The Wisdom Age Newsletter of Drogmi Buddhist Institute A Tibetan Buddhist Centre in the Sakya Tradition Issue 56 February 2021 Dear Dharma friends, Tashi Delek! Happy Losar – 2148 the Year of the Metal Ox In Tibet, various customs are associated with the New Year holiday as in a New Year’s festival, celebrated on the first day of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar, which corresponds to a date ranging from late January up to late March in the Gregorian calendar. This year it falls on 12 February 2021. The qualities of the Metal Ox Year are perseverance, balance, patience, laboriousness, liability, seriousness, sincerity, modesty, carefulness, parsimony, loyalty and love for traditions. Click here to read about Losar preparations and celebrations Please enjoy this issue of The Wisdom Age. Yours in the Dharma UPCOMING COURSES & EVENTS LOSAR CELEBRATIONS Sunday 14 February 2021 There will be Losar celebrations at Kamalashila Tibetan Buddhist Centre, Tilba. The opportunity to sponsor the hanging of prayer flags or ‘wind horses’ on this day is considered to bring you very good fortune, good luck and success in your life and/or your family. More Information NZ BUDDHIST SUMMER SCHOOL 2021 Friday 19 to Sunday 21 February 2021 Nyima Tashi Buddhist Centre, Auckland New Zealand are offering 3 days of teachings with 6 speakers. Khenpo la has been visiting their centre regularly for many years now, yet due to COVID was not able to attend in 2020 and now 2021. This is an extraordinary opportunity to attend his teachings via Zoom under the Nyima Tashi Centre, NZ. More Information NGÖNDRO RETREAT WITH KHENPO NGAWANG DHAMCHOE Thursday 11 March to Sunday 14 March 2021 Ngöndro refers to the preliminary or ‘foundational’ practices of Vajrayana Buddhism. These practices are most profound and powerful means effecting a deep purification and transformation, at every level of our being. More Information and Registration 4TH ULURU BUDDHIST RETREAT Monday 17 to Sunday 23 May 2021 We are pleased to confirm that the Uluru Buddhist Retreat has been rescheduled for 2021. Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe will lead the retreat. It will last for six nights, with daily visits to Uluru and Kata Tjuta. Khenpo la will give instructions and lead meditations on Compassion, Calm Abiding and Vajrasattva. More Information and Registration RECENT EVENTS Working Bees in January Thank you so much to everyone who came and contributed their time and equipment, not just for this working bee but for all of them!!! Read More Healing & Purification Retreat 2020 On the anniversary of Sakya Pandita’s passing into Parinirvana 769 years ago, the annual Healing & Purification Retreat commenced... We undertook a walking meditation and reflection looking out over the saddle area to Gulaga Mountain. Reflections from Jack Read More FROM OUR MASTERS “Day and night look into your mind. If your stream of mind contains any non-virtue, renounce it from the core of your heart and pursue virtue…” ~Padmasambhava “The amazing, wonderful pure realm of Sukhavati arose because of the aspirations of the Buddha Amitabha, it is said. Thus, we should also, even within our present daily lives, take up the intention to help others, foster a good motivation, and take care of the natural environment and animals. If we do so, we can create a small Sukhavati around ourselves. These days, we face many severe, perilous environmental crises such as climate change. Scientists see this and lead us by the hand to show us, but if we lack sufficient motivation and courage to change, it cannot be of much benefit to our actual situation. “We might think that we can just ruin this earth and then go off to some other pleasant place, but I do not think that karmic cause and effect works that way. This earth of ours does not belong just to our generation. It does not belong just to humans. Either we can transform this earth into a pure realm for future generations and other sentient beings, or we can transform it into a hell. It is in our hands right now. We all must do as the Buddha Amitabha did and make vast aspirations for the sake of other sentient beings, make a strong commitment, and strive to benefit others. I think that this is one of the most important points of the teachings on Amitabha.” ~His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa (17th) Photo credit @olivieradam07 Find out more by visiting our website. Home Courses & events Venue hire Support us Contact Home Courses & events Venue hire Support us Contact We only use this list for The Wisdom Age newsletter. You can unsubscribe from this mailing list below. To unsubscribe from general mailings from Drogmi Buddhist Institute, please email
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