Khenpo Pema Wangdak - The Bodhisattva's Way of Life: Exploring the Power Patience

Name: Khenpo Pema Wangdak - The Bodhisattva's Way of Life: Exploring the Power Patience
Start: 2024-09-28T09:00:00-06:00
Location: 2117 E Yandell Dr, El Paso, TX, United States, Texas 79903

Schedule

Sat Sep 28 2024 at 09:00 am

UTC-06:00

Location

2117 E Yandell Dr, El Paso, TX, United States, Texas 79903 | El Paso, TX

About this teaching
Join Ven. Khenpo Pema Wangdak for a discussion and meditation on the subject of patience. The enduring positive effects of peace, loving-kindness, and compassion, and everything else that is good in human nature—its values and ethics, its aspirations and goals—are possible only when combined with the strength of the power of patience. Without that strength, these values, profound and noble though they may be, are often seen to be fragile and frail, and thus are neglected, ignored, and misunderstood even by those who aspire to live by them.
Drawing on the teachings of Buddha, the virtues of patience, in the length and depth of its meaning, will be presented as an indispensable component of and the very key to a successful life, spiritual or mundane, and every meaningful thing we do: at home, at work, in social life, education, health, and all else that is conceivable. Our measure of accomplishment is fundamentally based on a solid foundation of patience.
About Khenpo Pema Wangdak
In 1982, he was sent to the West by His Holiness Sakya Trizin, as the first of the younger generation of Tibetan teachers in America from the Sakya School. In 1989 Lama Pema founded the Vikramasila Foundation. The Foundation encompasses the Palden Sakya Centers in New York City, Woodstock, NY, Philmont, NY, Englewood, NJ, Springfield, VT, Portland, ME, and Dayton OH. The Palden Sakya Centers offer courses in Tibetan Buddhist studies and meditation.
Lama Pema is the creator of "Bur Yig"--Tibetan Braille, and the founder of Pema Ts'al (English for Lotus Grove) Schools in Mundgod, India (for Tibetan lay children); Pokara, Nepal (monastic schools for boys); and Pema Ts'al School in New York City, with a curriculum modeled on that of Sakya College, India.
Khenpo Pema was recognized with the title of "Khenpo" by His Holiness Sakya Trizin in 2007. He received the distinguished “Ellis Island Medal of Honor” award by the National Ethical Coalition of Organizations in May, 2009 at Ellis Island for his humanitarian work around the world. Khenpo Pema is the first Tibetan ever to have received such an award.
Khenpo Pema has been guiding Western students for over 30 years, and he continues to travel and teach extensively to Dharma centers around the world.
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Saturday, September 28
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
CTBCC, 2117 E. Yandell Dr.
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