Courageous Compassion & Ultimate Reality

With Geshe Namdak: 17th – 22nd June 2022

During this retreat we come to understand the most important aspects of the path to enlightenment.

We will see that the stronger our compassion is for others, the more courageous the bodhicitta attitude of attaining enlightenment becomes. If this gets combined with emptiness, the view of ultimate reality, it becomes even more powerful.

Learn how to generate these most constructive states of mind that exists in our human potential. Geshe Namdak will guide us through these subjects with teachings, meditations, and Q&A using rare and precious instructions of Dagpo Thangdar Lama’s Hidden Instructions on Bodhicitta and Changkya Rolpai Dorje’s Experiential Song on the View.

About Geshe Namdak

Venerable Geshe Tenzin Namdak first worked as an environmental researcher after graduating in hydrology. He then started studying Buddhism at Maitreya Institute in The Netherlands in 1993 and took ordination from His Holiness the Dalai Lama before engaging in his formal studies in Buddhist philosophy and psychology at Sera Jey Monastic University, South India, in 1997.

He completed the entire twenty-year Geshe program at Sera Jey in 2017 followed by the traditional one-year Vajrayana study programme at Gyume Tantric College in January 2019, the first Westerner to do so.

He has received a great number of teachings from His Holiness Dalai Lama and many other highly respected teachers and lineage masters has done many retreats and is an experienced teacher in practical and philosophical aspects of Buddhism that he teaches with great clarity and a good sense of humour.

Study Resources

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CC&UR Schedule

Dedications for BP Middle Length Lam Rim – Brief

Prayers for BP Middle Length Lam Rim – Brief

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Session Five

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