Events

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 [...]

The conference given by the Venerable Gonsar Rinpoche, spiritual director of the Centre of Higher Tibetan Studies „Rabten Choeling” in Switzerland, was organised by the Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University and the Faculty of Sociology and Communication with the support of the Rabten Compassionate Wisdom Association. Both Western science and Buddhist philosophy aim to understand the nature of the mind, on which the way we see and experience reality depends. In this lecture, Venerable Gonsar Rinpoche, one of the first masters to teach Buddhist teachings in the West, introduced the audience to the intersection between Western science and Buddhist philosophy, and to some ways in which we can integrate this knowledge into our daily lives. The mind and its functions are a common theme in religion and philosophy, as it is the source of all our experiences, the very characteristic that distinguishes beings from all other phenomena. Precisely because they possess mind, beings, regardless of their shape and size, occupy first place in the Buddha's teaching. (Venerable Gonsar Rinpoce)

Dialogue by Professor Daniel David and Venerable Master Gonsar Rinpoce of the Centre for Higher Tibetan Studies, Rabten Choeling, Mont-Pelerin Switzerland.

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 [...]