Geshe Tashi's Classes

Welcome Back Geshe Tashi-
• FREE EVENT •
Tuesday 15 April, 6pm

After 6 months of practice, retreat and pilgrimage in India, we are very fortunate to welcome back Geshe Tashi. Please bring offerings for Lama Choepa and vegetarian food to share separately. Everyone is welcome to come to this event .








An Explanation of the Vajrasattva Practice                                    Tuesdays 7.30pm, suggested donation £7/£4                                             • intermediate and advanced •
  As a preparation for the initiation His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give in  Nottingham in May, Geshe Tashi will teach on hot to do this purification   practice. Recommended for those taking initiation.
 

Vajrasattva Practice Weekend                                                  Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July,
Satruday 10am - 5pm,  Sunday 10am - 1pm
suggested donation:  whole weekend £30/£20, please book for lunch.         • intermediate and advanced •

Ideally for people with the initiation, or that recently took initiation with His Holiness. An opportunity to look at this deity’s practice in depth. Sunday the 6^th we will have a Puja celebrating HHDL’s birthday after the last session at 6pm.








Dependent Arising                                                                                
Tuesdays 7.30pm, suggested donation £7/£4                                                          
• intermediate and advanced •

Following HHDL’s teachings in Nottingham, Geshe Tashi will review the teachings on Je Tsongkhapa’s Praise to the Buddha for His Discourses on Dependent Origination (tendrel toepa), a discourse that explains the union of dependent arising and emptiness.









What is Buddhist Meditation?  
Wednesdays 7.30pm, suggested donation £7/£4                                                                                                             • all levels •
There are many different ways to do meditation for many different purposes. Here we will focus on techniques that Buddhist practitioners use to achieve their goal.


Buddhist way of Living and Dying                                             Wednesdays 7.30pm, suggested donation £7/£4                                 • all levels •
We will explore the advice and techniques that the Buddhist tradition offers to live a positive life and experience a positive death.

Among other topics, Geshe Tashi will be teaching on:

*How to  make this present life more meaningful
*How to make it more useful in the context of our spiritual path, and how to prepare oneself for future lifes
*How to prepare ourselves to face death with no fear
*How to help and look after relatives, friends or other beings who are going through the dying process
*The benefits of remembering death
*The death process itself, and how to integrate this knowledge into our daily practice

Buddhist way of Living and Dying Weekend                      
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 July, 1 - 5,
suggested donation whole weekend £25/£15.  • all levels •

A weekend course to help deepen the experiences gathered in the Tuesday classes.









 Introduction to Buddhism                                       Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 June, 2 - 6pm, suggested donation whole weekend £30/£20; £20/ £12 per day.          • all levels •


The message of the Buddha is a universal one, as relevant today as it was 2,500 years ago when he taught. We all seek happiness and yet seem locked in dissatisfaction and suffering, unable to see that the way out of our unhappiness is through understanding the vital role the mind plays in all this, and how our false sense of identity separates us from others and makes our own welfare seem more important than theirs.


Using examples from the first teachings of the Buddha (the subject of Geshe Tashi’s book The Four Noble Truths) Geshe-la will show clearly how compassion and wisdom are not mere concepts but vital parts of our life that are attainable and crucial for ourselves and for our endangered environment.