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Khen Rinpoche Lobzang Tsetan- "Developing Bodhicitta according to Śāntideva"
Thursday April 04, 2013 | 07:00 -09:30 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
This method for developing bodhicitta ("the aspiration to awakening") comes from Śāntideva, an eighth-century Buddhist master from the monastic university of Nālandā, India. Śāntideva gave a great teaching that became the text, Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life or, in Sanskrit, Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra. This method was not taught widely because it was thought to be too difficult at the time and it was reserved for only the most advanced practitioners. Rinpoche will give a synopsis of Śāntideva's life story. He will then give a step by step talk on Śāntideva's method for developing bodhicitta, with emphasis on eliminating ego and equalizing and exchanging self and others (tonglen practice).
With regards to the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra text translation: In the autumn of 1974, in response to the request of several Western Buddhists studying in Dharamsala, India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama encouraged and gave his blessing to the undertaking at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives of a project to translate Śāntidevaʹs Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra.
Khen Rinpoche Lobzang Tsetan has been traveling and teaching in the United States for over thirty years. He began his monastic life at age seven in Stok, his family village in Ladakh, India. At age thirteen he joined the Stok Monastery to study and memorize Buddhist scriptures.
Khen Rinpoche Lobzang Tsetan- "Developing Bodhicitta according to Śāntideva"
Thursday April 04, 2013 | 07:00 -09:30 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
This method for developing bodhicitta ("the aspiration to awakening") comes from Śāntideva, an eighth-century Buddhist master from the monastic university of Nālandā, India. Śāntideva gave a great teaching that became the text, Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life or, in Sanskrit, Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra. This method was not taught widely because it was thought to be too difficult at the time and it was reserved for only the most advanced practitioners. Rinpoche will give a synopsis of Śāntideva's life story. He will then give a step by step talk on Śāntideva's method for developing bodhicitta, with emphasis on eliminating ego and equalizing and exchanging self and others (tonglen practice).
With regards to the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra text translation: In the autumn of 1974, in response to the request of several Western Buddhists studying in Dharamsala, India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama encouraged and gave his blessing to the undertaking at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives of a project to translate Śāntidevaʹs Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra.
Khen Rinpoche Lobzang Tsetan has been traveling and teaching in the United States for over thirty years. He began his monastic life at age seven in Stok, his family village in Ladakh, India. At age thirteen he joined the Stok Monastery to study and memorize Buddhist scriptures.
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The Calendar of Events lists events sponsored and co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. For a more comprehensive listing of university-wide events, see the Stanford Event Calendar.