other organizations.
As a Kum Nye facilitator, her focus is on the inner healing and greater well-being that naturally occurs by expanding one’s ability to be fully embodied and present. The aim is to learn to be at ease – with on-the-spot presence – which is healing and awakening, simultaneously, for one’s self and others. She works globally, online, and in person.