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Schedule (subject to change), all times are MDT
Friday, Aug 23:
6:30 – 7:00 Meditation
7:00 – 8:30 Panel Discussion
Sat, Aug 24:
9 – 9:15 am: Welcome and opening chants
9:15 -10:15 am: Meditation
10:15-10:30: Break
10:30-Noon: Talk by Lama Tenpa
12 – 2 pm: Lunch Break
2 – 3 pm: Meditation led by Lama Tenpa
3 – 3:30: Break
3:30 – 5 pm: Talk by Lama Tenpa
5 pm: Closing chants
Sun, Aug 25:
9 – 9:15 am: Welcome and opening chants
9:15 -10:15 am: Meditation
10:15-10:30: Break
10:30-Noon: Talk by ALTG
Closing chants
12 – 2 pm: Reception with light lunch in community room.
For those that registered, you will receive an email with information for accessing the recordings. Recordings will be available for 3 months.
The password for the recordings page can be found in your email, if you registered for the event.
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Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was born in Nepal and entered the monastery at age thirteen. In 1981, Lama Tenpa and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche enrolled in the first class of Rumtek Monastery’s Karma Shri Nalanda Institute in Sikkim, India. Lama Tenpa completed his studies with an Acharya degree in 1991. Following his graduation, he taught Buddhist philosophy at the institute for two years. Under the guidance of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, he then entered a three-year retreat in Pullahari, Nepal.
From 1997 to 2004, Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was the resident teacher at H.H. the 17th Karmapa’s Theksum Tashi Chöling Center in Hamburg, Germany.
He has also served as a faculty member of the Religious Studies Department at Naropa University, where he specialized in teaching graduate courses in Tibetan tradition. Since 1998, Lama Tenpa has also been one of the main teachers at Nitartha Institute and teaches regularly at Nalandabodhi centers around the world.
Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was born in Nepal and entered the monastery at age thirteen. In 1981, Lama Tenpa and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche enrolled in the first class of Rumtek Monastery’s Karma Shri Nalanda Institute in Sikkim, India. Lama Tenpa completed his studies with an Acharya degree in 1991. Following his graduation, he taught Buddhist philosophy at the institute for two years. Under the guidance of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, he then entered a three-year retreat in Pullahari, Nepal.
From 1997 to 2004, Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was the resident teacher at H.H. the 17th Karmapa’s Theksum Tashi Chöling Center in Hamburg, Germany.
He has also served as a faculty member of the Religious Studies Department at Naropa University, where he specialized in teaching graduate courses in Tibetan tradition. Since 1998, Lama Tenpa has also been one of the main teachers at Nitartha Institute and teaches regularly at Nalandabodhi centers around the world.
Mitra Lee’s early career was in theater and the arts, and it was through this that she discovered Buddhism. In 1973, she attended a theater conference in Boulder, and was invited to teach acting at Naropa. While teaching, she began studying and meditating with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Naropa’s founder. In 1975 Trungpa Rinpoche asked Lee to head Naropa’s Theater Studies Department, and she was a professor of Theater and Contemplative Education there until her recent retirement. Lee met Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche at Naropa and became his student. After serving in several positions for Nalandabodhi, she was appointed Mitra in 2005. She currently oversees the Path of Meditation with the Mitra Council.
Judith Simmer-Brown, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies Emeritx at Naropa University, where she has taught for over 40 years. Simmer-Brown is a compassion trainer for the Compassion Initiative at Naropa. She is author of Dakini’s Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism (Shambhala) and editor, with Fran Grace, of Meditation and the Classroom: Contemplative Pedagogy for Religious Studies (SUNY). For Shambhala, she teaches Shambhala Training levels, Mahayana and Vajrayana topics, with a special love of White Tara, feminine principle, working with emotions, compassion and social engagement.
The Tour of Your Mind is a series of interconnected retreats guided by Lama Tenpa. The next two retreats will be held online and onsite in September—see below. Recordings will be available for three months after the program ends.
We talk about having a mind, but when we look for it, where is it? What is it? How does that fresh experience feel, and how is it different from analysis or conceptual thinking?
With momentary insight into the nature of appearances and the nature of mind, what might those experiences uncover? What is the essence of the present moment and how do we stabilize that abiding truth?
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Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was born in Nepal and entered the monastery at age thirteen. In 1981, Lama Tenpa and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche enrolled in the first class of Rumtek Monastery’s Karma Shri Nalanda Institute in Sikkim, India. Lama Tenpa completed his studies with an Acharya degree in 1991. Following his graduation, he taught Buddhist philosophy at the institute for two years. Under the guidance of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, he then entered a three-year retreat in Pullahari, Nepal.
From 1997 to 2004, Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was the resident teacher at H.H. the 17th Karmapa’s Theksum Tashi Chöling Center in Hamburg, Germany. Since 1998, Lama Tenpa has also been one of the main teachers at Nitartha Institute. Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen is a professor of Buddhist studies and Tibetan language at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches regularly at Nalandabodhi centers around the world.
