Venerable
Geshe Jampa Norbu
Venerable Geshe Kalsang Gyatso (Chanting master)
Tibetan Monks Lecture &
Chanting
presented by
Venerable Geshe Jampa Norbu
and Venerable Geshe Kalsang Gyatso
Beginning with the Tea Ceremony, a ritual aimed at invoking protectors and
removing obstacles, the 8 monks will conduct a session of hypnotic chants and
invocations for about 20 minutes. Then the Lama, lecturing from the Gelug
School of Tibetan Buddhism, will provide an introduction to the Four Noble
Truths. As written by the Dalai Lama, the "teachings of the Four Noble Truths
clearly distinguish these in our own lives, the teachings aim to enable us to
fulfill our deepest aspiration, to be happy and to overcome suffering."
Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm in the Great Room. $20 at the door.
For more information contact Jane Ginn at 928-399-0509 or visit
www.gadenshartsetour.org.
Gaden Shartse Cultural Foundation
Sacred Earth and Healing Arts of Tibet
Tour 2008
Purpose of the Tour
The purpose of the Gaden Shartse tour is to share with all people the monks’ culture, as well as practices and paths to inner peace and compassion. Accomplishments of previous tours have provided funds for construction of new buildings at Gaden Shartse, including the new debate hall. Additional funds raised by past tours have supported medical needs, teachers’ salaries and the day to day expenses of supporting the monastery. This success is due to the help and generosity of those who support the tours. The monks of Gaden Shartse feel deeply indebted to their friends in the West who have given their time, effort, and homes to make the tours possible. It is hoped that the upcoming tour will be a success.
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Venerable Geshe Jampa Norbu: Geshe-La was born in the year 1962 in Lhasa, Tibet. He studied in a local Chinese school for almost 22 years in Lhasa. In1984, with his parents’ guidance, he fled to India to pursue spiritual studies and joined Gaden Shartse Monastery. In 1988, His holiness The Dalai Lama gave him the full ordination vows for a monk. He was one of the brightest students in the Monastic school. In 2001, after completing his Monastic education, he was honored as Geshe Lharampa (PhD.). In 2002, after successfully completing the Sutra studies, he pursued Tantra studies at Gyuto Tantric College in North East India. With this outstanding accomplishment of education, he returned to the Monastery to teach the younger monks. He was the Head of the Monastery Library for two years, and the debate inspector for a year. He also served as a Gelugpa University Teacher for one year. This is his first time traveling outside the Monastery for tour. |
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| Venerable Geshe Kalsang Gyatso (Chanting master): Geshe-la was born on October 12th, 1972, in Orissa, India. His parents were very enthusiastic about his education, and they began schooling him at a very young age. In 1983, Geshe-la enrolled in Gaden Shartse Monastery as a novice monk. He received all the recommended teachings and became very learned in all the root verses of ritual prayers and great treatises. Reserved only for those with the sharpest mind, Geshe-la performed an Oral Recitation of Drang-Ney Lekshey Nyinpo, a commentary text. Having received his vows of full ordination from His Holiness Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, Geshe-la went on to successfully train himself in ritual performance and in the chanting arts. He was nominated as Vice-Chanting Master for nearly two years, and was then promoted to Chanting Master of Gaden Shartse Monastery, a position that he has held for the last six years. In the year 2005 Geshe-la went to United States, where he was the chanting master in the Monastery tour 2005 "Sacred Earth and Healing Arts of Tibet." Geshe-la has been invited several times to perform ritual healing and performances for SARS victims in Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia, along with His Eminence Tri-Rinpoche (the linear successor of Je Tsong Khapa), His Eminence Lati Rinpoche, and His Eminence Ken-Rinpoche (the present Abbot of the monastery). In this tour Geshe-la once again will be the Chanting master. |
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Gaden Shartse Monastic College
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Gaden Shartse Monastic College is situated amid lush green hills and jungle in the remote countryside of southern India. It was founded in 1969 as an effort to reestablish one of the great monastic traditions of Tibet. |
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| Today the college is at the forefront of the revival of Tibetan Monastic education, with more than 1600 resident students, teachers, scholars, and spiritual practitioners. More than 70% of the members are between the ages of 10 and 25 and 80% of these were born in Tibet. To this day, young monks arrive at the Monastery weekly from Tibet, seeking shelter and education. Due to the success of the academic program and the quality of the teachers at the monastery, Gaden Shartse has established a reputation as being the leader in the field of Buddhist and Tibetan studies. |
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History of Gaden Shartse Monastic College
| Gaden Shartse Monastic College (popularly known as "Shartse") was originally founded in Tibet in the 15th century. After the invasion of Tibet by the Chinese in 1949, 48 surviving members of the College fled south across the border into India. There they settled in army tents in a remote jungle area that was about a night's journey from the city of Mysore. Slowly they built a mud and bamboo thatched dwelling in which the monks ate, slept, studied, debated, and prayed together. Many died from sickness and exhaustion; others survived but remained ill and bedridden. Those who survived became very resourceful, teaching themselves how to farm the land by means of trial and error. In 1972, three years after settling, their fields were green with their first successful crops. Fifteen Tibetan children from the local Tibetan refugee camp enrolled in the newly founded monastery, funded by the selling of the produce. A simple everyday routine was set up, combining education with physical labor. A rudimentary teaching staff of Tibetans, well-versed in history and Buddhist teachings, was established. |
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For further information please contact
Sedona Creative Life Center
928-282-9300