2016 SCHEDULE

​DATE

​TOPIC

​​VENUE

CONTACT
Jan 01 - Jan 02
Shamatha Retreat
Dharma Friends
(Neve Shalom, Israel)
dharma.friends.il@gmail.com
Jan 04
(19:30 - 21:00)
Three Higher Trainings (part 1)
Shantideva Study Group
​(Kiryat Ono, Israel)
​fpmtisrael@gmail.com
Jan 11
(19:30 - 21:00)
Three Higher Trainings (part 2)
Shantideva Study Group
​(Kiryat Ono, Israel)
​fpmtisrael@gmail.com
Jan 15 - Jan 16
Vipashyana Retreat
Dharma Friends
(Neve Shalom, Israel)
dharma.friends.il@gmail.com
Feb 19 - Feb 21
How to Cultivate Mental Balance
& Well-Being
Togme Sangpo
(Findhorn, Scotland)
togmesangpo37@gmail.com
+44 1309 690926
Mar 05 - Mar 12
(residential)
Gelug Mahamudra Retreat
Manniku Metsalatu
(Viljandi, Estonia)
retreatinestonia@gmail.com
Jun 17 - Jun 19
(10:00 - 16:30)
Hinayana Tenets
​(Vaibhasika & Sautrantika)
Jamyang Buddhist Centre
(London, England)
+44 20 7820 8787
Jun 24 - Jun 26
(10:00 - 16:30)
Mahayana Tenets
​(Cittamatra & Madhyamaka)
Jamyang Buddhist Centre
(London, England)
Jul 08
(19:00 - 21:00)
Essence of ​Vipashyana Practice
Ganden Centre
(Riga, Latvia)
Jul 24
(11:00 - 19:00)
Four Immeasurables Retreat
Foundation for Contemplative Studies ​​(Moscow, Russia)
Jul 27 - Jul 31
(residential)
Shamatha, Vipashyana & ​
Mahamudra Retreat
Foundation for Contemplative Studies ​​(Moscow, Russia)
Aug 18 - Aug 21
(residential)
Shamatha Retreat
Maitreya Instituut
(Loenen, Netherlands)
loenen@maitreya.nl 
Sep 27 - Oct 05
(residential)
Gelug Mahamudra
Tushita Meditation Centre
(Dharamsala, India)
Oct 08 - Oct 17
(residential)
Introduction to Buddhism
Tushita Meditation Centre
(Dharamsala, India)
Oct 23 - Oct 31
(residential)
7 Point Mind Training
Tushita Meditation Centre
(Dharamsala, India)
Nov 04
(17:30 - 19:00)
Understanding Reality & 
Its Integration in Daily Life
Indian Institute of Technology 
(Delhi, India)
​room LH308 (2nd floor)
"The three ways thoughts release themselves are
      (1) simply by recognizing them (gcer grol),
      (2) by the power of familiarization (thoughts release themselves like a snake unraveling itself) (shar grol) and
      (3) in the culminating phase there is no way thoughts can help or harm you (like a thief who comes to an empty house) (rang grol).

​In this final phase, thoughts empower your realization of pristine awareness, serving as aids to your practice. ​​Pristine awareness constitutes 'primordial release' (ye grol) for it has never been bound by thoughts.”​ 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Yangthang Rinpoche