Programme: WBU Sunday Forum
Topic: “Hinayana Buddhism in Practice Today”
Date & Time: July 6, B.E. 2551 ( 2008 ) 12:00-13:30 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Ravindra Kumar
About the speaker
Dr. Ravindra Kumar is an eminent writer, thinker, scholar, political-scientist, peace-worker and educationist having more than 100 works on great personalities of the Indian Sub-continent including Gautama Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi [...]
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We will meet for the June retreat at Wat Yannawa at 8am, and head off in two mini busses just after 8. Call 085 060 7386 if you are lost.
We aim to take lunch at Wat SongDhamma Kalayani around 11 am, where Bhikkhuni Dhammananda will meet us personally. We will also make some ‘Tam Boon’ [...]
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H.H. Phakchok Rinpoche will be leading the following events:
Sat. and Sun. 21-22 June 2008
Gampopa’s Jewel Ornament of Liberation (JOL)
by His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche
21st to 22nd June 2008
at the Park Forum Hotel
Soi Vati, Chand Road, Yannawa District
Bangkok, Thailand.
(Located in the lane opposite the Baan Nondzee Condominium on Chand Road.
Near the intersection of Chand Road and Narathiwat Rachanakarin [...]
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His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche will lead the Event:
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Lecture: “Healing in Buddhism”
Place: Mongkolnavin Conference Room
10th Floor, Queen Sirikit Building (Sor.Gor. Building)
Rajadamri Road, Bangkok.
(Near the King’s Building / Por.Bor.Ror. Building).
Get off the BTS at the Saladaeng Station.
Or MRT (underground) Silom Station (Lumpini Exit).
Time: Registration starts at 11:45 [...]
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English Synopsis of
‘VAJRASATTVA EMPOWERMENT”
And Speech on “HOW TO ACCUMULATE MERIT”
by His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche
on Thursday evening, 19 June 2008
in Bangkok, Thailand
At the Bodhgaya Hall, DMG Co. Ltd., 22nd Floor, Amarin SOGO Building,
beside the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel on Ploenchit Road, Bangkok.
Registration starts at 5:00 p.m. No registration fee.
VAJRASATTVA EMPOWERMENT (5:30 p.m. - 6:30 [...]
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HH Phakchok Rinpoche will be leading the following event:
Lecture in English by His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche
Lecture: The Great ‘I’
Place: Grand Ballroom, 11th Floor
Tawana Hotel
(In the Rear Building of the Hotel)
Surawongse Road, Bangkok.
Get off at the Saladaeng BTS Station.
Walk through Patpong Road and turn left on Surawongse Road.
Time: 5:00 p.m. [...]
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His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche is a lineage holder of the Profound Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa from the Nyingma School of Early Translation and throne-holder of Riwoche Taklung Kagyu Lineage. His Holiness is currently Vajra Master of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Boudhanath (Kathmandu, Nepal), Abbot of Do-ngak Nyida Zungdrel Sherab Raldri Ling Monastery (Nepal), Abbot [...]
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Saturday June 28 2008 - Movie date !
Holy Smoke !
Holy Smoke is a fun movie from 1999 revolving around two, ever brilliant actors Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel. Kate’s character undergoes a spiritual transformation with a guru in India and her family don’t like it. They trick her into returning to Australia, and force her [...]
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Highly venerated Tibetan, His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche will be visiting Bangkok from June 16 - 22. There will be a series of events arranged while he is here in English and English/Thai.
His homepage is here: http://phakchokrinpoche.org/phakchokindex.htm with all information and background details. We will post up details of places and schedules for his public talks in [...]
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Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 1 June, 2008 | Comments Off
While not really Dhamma, some of the titles in the Bangkok Book Club’s list are somewhat interesting. Several of us psychologists have read or are reading the book for October The Geography of Thought - which examines the differences in fundamental ways of thinking between Asian cultures and Western cultures. In this sense it relates [...]
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International Conference
on
Buddhism in the Age of
Consumerism
1-3 December 2008
Organized by
The College of Religious Studies,
Mahidol University, Thailand.
Registration fee (US$ 100/or ß 3000) including
lunch and snack. (Those registering in advance latest
by 20 October 2008 will have discount of US$ 30)
http://www.crs.mahidol.ac.th/eng/index.htm
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June 1st the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) on Sukhumvit has its monthly meditation workshop with a monk from Wat Pa Nanachat. This month is Phra David Khunavutto, a monk at Wat Pa Nanachat for 11 years.
Workshop is at the usual schedule of 2 pm - 5 pm, including talk, meditaion, Q&A and coffee break.
WFB [...]
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Synopsis for a Buddhist forum
1 June 2008,
12.00-13.30 hrs.
World Buddhist University
“Practice of Tara in the Relative and Absolute”
Dr. Krisadawan Hongladarom
The Thousand Stars Foundation
The female Buddhist deity of compassion Tara has been an object of devotion and a living practice among practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet and beyond. Her ten-syllable mantra is always on the lips [...]
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Summary: June 5 is environment day. How is environmentalism connected with Buddhism? Greenpeace’s plan for June 5 in Bangkok.
Environmentalism is not Buddhism. You do not have to be an environmentalist just because you are a meditator, but there is a connection. Being a person of few wants, is a necessary quality of a monk, so [...]
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Summary of Visakha Puja; the function of symbolic gesture.
On the full moon day of May each year Buddhists around the world celebrate Visakha Puja - the day on which, according to legend, the Buddha was born. He also attained enlightenment on his birthday, and later died on his birthday too. So he had mixed luck [...]
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June Weekend Meditation Retreat
Here it is, finally confirmed. We have set the dates for our first Little Bangkok Weekend Meditation Retreat for June 13, 14 and 15.
Everything is set. We can accomodate a couple more people if there is a last minute booking. There will be 18 of us, all regulars. Details are announced : [...]
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Sunday 11th May there is a talk about Art from the tiny Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. Event at the One Thousand Stars Foundation House, Lard Prao - close to the underground line.
Note: Thousand Stars have informed us the talk will not last until 4pm. Naturally all are welcome to hang around and chat afterwards.
The Thousand [...]
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Announcement from June 2008
The Thai Bhikkhuni website has announced international retreats at Wat SongDhamma Kalyani temple just outside Bangkok in July. The retreats seem to be for women only, and are held at Thailand’s only female only temple.
July 28th - August 3rd
September 22 - 28
October 6 - 12
Wat Songdhamma kalyani, Nakhon Pathom
You can see photos [...]
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