September 30 – 02 October, 2022
3-Day Non-Residential Course Led by Venerable Gyalten Lekden.
Open to all levels of practitioners: beginners and experienced alike.
When Siddhartha Gautama renounced his royal station and became a renunciant some 2,500 years ago his actions were anything but safe and ordinary. Observing his life, he realized that nothing about it led to freedom from suffering and so he radically overturned all sense of what was expected of him.
In many ways the same is expected of contemporary Buddhist practitioners. Whether our worldly activities seem pleasurable or not, if we want to find true freedom from suffering we need to disrupt what we think we know and discover a capacity for true happiness and meaning that we never thought possible.
This course will explore this radical nature of the Buddhadharma, using Thogme Zangpo’s text The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, a text widely taught and highly lauded by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as the basis for the discussion.
This course will be in silence.
Approximate daily schedule for both days:
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Meditation |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Teaching |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Teaching |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Tea Break |
| 16:20 – 17:00 | Meditation |
Please note: This schedule might change on short notice!
Registration in Tushita’s Office Required!
Practical Information
Tushita’s Donation Policy
Tushita Meditation Centre operates entirely on the basis of donations, most of which come from people attending our courses and retreats. We will ask you to please give your full donation for the course in our reception office in the days before the course starts, payable in Indian Rupees only (unfortunately we cannot accept Foreign Currency, Travellers Cheques or Credit / Debit Cards).
For example, the minimum amount that Tushita needs to cover our costs for a 2- / 3-day course is 1500 / 2000 Indian Rupees per person. This includes lunch and afternoon tea on this day. It does not include any other meals or accommodation, since it will be a non-residential course. Of course, extra donations to help Tushita are always welcome!
Course Registration
For our non-residential courses, registration is only possible in our reception office by making your full donation of 2000 INR for this 3-day course. Please note we cannot accept any registration by email.
Office hours are: Monday – Saturday (closed Sundays)
- 9:00 – 11:30am
– lunch break – - 12:30 – 4:00pm
Accommodation Options
Since this is a non-residential course, it will not be possible to stay here at Tushita. There are many guest houses and hotels nearby however, varied enough to meet all comfort levels and budgets.
What to Bring
- Warm clothing which can be worn in layers and a shawl/blanket for using in the meditation hall are advisable. Bear in mind that we are at a slightly higher altitude than in McLeod Ganj, it is noticeably colder here.
- You are welcome to take notes during the course, so you may find a notebook, pen etc useful.
- It is handy to have your own water bottle. Filtered water is available in our dining hall and out of concern for the environment, we strongly discourage students from buying water in plastic bottles.
- An umbrella or rainwear, depending on the weather that day.
- Please read our Library page: we sell books and other items, so you may want to bring some extra money with you; or check conditions for borrowing.
- Please DO NOT bring: any musical instruments, camera, radios / tape / CD / MP3 players or mobile phones as you will be asked not to use them while you are here.
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