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Quang Mihn Buddhist Temple Program 10-22 September 2001

PROGRAM DETAILS

EVENING TEACHINGS - OPEN TO ALL (7.30pm - 9.00 pm)

This series of teachings are based on the two great expositions of Lama Tsong Khapa, Founder of the Gelug-pa Order of Tibetan
Buddhism - the Lam Rim Chenmo, the graduated path to enlightenment and the Nag Rim Chenmo, the tantric path.

• Monday 10th
  The Value of Human Life: Worth its Weight in Gold
• Wednesday 12th
  Impermanence: A Cause for Celebration
• Friday 14th
  Self Perception - The Way to Happiness
• Monday 17th
  Enjoy or Endure: Choosing Compassion
• Wednesday 19th
  The Middle Way: No Hiding Place
• Friday 21st
  Highest Yoga Tantra - A Peak Lire Experience

WEEKEND PROGRAM

SATURDAY 15TH
10.00- 10.30 Morning Meditation
10.30 - 4.30 Mandala Creation
11.00 -12.00 Culture for Kids - Gyuto Offering Flowers
12.00 - 1.00 Meditation Class - How to stop thinking!
2.00 - 3.00 Public Talk ' Being rather than Doing' by Gyuto Great Chantmaster Lobsang Tsering
3.30 - 4.30 Tantric Art Class: Mani Stone Painting
7.30- 9.00 Blessing and Amitaya Empowerment for Long Life by the Jangden Chenmo, Great Chantmaster, Lobsang Tsering of Gyuto Tantric University. Following the chanting puja, the Great Chantmaster will offer individual blessings and talismans. [It is traditional on these occasions to make financial offerings to the Monastery and monks at the end of the ceremony - these may be offered at the discretion of the individual.]

SUNDAY 16TH
10.00 - 10.30 Morning Meditation
10.30 - 4.30 Mandala Creation
11.00 -12.00 Culture for Kids - Make Your Own Prayer Flag
12.00 - 1.00 Meditation Class - Resting in Equanimity
2.00 - 3.00 Public Talk 'Going Beyond the Dead End' by Gyuto Great Chantmaster Lobsang Tsering
3.30- 4.30 Tantric Art Class: Painting a Boddhisattva Image

SATURDAY 22ND
10.30 - 4.30 Mandala Creation
11.00 -12.00 Culture for Kids - Tibetan Peace Weaving
12.00 - 1.00 Meditation Class - 'Tonglen - the Sweetest Gift'
2.00 - 4.00 Reflections on 'Buddhism in Australia - A Unique Social Hybrid? " with Gyuto Great Chantmaster Lobsang Tsering, and panel members including our and host, Venerable Phuoc Tan, Abbot of Quang Minh Temple and Venerable Santhindriya, North Victorian Buddhist Association. A monk in Tibet until his escape in 1959,Lobsang Tsering has travelled the world for 35 years and makes some fascinating observations about Tibet's guardianship of Buddhism and the way it is now evolving in the west.
4.30 - 5.30 Dissolution Ceremony of the Mandala of Yamantaka and Procession to the Maribyrnong River

SACRED SOUNDS - 7.30- 9.30PM SATURDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER
Enveloped in the rich brocade robes of the Dakinis, the Sky Dancers, the sound of monks deep in prayer provides a space in which we all can come closer to OU! better selves and our spiritual core.

"It is said that to see the Gyuto Monks is a blessing but to hear the sounds of their chanting is to be transformed. "

Bookings not required. Donations at Door from 6.30 on the night: $15

Enquiries:
Further details available from Gerard Broadfoot on 9267 0319
Director of Gyuto House, Australia - 0412 124 678 or 03 5989 7295
Funds raised help the building program at Gyuto Monastery's New Ramoche Temple in Dharamsala to be opened by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2002 when it is planned to relocate the 500 Gyuto Monks from their remote home in the Far Himalaya.