Rooted in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, our five year study program focuses on traditional Tibetan Buddhist meditation and study with the aim of opening our hearts in compassion for all beings and growing in wisdom. The program is student-led. The second year of our study program began in January 2000.
All interested students are welcome to attend.
Lojong is the powerful method for transforming our ordinary ways of thinking and acting into the causes of peace, happiness,and healing for ourselves and others. Initially, the Lojong teachings were protected by secrecy and given only to students with strong faith. Due to their special ability to produce profound spiritual changes in anyone who sincerely applies the teachings, Lojong is considered an essential practice on the path to full spiritual enlightenment. In the first part of our educational program this year, we studied the Lojong commentary, Advice from a Spiritual Friend, and supported each other in testing and developing these new ways of thinking of and responding to daily problems, other people, and ourselves. In the second half of the program, we will study Je Tsong Khapa s Achieving Bodhicitta.