On April 30, 2020, Lama Yeshe Jinpa of Lion's Roar Dharma Center at Do Nga Dargey Temple in Sacramento, California, continued his teachings on tenets for his four-year intensive Buddha Dharma Study Program students. This teaching discusses the importance of studying tenets as a whole.
On April 28, 2020, Lama Yeshe Jinpa, of Lion's Roar Dharma Center at Do Nga Dargey Temple in Sacramento, CA, provides a video lecture introducing tenets as his four-year intensive Buddha Dharma Study Program students read Cutting Through Appearances by Geshe Lhundup Sopa and Jeffrey Hopkins.
On April 16, 2020, Lama Yeshe Jinpa, of Lion's Roar Dharma Center at Do Nga Dargey Temple in Sacramento, California, provides a short presentation on how to approach the study of original Buddhist texts for the benefit of students in his four-year intensive Buddha Dharma Study Program. Lama Jinpa also discusses bodhicitta from the Yogacara point of view, based on the Mahayanasutralamkara, or, as translated by Bob Thurman, The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature.
As part of our Losar practice commitment dedicated to our precious Lama Yeshe Jinpa, on Saturday, March 7, 2020, we will engage in the recitation and meditation of Barchad Lamsel in six 50-minute sessions, with a 10-minute break between sessions and a one hour potluck lunch. Noble silence will be maintained during breaks in order to extend the meditative power of the practice sessions into the post-meditation periods of the breaks.
This Monday, February 24, at 7:00 PM, we will celebrate Losar, the arrival of the new Year of the Iron Mouse, the year 2147 of the Tibetan calendar! The Zanabazar Dharma Center sangha will join with Lion’s Roar Dharma Center sangha at Do Nga Dargey Temple for our annual Losar Celebration. Lama Yeshe Jinpa and Geshe Damchoe Gurjav will lead us in the practice of a Windhorse meditation. Windhorse is a method that removes and dispels obstacles for ourselves and for all beings everywhere.
Robert Nakashima, 3rd Degree Black Belt with over 30 years of martial arts experience, will be teaching a course in Xingyi in the dojo/community center, on Wednesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Xingyi Quan is the "Five Elements Form." Xingyi, means “mind intended,” and Quan translates as “form.” Together the slow, steady, controlled flow of movement and breath generates power and energy when needed. Students will begin to develop a connection to breath and body through this course. Beginners are encouraged!
After reading the children’s story, “The Kindness Quilt,” by Elizabeth Wallace, our Little Buddhas spent a recent Sunday morning drawing pictures of themselves engaged in random acts of kindness. Hugging, giving high fives, helping others who are in need, picking up trash, sharing cookies and taking care of animals were a few of their ideas.. They were such an inspiration.
Our sangha member Yeshe Tsewang (aka Michelle) reports from Lion's Roar Dharma Center III in San Pancho, Jalisco, Mexico: We have a beautiful space in a palapa at El Estar, a local yoga/therapy/wellness studio. Practice is every Monday at noon.
Mt. Wanda / John Muir Home Hike, Meditation, Lunch, and Tour Saturday May 9, 2020 10:00 am - 2:00 pm. Mark your calendar! Lion’s Roar Dharma Center invites you for a field trip to Mt. Wanda and John Muir National Historic Site on Saturday, May 9, 2020, for: A hike/saunter (2 miles, 600 feet in elevation); Meditation under the fruit orchard (Bring your yoga mat if you have one); Lunch (will be provided); and A tour of John Muir’s family home. Please RSVP by April 25, 2020. Dana donation of $10 to benefit Lion’s Roar are welcome, but no one [...]
Special Event! Arjia Rinpoche Teachings Saturday, November 23rd 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM We are grateful to announce that Arjia Rinpoche will be visiting the Do Nga Dargey Temple to share his teachings in November. Please save Saturday, November 23rd, from 6:00-8:00 pm, for this very special visit. Arjia Rinpoche, Director of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana (www.tmbcc.org) is the former Abbot of Kumbum Monastery in Eastern Tibet, and author of Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama’s Account of 40 years of Chinese Rule. Rinpoche teaches in English. His warm and open style provides a rich [...]
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