GEHLEK RIMPOCHE –
MEDICINE BUDDHA TEACHING
Saturday, November 8th: 3:30
to 6:30 PM
Tibetan Buddhists consider the Medicine
Buddha Empowerment to be the most powerful blessing for healing,
dispelling sickness and for awakening the innate healing wisdom that
lies within every individual. The practice of Medicine Buddha, the
Supreme Healer (or Sangye Menla in Tibetan) is not only a very powerful
method for healing and increasing healing powers both for oneself and
others, but also for overcoming the inner sickness of attachment,
hatred, and ignorance, thus to meditate on the Medicine Buddha can help
decrease physical and mental illness and suffering.
Dinner Break
CLOSING CEREMONY:
8:00 to 10:30 PM
Gehlek Rimpoche will continue and
conclude the Medicine Buddha Teaching and Blessing. He will be joined by
other lamas and speakers in a final closing meditation dedicated to the
people of Washington D.C. and the world for peace and healing.
OTHER BUDDHIST
AND BON TEACHINGS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2003
Opening Lecture: 7:30 PM -
Gehlek Rimpoche and Robert A.F. Thurman, PhD -
Tonglen Meditation: Transforming Pain and
Suffering into Compassion for Healing
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2003
Early Morning Meditation & Tibetan Yoga
Session: 7:00 to 8:00 am
SPECIAL EVENING LECTURE:
8:00 to 10:00 pm
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
-
Healing with Form, Energy and Light
FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 7, 2003
Early Morning Meditation & Tibetan Yoga
Session: 7:00 to 8:00 am)
# 404 – Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche – Tibetan
Yogas of Dream and Sleep
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a lama in the
Bon tradition of Tibet will lead a workshop on the dream and sleep yoga,
also known as the yoga of clear light. Rinpoche will discuss
instructions for the practices of the yogas, including foundational
practices done during the day. IN the Tibetan tradition, the ability to
dream lucidly is not an end in itself, rather it provides an additional
context in which one can engage in advanced and effective practices to
achieve liberation.
SPECIAL EVENING LECTURE:
7:30 pm to 10:00 pm Tulku Thondup: Realizing
the Potential to Heal: Buddhist Meditations to Heal Mind and Body
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2003
Early Morning Meditation & Tibetan Yoga
Session: 7:00 to 8:00 am
9:00 to 9:45 am
Keynote Lecture
Robert A.F. Thurman, PhD, Columbia University -
Compassion and Selflessness: Vital for Modern
Healthcare
# 605 – The Healing Power of Mantras
Mantras have the unique power of bringing
about instant mental peace and well being for the practionner. Dechen
Shak-Dagsay, a Tibetan living in Switzerland, will discuss and lead a
workshop based on her new album “Dewa Che, Universal Healing Power of
Tibetans Mantras”, a CD which is touching the hearts of thousands of
people all over the world.
# 705 – Tulku Thondup – Boundless Healing
Using Buddhist principles, Tulku Thondup
will present meditation techniques to awaken healing energies in the
body and mind that will benefit those who want to preserve good health
as well as those who need comfort and relief from illness or mental
distress. These meditations draw on our innate capacity for imagination
and memory, our natural enjoyment of beauty and our deep-seated longing
for a state of quiet calm.
Himalayas: An Aesthetic
Adventure
SPECIAL Benefit
Concert and Dinner with Philip Glass
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
7:30-10
p.m.
Join celebrated composer Philip Glass
for a concert and dinner on November 5 from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at the Freer
Gallery of Art. Proceeds from the event will support the museum
presentation of Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure.
A
conversation with Philip Glass will be a unique experience. Please make
plans now to join us.
Tickets are $500 per person ($400 tax
deductible). For more information or to purchase tickets, call Caroline
Bedinger at
the Freer Gallery of Art(202)
633-0447.
October 18, 2003-January 11,
2004
Sackler Gallery - Smithsonian Institution
For more information go to
www.asia.si.edu
The first major exhibition to survey the artistic traditions of the
entire
Himalayan region, Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure presents over 150
sculptures and paintings from India, Nepal, and the Tibetan plateau,
most of
which have never been publicly exhibited in the West. While these
exquisite
Buddhas and bodhisattvas, glowing mandalas and deities, stone and bronze
Hindu gods, and illuminated manuscripts and portraits were inspired by
Hindu
and Buddhist traditions, they reveal that countless generations of
artists
imaginatively surpassed ritual requirements to create profoundly moving
and
original works of art.
Curated by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, curator emeritus of the Norton Simon
Museum in Pasadena, California, this major loan exhibition highlights
aesthetic excellence and innovation. In addition to an introductory
video
focusing on artistic process and religious ritual, a range of
programs-including Tibetan debate, Nepalese dance, films about the
Himayalas, and talks by Himalayas scholars-provides a broader cultural
and
religious context for the works of art.
Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure
was organized by The Art Institute of
Chicago. Major sponsorship support for this exhibition has been provided
by
Exelon, Proud Parent of ComEd.
This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the E.
Rhodes
and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, The Christensen Fund, the National
Endowment for the Arts, and The W. L. S. Spencer Foundation.
Presentation of the exhibition at the Sackler is supported in part by
the
Else Sackler Public Affairs Endowment and the Director's Discretionary
Fund
established by Peggy and Richard M. Danziger.