November 24, 2013, "Monk With A Camera" will have its World Premiere at IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam!
http://www.monkwithacamera.com/
The documentary chronicles the life and spiritual quest of our Khen Rinpoche Nicholas (Nicky) Vreeland, grandson of legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, celebrated artist, and now a Tibetan Buddhist monk.
Directed, Written and Produced by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara of Asphalt Stars Productions
The Tibet Center is happy to announce the purchase of a new retreat home in South Orange, NJ in late October 2013.
The Tibet Center will still be based and hold weekly classes in New York City, NY. The retreat home will perform separate and additional functions such as the hosting of teachers, seminars, meditations and retreats.
We will have an inaugural White Tara meditation this Saturday - November 9th at 1:30pm. There will be a lunch reception after the meditation in celebration of its opening.
Those interested in attending please send an email to Darren Smith @ dsmith@thetibetcenter.org.
The Tibet Center Retreat Home - 502 Ridgewood Road North, South Orange, NJ 07079.
You can take NJ Transit from NY Penn Station to Mountain Station, South Orange, NJ. You then walk West on Montrose Ave approximately 1/4 mile to the corner of Montrose and Ridgewood Road. We are located on that corner to the right.
http://www.njtransit.com/sf/sf_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=TrainTo
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings at the Beacon Theatre 2013 on LiveStream.
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/5587887/events/2429799
We have just learned from His Holiness that he will start Fridays' October 18th teachings at 9am instead of the scheduled 9:30am time slot.
We look forward to seeing you at the Beacon Theatre
Sincerely,
The Tibet Center and The Gere Foundation
TTC and The Gere Foundation are very happy to announce His Holiness' teachings and Public Talk, The Virtue of Nonviolence, will be LIVESTREAMED.
THE GERE FOUNDATION AND THE TIBET CENTER ARE HAPPY AGAIN TO ANNOUNCE THAT HIS HOLINESS THE 14th DALAI LAMA WILL GIVE TEACHINGS, OCTOBER 18-20, 2013 at THE BEACON THEATRE NEW YORK CITY, NY
on:
The Heart Sutra
The Sutra of the Recollection of the Three Jewels
The ninth chapter of The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, by Shantideva
HIS HOLINESS WILL BESTOW AN INITIATION INTO:
The Buddha Establishing the Three Pledges
Sunday October 20th, 2013 PUBLIC TALK - THE VIRTUE OF NONVIOLENCE
* Ticketmaster.com is now offering tickets at $110 / $195 / $275 price levels which may have not been available this morning. ~ TTC
Tickets for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's upcoming October 2013 teachings at the Beacon Theatre New York, NY will go on sale via www.ticketmaster.com starting Tuesday September 3rd at 9am EST.
To purchase tickets go to www.ticketmaster.com or visit www.dalailamany.org.
October 18, 19 and 20th, 2013 His Holiness the Dalai Lama will teach.
The Heart Sutra
The Sutra of the Recollection of the Three Jewels
The ninth chapter of The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, by Shantideva
Also, His Holiness will bestow an initiation into:
The Buddha Establishing the Three Pedges (Thupa Damtsik Sumkoe)
On Sunday afternoon October 20th, 2013 His Holiness will give a public talk on The Virtue of Nonviolence.
THE GERE FOUNDATION AND THE TIBET CENTER ARE HAPPY AGAIN TO ANNOUNCE THAT HIS HOLINESS THE 14th DALAI LAMA WILL GIVE TEACHINGS, OCTOBER 18-20, 2013 at THE BEACON THEATRE NEW YORK CITY, NY
on:
The Heart Sutra
The Sutra of the Recollection of the Three Jewels
The ninth chapter of The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, by Shantideva
HIS HOLINESS WILL BESTOW AN INITIATION INTO:
The Buddha Establishing the Three Pledges
THERE WILL ALSO BE A PUBLIC TALK
More details regarding ticket sales will be posted here soon.
If you are ordained Sangha and interested in attending these teachings, please contact The Tibet Center at 718 222 0007 or dsmith@thetibetcenter.org
Support Friends of The Tibet Center's Spring 2013 Matching Fund
* On May 16 2013 we met and exceeded our Matching Fund goal of $15,000 for a total of $18,541. Friends of The Tibet Center has agreed to match the entire amount raised by supporters. We are now able to pledge $37,082 toward our new home!
If you haven't yet donated you can still show your support. Please check the site for updates and news regarding the Residence Fund.
April 2013
Please donate to this great opportunity, TTC's Matching Fund Drive Spring 2013. Friends of The Tibet Center have generously endowed us with a matching fund of $15,000. We now ask you to join us to raise $15,000 during this drive. Give what you can in any amount and together when we reach $15,000 your donation dollars will be matched and doubled! Through the generous support and hard work of donors like you and the grantor, $15,000 will become $30,000 towards the purchase of The Tibet Center’s home here in NYC.
Produced, filmed and edited by Sean Webley and Lina Dorado Graphic Design Alejandro Largo Music by Moby Gratis and Tenzn Palmo's Nuns Filmed at Aurora Lopez's Talavera Studios NYC, NY May 10, 2012
New York, NY 10028
Zopa Rinpoche congratulates Khen Rinpoche Nicholas on appointment in the new July 2012 Mandala magazine...
"Nicky's actions have been that of a serious and proper disciple of [Khyongla] Rinpohce. He as built Rato Gompa with so much thought and research, he deserves to be abbot." ~ Lama Zopa Rinoche
Pick up the new July / Sept 2012 edition of Mandala for this and other fpmt articles.
http://www.mandalamagazine.org/archives/mandala-for-2012/july/
Press Release –
The Tibet Center is proud to announce that His Holiness the Dalai Lama has appointed its Director, The Venerable Nicholas Vreeland, as the new Abbot of Rato Monastery, which is based in India. This is a historic moment; this is the first time that a Westerner has been appointed as abbot of an important Tibetan Buddhist monastery. On making the appointment, in Long Beach California on April 20, 2012, The Dalai Lama stated, “Your special duty (is) to bridge Tibetan tradition and Western world.”
Vreeland will split his time between The Tibet Center in New York and the monastery in India. The original Rato Monastery, located on the outskirts of Lhasa, Tibet, was established in the 14th Century to preserve the teachings on Buddhist logic. By 1959, Rato had grown to 500 monks, with scholars from all the great monastic universities of Tibet converging there every year for a month of intense philosophical and logical study and debate. In 1983, the monastery was reestablished in a Tibetan refugee settlement in the south Indian state of Karnataka, where two years later Vreeland became a monk and began his monastic studies. He sat for his Geshe degree (Doctorate of Philosophy) in 1998, after which he returned to New York to assume duties as the Director of The Tibet Center —Kunkhyab Thardo Ling — where he had first begun his studies of Buddhism with the Center’s founder, the Reverend Khyongla Rato Rinpoche in 1977.
The Tibet Center has been a co-host, with the Gere Foundation, of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visits to New York a number of times, including two public talks in Central Park and teachings at Radio City Music Hall. Vreeland has edited the New York Times bestseller, An Open Heart, and the recently released, A Profound Mind, both authored by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Though there are over 1,000 Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, Rato Monastery is one of only a dozen important Tibetan Government monasteries under the Dalai Lama’s patronage. Today there are approximately 100 monks at Rato ranging from the age of 6 to 90.
Vreeland has been a photographer since he was 13 years old, and assisted Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. A recent exhibition of his work, entitled Photos for Rato, toured major cities around the world and raised most of the funds needed for the construction of Rato Monastery’s new campus and temple, which was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama on January 31, 2011.
The Tibet Center and all its students are deeply saddened and mourn the loss of our brother and fellow student Adam Yauch. A true music pioneer, he influenced a generation. His many charitable works have been of enormous benefit to the cause of Tibetan Buddhism and the Tibetan people. We will miss his warmth and friendship. The Tibet Center sends prayers to his family. May he be born in a completely pure realm.
Liner notes from 'Compassion in Emptiness' DVD...
"First of all, let me say that there is no one on this earth who I have greater respect for than His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. In my younger years, I would have hesitated to bow before anyone. These days, I no longer feel that, and bow before His Holiness without hesitation. By any ability I have to tell, His Holiness' intentions are 100% pure. He is a living, walking Buddha. He will claim that he is not, but that humbleness is part of the Buddhist tradition, and I am honored to count myself among his students...and being able to be involved with putting together this set of DVDs and helping to make copies of his words, thoughts and images available to people is the greatest work that I can imagine being involved with."
~ Adam Yauch
Photos: Vensa Manua Lazar
Venerable Khyongla Rato Rinpoche on The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva composed by Gyalse Ngulchu Thogme recorded October 18, 2011 at The Tibet Center
AVAILABLE NOW AT BOOKSTORES AND AMAZON.COM
(click on photo to buy on amazon.com)
Excerpted from A PROFOUND MIND, the new book by H. H. the Dalai Lama (Author), Nicholas Vreeland (Editor), Richard Gere (Afterword).
BUDDHISTS BELIEVE THAT we are responsible for the quality of our lives, our happiness, and our resources. In order to achieve a meaningful life we must transform our own emotions, as this is the most effective way to bring about future happiness for ourselves and for all others.
No one can force us to transform our minds, not even the Buddha. We must do so voluntarily. Therefore Buddha stated, “You are your own master.”
Our efforts must be realistic. We must establish for ourselves that the methods we are following will bring about our desired results. We can’t merely rely on faith. It is essential that we scrutinize the path we intend to follow to establish clearly what is and what is not effective, so that the methods of our efforts may succeed. This, I believe, is essential if we wish to find any true happiness in life....
Click for more excerpt of A Profound Mind (PDF file)
