A Journey Through Shedra The Venerable Traleg Rinpoche kindly offered to teach the Shedra to his younger students beginning in 2010. Shedra (the Tibetan word for ‘place of learning’) is the traditional education taught in Tibetan Buddhist nunneries and monasteries. In hindsight, it was such a good way for newcomers to the Centre to develop…
I am a sucker for a good novel and will binge on a good book. I have a stack of Dharma books on my bedside table that is my ‘to read’ stack. Though they are filled with the antidote to my end of day lethargy, I find it hard to take on the subjects sometimes…
by Em Renfrey If only isolation meant real isolation. Sometime between demand on my time, having to be everywhere but able to be nowhere all at once, I have lost my marbles a few times. I have been working 4 days from home in healthcare with two children with high emotional needs. The eldest in…
By Lena Turnbull As the Black Lives Matter movement ricochets across the United States and around the world, people are reflecting on systemic racism and white privilege.[1] More and more White people recognise the ways they benefit from a system that centres their needs. There is increasing public acknowledgment that the privileges White people experience…
by Matt Dawson Gomde UK – https://gomde.uk/ Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche is building a temple on an island in Yorkshire, England (https://gomde.uk/projects). I was fortunate enough to meet up with Paulette Benjamin, trustee and long term student of Chokyi Nyima, who is overseeing and facilitating the construction of the temple on Lindholme Hall Estate on his…
His Holiness Sakya Trizin Ordinary Mind Spring 2000 Born in 1945, His Holiness Sakya Trizin has been the head of the Sakya School in Tibetan Buddhism since he was seven. He has received intensive training in the philosophical and spiritual practices of all the Tibetan traditions. The title Sakya Trizin means ‘throne-holder of the Sakya’,…
By Robert Taylor On a pleasantly warm Thursday evening, I rode my bike down to E-Vam for the first of the three evenings of Buddhist meditation teachings as part of the under-35s program. Greeted and signed in by the ever-warm Mark, a total of seven students met together in the gompa with our meditation facilitator…
By Sharon Wells ‘Chenrezig arises radiating clear white light suffused with the five colours. His eyes gaze in compassion and his smile is loving…Chenrezig is within us because love and compassion are not qualities added to the mind. These qualities are part of the awakened state…’ – Chenrezig, Lord of Love by Bokar Rinpoche On…
Further to our wider communication last week, we are contacting the sangha to share internal changes that are taking place to ensure E-Vam Institute is sustainable during these difficult times. E-Vam makes most of our income from the hire of the Maitripa Centre. As a result of Covid 19, external bookings in the next few…
It was a lovely evening to celebrate Losar, the Tibetan New Year of the Iron Rat, at E-Vam Institute on the 22nd of February 2020. We began the evening with approximately 35 people performing the Chenrezig Puja. The meditation hall had a powerful atmosphere of positivity while we chanted together. Lovely people who I had not…