Events Around Town (13)
Cinema Village Theater
Trip to BodhGaya, India for Kalachakra Jan. 1-10, 2012
Trip to BodhGaya, India for Kalachakra Jan. 1-10, 2012
Arranged by Dr. Kazuko
Special Invitation:
We have just received cancellation of two spots for this extraordinary trip to Kalachakra; VIP seating, private housing with private cook and transportation, nightly interpretation by a Rimpoche and visit to some important Buddha sites, Rajgir, Nalanda, Pawapuri, Sarnath, Varanasi, etc.
“The initiation to the Kalachakra is one of the most important...because it takes everything into account: the body and the human mind, and the whole external aspect -- cosmic and astrological. We firmly believe in its power to reduce conflict and we believe it is capable of creating...peace of spirit and therefore peace in the world". ---- His Holiness the Dalai Lama the14th http://www.kalachakra2012.org/kalachakra.html
Kalachakra means Time-Wheel, as "Kala" is Time and "Chakra" is Wheel in Sanskrit. It is also translated as Time-Cycles. Much in this tradition revolves around the concept of time and cycles; from the cycles of the planets, to the cycles of our breath and the practice of controlling the most subtle energies within one's body on the path to enlightenment.
Fee: $3600 (domestic flights, local tours, luxury hotels) excluding international air fare (12/29/11 NY-Delhi-NY 1/11/12), apprx. $1350.
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Journey from Zanskar Opens - Friday, Sept. 23 - Quad Cinema
"Beautiful, powerful, and heart-warming… I hope the film will bring much needed assistance to the noble Zanskari people". Robert Thurman
Daily Dharma: The Yogic Arts in Everyday Life
Registration: $60 click here to register (portion of the proceeds to benefit Tibet House).
BuddhaFest Film Festival
Note: All events will be held at: Artisphere's Spectrum Theatre, 1611 N. Kent Street, at the corner of Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22209.
BuddhaFest Week Is Here!
Be part of an amazing community this week at the 2nd annual BuddhaFest. The response to this year's festival has just been tremendous -- we want to thank all of you for your support and encouragement. It has meant a lot to us. Seating at BuddhaFest is limited, and some events are going to sell out, so please get your tickets and passes soon.
Here are some BuddhaFest highlights for you to consider:
• A special opening night presentation on Thursday, including a sacred ceremony by a group of East Asian monks, a short talk by Hugh Byrne, and the powerful film I AM.
• The Friday East Coast premiere of a film that has created much buzz, CRAZY WISDOM. Filmmaker Johanna Demetrakas will be present for this film about Buddhist icon Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Lama Tsony will lead a talk and meditation before the film.
• Saturday morning talk and meditation by Rudy Bauer on becoming aware of awareness. Rudy shows us how inhabiting this field of awareness can help us more fully experience our own true nature, and realize the contiuous benefit of true peace.
• The world premiere of FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL BEINGS on Saturday. We think you're going to fall in love with Garchen Triptrul Rinpoche, the loving and compassionate subject of this inspiring film. Filmmaker Christina Lundberg will be present. Tara Brach will lead a talk and meditation before the screening.
• Roshi Enkyo O'Hara, Abbot of the Village Zendo in Greenwich Village and Co-Spiritual Director of the Zen Peacemakers, explores how we can engage our Buddhist principles while serving in our communities and in the world.
• The East Coast premiere on Saturday of a moving Spanish language film, UN BUDA, featuring a soundtrack with music by Krishna Das.
• A free Sunday morning panel discussion on Mindful Parenting, with free childcare provided during the program.
• A special double-event on Sunday: CAVE IN THE SNOW, about the amazing life of Tenzin Palmo and her quest for equality for women monastics, followed after a lunch break by an important workshop with Ruth King -- Emotional Wisdom: Healing Heart & Mind.
• Sunday afternoon program about next month's Kalachakra for World Peace here in DC, featuring a talk and meditation by Hugh Byrne, a presentation by a representative of the Kalachakra, and the mesmerizing Werner Herzog film WHEEL OF TIME.
• A Sunday Tibetan dinner provided by members of the Tibetan community.
• Our closing program: The award-winning film WITH ONE VOICE, with filmmaker Matt Flickstein present for questions. Followed by a talk and meditation on finding real happiness by NY Times best-selling author Sharon Salzberg.
Please visit buddhafest.org for the full schedule, trailers & descriptions, and tickets & passes.
Note: All events will be held at: Artisphere's Spectrum Theatre, 1611 N. Kent Street, at the corner of Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22209.
An Evening of Blessings with the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
DATE: Friday, June 10, 2011
TIME: 7:00PM-10:00PM
LOCATION: Urban Zen Center
711 Greenwich Street, New York City
click here to register
Please join the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers as they offer their wisdom, teachings, and prayers for staying in balance in these tumultuous times. They walk the spiritual world with practical feet, inspiring joyful service. Come be transformed by the knowledge of the ages, in the pursuit of creating a brighter future for us all.
The Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come. The Grandmothers are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. They believe the teachings of our ancestors will light the way through an uncertain future and look to further their vision through the realization of projects that protect their diverse cultures, lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer , and especially through projects that educate and nurture our children.
View the livestream of this event at: ww.livestream.com/urbanzen
TICKETS - $100 - click here to register
URBAN RIVER ARTS & LAUNCHPAD presents
Lama Tenzin in making THE SAND MANDALA OF COMPASSION
VIEWING: May 9th - Thurs. May 13; 9am - 12pm & 1pm - 4pm
DHARMA TALK: Wednesday May 11; 6:30 - 8pm
CLOSING CEREMONY: Friday May 13; 1pm
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LOCATION:
721 Franklin Ave (btw Sterling Pl & Park Pl)
Crown Heights Brooklyn, 11238
Trains: 4/5 & 2/3 to Franklin Ave
Suggested Donation: $2 - $10 per person
URBAN RIVER ARTS: www.urbanriverarts.org |
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LAUNCHPAD: www.brooklynlaunchpad.org
Sunday, March 20 - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Robert A. F. Thurman
Ritual in Contemplation: Text and Tools in Tantric Buddhism
Rugs and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism
The imagery of Tibetan tantric rugs is potent and often shocking to those unfamiliar with the meanings of Buddhist art. Learn about the rituals, rites, and texts involved in the quest for spiritual detachment from the corporal body.
3:00 Ritual in Contemplation:
Text and Tools in Tantric Buddhism
Introduced by John Guy, Curator of South and Southeast
Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
All programs are in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium and are free with Museum admission. Assistive listening devices are available from the ushers.
This lecture is made possible by the generous support of Jeff Soref and Paul Lombardi, Jeff Soref Fund of the Stonewall Community Foundation.
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Robert A. F. Thurman is Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Department of Religion, Columbia University.
*Note: This event does not take place in New York but in Bloomington, Indiana.
BloomingtonKatmandu Exhibit - May 2011
Place: TMBCC, Bloomington, Indiana
The 14th Dalai Lama, the self described "simple Buddhist monk" states that being forced to be a refugee made him into a world citizen. Some of us never leave the place we are born in, some of us are forced to leave and to find a new home, some of us leave by choice for a far away place, and some of us are permanent postmodern cultural nomads. BloomingtonKatmandu reflects the impermanency and the mobility of the 21st century’s ever changing geographical, emotional and physical borders that we humans cross daily. The local, international, exilic and nomadic artists are asked to choose and-or create works of art that best represent the place, the person, and-or the object that they call “home”.
The exhibition will take place on May 28th, 2011 at the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana. When the founder of the TMBCC, Thubten Jigme Norbu--the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama--had the dream to build an interfaith center that all religions could call home, people from many faiths donated land, money, building supplies, and labor. In 1979, the Cultural Building was constructed by Mennonites, Conservative and Liberal Christians, Muslims, and Jews. In 2003, the Dalai Lama dedicated the Kumbum Chamtse Ling as an Interfaith Temple to promotes interfaith peace and harmony. In his most recent visit in May 2010, the Dalai Lama asked that the center be used as a hub for artistic and cultural events for people from all backgrounds. Hence TMBCC strives to be a temple not just for the religiously inclined, but also a temple for the mind of the intellectually and artistically inclined -- spirituals, seculars, pagans, atheists and agnostics alike.
For more information, visit: Bloomington Katmandu
Monday & Wednesday; 8 - 9:50pm
Book Launch - In the Shadow of the Buddha
Matteo Pistono
Rubin Museum of Art
Buy a book before 7:00 p.m. and receive free admission to the museum's galleries!
"This story of Matteo Pistono's quest to visit places in Tibet associated with Tertön Sogyal, the adept who was a companion of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, is revealing not only of the Tertön's life but also of circumstances in contemporary Tibet." –The Dalai Lama
"From Wyoming to Himalayan meditation caves to Capitol Hill, Pistono's account of his quest for spiritual illumination and political justice is heartbreaking and awe-inspiring. Pistono, raised with the belief that social activism is a core responsibility, began traveling to Tibet in 1999, motivated, in part, by his fascination with Tertön Sogyal, a nineteenth-century mystic and 'Tibet's great champion and protector.' Pistono follows in Tertön Sogyal's footsteps while telling the mystic's astonishing story, from his father's insistence that he join a band of highway robbers to serving as teacher to the XIII Dalai Lama and guiding Tibet through political turmoil and the intrusion of British forces. Traveling as both a journalist and a Buddhist pilgrim, Pistono also found himself at the crossroads of spirituality and politics when he was asked to serve as a human-rights courier, carrying to the West hard evidence of China's systematic brutality in occupied Tibet. Pistono tells chilling cloak-and-dagger tales and offers mesmerizing descriptions of haunting landscapes and miracle-performing lamas. But what shimmers most in this riveting and mysterious chronicle, which includes a foreword by Tibet activist Richard Gere, is the courage of those dedicated to 'the Dalai Lama's vision for real autonomy and religious freedom in Tibet through nonviolent means.'" –Donna Seaman
"What a fabulous saga! A mystical tale of defending the land of the Buddha Dharma at the turn of the twentieth century interwoven with the life and death struggle now going on at the turn of the twenty-first. This moving account is written beautifully from the heart, and it lifts the heart to read it. It is both unearthly and powerfully real. I recommend it with the strongest enthusiasm." –Robert Thurman, author of Inner Revolution and Infinite Life: Awakening to Bliss Within.
Compassion Transformed
January 27 – February 26, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, January 27, 6–9 PM
New York,NY December 22,2010 -- Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Compassion Transformed,an exhibition of new paintings by the New York-based Tibetan artist Pema Rinzin. Making his solo debut in New York,this is Rinzin’s first one-man exhibition at Joshua Liner Gallery.
A master in the art of Thangka painting,Pema Rinzin has adapted the techniques and mystical motifs of this centuries-old Buddhist tradition to create spellbinding abstract works of contemporary art.Originally used in scrolls that depict the life of the Buddha,other deities,and religious figures,traditional Thangka featured the use of ground mineral pigments and gold applied to paper or silk cloth,as well as works in embroidery.Thangkas were objects of meditation,stimulation and religious education.The imagery is characterized by great intricacy in decorative pattern and brilliant color,which serve to advance the spiritual objectives of enlightenment and transcendence,while also conveying the artistic vision of individual master painters through unique expressions of style and composition.
In his stunning abstractions,Rinzin demonstrates how the individual artist can place his own stamp on a traditional form—he both transforms and transcends classical Thangka,while preserving its ancient artmaking techniques.His Peace and Energy series includes four large works on canvas that present a compelling image for contemplation:in each,a dynamic embolus of layered “handkerchief”forms hums at the center of each picture against a traditional monochromatic background of bright orange,purple,white,or yellow.The fluttering,interlocking forms are thoroughly contemporary,but each carries a unique pattern derived from the ancient Buddhist traditions,and the whole is shot through with pulsing striped flames of blue,white,black,and gold.
NY Premiere November 10th at Carnegie Hall
"Philip Glass' new violin concerto is the most beautiful music, by far, to come from him in at least a decade." -The Buffalo News
"I specifically asked Philip Glass for four large movements, originally thinking that we would be naming the movements as seasons -- until we both diagreed on what was summer and what was winter. He said, this is a great opportunity actually...why don't we just leave it up to the audience to decide?" -World-renowned violinist Robert McDuffie
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