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Khenpo Kathar Rinpoche

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Karma Thegsum Choling Jacksonville is pleased to host Tibetan Buddhist Lama Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche. Rinpoche will offer teachings, blessings and empowerments in Jacksonville, Florida, January 14 through January 16, 2005.

Rinpoche is the Abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, the North American Seat of His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje. Rinpoche is a high Lama of the Karma Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and upholds this tradition as Karmapa's representative in North America. Rinpoche is also the retreat master of Karme Ling, a three year retreat center in Delhi, New York.

For over three decades Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche has patiently guided a great variety of Western students unaccustomed to the ways of Himalayan traditions. He has imparted these traditions in a way that maintains great respect for the oral tradition of the Karma Kagyu practice lineage.

After more than forty years of spreading and teaching the dharma outside Tibet, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche has a prolific body of work published in English and Chinese. Dozens of his teachings given over the past thirty years have been published in Densal magazine and as transcripts by KTD Dharma Goods.

In 1992 his book Dharma Paths, an in-depth introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist path, was published by Snow Lion Publications, and in 1996, Snow Lion published Rinpoche's commentary on The Precious Garland of the Supreme Path by Je Gampopa with the title The Instructions of Gampopa.

Pre-registration is requested for the Saturday and Sunday programs.

Click for a printable form to send your $20 nonrefundable pre-registration fee or to pay in full.

For additional information about registration please contact our Secretary.

There are additional requirements to attend the weekend teaching:

Prerequisite for Saturday:

Prerequisite for Sunday:

Refuge or the intention to take refuge on Saturday night.

Refuge: the ceremony by which one formally becomes a Buddhist

January 15, 2005

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

There will be a lunch break.

Teaching on the Chenrezik Sadhana

3939 Roosevelt Boulevard
Room C 202.

Fee:
$100 for both days (includes all ceremonies and empowerments)

$50.00 for one day

January 15, 2005

7:00 p.m.

Completion of registration begins at 5:45 p.m.

Please arrive no later than 6:30 p.m.

Ceremonies

Rinpoche plans to confer:

* The formal Buddhist refuge vow ceremony (ceremony by which one becomes a Buddhist)

* The Chenrezig empowerment and reading transmission and

* The Ngondro transmission. Ngondro transmission is for authorized students only.*

Fee:

If you are attending the evening cermony only, the fee is $35.00 for refuge ceremony,empowerment and/or ngondro transmission.

It is customary to present a white scarf (kata) and a donation (in a plain envelope) to the lama after an empowerment is received. Katas will be available to purchase and envelopes will be provided.

Members of Karma Thegsum Choling Jacksonville will be present to assist you.

January 16, 2005

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

There will be a lunch break.

Teaching on the Chenrezik Sadhana

3939 Roosevelt Boulevard
Room C 202.

Fee:
$100 for both days (includes all ceremonies and empowerments)

$50.00 for one day