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Khen Rinpoche Tsetan is returning to India for the summer.
He will be back in the United States in October, 2009.
Please check again for the fall 2009 teaching schedule.
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Schedule
FREEPORT: - Greeneleaf Studio
Greeneleaf Studio, 9 Frost Brook Ln.
(FMI:Donna 774-2411)
SIDDHARTHA SANGHA
meets every Sunday morning from
10-12
at Greeneleaf Studio in Freeport.
We have been studying the Lam Rim teachings, mantra practice (20 min), a 1 hour discussion, and ends with a ½ hour of sitting in meditation.
Anyone is welcome to join us.
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All are Welcome
DIRECTIONS TO GREENELEAF STUDIO; Take 295 to exit 22.
Turn toward the town of Freeport. At the stop light by McDonalds, turn
LEFT, and go EXACTLY 1/2 mile N on Rte. 1. Frost Brook lane is a dirt
road on your RIGHT. Go Straight back to the yellow building with Tibetan
Prayer Flags on it. Park to the left, nose in toward the fence.
All donations
go directly to help educate children at the Siddhartha School. Donations are tax deductable. See Joli Greene for a receipt.
The Siddhartha School Project is a
501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
When teaching in Maine, Khen Rinpoche Tsetan is often assisted by
Dana Sawyer. Dana is an associate professor of philosophy and religion
at The Maine College of Art and an adjunct professor of Asian religions
at the Bangor Theological Seminary.
Dana's book "Aldous
Huxley: A Biography", is about the British intellectual who
borrowed many of the ideas for his "perennial philosophy"
from Buddhist traditions.
KHEN RINPOCHE LOBZANG TSETAN is a Tibetan Buddhist Monk of
the Gelug-pa lineage (the same as the Dalai Lama), with the highest
degree obtainable in Tibetan Buddhist metaphysics and philosophy.
He was recently enthroned as the head abbot of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
in exile. This is the Panchen Lama’s Monastery outside of Tibet.
His new title of Khen Rinpoche recognizes him as a precious high lama.
Khen Rinpoche Tsetan began his monastic life at age 7, in his native
village of Stok, Ladakh. When he was 15 years old he walked with his
father from Ladakh, India, to Shigatse, Tibet, to enter the (Panchen
Lama's) famous Tashi Lhunpo Monastery. The 800-mile trek took them
over two months to complete, most of it barefooted.
He left Tibet in 1960, after the Chinese occupation made it impossible
for him to continue his studies there. He returned to his home in
Ladakh and continued to pursue his training in India, in the monasteries
established there in exile. In the late 1970s he was invited to the
USA where he learned English, and taught classes at the Tibetan Buddhist
Learning Center in NJ, Smith College, Bates College, Hampshire College,
Wesleyan University, and conferences at Harvard and Princeton, and
more.
In 1995, Khen Rinpoche Geshe Tsetan founded The Siddhartha School
in his native home in Ladakh. The school seeks to preserve Tibetan
Buddhist Culture and language while giving the children of this remote
Himalayan area a well-rounded education, which will allow them to
represent themselves and their culture in this newly evolving global
community.
Shortly after that, H.H. Dalai Lama, appointed Geshe Tsetan to be
the head
abbot of the new Tashilungpo Monastery in India. (This is in the absence
of
the Panchen Lama, who has been missing since the Chinese Government
took him and his family into custody when he was 4 years old.) This
was a great honor, but one that was humbly set aside, so that he could
devote himself completely to the Siddhartha School, with the Dalai
Lama's blessings and support.
In
January of 2005 HHDL again asked if Geshe Tsetan would accept the
abbotship, and this time he could not refuse. In July 2005 he was
installed as Kachen, or head Abbot of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in
southern India. His new title is Khen Rinpoche Geshe Kachen Lobzang
Tsetan, and he has assumed his new responsibilities overseeing the
Tashi Lhunpo monastery in exile. He is now, in essence doing the Panchen
Lama's job. For more information on this go to the website: www.tashilhunpo.org.
We are INCREDIBLY fortunate to have a teacher of this degree available
to us.
