Wednesday 26th May is the auspicious day of Saga Dawa Duchen in the Tibetan calendar. The special month of Saga Dawa culminates on the full moon and celebrates the Buddha’s Enlightenment and his parinirvana. On this special day it is said that positive and negative actions are magnified ten million times. It’s also lunar eclipse which is also said to magnify the punya from our practice! Continue reading Offerings for Saga Dawa Düchen
Lama Shenpen will be giving her first teaching of the new year on Saturday 13th February as part of the Teaching & Meditation weekend running from Friday 12th to Sunday 14th February. Lama Shenpen will introduce this year’s Living the Awakened Heart teaching theme of Insight into Emptiness, with the focus of this teaching being Dependent Origination. The weekend will continue with teachings from Dashu, … Continue reading Lama Shenpen Teaching in February on Dependent Origination
Lama Shenpen is giving a final online teaching of the year on the theme of Love and Compassion, this Saturday 19th December at 9.30am GMT Continue reading Lama Shenpen Teaching Saturday 19th Dec
Last Saturday Lama Shenpen was invited to speak at a prestigious event organised by the Tsadra Foundation to launch their Buddha Nature Resource website. The online Zoom event featured short talks on Buddha Nature by the prestigious guest speakers, including a special recorded address by HH Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje Continue reading Video: Buddha Nature Event with HH the Karmapa
Thanks to everyone who joined us online last Saturday 16th May to celebrate the Launch of Lama Shenpen’s life story book ‘Keeping The Dalai Lama Waiting & Other Stories: An English Woman’s Journey to Becoming a Buddhist Lama’ Continue reading Video: Book Launch Celebration
Loin Lama Shenpen and the Awakened Heart Sangha for a 4 day retreat with daily meditation sessions and teachings on Lojong mind training and Tonglen.
The retreat starts on Friday 1st May at 7pm BST and continues until Tuesday 5th May at 1pm.
The retreat is available to everyone and will be broadcast live on Zoom and YouTube. Continue reading Limitless Love & Compassion Online Retreat 1st – 5th May
Lama Shenpen will be teaching at a retreat weekend event in Birmingham, UK in March. Practising Dharma in Everyday Life, 22nd – 24th March, will be a weekend retreat to explore how we can bring the profound teachings of Dharma and Meditation into our busy lives. Continue reading Teaching Weekend in March
Lama Tashi Mannox’s Dharma Art work shop at The Hermitage in June, was a great success in all sorts of ways. I enjoyed talking to Lama Tashi in depth about what creativity means in terms of Buddha Nature and how to translate the English idea of creativity in Tibetan. They don’t seem to have one word for all that creativity means for us in English. … Continue reading Article: Dharma Art – What is Creativity in Dharma Terms?
