September 5 – 7, 2014: Tushita was host to Gen Gyatso, who led a 3-day non-residential Introduction to Lojong (Mind Training) teaching entitled “Healing the Aching Heart”. Gen-la’s humility, vast knowledge and ability to teach the most difficult subjects of Buddhist Philosophy in simple and understandable ways, make him an extraordinary and loved teacher by […]
Tushita took an unusual break this monsoon, as most of our staff and students attended the Kalachakra Initiation conferred by HH the Dalai Lama in Leh, Ladakh, J&K State, India from July 3 – 14, 2014. During this period, Tushita was closed and there were no courses or drop-in events between these dates. After the initiation in Leh, in order […]
We had such an amazing final week of July at Tushita, hosting the Harmony in Kalachakra intermediate course, a 10-day Introduction to Buddhism course, and a special teaching from Jhado Rinpoche (you can see more about these events in the next news item here). Ending the month in style, we celebrated Buddha’s precious turning of […]
Saka Dawa is one of the most important festival days of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar – celebrating Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana! This year Saka Dawa fell on Friday June 13th. To begin the day, we held a butterlamp light offering puja in with our resident “Old Lama Gyupa”, Ven Thubten Dorjee, to make […]
Tushita was deeply honoured to welcome Yangten Rinpoche to confer the Chenrezig Initiation on May 27th 2014, as preparation for our annual series of 8 Nyung Nay Retreats. The first Nyung Nay had 20 hardy participants. We were also profoundly fortunate in having Geshe Kelsang Wangmo translate the initiation from Tibetan into English for us. You […]
It has been a long-term wish for Tushita to be able to improve its personal retreat facilities, to provide more supportive and conducive conditions for practitioners wishing to do personal retreat. We’ve been setting plans for our new Retreat Huts in motion for some time, but construction finally began on Monday April 21st 2014! In accordance […]
Unfortunately, we had to cancel our drop-in Guided Meditation sessions from May 26 – June 15, 2014. The cancellation was decided upon with heavy hearts and our sincere apologies for any disappointment caused, but we just had to be realistic, and focus on quality not quantity. During this period we have restrictions on our space and […]
We were extremely fortunate in being able to spend the weekend in the esteemed company of Jhado Rinpoche. And as if this wasn’t enough, we heard his words in English via the translation skills of the incredible Geshe Kelsang Wangmo! Jhado Rinpoche taught over 3 sessions on the 10th and 11th of May 2014, giving […]
Change and impermanence are the reality of a Dharma centre, with volunteers who come for differing periods of time. In April 2014, the Tushita ship had a change of captain, when Dr Anita Kamath Dudhane joined us, and had the difficult task of replacing the wonderful Linda Gyatso. Linda is pictured above left when she first joined […]
Our dear friend and esteemed guest teacher Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo very graciously gave a public talk on the 4th of April 2014, entitled: “SHAMATHA & The Four Immeasurables”. Whenever Jetsunma visits us we have a full house, and this teaching was no exception, with hundreds of attendees crammed inside our Main Gompa, and others sitting […]