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Date: 23rd & 24th July

Retreat Leader: Ven Lozang Yönten

Requirement: Everyone is welcome

Cost: Generosity Model – Donation only (via the donation form at the bottom of the page; no suggested amount).

Format: Online

Schedule for both days: Session one 10:00-11:00; Session two 11:15-12:15, Session three 2:30-3:30pm

About the Weekend

This deeply personal, poetic and provocative text, invites us to “be the peacock in the poison grove…” with the bodhichitta attitude that takes hardships as the path to awakening.

The radical reframing ideas of Dharmarakshita, will be shared in an experiential Lo-jong (thought transformation) retreat with Ven. Yönten who is briefly joining Land of Joy after her seventh year of teaching annually in Israel.

This teaching retreat will look at both our inner work to look at karma more deeply, as well as our outer work in the world seeking to benefit the planet and all the beings we share it with.

About the Teacher

Bhikshuni Lozang Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003. A practicing Buddhist since 1994, Ven. Yönten moved to Chenrezig Institute in Australia and studied intensively under Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering from 2002 – 2009, completing their Buddhist Studies Program. She then continued to study, retreat and offer service at Dharma Centers in India and Taiwan as well as Australia and New Zealand, becoming an In-Depth Registered Teacher within the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) in 2012.

Ven. Yönten was the Resident Teacher of Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre in the Blue Mountains of Australia from 2012 – 2015 before becoming teacher-in-residence six months of the year at Mahamudra Centre for Universal Unity in New Zealand until 2018.

Currently, Ven. Yönten divides her time as a touring teacher and retreat leader, as well as annually offering the Buddhadharma from a secular perspective in Israel as a member of the Buddhist faculty for a seven-year post graduate program called Human Spirit which is a Buddhist Psychoanalytic Training Program.

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