NEW in 2006

Saturday, August 26 Karma and Compassion 2:00-3:00PM at UTEP Library Blumberg Auditorium

Tulku Orgyen Phuntsok will give an introduction to Buddhism as practice throughout the Himalayan Region.

Tulku Orgyen Phuntsok will give an introduction to Buddhism, as practiced throughout the Himalayan Region.

Medicine Buddha

6:00-7:30PM Peace Lutheran Church 1699 Belvidere

Learn about powerful healing techniques which can be used along with conventional medicine to keep you healthy and become a happier individual.

(donations will be accepted and greatly appreciated but not required)

An Old Fashioned Storytelling around the Fire with a short Fire Puja ceremony

8:00-10:00PM in the backyard at 313 Turnstone

Tulku will tell about growing up in the hidden land of Pema Köd located on a secluded plateau in the Himalayan Mountains. Plenty of food will be available!!!

(donations will be accepted and greatly appreciated but not required)

Sunday, August 27 Tara Practice and Teaching

1:00-3:00 UTEP Library room 309

Activities Sponsored by the Chenrezig Himalayan Cultural Center at UTEP and the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Center of El Paso

For more information call Helga at 588-1646 or Robin at 845-0724

Lobsang Samten will be giving teachings at the Himalayan Cultural Center, at UTEP in room 304 Worrell Hall January 11th and 12th, 2006, from 6:00 to 8:00PM. He will be teaching from chapter 9 of The Bodhisatva's Way of Life. Everyone is welcome, even if you are just begining to learn, it is always beneficial just to be in the same room and listen to Lobsang.

October 15th 2004 from 7PM to 9PM the renowned Tenzing Tsewang and Lobsang Samten will be in concert at the University Presbyterian Church at 220 N. Resler. Tickets are $10.00 and may be purchased by contacting Helga Carrion at 585-1433 or Robin Arney at email rarney@utep.edu. Tenzing Tsewang is a professional Tibetan/Australian musician who has brought to Australia a unique mix of spiritual, cultural and contemporary music. Lobsang Samten, founder of the Himalayan Cultural Center will give a lecture Thursday evening July 15th, at 6:00PM in the UTEP Library Blumberg Auditorium. "The Power of Compassion" Saturday and Sunday he will be giving a retreat in Ruidoso, NM. Monday July 19th he will give a Dorje Namjum Purification Ritual at the center in room 304 at Worrell Hall at UTEP. For more information please call Helga Carrion at 588-1646

Buddhist Astrologer: Jhampa Shaneman
Monday May10, 2004 at 6:00PM at the Himalayan Cultural Center Room 304 Worrell Hall
Come early as seating is limited. For more information about Jhampa go to his website at: http://www.buddhist-astrology.com/sbio.html Lama Jhampa Shaneman will be giving a lecture on Friday November 5th, 2004 at the Peace Lutheran Church from 7:oo to 9:00PM. The Church is located at 1699 Belvidere. Tickets are $10.00 and $5.00 for students with an ID.
Lama Jhampa Shaneman
One of the first western Buddhist monks in the Tibetan tradition of Mahayana Buddhism, Jhampa met Ven. Lama Yeshe and became his first male ordained sangha member in 1971. From that time Jhampa studied mainly in Dharmsala, India, learning the Tibetan language and studying under such masters as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, His Holiness's senior tutor and the Ven. Geshe Rabten and Geshe Dhargaye. Over the next 10 years in India he was introduced to many tenants of Buddhism interspersing this with periods of meditational retreat. He also had the opportunity to study with Masters of all 4 sects of Tibetan Buddhism and teachers of Vipassanna and Zen Buddhism. By 1980 he had completed 6 years of study of the sutras and tantras and approximately 4 years of short retreats such as the four preliminaries and several deities. In the fall of 1980 Jhampa entered the traditional great retreat and spent the next three and a half-year on the mountain above Dharmsala, India, under the guidance of Ven. Ling Rinpoche. He returned to Canada and established Thubten Choling Dharma center. He is now a lay Buddhist practitioner. He is one of the first western practitioners to be given permission by His Holiness to teach all levels of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. His talks are spiced with humorous and fascinating anecdotes of his experiences of transforming a western mind to grip the Buddhist perspective. Being born and raised in the west gives Jhampa's way of sharing the insights of the east a uniquely relevant twist. For more information about Jhampa go to his website at: http://www.buddhist-astrology.com/sbio.html Venerable Losang constructed a Wheel of Life sand mandala June 17-23, 1999.
The mandala was on display for a year at the UTEP Library atrium. Click here for an explanation of the mandala.
Losang Samten visited El Paso the week of April 9, 2000 On Thursday April 13, 2000
Losang dismantled the Wheel of Life sand mandala in the Library Atrium at 4:30PM at 7:00PM he gave a lecture and showed a video on Tibet.
Saturday April 15, 2000 Losang gave a workshop on Tibetan Teachings and Meditation

Losang also made a Wheel of Life sand mandala at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in July 1999. Click here to see it. March 9 - 12, 2000 Events in El Paso: Tibetan Buddhist Monks at First Christian Church, Click here for more information

 

Bhutanese Tapestry in the Library

Bhutanese Tapestry in the UGLC

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