• Karma - the law of cause and effect

    Reduta Cultural Centre in Brasov 8 Apollonia Hirscher Street, Brasov, Romania

    The Friends of Rabten Publishing House and the Reduta Cultural Centre in Brasov invited us on Monday evening, 20 May, starting at 18:30 to the public conference „Karma - the law of cause and effect”, how we can relate this understanding directly to our experiences of happiness and suffering in everyday life. The conference was given by the Venerable Gonsar Rinpoche, spiritual director of the Centre of Higher Tibetan Studies „Rabten Choeling” in Switzerland, invited to Brasov for the second time by a group of students. In Buddhism, the most important Dharma practice is the understanding of the natural law of karma - cause and effect. Realising that the root of all our sufferings as well as our happiness lies in our own mind, practising the mind according to the law of karma is the key to all practice and the path to Awakening. Although the word „karma” may have mystical or magical connotations, it simply means „action” or „act”. Karma does not exist outside ourselves, but is simply the name given to the various actions of body, speech and mind that we perform day and night. During the public lecture, Venerable Gonsar Rinpoche shared with us his vast and profound knowledge, helping us to understand what the law of karma is [...]

  • Interview with Venerable Gonsar Rinpoce - about thanka and White Tara

    At the invitation of Prof PhD Mihai Dan Chițoiu (Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, “Al. I. Cuza” of Iasi), within the project "Meaningful Intercultural Encounters Across Boundaries", the Tibetan master Venerable Gonsar Rinpoce gave this interview, in which he presents one of the most significant religious objects in Tibet, a thanka, the equivalent of the icon, which represents the White Tara Deity, Sitatārā. The event took place in Iasi, “Mihai Eminescu” Central University Library, on 25 May, 2019.