Newsletter No. 21 - March 2007
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TASHI DELEK! From the Trustees
TO ALL OUR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS
 

VISIT BY H.H. THE SAKYA TRIZIN FOR LAMDRE TEACHING—SUMMER 2007

Some eighteen months of planning down the line and another five to go!

It was in the summer of 2005 that an approach was initiated through the Tibet Foundation to invite H.H. The Sakya Trizin to England to give the Lamdrey teaching, sponsored by the Tibet Foundation, the Sakya Ling in Reading and the STL.

After the first planning meeting of the three sponsors in Reading in December 2005, Bournemouth became the chosen venue and a formal invitation was hand delivered to H.H. by Phuntsog Wangyal of the Tibet Foundation in January 2006. The fifth planning meeting took place in Reading this month and a further two are scheduled.
This is the first occasion His Holiness has given the Lamdre teaching in the UK and it is a great honour and privilege that this should be hosted in Bournemouth.
The teaching will start on 18 July 2007, lasting for four weeks and will be held at the Arts Institute in Bournemouth; between fifty and one hundred students are expected to attend, drawn from as far afield as Europe, North and South America and New Zealand. The start date is very auspicious as it is the date the Buddha delivered his first teaching at the Deer Park at Benares.
For more information on the Lamdre teaching please speak to one of the Trustees.

URGENTLY NEEDED HOSTS FOR THE LAMDRE!

All the accommodation at the Arts Institute has been filled!! PLEASE, PLEASE offer your home to a Lamdre Student (suggested charge £80 per week). We have people from all over the world coming to Bournemouth— Canada - New Zealand - Netherlands - Spain - Brazil! They would be great guests and bring lots of merit!

If you can help, please phone Sue on 01202 483110 or email: richnsue51@btinternet.com

LAMA THUBTEN’S STAY IN BOURNEMOUTH

We were very privileged to have Lama Thubten visit Bournemouth again. It was the first time he had seen our Centre in Charminster. He gave the following empowerments in November and early January: 2 Refuges, Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, White and Green Tara, Medicine Buddha and Vajrapani. He came to several open evenings and gave talks about Buddhist philosophy and meditation Practice. At the end of the first week of January, Lama-la returned to the Sakya centre in Denia, Southern Spain where he is resident Lama.


For any information on the activities of the Sakya Thubten Ling, please contact the Trustees:
Vedant White on 01202 300116
Richard Sedgley on 01202 483110
Liz Elwick on 01202 524975 or Jill Stanley on 01202 423707
Public Relations: Sue Sedgley on 01202 483110

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