Singapore Forum Wed May 29

Porsche and the Buddha

Join Gyalwa Dkhampa - H.E. Khamtrul .Rinpoche, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo and Citibank Asean Vice-Chair - Tracey Woon in an Awareness Forum to discuss if spirituality wealth and material wealth are mutually exclusive or can they be mutually supportive.

Date: Wednesday May 29th 2013; 7 30 pm to 9 30pm; Venu Teochew Building, 97 Tank Road

Entry to this event is free. Registration is recommended.
Please find details on the Drukpa Singapore website

An Easter Retreat on the "Seven Points of Mind Training"

March 29th to 31st, 2013

Jetsunma will lead a Three Day Teaching Retreat at Deer Park Insitute, Bir, India.

Geshe Chekhawa (or Chekawa Yeshe Dorje) (1102–1176) was a great Kadampa Buddhist meditation master who was the author of the celebrated root text, Training the Mind in Seven Points
Lojong (Tib. བློ་སྦྱོང་,Wylie: blo sbyong) is a mind training practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on a set of aphorisms formulated in Tibet in the 12th century by Geshe Chekhawa. The practice involves refining and purifying one's motivations and attitudes.
The fifty-nine or so slogans that form the root text of the mind training practice are designed as a set of antidotes to undesired mental habits that cause suffering. They contain both methods to expand one's viewpoint towards absolute bodhicitta, such as "Find the consciousness you had before you were born" and "Treat everything you perceive as a dream", and methods for relating to the world in a more constructive way with relative bodhicitta, such as "Be grateful to everyone" and "When everything goes wrong, treat disaster as a way to wake up."

For details of this retreat please contact Deer Park Institute link here

Sakyadhita Conference

13th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women

Vaishali (Bihar) India, January 5-12

http://www.sakyadhita.org

Jetsunma will present a paper on Buddhism and Ageing: In Praise of Old Age

Denial of old age and death is common in today’s world. Women, in particular, are encouraged by the media to look eternally young and attractive. As women age and no longer need to enact the roles that society demands – as an object of attraction, wife, mother, and wage earner, their value often diminishes. Traditional societies equate old age with wisdom.