Rokpa Harare 3-day Film Festival: Exploring Consciousness When: Friday 2 March to Sunday 4 March from 10.00am to 7pm Where: Rokpa Centre, 34 Quendon Road, Monavale Parking for USD1 at the Italian Club across the road. Cost: USD5 per movie with specials. Food and drink, cafe style, will be available throughout the 3 days. Full [...]
KSDH Buddhist News Volume 9, February 2012 A Newsletter of the Kagyu Samye Dzong Harare Community ____________________________________________________________________________ To download a copy of this newsletter click KSDH News.Vol 9.Feb2012.FINAL In this issue: · Welcome and why the new name? What’s on in 2012 – a lot! Visiting teachers, a Rokpa Film Festival, retreats, regular [...]
The Cape Town Buddhist Centre is delighted to welcome Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, who will be accompanied by Lama Zangmo and Ani Lhamo. Lama Yeshe Rinpoche is the well-loved abbot of the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the West – Kagyu Samye Ling in Scotland. He has spent at least 20 years in various retreats, [...]
This will be the last opportunity to attend classes in Cape Town with Rob Nairn in 2012; do not miss this opportunity to gain from his wisdom and experience. Psychology of Buddhism PART 1 Tuesday 7 Feb @ 7pm Cost: Public R120 Members R100 The 4 noble truths and the 8-fold path [...]
Mindfulness in Relationships Tuesday 24 January @ 7pm Cost: Public R90 Members R70 Relationships are a source of stress and suffering for so many people. Huge amounts of time and energy are invested in them, so it helps to find skilful means to work with our bad habits and patterns of emotional reactivity. Mindfulness [...]
Visiting Teachers January to May 2012 Important dates to diarise for the first half of 2012. Various teachers will be visiting Cape Townbetween January and May, conducting talks and workshops at the centre and retreats at Bodhi Khaya. Their detailed programmes will be emailed in the new year and posted on the website. To book or [...]
______________________________________________________________________________ Special Edition on Visit by Ken Holmes!!!! 14th to 28th November, 2011 __________________________________________________________________________________________ We are once again very lucky to have Dharmacharya Ken Holmes visit Zimbabwe. Ken is Director of Studies at Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland. His life is spent teaching meditation and Buddhist related topics in Europe and Africa, writing and [...]
R O K P A NEWS (September 2011) ————————————————————- “Dealing with Radical Change” A talk with Tom Soper and Rob Nairn Thursday 22nd September at 5.30pm at KHSD, 7a Ernie’s Lane, Monavale, Strathaven Just over 2 years ago, Tom Soper had a motor vehicle accident which severed his spinal cord and left him completely paralyzed [...]
In this issue: Compassion: Excerpts from a talk given by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche at Karma Dzong, USA in 1999 – visiting South Africa early September (trip to Zimbabwe cancelled due to visa problems. See www.kagyu.org.za for more information on his SA itinerary). September/October events Rokpa Film Club: ‘Enlightenment Guaranteed’ on Thursday 8th September at 5.30pm. [...]
Rokpa Zimbabawe News ~ VOLUME 6 To download a copy of this newsletter click here ~ Rokpa Newsletter.Vol 6.Special Issue on Relics Tour ______________________________________________________________________________ SPECIAL ISSUE ON SACRED RELICS TOUR 15th July – 17th July 2011 Welcome to this special issue of the Rokpa Newsletter that focuses on the visit of the Maitreya Project Heart [...]
