Tibetan New Year
Wednesday Febuary 10
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All Monday practices will take place at the home of Lynn Dickens -- 5118 Valerie, Bellaire. It is west of South Rice in Bellaire and just north of the High School.
Wednesday practices will be at JennyYoga at 3641 Westheimer, 77027. It is on the south side between Buffalo Speedway and Weslayan.
At this time a new location has not yet been found. Stay tuned for further information as it is available.
About the Ligmincha Texas Institute for the Tibetan
Meditative & Healing Arts
The focus of the work at the Ligmincha Texas Institute in Houston is to promote the rich variety of Bön’s meditative and healing arts, including Tibetan medicine. With recent public interest in mind-body connection and alternative forms of healing, the Ligmincha Texas Institute strives to serve the role of a powerful resource and education center to bridge the gap between eastern and western traditions of medicine and psychology.
Our founder and director, Lama Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, is a Bönpo Lama who has been educated in the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Rinpoche is forming collaborative relationships with physicians and psychotherapists in order to develop innovative healing strategies to deal with pain and depression. The wisdom of the Tibetan healing traditions, meditation practices and Dzogchen teachings offered by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and all our other visiting teachers will provide an opportunity for individuals to explore and enhance their health and well-being.
The Ligmincha Texas Institute is one of several that have grown out of the Ligmincha Institute for the study of the Religions and Culture of Tibet, which was also established by Tenzin Rinpoche with the blessing of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Regular Houston Meditation Practice Schedule
See above for location information.
Every Wednesday, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m. - Ongoing Six-Sessions Meditation, TsaLung and Sidpe Gyalmo Practice. Open to the public. Please contact Alejandro Chaoul for details.
The first and third Monday of each month
from 6:00-7:30 p.m. - Ngondro practice for those with instruction. Please contact
Rosalinda Engle
for details.
The second Monday of each month, 7:00-8:15 p.m. - Meditation
on Chamma, the Wisdom Loving Mother. Open to the public. . Please contact
Jackie Cole for details.
For more information contact: Ligmincha Texas, 713-621-7430, or email
info@LigminchaTexas.org
Wednesday February 10, 2010
Sunday February 14, 2010
Starting in January Geshe Denma's Wednesday night teachings will be "The Twelve Deeds of Tonpa Shenrab". This will help your insight into this ancient founder of the Bön religion who realized buddahood and is revered as part of the Bön refuge tree.
We plan to record these teachings and sell a CD of all 12 as a fund-raiser for Geshe Denma's classes in English.
To help contribute to the tuition for Geshe Denma's English classes call Dorothy Matthews at 713-668-8802.
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. . . . Early in 2010 Geshe Denma will present a series of lectures on "The Twelve Deeds of Tonpa Shenrab".
Following the regular Wednesday practices he will give a 30 minute lecture. This will continue thru March.
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Geshe Denma Gyaltsen was born in exile in the first Tibetan refugee camp of Dorpatan, in northern Nepal. He was the oldest of five children. He received his initial education at the first Bönpo Tibetan monastery in exile, founded by the 32nd Menri Trizin, Kundun Sherab Lodro. His teacher was Sonam Gyaltsen Rinpoche, Abbot of Tashi Gegye Thatenling.
In March of 1981, Sonam Gylatsen Rinpoche and his father took Denma to the Menri Monastery. There, on Tonpa Shenrab's birth anniversary in 1981, Denma took his monks vows from H.H. 33rd Menri Trizin and H.E.Yongzin Rinpoche and joined the Bon dialectic school of Menri. For the next decade and a half he studied for his Geshe degree. His root teachers were H.H. 33rd Menri Trizin, H.E. Yongzin Rinpoche and Geshe Youngdrung Namgyal.
In 1991 his holiness H.H. 33rd sMenri Trizin sent Denma Gyaltsen to the Sikkim Bönpo monastery of Zhu Ri Shing Yung Drung Kundak-Ling, to organize the monastery and to teach young Sikkimese monks to read and write Tibetan so they could know their sacred texts. H.H. the Dalai Lama visited the monastery in April 1993, on the request of Denma Gyaltsen, and blessed the monastery. The Dalai Lama encouraged all the monks and lamas to keep on with further study. Lama Yungdrung Tsultrim, the founder of the monastery and the local Sikkimese villagers requested that Denma Gyaltsen stay on. But, needing to complete his Geshe degree, he returned to Menri at the end of the year.
He graduated in 1996 from the Bön Dialectic School of Menri Monastery and obtained his Geshe degree. He began accompanying Latri Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche on his travels to the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Russia where he was teaching and raising funds and awareness for the Bön.
In 1998 the religious department of H.H. the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government in exile gave recognition to three Bönpo monasteries and their abbots appointed by H.H. 33rd sMenri Trizin. It was then that H.H. 33rd Menri Trizin appointed Geshe Denma Gyaltsen the first Abbot of the Zhu Ri Shing Yung Drung Kundak-Ling monastery in Sikkim. He remained as Abbot for two terms, visiting the Sikkim monastery each year, bringing contributions for the students and monastery from his trips to the United States. On his yearly visits Geshe Denma Gyaltsen taught the children in the monastery formal Tibetan language as well as reading and writing, religious prayers and rituals and history of Bön. He established good relationships with the local Sikkimese people. His plan was for local boys to attend Menri's dialectic school and become Geshes, thereby helping the indigenous people to have their own Sikkimese lamas. Eventually, four boys were admitted to the dialectic school of Menri monastery and are now working toward their Geshe degrees. Geshe Gyaltsen is still their main means of financial and emotional support.
Since 1996, on the request of Nyima Rinpoche, Geshe Denma Gyaltsen assists him with his work operating the Bon Children's Home, which serves the many impoverished children of Dolanji providing education, healthcare and a place to live. He is the treasurer and co-editor of Bön sGo magazine; Door to Bön and for three years, 2002–2005 the elected secretary of the Local Tibetan Assembly in Dolanji.
He is now visiting Houston for several months.
Stay Tuned for more details and future events.....
ONGOING: Twelve Moments: A Year of
Meditation at The Rothko Chapel
Once a month, teachers from twelve different religious faiths share their
contemplative traditions.
Co-Sponsored by Ligmincha Institute of Texas,
the Jung Center of Houston and the Institute for Religion and Health.
Open and free to the public. 713-524-9839,
Rothko Chapel Meditations
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TIBETAN YOGA AND MEDITATION WITH ALEJANDRO CHAOUL REICH  |
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Ale's Book is now available. "Chöd Practice in the Bön Tradition"
Snow Lion Publications, 2009 Snow Lion comments. IN HOUSTON For Those Touched by Cancer (at Place of
Wellness, U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)
Tibetan Meditation: A Healing for Body, Energy and Mind
Two Fridays, March 26 and April 16, 2010, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Limited enrollment (3/26/2010 -- 4/16/2010) (269L) Fee: $155.00 CEUs: 0.6
1- Emboying the Mandala: Indian and Tibetan Perspectives
- Debbie Mills and Alejandro Chaoul
February 15 & 22, 2010 -- 6-8 pm 2- Connecting to Unconditional Love: Tibetan Teachings for People of All FAiths - Alejandro Chaoul
May 4 - 11, 2010 -- 6-8 pm
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IN OTHER US STATES
1- February 27, 2010 New York City 4 pm
Rubin Museum of Himalyan Art-- Brainwaves 2010
Dr. Alejandro Chaoul and Dr. Lorenzo Cohen
2- April 25-30, Esalen, California
The Heart of Healing:
A Transformative Retreat for Clinicians
Alejandro Chaoul & Jim Duffy
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IN MEXICO
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IN CANADA
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IN COSTA RICA
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The Practice of Sherap Chamma, the Wisdom Loving Mother
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The Practice of Sherap Chamma,
the Wisdom Loving Mother In many cultures the primordial female energy is seen as the origin of existence. In ancient texts of the Bön Buddhist tradition of Tibet, Sherap Chamma or Wisdom Loving Mother is revealed as the source of primordial wisdom and her medicine is love and compassion. The teachings of Sherap Chamma comprise one of the most important tantric cycles of the Bon tradition. In this retreat, we will learn a beautiful and simple meditation practice that will enable us to directly connect with the divine feminine energy. Within the support of the group, we create an environment to promote profound healing of the physical, energetic/emotional, and spiritual dimensions of life. Through visualization, the sound of mantra, and profound inner silence, the practice of Sherap Chamma guides each person to deeply connect with his or her innate wisdom and with the love and compassion that naturally radiate from that wisdom. Those who are experienced in meditation as well as beginners are warmly welcomed.
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Marcy Vaughn Marcy Vaughn has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and Bön for more than 35 years. A senior student of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, she serves as the director of practice and study for Ligmincha Institute and is one of the few Westerners to have completed a traditional 49-day dark retreat. Marcy is the editor of Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's recent book Tibetan Sound Healing. She graduated in the first class of the master’s program in contemplative psychotherapy at Naropa University, and is a therapist in private practice in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. She trains therapists in the clinical use of imagery; and she teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction in the University of Pennsylvania's Program in Stress Management.
Ligmincha of Texas P.O. Box 541479 Houston TX 77254-1479
email: info@LigminchaTexas.org
Updated on 2/5/2010