Join us Feb. 26th for Special LOSAR (Tibetan New Year) Prayer and Service. There will be a Lunch reception for which you can bring a dish to share with others. Also recommended is offerings for the altar which can be flowers, candies, fruits or cookies etc. There will be a grand Losar offering table called Derga on which you can add your individual offerings. This will be taken down after a week and distributed to the faithful as a communion.

March Events:

1st Sat. Monthly Tara worship prayer and chanting.

2nd Sat. Weekend meditation.

3rd Sat. Lamrin teachings continued.

Note: All Saturaday events will be at 10:30pm going forward. 

Nov. 1st, 2011

The Drepung Gomang Sacred Arts Tour monks will make a final stop in Louisville before they return to India.
While in Town, they will construct a 'Mandala for World Peace'
as part of the 'Festival of Faiths'
Check back for details on their schedule or contact Anne Walter.

Oct 1, 2011

Labrang Tashi Kyil 2011 USA Tour

“Let’s Travel to Tibet”

Cultural Performance

Monday, October 10^th, 2011  

7 - 9pm

Drepung Gomang Institute

411 N. Hubbards Lane 40207

 Grab your passport and pick up your visa. We are go­ing to Travel to Tibet. The monks of Labrang Tashi Kyil Mon­astery will be your hosts. We will give you some “old Tibetan money” to spend but it is best to use US dollars to buy souvenirs during the intermission. The monks will present a variety of perfor­mances to give you a sampling of the the beauty of endangered Tibetan culture and religion..

            One highlight of the evening will be a scene from the Life of Milarepa, one of the most widely known Tibetan Saints. In a superhuman effort, he rose above the miseries of his younger life and with the help of his Guru, Marpa the Translator, took to a solitary life of meditation until he had achieved the pinnacle of the enlightened state, never to be reborn in Samsara. Out of compassion for humanity, he undertook the most rigid asceticism to reach the Buddhist state of enlightenment. To pass his accomplishments on to the rest of humanity, Milarepa extemporaneously composed innumerable songs throughout his life. These songs have been widely sung and studied in Tibet have been recorded as the Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa.

            You will spend your time in Tibet with the monks of Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery, originally a  major educational center serving as a wellspring of the Buddhist teachings for the region of Amdo in eastern Tibet. It was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. In 1967, refugee monks rebuilt Labrang Tashi Kyil in Clement Town, Dehra Dun, India.

Beautiful and unique Tibetan Merchandise available from 6:30pm

$10 suggested donation.  All Proceeds benefit the Tibetan Buddhist refugee monks of Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery, Dehra Dun, India. 

Your support is deeply appreciated.  For information call 619-1652.



9/15/2011
Attached please find the following flyer about a special teaching on Tibetan Bon Healing Practice of Sipi Gyalmo at Hanover College. This event will occur on November 12-13, 2011 and is open to the public. On the flyer you will find contact and registration information. Please note this is not a DGI event so all questions should be directed to Dr. Jenkins at Hanover College (information is on the flyer).

Bon Healing Flyer

MEDICINE BUDDHA EMPOWERMENT

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

1:30 TO 3:30 PM

DGI

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• Suggested donation is $25.00, but all are welcome regardless of ability to donate.



July 22, 2011

The current Drepung Tripa (The Throne Holder) and former Abbot of Drepung Monastery, Khensur Lobsang Tenpa, was born in the year 1938, in Amdo province of Eastern Tibet. He became a monk at the age of 11 and was ordained at Taktsang Lhamo monastery. At the age of 18, he traveled to the south of Lhasa where he joined Drepung Gomang monastery. In 1959, he fled Tibet when the Chinese invaded following H. H. the Dalai Lama into India. He stayed at a transit camp for ten years. In 1970, he entered Varanasi University, Central Institute of Higher Studies, where he obtained the Acharya degree with remarkable and excellent results. In 1973, he returned to Drepung Gomang Monastery where he studied the Abhidharma and the Vinaya. In 1982, he sat for the Gelug examination in which he rank first of all the candidates from the three great monasteries. Rinpoche was chosen by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to be the Head Abbot in 1989. Rinpoche has traveled to give teachings in Tibet, Russia and Mongolia and also to Europe as head of the Gomang European tour. Having attained great distinction in the Buddhist Sutra and Tantra doctrines, Rinpoche is an important inspiration to the people.