Rejoice & Enjoy Our New Online Course
April 2020
Dear Dharma friends from around the world,
Tushita was founded 48 years ago being the second centre in our worldwide organization, FPMT. In accordance with Buddhist practice, we have been able to offer the Dharma free of charge to students from India and around the world (requesting a nominal amount for room & board).
We have been diligently keeping statistics and crunching numbers from 2009 to 2019 and would like to share the results of our extensive activities by way of graphs and pie charts. We now invite you to take a moment to rejoice with us on how we’ve been able to connect and be of benefit to so many people.
Please visit and enjoy our inspiring stats page – not just for nerds!
If you are unable to come to us, we are happy to come to you. In these challenging times we have launched free online programs. There has been a very favorable response, far exceeding our expectations. We have reached 1700 students in 71 different countries, connecting with Andorra for the first time!
Up to now, we have been able to offer our programs due to generous donations from our residential students and sponsors. Here in India, we are currently experiencing a strict lockdown for one month, with no end in sight. This prevents us from hosting our usual residential programs and due to this, we are not able to make ends meet. We need your help to survive in order to continue to provide Dharma activities for everyone.
Therefore we are offering an unique fundraising course “Healing with Compassion” with a very special teacher. Venerable Tenzin Legtsok, an American monk, who is studying in his sixteenth year of the Geshe Program at Sera Monastic University, which follows the Nalanda tradition. For the past ten years he has made the Buddhist teachings accessible to various audiences from India and around the world through lectures, essays and meditation instruction.
Your participation in this course and generosity will enable Tushita to continuously provide our extensive range of free Dharma programs in the future. All contributions will be deeply appreciated. No amount is too small!
Healing with Compassion
with Venerable Legtsok
April 20 – 25, 2020 (plus Bonus Day for sponsors on Sunday, April 26th)
What Will We Learn?
It’s like the world has turned upside down. In the midst of so much sickness, uncertainty and hardship what can we do for the well-being of ourselves and others?
All actions begin in our own minds. Compassion is an attitude that unflinchingly looks at the misery there is and resolves to do whatever we can to end it. Compassion gives us courage, hope, resilience, a sense of purpose, and most of all connects us to all others in a way that comforts and uplifts them.
In this course combining instructions, meditations and group discussions, we will explore ways to use the current world situation as a powerful catalyst for deepening our innate compassion and focusing our lives in the best ways we can to benefit ourselves and others.
Sponsor Level Package
8,000 or more Indian Rupees
Includes:
6 full days of live Zoom sessions
Live teachings and discussion with Venerable Legtsok
Guided meditations to support the teachings with Felipe
“Break Out” discussion groups with your peers
Audio and video recordings of each session
Bonus Day – Full day of Questions and Answers with Venerable Legtsok plus bonus meditations
Supporter Level Package
6,000 Indian Rupees
Includes:
6 full days of live Zoom sessions
Live teachings and discussion with Venerable Legtsok
Guided meditations to support the teachings with Felipe
“Break Out” discussion groups with your peer
Audio and video recordings of each session
Well-Wisher Level Package
3,000 Indian Rupees
Includes:
6 full days of recorded audio and video sessions
Recorded videos of teachings and discussion with Venerable Legtsok
Recorded meditations to support the teachings with Felipe