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Good Life & Good Death by Gelek Rinpoche Print E-mail

                                   

Sunday, Jan. 18 at 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm 2009

Milpitas Community Center
457 East Calaveras Boulevard
Milpitas , CA 95035

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The Gyuto Vajrayana Center in San Jose is pleased to announce that Gelek Rinpoche has kindly accepted our invitation to give a talk based on his book, “Good Life and Good Death”, at the Milpitas Community Center on Sunday, January 18 2009. 

Born in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1939, Kyabje Gelek Rinpoche was recognized as an incarnate lama at the age of four.  Carefully tutored from an early age by some of Tibet’s greatest living masters, Rinpoche gained renown for his powers of memory, intellectual judgment and penetrating insight.  As a small child living in a monk’s cell in a country with no electricity or running water, and little news of the outside world, he had scoured the pictures of torn copies of Life Magazine for anything he could gather about America.  Now Rinpoche brings his life experience and wisdom to both the east and the west.   (Please RSVP in this form) More about Gelek Rinpoche please visit: Jewelheart.org
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Thank you! Print E-mail

On behalf of the resident venerable monks of the Gyuto Vajrayana Center and the Gyuto Monastery, I would like to underscore our sincere and heartfelt thanks to all of the benefactors, sponsors, volunteers and friends who supported us in bringing His Holiness the Dalai Lama to San Francisco on April 27 - 29, 2007.  Without all your help, we would not have received the precious teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

 

Once again, we deeply thank everyone who supported the Gyuto Vajrayana Center . 

Ven. Thupten Donyo.

View photos from the teachings: www.dalailamabay2007.com

More information on His Holiness the Dalai Lama: www.dalailama.com 

 
 
His Holiness 14th the Dalai Lama Print E-mail

         

 

Words of Truth

A Prayer Composed by:
His Holines Tenzin Gyatso The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet
 
Honoring and Invoking the Great Compassion
of the Three Jewels; the Buddha, the Teachings,
and the Spiritual Community

O Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and disciples
of the past, present, and future:
Having remarkable qualities
Immeasurably vast as the ocean,
Who regard all helpless sentient beings
as your only child;
Please consider the truth of my anguished pleas.
 
Buddha's full teachings dispel the pain of worldly
existence and self-oriented peace;
May they flourish, spreading prosperity and happiness through-
out this spacious world.
O holders of the Dharma: scholars
and realized practitioners;
May your ten fold virtuous practice prevail.
 
Humble sentient beings, tormented
by sufferings without cease,
Completely suppressed by seemingly endless
and terribly intense, negative deeds,
May all their fears from unbearable war, famine,
and disease be pacified,

To freely breathe an ocean of happiness and well-being.
And particularly the pious people
of the Land of Snows who, through various means,
Are mercilessly destroyed by barbaric hordes
on the side of darkness,
Kindly let the power of your compassion arise,
To quickly stem the flow of blood and tears.
 
Those unrelentingly cruel ones, objects of compassion,
Maddened by delusion's evils,
wantonly destroy themselves and others;
May they achieve the eye of wisdom,
knowing what must be done and undone,
And abide in the glory of friendship and love.
 
May this heartfelt wish of total freedom for all Tibet,
Which has been awaited for a long time,
be spontaneously fulfilled;
Please grant soon the good fortune to enjoy
The happy celebration of spiritual with temporal rule.
 
O protector Chenrezig, compassionately care for
Those who have undergone myriad hardships,
Completely sacrificing their most cherished lives,
bodies, and wealth,
For the sake of the teachings, practitioners,
people, and nation.
 
Thus, the protector Chenrezig made vast prayers
Before the Buddhas and Bodhisativas
To fully embrace the Land of Snows;
May the good results of these prayers now quickly appear.
By the profound interdependence of emptiness
and relative forms,

Together with the force of great compassion
in the Three Jewels and their Words of Truth,
And through the power
of the infallible law of actions and their fruits,
May this truthful prayer be unhindered
and quickly fulfilled. 

This prayer, Words of Truth, was composed by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, on 29 September 1960 at his temporary headquarters in the Swarg Ashram at Dharamsala, Kangra District, Himachal State, India. This prayer for restoring peace, the Buddhist teachings, and the culture and self-determina-tion of the Tibetan people in their homeland was written after repeated requests by Tibetan government officials along with the unanimous consensus of the monastic and lay communities.
 
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Teachings Print E-mail

We have requested Venerable Sharpa Choejay Rinpoche, third highest ranking Lama in the Gelukpa tradition to teach at the Gyuto Center.  Rinpoche has accepted our request and he will be with un in January - March 2009.  Additional details will follow soon.

Please log on our website regularly for teaching information and other programs. 

Thank you.
 
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