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  • 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.

  • Teachings on the essentials of Buddhism

    Cultural Centre L'Amphiteatro Art Club 27 Plantelor Street, Bucharest Sector 2, Romania

    We have great joy to announce that the Venerable Master Gonsar Rinpoce will be back in Romania, after a five-year break, in Bucharest to teach Dharma teachings. Through his personal example as well as through his teachings, we will have the rare opportunity to come into contact with a fulfilling mind that bears the stamp of luminous strength and clarity. The event is open to the general public and is designed to meet all who seek to develop their own mind through the cultivation of compassion and wisdom. Topics The main topic of the weekend seminar will be the essential aspects of the teaching of the Buddha (the Awakened One), in particular, the meaning of the Three Gemmata (triratna): Buddha, Dharma, Sangha. The attitude that defines a person as a Buddhist is the attitude of seeking refuge or protection (śaraṇa) in the Three Nestemata. The teachings will be based on the text Śaraṇa-gamana-deśanā, composed by the great Bengali master Atiśa Dīpamkara-śrī-jñāna Atiśa Dīpamkara-śrī-jñāna who lived between 982-1054. He is the master who had the greatest influence on Buddhism in Tibet, his teachings on the Mind of Threes-pointedness (Bodhicitta) and especially on the gradual path to Threes-pointedness (Lam Rim), are the cornerstone for all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Within the teachings, we will also have the chance to [...]