Visit of Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Date/Time
Date(s) - 17/09/2016 - 18/09/2016
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Kagyu Samye Dzong Dublin
Categories
We are delighted to announce that Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, Abbot of Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and meditation master, will visit our Centre i
n September. This will be an opportunity for the community to engage with our abbot, experience the joy and wisdom that he shares, and benefit from being in his presence.
During the weekend there will be teachings and meditation sessions, with opportunities to ask questions about meditation from an expert! There will also be a Refuge ceremony for those wish to take Refuge – formally become Buddhist. Lama Rinpoche will also be accompanied by his secretary, Ani Lhamo, an accomplished teacher in her own right, and who will also give talks during the weekend. And there will be interview sessions with Lama Rinpoche.
Details are as follows:
Saturday 17th September
10am – 11am ‘The role of women in Kagyu Buddhism’ with Ani Lhamo
Break
11.30am – 12.30pm ‘Heart-felt Advice from Experience’ with Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
2pm – 3pm ‘The Importance of Lineage in Tibetan Buddhism’ with Ani Lhamo
Break
3.30pm – 4.30pm Guided Meditation Session and Q&A with Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Sunday 18th September
10am -11am ‘Refuge and what it means’ with Ani Lhamo
Break
11.30am – 12.30pm Refuge Ceremony
3.30pm ‘Shower of Blessings’ Tsok offering ceremony with Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
All of these events are open to everyone to attend
Bookings are now open if you wish to attend the events of the weekend. If you wish to take Refuge, or have an interview with Lama Rinpoche, please get in touch – by email on info@buddhism.ie or by phone 01 4537427.
Born in 1943 in Kham, East Tibet, Lama Yeshe spent his formative years in education at Dolma Lhakang Monastery where his brothe
r, Akong Tulku Rinpoche, was Abbot. After a harrowing ten month journey escaping from Tibet as a teenager in 1959, Lama Yeshe arrived in India along with Akong Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and a handful of other exhausted refugees. On leaving the Tibetan Refugee Camp he attended the Young Lamas Home School in Dalhousie and left in 1967 to serve as Private Secretary to His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim.
In 1969 Lama Yeshe joined Akong Tulku Rinpoche and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Scotland where they had founded Kagyu Samye Ling, the first Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Europe. Five years later, having tasted and become disillusioned with modern Western culture, from the trappings of materialism to the false highs of sixties hippydom, he was reunited with H.H. Karmapa and accompanied him on a tour of the United States. At His Holiness’s request Lama Yeshe and his friend Lama Tenzin Chonyi established and managed the Karma Triyana Dharmacakra Centre in Woodstock New York which is now H.H. Karmapa’s main seat in the U.S.
In 1980 he took full ordination as a Gelong monk from His Holiness the 16th Karmapa, on the auspicious date of the anniversary of Lord Buddha’s Nirvana and Parinirvana, at a ceremony attended by the most eminent Tibetan Lamas of the time. Following his ordination Lama Yeshe entered a strict, long-term solitary retreat under the guidance of the Abbot of Karma Triyana, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche. Lama Yeshe Losal also received teachings from many of the highest Kagyu Lamas, including extensive instruction and initiations from his root guru H.H. the 16th Karmapa,and from The 12th Tai Situpa, Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Gyaltsap Rinpoche, and the Very Venerable Kalu Rinpoche.
Lama Yeshe Rinpoche’s current focus at Samye Ling is to complete the final phase of the Samye Project: the Samye College, Mus
eum and Libraries. As Chairman of Rokpa Trust he has responsibility for Kagyu Samye Ling, The Holy Isle Project and Kagyu Samye Dzong Centres worldwide. He is also involved in the Trust’s charitable projects both at home and overseas. His energy and inspiration fuel the Trust’s far reaching activities which benefit so many people in so many ways. Indeed, he is a living example of the joyful Bodhisattva in action.
In October 2013, following the tragic death of his brother and mentor, Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche, he assumed overall responsibility for all three aspects of Akong Rinpoche’s activity: ROKPA International, The Tara Trust and Kagyu Samye Ling and all related Dharma centres. At this point Vajradhara Chamgon Khenting Tai Situpa bestowed the title of ‘Choje’ as a token of Lama Rinpoche’s courage and ability in managing such a vast array of different beneficial activities.
Lama Rinpoche travels the world, wherever he is invited, bringing his message of unconditional loving kindness, compassion, tolerance and forgiveness.
