Celebrated Tibetan Buddhist Teacher Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche Presents Lectures on Meditation and the Four Immeasurables at IUP

Friday,
March 8 –
Sunday, March 10


Co-Op College
Lodge




Attendance
Vouchers
Available for Students


Schedule



Friday, March
8            5:00
pm               Vegetarian
Potluck at the College Lodge
                                       
6:30
pm               Public
Talk:  Meditation – Key to Self-Awareness
& Compassion


Saturday, March
9       10:30-12:00        Teaching Session 1: 
The Four Immeasurables
                                        
3:30-5:00
pm      Teaching Session 2:  The Four Immeasurables



Sunday, March
10        10:30-12:00        Teaching Session 3:  The Four Immeasurables
                                        
4:00-5:30
pm     Refuge Vow and Chenrezig
Empowerment
                                                                     
(Refuge
required for the empowerment)


 
All
events will take place at the Co-op College Lodge

l
ocated at 239 College Lodge Road, Indiana PA 15701.




Tickets sold at door. 
To pre-register contact
registration@indianacountyktc.org
Public
Talk:  $15
general admission or $10 for I-card holders and seniors


Teaching Sessions: 
General admission – $15/session or $40 for all sessions
             
I-card holders or seniors – $10/session or $25 for all
sessions


$15 for Refuge Vow and Chenrezig Empowerment Ceremonies

The
Friday potluck is free and open to the public.  If you wish to attend

bring a vegetarian dish to share and rsvp to registration@indianacountyktc.org

Considered one of the greatest
living Tibetan masters today, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche will visit IUP to present
a series of lectures on techniques from Tibetan Buddhism that can be used in
generating peace and compassion.  At the
public talk on Friday evening, he will talk about meditation as a way to develop
self-awareness and compassion.  In the
sessions on Saturday and Sunday, he will provide an in-depth teaching on the
Four Immeasurables of loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.  The weekend will end on Sunday
afternoon with
the Refuge Vow and Chenrezig Empowerment ceremonies.  Refuge is a first step on the Buddhist
path
to enlightenment.  The ceremony of the
Chenrezig empowerment is given as a blessing and invokes Chenrezig who is the embodiment
of limitless compassion.  (Refuge is a
prerequisite for the empowerment.  For
those interested in taking refuge, please contact
registration@indianacountyktc.org.)

Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche is
currently the abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachackra (
www.kagyu.org), one of the main Tibetan monasteries
in the U.S.  Ordained as a monk at the
age of twelve at Thrangu Monastery in eastern Tibet, he is one of the few
Tibetan scholars that have received the highest levels of training in Tibetan
Buddhism.  Due to the political situation
in Tibet in the late 1950’s, he fled his homeland in 1959 through the Himalayas
to Bhutan and eventually India.  In the following
years, he resided at monasteries in Bhutan and India where he provided teachings
and support for Tibetan refugee communities. 
In 1975 His Holiness the 16
th Karmapa acknowledged
Rinpoche’s
attainment with the title Choje Lama (Superior Dharma Master).  At the request of His Holiness the
16
th
Karmapa, Khenpo Rinpoche immigrated to the U.S. in 1976 to establish and guide
the development of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra located near Woodstock, NY.  After more than forty years of
teaching on
Tibetan Buddhist topics, Khenpo Rinpoche has a prolific body of work published
in Chinese and English, as well as dozens of teachings that have been published
in Densal magazine and transcripts by
KTD’s Namse Bagdzo Bookstore.  At age 89,
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche still maintains a rigorous international teaching
schedule.  (For a more extensive
biography and list of publications, please see
www.kagyu.org/kagyulineage/teachers/tea15.php.)

Sponsored by IUP student organization
Friends of Himalayan Buddhism (www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=52825), and Karma
Thegsum Choling (KTC, indianacountyktc.org/) of Indiana (local Tibetan
meditation center, indianacountyktc.org) and supported by the IUP Mindfulness
Meditation Living and Learning Community (www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=133329).

For more information contact
registration@indianacountyktc.org
or call (724)349-9426.

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