OUTREACH PROGRAMS
Lama Migmar's New Book
In celebration of Vesak, we would like to announce that the French translation of Lama Migmar's book Awakening to the Noble Truth (S’éveiller à la Noble Vérité) can be purchased at http://www.editions-ganesha.qc.ca/.
Lama Migmar's Upcoming Outreach Program
February 12th: Guided Meditation at Northeaster University, Boston, MA. Flyer.
February 26th: The Heart of Buddhist Wisdom at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Flyer
March 6th: Teachings from the Tibetan Book of Awakening at Wilmington, VT. Flyer
March 28th: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion: Tools for Working with Loss and Grief. Folkman Auditorium, Boston Children's Hospital. Schedule.
April 18th: Dharma Teaching on the Tibetan Book of Awakening. Flyer
Lama Migmar's Upcoming Outreach Program
November 29th - December 1st: A Buddhist Healing Ritual - Dakini's Heart Essence Chod & Empowerments at Kripalu, MA. Webpage
December 1st - 3rd: Mangalam Svapna - The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming. Webpage
Friday, December 6th, 1 - 4 pm: Dharma Teaching & Discussion at Samudra Studio, Saco, Maine. Flyer
Saturday, January 11th, 2020: Dharma Teaching & Discussion at SeekingOm, Revere, MA. Flyer
Pictures from His Holiness the Sakya Trizin 2019 Boston Program
Lama Migmar's Upcoming Outreach Program
Saturday, October 12th, 1 - 4 pm: Teaching on the Four Noble Truths at Wilmington, VT. Flyer
Wednesday, October 16th, 12 - 1.30 pm: Guided Meditation & Discourse at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Flyer
Saturday, November 9th, 4.30 - 8 pm: Green Tara Empowerment at Sakya Institute, Cambridge, MA. Flyer
Friday, November 15th, 1 - 4 pm: Dharma Teaching on the Tibetan Book of Awakening at Sutra Studio, Lowell, MA. Flyer
Chinese translation of "Wisdom Gone Beyond" is coming soon!
Lama Migmar's Upcoming Outreach Programs in LA
Lama Migmar's Upcoming Outreach Programs
July 18- 29: 1440 (https://1440.org/faculty/lama-migmar-tseten/) and Los Angeles
August 2-4: Montreal (Canada)
August 21-25: Kripalu, Berkshire: https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/presenters/lama-migmar-tseten
August 29-September 16: Brazil and Colombia
Lama Migmar at 2019 Harvard Commencement
June 4th, 2019
The Heart Sutra: the Wisdom Gone Beyond Retreat
April 28th, 2019
Lama Migmar
During this weekend seminar, Lama Migmar will give essential instructions and teachings on the HEART SUTRA, a short and profound Mahayana Buddhist text. He will explain in a clear and practical way the training in the Prajnaparamita —the Perfect Wisdom. Integrating this Transcendent Wisdom into our meditation and into our everyday life, we will be able, through the “Right View,” to dispel disturbing emotions and negative energies and realize our true nature, also called Buddha nature or the nature of the mind. An outstanding speaker and communicator, Lama Migmar has a special gift for making the deepest teachings clear and accessible.
When: August 3rd (9.30 am - 4 pm) and 4th (1 - 5 pm), 2019
Schedule:
- August 3rd, am: Prajnaparamita (Heart Sutra) Empowerment
- August 3th, pm: Heart Sutra Teaching and Practice
- August 4th, pm: Heart Sutra Teaching and Practice
Where: HOLIDAY INN Longueuil, 900 St-Charles Street East, Longueuil, QC, Canada, J4H 3Y2
To book a room with preferential rates (before June 1st), call Holiday Inn Longueuil: (450) 646-8100, and mention the code “LMC” Free parking on site or Metro Longueuil and bus (10 min).
Cost: Early registration before June 15: $130 for both days. As of June 15: $ 150 for both days. Please get your ticket as soon as possible via Eventbrite.ca (Heart Sutra): https://www.eventbrite.com/o/lama-migmar-tseten-19867181546
Contact: aybeaudoin@videotron.ca - Tel.: (450) 641-2395 (Lucie or André)
* NO ONE WILL BE REFUSED FOR FINANCIAL REASONS. IF YOU CANNOT PAY THIS AMOUNT, PLEASE CONTACT US TO MAKE AN ARRANGEMENT.
If you want to purchase Lama Migmar's book, The Wisdom Gone Beyond, to prepare for this seminar, you can get it on Amazon.ca (the price is in CA$) or on Amazon.com (price in US$).
Awakening to the Noble Truth Online Course
April 27th, 2019
Lama Migmar's "Wisdom Gone Beyond: Teachings on the Heart Sutra" is now available in French
March 19th, 2019
Healing Through the Medicine Buddha Workshop with Lama Migmar Tseten
January 13th, 2019
Schedule
April 5, 2019 Friday
6:30pm – Arrival Day Dinner
April 6, 2019 Saturday
Morning self guided meditation
8:00am – 9:00am – Breakfast
12:pm – 1:00pm – Lunch
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Dinner
April 7, 2019 Sunday - Check out day
Teacher
Lama Migmar Tseten has served as Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University since 1997. He received both a traditional and a contemporary education in India, graduating from Tibetan Institute of Sanskrit University in Varanasi. He served as the head of Sakya Center in Rajpur, India, and the Sakya Monastery in Puruwalla. Lama Migmar has supervised the editing and publication of more than 50 rare volumes of Sakya literature and is author of many books, including Awakening to the Noble Truth, The Play of Mahamudra, and The Tibetan Book of Awakening. Founder of Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lama Migmar leads retreats throughout North America and Europe.
Food
Our menus are based on group preferences and budget. We offer delicious, balanced vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals which typically include raw salads and hot vegetable dishes. Upon request, we will gladly prepare unseasoned blanched or steamed dishes for lunch and dinner. We easily accommodate gluten/dairy free needs, and many of our seasonings and oils are provided on the side for guests to season meals to taste. Several rooms have refrigerators, so guests are welcome to bring food that suit their needs if they have issues we cannot accommodate. Please note that we are unable to reduce meal costs due to food allergies.
Payment Policy
A $50 non-refundable deposit is taken at the time registration occurs.
The full balance is collected 7 days prior to arrival.
Cancellation Policy
Other than the deposit, no fees are incurred if cancelled up to 7 days after reservation date.
50% of the total cost is retained if cancelled less than 4 days prior to event.
The $50 deposit given at registration is non-refundable.
His Holiness the Sakya Gongma Trizin Rinpoche, the 42nd Head of Sakya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism - Boston 2019 Program
November 8th, 2018
Lama Migmar's Upcoming Teachings
September 22nd, 2018
Discourse on the 6 Paramitas at Sutra Studio
Friday, October 19th, 1 - 4 pm
Buddhist Ethics: How to Live a Buddhist Life in Boston
Monday, October 22nd, 11.45 am - 1.25 pm
The Wisdom Gone Beyond: Teachings on the Heart Sutra is now available in French
September 22nd, 2018
New Book: Vajrayogini Practice Manual with Visualization Aids
September 14th, 2018
New Book: Shri Hevajra Sadhana of Six Limbs dedicated to His Holiness the Sakya Trichen's birthday
September 7th, 2018
Harvard Chaplain brings Buddhist meditation to Boone
August 12th, 2018
Work obligations, school, bills and maintaining a family can become overwhelming. Meditation can help with that.
Harvard Buddhist chaplain Lama Migmar Tsteten brought his Buddhist teachings to the Art of Living Retreat Center at Heavenly Mountain from Aug. 3-5 for a meditation and mindfulness for inner peace and joy weekend retreat.
At an academically rigorous institution such as Harvard University, students may feel an immense pressure to succeed.
But in the Harvard Buddhist community, Lama Migmar and other interfaith chaplains focus on cultivating love, peace and mindfulness to help students overcome stressors, fears and struggles, or sufferings.
“Everybody has physical pain,” Lama Migmar said. “Everybody has mental suffering. Buddhism is to overcome those sufferings. Through the meditation practice, I can accept sufferings.”
Growing up as a Tibetan refugee, Lama Migmar’s meditation practice has helped him to overcome his own obstacles. In fact, his personal afflictions have enabled him to cultivate more compassion, Lama Migmar said.
Lama Migmar grew up practicing Buddhism in his family, but practiced it as a secular part of the culture. Later on, Lama Migmar attended a university in India and studied Buddhism, eventually continuing on to a monastery. At the monastery, Lama Migmar learned Buddhist practices and realized how transformative Buddhism was for him and how helpful it could be for others. From there, Lama Migmar dedicated his life to Buddhist practices.
When it comes to his own practice, Lama Migmar practices mindfulness, visualizations, reciting mantras, using mudras — hand gestures — and doing yoga.
“It is a practice to transform the whole person,” Lama Migmar said.
Buddhism is a way of life to Lama Migmar. Buddhist practice and teaching Buddhist practice leads to a “more wholesome life.” To reach that wholesome life, practitioners of Buddhism have to do two things: try to benefit others and do not harm others.
This foundation, as well as characteristics of love, compassion, peace and forgiveness can be found among many different faith groups, Lama Migmar said. Meditation is even incorporated in other religions as the practice has become more secular over time. Benefits such as stress reduction and improvement in memory and attention span have popularized the practice through the years, Lama Migmar said.
Whether Lama Migmar shares Buddhist meditation with Boone residents, Harvard University students or at a yoga retreat in the Bahamas, Buddhist teachings to harm less and live with compassion extend to everyone, Lama Migmar said.
“It is beyond culture, beyond nation and beyond race,” Lama Migmar said. “Wherever I go, those principles are the same.”
Upcoming Events at 1440, Kripalu, and the Art of Living Retreat Center
July 5th, 2018
Lama Migmar will be leading retreats at 1440, Kripalu, and the Art of Living Retreat Center.
1440
Tibetan Mindfulness
October 26 - 28, 2018
Healing Chod
October 28 - 30, 2018
Kripalu
A Buddhist Healing Ritual - Dakini's Heart-Essence Chod and Empowerments
August 26 - 28, 2018
Mother Tara Empowerment
August 28 - 31, 2018
A Buddhist Healing Ritual - Dakini's Heart-Essence Chod and Empowerments
November 23 - 25, 2018
Mangalam Svapna - The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming
November 25 - 28, 2018
Mother Tara Empowerment
January 4 - 6, 2019
The Art of Living Retreat Center
Meditation and Mindfulness for Inner Peace and Joy
August 3 - 5, 2018
Lama Migmar at 2018 Harvard Commencement
April 16th, 2018
Meditation & Mindfulness for Inner Peace & Joy with Khen Rinpoche Lama Migmar
April 16th, 2018
Lama Migmar's Upcoming Retreat at Kripalu
April 1st, 2018
A Buddhist Healing Ritual - Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments
August 26th - 28th, 2018
Registration: https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/buddhist-healing-ritual-dakini-s-heart-essence-ch-d-and-empowerments
Mother Tara Empowerment
August 28th - 31st, 2018
Registration: https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/mother-tara-empowerment
Lama Migmar's Upcoming Retreat at Kripalu
February 24th, 2018
Mother Tara Empowerment
March 9th – 11th, 2018
Registration: https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/mother-tara-empowerment
Flyer: Mother Tara Empowerment
Healing Through the Medicine Buddha
March 11th – 13th
Registration: https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/healing-through-medicine-buddha
Flyer: Healing through Medicine Buddha
Meditation and Mindfulness for Inner Peace and Joy
January 1st, 2018
Lama Migmar will be leading a workshop “Meditation and Mindfulness for Inner Peace and Joy” at the Living Arts Foundation.
For registration, please click here.
Lama Migmar’s upcoming Six Paramitas Discourse
November 7th, 2017
Lama Migmar will be teaching Six Paramitas on Saturday, December 2nd, 2018, 1 – 4 pm at Solstice Power Yoga, Lynnfield, MA. For more details, please click here.
Lama Migmar’s upcoming teaching at Northeastern University, Boston, MA
November 4th, 2017
Lama Migmar’s upcoming retreats at Kripalu, MA
November 2nd, 2017
Discourse on the Six Paramitas at Samudra Studio, Saco, Maine
November 1st, 2017
Dzogchen teaching given by H.H. the Dalai Lama, who received the teaching from Khenpo Rinchen, one of the most important and precious teachers of Lama Migmar
September 25th, 2017
Khenpo Rinchen
Mangalam Yantra Yoga Workshop with Lama Migmar and David Magone
September 5th, 2017
Buddhist Healing Ritual Dakini’s Heart Essence Chod and Empowerments with Khenpo Lama Migmar
August 20th, 2017
Please find the details in this flyer.
Green Tara Empowerment with Khenpo Lama Migmar at Stil Studio
August 19th, 2017
Green Tara Empowerment with Khenpo Lama Migmar at Stil Studio on Saturday, August 19th, 12 – 4 pm
Lama Migmar offering Wisdom Gone Beyond (Heart Sutra) and Awakening to the Noble Truth (Four Noble Truth) Curriculum books to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Sheraton Hotel, Boston
June 25th, 2017
Discourse on “The Nature of the Mind” and White Tara EmpowermentA Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments at Kripalu, MA
June 17th, 2017
Lama Migmar will offer a discourse on “The Nature of the Mind” and bestow White Tara Empowerment, transmissions, teachings, and practice instructions in Grafton, VT on Sunday, July 23rd.
Please find the the details in this flyer.
A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments at Kripalu, MA
June 14th, 2017
Lama Migmar will be leading Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments at Kripalu, MA from August 21st – 26th. Details can be found in this flyer.
Celebration of Holy Month of Vesak
June 1st, 2017
Lama Migmar has suggested to celebrate the holy month of Saka Dawa from May 26th to June 24th during which Buddha was born, enlightened, and passed into Nirvana, and Mahasiddha Virupa was also enlightened by focusing more on one’s daily sadhana practices accumulating more mantras and dedicate the merit for the longevity of dharma.
Lama Migmar at 2017 Harvard Commencement
May 27th, 2017
Discourse on Six Paramitas (Six Perfections)
May 24th, 2017
Lama Migmar will be offering a discourse on the Six Paramitas (Six Perfections). Please see the flyer below for details.
Mangalam R&R during first week of April 2017 at Palm Beach and Wellington, Florida
April 9th, 2017
Lama Migmar and Tantric priest Krishna Nambodiri from Kerala, a lineage holder of the great Adi Shankara, and Swami Brahmananda from Israel at Sivananda Ashram, Bahamas
December 26th, 2016
Lama Migmar had a great session of Vedic Jyotish Prashna regarding his past and future events with Krishnaji.
Lama Migmar teaching Buddhist meditation, mantra, and mudra at Shivananda Ashram, Bahamas during the Christmas and Hanukkah celebration
December 22nd - 26th, 2016
20 students graduated from Mangalam Yantra Yoga Level 1 on Tuesday, December 13th and Mangalam Yantra Yoga Level 4 on Thursday, December 15th.
December 16th, 2016
2016 Mangalam Yantra Yoga Level 4 Graduation
Ghantapada Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Weekend Retreat
December 11th, 2016
We are very joyful with our auspicious annual Ghantapada Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Weekend Retreat at Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, MA on December 10th and 11th, 2016. Participants came from Massachusetts as well as other cities within and outside the US to attend the retreat. The retreat will continue next year on December 9th and 10th, 2017 to learn more deeply into the profound Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala practice and discuss any questions we encounter as we do our daily practice throughout the year.
We also launched Mangalam Asian Art Preservation Project for 62 Deities of Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala last year. At present, there is no detailed picture of the 62 deities of Shri Chakrasamvara Mandala according to Ghantapada lineage from Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism. The thangkas that we aim to produce in this project will be used to publish books and practice materials to provide guidance and support for Shri Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini practitioners in their daily practices. These paintings will be especially helpful to perfect our concentration and visualization practices, as well as understand more deeply the profound teachings of the Buddha embedded in each of the 62 Chakrasamvara deities. This project will cost $9,300 in total. More information about Mangalam Asian Art Preservation Project is provided below.
Students are lining to receive blessing during the healing retreat with Lama Migmar at Kripalu, MA
November 28th, 2016
Lama Migmar’s activities to promote spiritual impact to advance human potential for awakening
November 24th, 2016
Green Tara Empowerment with Lama Migmar in Vermont
November 20th, 2016
Lama Migmar visiting Kennedy Compound at Hyannis, MA
November 13th, 2016
Four Foundations of Mindfulness workshop with Lama Migmar in Cape Cod, MA
November 13th, 2016
Lama Migmar and David Magone leading Yoga and Shamatha workshop at Masonic Hall, Arlington, MA
November 11th, 2016
Lama Migmar’s Upcoming Outreach Program
November 6th, 2016
November 11th: Arlington, MA
November 13th: Cap Cod, MA
November 19th: Boston, MA
November 20th: New Hampshire
November 25th – 30th: Berkshires, MA
December 22nd – 26th: Bahamas
January 7th, 2017: Lynn field, MA
January 11th -16th, 2017: Texas
February 3rd – 7th, 2017: Berkshires, MA
February 10th – 15th, 2017: Palm Beach, Florida
April 30th, 2017: Virginia
May 19th – 21st, 2017: North Carolina
Lama Migmar’s teaching at Northeastern University, Boston, MA
October 28th, 2016
Lama Migmar’s “Heart Sutra Teaching – The Wisdom Gone Beyond” is available in Vietnamese
October 24th, 2016
Six Paramita workshop with Khenpo Migmar at Sutra Studio, MA
October 22nd, 2016
Discourse on the Six Paramitas
October 22nd, 2016
Lama Migmar will offer a discourse on the Six Paramitas at Sutra Studios, Lowell, MA.
Lama Migmar’s Upcoming Retreat at Kripalu, MA
October 13th, 2016
Nov 25th – 30th: Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health (A Buddhist Healing Ritual – Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments & Mangalam Svapna – The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming) https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/presenters/lama-migmar-tseten
Meditation and Mindfulness Retreat at the Art of Living Retreat Center
October 5th, 2016
Lama Migmar will be leading Meditation and Mindfulness Retreat at the Art of Living Retreat Center, NC. For registration, please visit: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event-registration/?ee=297
Lama Migmar’s interview with Boston Common Magazine and upcoming Outreach Programs
October 1st, 2016
Lama Migmar’s interview with Boston Common can be viewed on the page above. Lama Migmar will be leading retreats and workshops. The schedules of these outreach programs can be found below.
Nov 25th – 30th: Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health (A Buddhist Healing Ritual – Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments & Mangalam Svapna
The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming)https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/presenters/lama-migmar-tseten
Dec 22nd – Jan 2nd: Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas (Unity in Diversity) https://www.sivanandabahamas.org/course/unity-in-diversity-symposium-december-2016/
February 3rd – 5th, 2017: Mother Tara Empowerment https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/presenters/lama-migmar-tseten
February 5th – 7th, 2017: Healing through Medicine Buddha https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/presenters/lama-migmar-tseten
Lama Migmar’s Teaching in Houston, Texas
September 4th, 2016
Lama Migmar visiting NASA space center in Houston, Texas during the long weekend
September 2nd, 2016
Tanglewood: the summer venue for Boston symphony is neighbor to Kripalu, MA
August 28th, 2016
Lama Migmar during weeklong teaching workshop at Kripalu, MA
August 28th, 2016
Lama Migmar visiting Replicas of Cave Temples of Dunhuang at Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California after teaching at Arcadia, California
August 6th, 2016
Lama Migmar’s Upcoming Workshop at Kripalu, MA
July 24th, 2016
Lama Migmar will be leading workshops at Kripalu, MA.
November 25th – 27th, 2016: A Buddhist Healing Ritual – Dakini’s Heart Essence Chod
November 27th – 30th, 2016: Mangalam Svapna – The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming
To register, please visit: https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/presenters/lama-migmar-tseten
Green Tara Retreat and Teaching in Los Angeles, California
July 20th, 2016
Lama Migmar will be leading Green Tara retreat and teaching from his book “The Wisdom Gone Beyond: Teachings on the Heart Sutra” over the weekend of August 6-7th in Los Angelos, California.
Link to purchase the book: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Gone-Beyond-Teachings-Heart/dp/1497426391/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469060978&sr=8-1&keywords=the+wisdom+gone+beyond
Green Tara and Medicine Buddha Empowerment and Sadhana Practice
July 9th, 2016
Lama Migmar will be giving empowerment and teachings on sadhana practice of Green Tara and Medicine Buddha in Montreal on August 13th – 14th, 2016.
Lama Migmar Green Tara and Medicine Buddha session in Montreal
Lama Migmar’s upcoming outreach program
July 4th, 2016
Lama Migmar will be teaching and leading practices in the upcoming months.
Aug 12th – 15th: Montreal, Canada
Aug 21st – 26th: Kripalu, MA (A Buddhist Healing Ritual – Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments) https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/presenters/lama-migmar-tseten
Sep 2nd – 6th: Houston, TX
Oct (date TBD): Toronto, Canada
Nov 25th – 30th: Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health (A Buddhist Healing Ritual – Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments & Mangalam Svapna
The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming)https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/presenters/lama-migmar-tseten
Dec 22nd – Jan 2nd: Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas (Unity in Diversity) https://www.sivanandabahamas.org/course/unity-in-diversity-symposium-december-2016/
Lama Migmar training Rubin staffs and volunteers (docents), giving talk and signing on his new release: Yoga, Mindfulness, and Mantra for Peaceful Living and Dying at Rubin Museum, New York
June 27th, 2016
Open Center NY Healing and Medicine Buddha Retreat with Lama Migmar
June 24th - 25th, 2016
Lama Migmar participating at Bodhisattva monk Quang Duc self-immolation memorial ceremony
June 23rd, 2016
Lama Migmar was the guest speaker on Heart Sutra on Sunday, June 19th during Veitnamese Sangha’s summer retreat at Fremont, California. Over two hundred and thirty monks and nuns from all over USA attended the retreat and dharma talks
June 21st, 2016
Lama Migmar participated in the Annual Memorial celebration for the self-immolation of the Veitnamese monk Thich Quang Duc on June 11th 1963 for the freedom to practice dharma in Vietnam
June 21st, 2016
Lama Migmar gave Dharma Talk to Vietnamese nuns and spend a day at their temple at San Jose and their retreat center at Los Gatos on the mountain above Silicon Valley, California
June 20th, 2016
YOGA, MINDFULNESS AND MANTRA GALLERY TALK + BOOK SIGNING AT RUBIN MUSEUM, NY
June 17th, 2016
Lama Migmar Tseten, Buddhist Chaplain at Harvard, will give a gallery talk on mindfulness, set in the museum’s Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room on June 27th, 4 – 5 pm. After the talk he will sign copies of his book Yoga, Mindfulness, and Mantra for Peaceful Living and Dying. Please visit the following link for details: http://rubinmuseum.org/events/event/yoga-mindfulness-and-mantra-06-27-2016
The book is available for purchase on Amazon.
Lama Migmar’s Upcoming Programs
June 10th, 2016
June 16th: Teaching at Ewam Chodhan, Berkeley, CA
June 17-19th: Heart Sutra program at Neim Phat Duong, Fremont, CA
June 24-25th: Open Center, New York
June 26th: Mt. Kisco, New York
June 27th: Book signing at Rubin Museum, New York
Lama Migmar at Harvard University 365th Commencement
May 26th, 2016
“The Wisdom Gone Beyond” Teachings on the profound Heart Sutra with Lama Migmar Tseten on Sunday, June 26th, 10 am – 1 pm
May 23rd, 2016
Harvard University 365th Commencement
May 17th, 2016
Lama Migmar is invited to participate in Harvard University 365th commencement on May 26th, 2016.
“Differences between Sutrayana and Tantrayana”
May 23rd, 2016
Lama Migmar will teach “Differences between Sutrayana and Tantrayana” at Ewam Choden on Thursday, June 16th, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.
Ewam Choden is very pleased to welcome back Khenpo Migmar Tseten to the Center. During his last visit, he taught on the Heart Sutra and on the Four Noble Truths. His teachings, in fluent English, are always clear and compassionate, combining straightforwardness for a beginner with depth for the more advanced student and practitioner. He kindly explains comprehensively and answers questions patiently.
Lama Migmar’s subject for this visit is the differences between Sutrayana (mdo’i-theg-pa) and Tantrayana or Vajrayana (rgyüd-kyi-theg-pa, rdo rje theg pa). Specifically, the topic is How four philosophical schools of Vaibhashika, Sautrantika, Chitamatrin and Madhyamika are relevant to the understanding and practice of four classes of Kriya, Charya, Yoga and Anutarayoga of Tantra.
ABOUT KHENPO MIGMAR TSETEN
Lama Migmar has been serving at Harvard University as a Buddhist Chaplain since 1997. Born in Tibet, he received both a traditional and a contemporary education in India. He graduated with an Acharya degree in 1979 from Tibetan Institute of Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India, with the first position among four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He was awarded a medal for academic excellence by His Holiness The Dalai Lama.
Lama Migmar served as the head of Sakya Center in Rajpur, India, and the Sakya Monastery in Puruwalla, India, from 1981 to 1989, taking care of the well-being of several hundred monastic residents. During this time he reintroduced the original form of the geshe educational system of Tibet, with degrees from kazhipa up to the rabjampa degree, with a curriculum that included all of the eighteen major texts, which are known as the Dragchen Chogyed.
Additionally, Lama Migmar supervised the editing and publication of over 50 rare volumes of Sakya literature including the 31 volumes of Sakya Lamdre and the rare Golden Manuscripts of the Five Founding Masters of Sakya. He founded Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, MA, USA in 1990. He was recognized as Khenpo for his scholarship and service to the Dharma by His Holiness Sakya Trizin. Lama Migmar leads retreats at Buddhist centers throughout North America and Europe. He is the author, editor and translator in a series of four Vision books and of the Treasures of the Sakya Lineage. He has also written explanatory commentaries on the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path and on the Heart Sutra. These books are available for purchase on Amazon. He generously shares his teachings in podcasts and videos through the website, mangalamstudio.com. His other website for his Buddhist center, Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies, is sakya.net.
Medicine Buddha Empowerment and Buddhist Healing Ritual Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd
May 15th, 2016
Lama Migmar will be leading two weekend workshops: Medicine Buddha Empowerment and Buddhist Healing Ritual Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd on June 24th and 25th at New York Open Center. Registration: http://www.opencenter.org/events/medicine-buddha-empowerment/
Mangalam Svapna – The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming at Kripalu, MA
May 13th, 2016
Lama Migmar will be leading Mangalam Svapna – The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming at Kripalu, MA. To register: https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/mangalam-svapna-yoga-lucid-dreaming
For all levels.
Mangalam Svapna Yoga is an ancient Buddhist practice that transforms sleep into an opportunity for personal insight and spiritual growth. Practiced in Tibetan monasteries for more than 1,000 years, these practical techniques induce lucid dreams through a series of meditative visualizations practiced while falling asleep. Once mastered, these techniques can be used to improve sleep quality, receive spiritual teachings while dreaming, and develop insights into the nature of life, death, rebirth, and awakening.
This program includes
- A traditional Tibetan empowerment ceremony
- Instructions on the daily meditation practice of Green Tara
- Lectures on the importance of Dream Yoga in spiritual practice
- Specific visualizations to induce lucid dreams
- The opportunity to practice what you learn with short, guided meditations.
These practices cultivate a deeper sense of love and compassion for all sentient beings.
Note This program emphasizes mental yoga practices and meditative techniques; no asana is included in the sessions.
A Buddhist Healing Ritual Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments at Kripalu, MA
May 13th, 2016
Lama Migmar will be leading a Buddhist Healing Ritual Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments at Kripalu, MA. To register: https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/buddhist-healing-ritual-dakini-s-heart-essence-ch-d-and-empowerments
For everyone.
Healing Chöd is an ancient Buddhist ritual known for its power to alleviate physical, emotional, and mental illness and suffering. There are no instructions to follow or techniques to learn. One simply lies down, rests, and receives healing. Healing Chöd is suitable for everyone, including those with chronic or mild illnesses.
Healing Chöd rituals consist of music, prayers, and mantras in the sacred sounds of Sanskrit and Tibetan, transformative mudras and offerings, and meditation to cut through the destructive emotions and repel negative energies and obstacles. Empowerments are given to further increase healing blessings.
Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd is based on the female Buddha, Vajrayogini. It originated with the 10th-century Indian yogi Mahasiddha Naropa, and was passed down to Lama Migmar’s guru, Chogye Trichen Rinpoche, also the guru of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Ritual Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments
May 1st, 2016
Lama Migmar’s upcoming workshop at New York Open Center
April 27th, 2016
Lama Migmar will be leading workshops at New York Open Center. Please click the following links for more details.
June 24th, 7 – 10 pm: Buddhist Healing Ritual: Chöd (http://www.opencenter.org/events/buddhist-healing-ritual-chod/)
June 25th, 10 am – 5.30 pm: Medicine Buddha Empowerment (http://www.opencenter.org/events/medicine-buddha-empowerment/)
Meditation Immersion Sunday, May 1st to benefit Mangalam Asian Art Project – to Advance Human Potential for Awakening
April 13th, 2016
Lama Migmar will be leading workshops at Akasha Studio, Jamaica Plain on Sunday, May 1st. Please see the following flyers for more details.
Lama Migmar at Burlington Yoga Festival at the University of Vermont
April 2nd - 3rd, 2016
Lama Migmar presents what Samadhi is and how one can experience the samadhi state with Dharana and Dhyana practice at Burlington Yoga Festival at the University of Vermont
April 2nd - 3rd, 2016
Lama Migmar shared his Dad’s Buddhist spiritual practice and passing away at the meeting on Spirituality and Medicine at Harvard Medical School
March 29th, 2016
Lama Migmar and family would like to thank very much to Tibetan Association of Boston, Shambhala Buddhist Center, and all others who send their prayers, dedications, offerings, and condolence cards to Lama Migmar and family for the passing their dad
March 27th, 2016
Meditation workshop with Lama Migmar at Roots to Wings Yoga center at Newburyport, MA
March 26th, 2016
Meditation: An Afternoon of Teachings and Practice with Lama Migmar Tseten
March 8th, 2016
http://rootstowings.com/meditation-teaching-practice-w-lama-migmar.htm
Flyer: Lama Migmar_Newburryport_2016
Saturday, March 26 1PM-4PM at Roots to Wings Yoga and Healing, 76 Newburyport Turnpike (US Rte. 1), Newbury, MA 01951
Join Lama Migmar Tseten for an enlightening afternoon of teachings and meditation practice.
Lama will explain what meditation is, and will share some of his meditation experiences. He will discuss how meditation can help us to know ourselves and help others.
Lama will also give instruction in the five stages of shamatha or “calm-abiding” meditation, and we will practice shamatha meditation together.
The afternoon will conclude with a question and answer period. This is a wonderful opportunity to ask Lama anything you want to know about Buddhism, meditation, or even the problems of everyday life. So please bring your questions!
Suggested Donation at the door – $30-$45 to benefit Lama Migmar’s Mangalam Asian Art Preservation Project
Lama Migmar's Teaching at Palm Beach
March 1st, 2016
Meditation: An Afternoon of Teachings and Practice with Lama Migmar Tseten
March 1st, 2016
Join Lama Migmar Tseten for an enlightening afternoon of teachings and meditation practice on Saturday, March 26 1pm – 4pm at Newburryport, MA.
Lama will explain what meditation is, and will share some of his meditation experiences. He will discuss how meditation can help us to know ourselves and help others.
Lama will also give instruction in the five stages of shamatha or “calm-abiding” meditation, and we will practice shamatha meditation together.
The afternoon will conclude with a question and answer period. This is a wonderful opportunity to ask Lama anything you want to know about Buddhism, meditation, or even the problems of everyday life. So please bring your questions!
Suggested Donation at the door $30-$45
to benefit Mangalam Asian Art Preservation Project
For more information, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com or visit: http://rootstowings.com/meditation-teaching-practice-w-lama-migmar.htm
Lama Migmar’s teaching at Dreyfoos School auditorium, West Palm Beach, FL
February 28th, 2016
Over five hundred students, staffs, and faculties came to listen to Lama Migmar’s teaching about the need to learn both outer and inner sciences at Dreyfoos School auditorium, West Palm Beach, FL.
“What is Samadhi?” at Burlington Yoga Conference, April 2nd – 3rd 2016
February 22nd, 2016
Lama Migmar will be giving a workshop on “What is Samadhi?” at Burlington Yoga Conference on April 2nd – 3rd, 2016. Please see the following flyer for more details.
“The Art of Meditation and Staying Calm” at Coudert Institute
February 21st, 2016
Lama Migmar will be teaching “The Art of Meditation and Staying Calm” at Coudert Institute, Palm Beach, FL.
Please visit the following link for more details: http://www.coudertinstitute.org/schedule-of-events
Lama Migmar’s Upcoming Workshops at Palm Beach, Florida
February 7th, 2016
February 26th
Dreyfoos School event
Opportunity Inc. annual Ball event
February 27th
Dale Coudert Institute event at sailfish club
February 28th
Mar-A-Lago event
Lama Migmar’s Lecture on the Six Paramitas
January 31st, 2016
Lama Migmar’s teaching on Six Paramitas at Fairfax, Virginia.
Lama Migmar’s Upcoming Lecture on the Six Paramitas
January 24th, 2016
Lama Migmar will give teachings on Six Paramitas on January 30th. To register, please visit the following link: pureom.com/Fairfax
Lama Migmar's Upcoming Schedule
January 19th, 2016
New year Medicine Buddha and Tara retreat at Kripalu
January 6th - 10th, 2016
Enthronement at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas
December 24th, 2015
The following picture was taken during Lama Migmar’s trip to Bahamas to give teachings and workshops at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Bahamas.
Lama Migmar and Sangha members of Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies would like to wish all of you a wonderful holiday. May you have a good rest and joyful time with family and friends.
We also wish you a Happy New Year 2016! May the new year be filled with inner peace and happiness.
Lama Migmar's enthronement at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas
Lama Migmar’s teaching at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas
December 24th, 2015
Lama Migmar’s upcoming teachings and retreats at Kripalu in Berkshire, MA
December 17th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be giving teachings, retreats, and practices during at Kripalu, MA. Please find the schedule below and register using the provided links:
January 6th – 8th:
Healing through the Medicine Buddha
http://kripalu.org/program/view/HMB-161/healing_through_the_medicine_buddha
January 8th – 10th:
Mother Tara Empowerment
http://kripalu.org/program/view/MTE-161/mother_tara_empowerment
Lama Migmar’s teaching at Coudert Institute, Palm Beach, FL
December 10th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be teaching “Keep Calm and Meditate” at Coudert Institute, Palm Beach, FL on Saturday, February 27th, 2016, 11.30 am – 2.30 pm. Please visit the following link for more details and email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com if you have any question.
http://www.coudertinstitute.org/schedule-of-events/2016/4/1/tbd-lama-migmar
Lama Migmar’s Schedule from December 2015 – to February 2016
December 4th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be giving teachings, workshop, and leading retreats in various places in the next few months. Below are the schedule. Please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com if you would like to attend or have any question.
December 5-6: Tara Retreat, Cambridge, MA
December 12-13: Ghantapada Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Retreat, Cambridge, MA
December 20: Vajrayogini Shenpo Jezin, Cambridge, MA
December 21: Blessing visit to Providence, RI
December 22-26: Bahamas workshop
December 31- January 3, 2016: Minneapolis retreat
January 6-10, 2016: Kripalu workshop
February 26-29, 2016: teachings in Palm Beach, FL
Lama Migmar’s Upcoming Workshop “Unity in Diversity: Many Paths, One Truth” at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Bahamas
November 24th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be giving workshop in “Unity in Diversity: Many Paths, One Truth” at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Bahamas from December 22nd to 26th, 2015. To register, please visit the following website:
http://www.sivanandabahamas.org/course/unity-in-diversity-december-2015/
Lama Migmar is invited to the Jodidi Lecture
November 11th, 2015
Lama Migmar is invited to to the Jodidi Lecture on “Challenges to Pluralism and Cosmopolitanism Today” by His Highness the Aga Khan on Thursday, November 12th at 4 pm.
Lama Migmar’s teaching at Buddha Nest Studio, Groton, MA
October 31st, 2015
Lama Migmar will be giving teaching on diligence, meditation, and wisdom, the last three of six paramita at Buddha Nest Studio in Groton, MA. Please email Betty (bettyriaz@gmail.com) for detailed information about the topic, location, and time.
Lama Migmar’s upcoming schedule
October 26th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be leading retreats, teachings, and practices in Kripalu, MA the upcoming months. Please find the schedule below and register using the provided links:
November 27th – 29th, 2015: A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd (http://kripalu.org/program/view/BHR-152/a_buddhist_healing_ritual_dakinis_heart_essence)
November 29th – December 2nd, 2015: Mangalam Svapna: The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming (http://kripalu.org/program/view/YLD-151/mangalam_svapna_the_yoga_of_lucid_dreaming)
January 6th – 8th: Healing through the Medicine Buddha (http://kripalu.org/program/view/HMB-161/healing_through_the_medicine_buddha)
January 8th – 10th: Mother Tara Empowerment (http://kripalu.org/program/view/MTE-161/mother_tara_empowerment)
Lama Migmar’s upcoming schedule
October 15th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be leading retreats, teachings, and practices in the upcoming months. Please find the schedule below and email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com if you have any question.
October 17th, 2015: Lowell, MA
November 6th, 2015: Northeastern University, Boston
November 29th – December 2nd, 2015: Kripalu, MA
December 25th – 30th, 2015: Shivananda Yoga Ashram, Bahamas
January 6th – 10th, 2016: Kripalu, MA
January 30th, 2016: Virginia
February 6th, 2016: Stil Studio, MA
June 21st, 2016: Open House, New York
Lama Migmar at Interfaith Symposium on “Service to Man is Service to God”
September 19th, 2015
Interfaith Symposium on “Service to Man is Service to God”
September 9th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be speaking in an interfaith symposium on “Service to Man is Service to God” in Providence. The details of the event can be found in the following flyer.
Please contact mangalamstudio8@gmail.com if you have any question.
Lama Migmar’s Summer Programs
July 17th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be teaching and leading practices in the summer. The followings are the schedule:
From July 24th, 2015
Minneapolis Sakya Center
Hamline University
Wausa, Wisconsin
From August 6th, 2015
Los Angeles, California
August 23rd – 28th, 2015
A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments at Kripalu, MA
http://kripalu.org/program/view/BHR-151/a_buddhist_healing_ritual_dakinis_heart_essence
Lama Migmar at International United Nation’s Yoga Day Celebration at MIT
June 22nd, 2015
Lama Migmar’s retreat schedule at Kripalu, MA
June 6th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be leading a series of retreats at Kripalu, MA. The followings are the schedule. If you would like to register or have any question about the details, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com or visit:
http://kripalu.org/presenter/V0004174/lama_migmar_tseten
August 23–28, 2015
A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments
November 27–29, 2015
A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd
November 29–December 2, 2015
Mangalam Svapna: The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming
January 6–8, 2016
Healing Through the Medicine Buddha
January 8–10, 2016
Mother Tara Empowerment
Alex Grey's Painting of Lama Migmar
June 6th, 2015
Lama Migmar at Alex Grey's Center, New York
June 4th, 2015
Watching sun setting on the Hudson River
May 29th, 2015
Lama Migmar at Harvard Commencement
May 30th, 2015
Lama Migmar’s Retreat Schedule at Kripalu, MA
May 20th, 2015
From November 27th to December 2nd, 2015 Lama Migmar will be leading Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practice and Mangalam Svapna-The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming at Kripalu, MA.
To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com or visit the following page:
http://kripalu.org/presenter/V0004174/lama_migmar_tseten
Lama Migmar workshops at the Bahamas
May 17th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be leading workshops at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas from December 23rd – 25th, 2015. This workshop is part of the “Unity in Diversity: Many Paths, One Truth” Christmas and New Year’s Symposium. To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com or visit the following website:
http://www.sivanandabahamas.org/course/unity-in-diversity-december-2015/
Lama Migmar gave a talk at Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in celebration of Buddha’s birthday
May 9th, 2015
The Wisdom Gone Beyond: Teachings on the Heart Sutra
April 17th, 2015
Lama Migmar’s book “The Wisdom Gone Beyond: Teachings on the Heart Sutra” will appear on “Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly” published by the Shambhala Sun Foundation.
To purchase the book, please visit:
http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Gone-Beyond-Teachings-Heart/dp/1497426391/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1418331646&sr=8-2&keywords=lama+migmar+tseten
Mangalam Svapna Yoga at Kripalu
April 8th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be giving empowerment, transmission, and teachings on Mangalam Svapna Yoga at Kripalu, MA from November 29th – December 2nd, 2015. To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com or visit the following website: http://kripalu.org/program/view/YLD-151/mangalam_svapna_the_yoga_of_lucid_dreaming
Mangalam Svapna Yoga is an ancient Buddhist practice that transforms sleep into an opportunity for personal insight and spiritual growth. Practiced in Tibetan monasteries for more than a thousand years, these practical techniques induce lucid dreams through a series of meditative visualizations practiced while falling asleep. Once mastered, these techniques can be used to improve sleep quality, receive spiritual teachings while dreaming, and develop insights into the nature of life, death, rebirth, and awakening.
This program includes
- A traditional Tibetan empowerment ceremony
- Instructions on the daily meditation practice of Green Tara
- Lectures on the importance of Dream Yoga in spiritual practice
- Specific visualizations to induce lucid dreams
- The opportunity to practice what you learn with short, guided meditations.
These practices cultivate a deeper sense of love and compassion for all sentient beings.
Note: This program emphasizes mental yoga practices and meditative techniques; no asana is included in the sessions.
Buddha’s Wisdom of No Karma and No Rebirth
March 24th, 2015
A Talk by Harvard Buddhist Chaplain Lama Migmar Tseten
Tuesday March 24rd, 3-5pm @ 215 Shillman Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115.
Please join Lama Migmar for a talk on “Buddha’s Wisdom of No Karma and Rebirth”, based on his new book “The Wisdom Gone Beyond: Teachings On the Heart Sutra”, available now from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Gone-Beyond-Teachings-Heart/dp/1497426391
It is located in Building #30 on the following map: http://www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/map/qad4.html
Vipashyana workshop today at Akasha, Jamaica Plain
March 21st, 2015
Lama Migmar’s Retreat Schedule at Kripalu, MA
March 16th, 2015
On August 23rd – 28th, Lama Migmar will be leading Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practice and bestow empowerments at Kripalu, MA.
To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com or visit the following page:
http://kripalu.org/program/view/BHR-151/a_buddhist_healing_ritual_dakinis_heart_essence
Sarasvati Empowerment and Teachings with Lama Migmar
March 8th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be leading a workshop on “Healing Through the Sound of Music” on May 30th, 2015 from 11 am – 4 pm at Tara Hudson Valley of Chappaqua, NY.
To register, please email dlauter@me.com or visit www.facebook.com/tarahudsonvalley.
Where ever there is the sound of music, no suffering exists. For this reason, music is praised by everyone. Music has great power to benefit sentient beings. Join Lama Migmar in this unprecedented exploration of the positive benefits of the sound of music and its role in healing in Sakya Pandita’s Treatise on Music. In connection with exploring the themes of this profound text, never before studied in the West, he will be granting the initiation and meditation instruction of Sarasvati, the patron goddess of music and the arts.
Lama Migmar’s Retreat Schedule at Kripalu, MA
March 6th, 2015
On August 23rd – 28th, Lama Migmar will be leading Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practice and bestow empowerments at Kripalu, MA.
To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com or visit the following page:
http://kripalu.org/program/view/BHR-151/a_buddhist_healing_ritual_dakinis_heart_essence
Lama Migmar and students celebrating the completion of Guru Padmasambhava life size statue
March 6th, 2015
Lama Migmar at Mar-A-Lago
February 28th, 2015
H.H. the Sakya Trizin and H.H. the Karmapa at Kagyu Monlam Special Program
February 25th, 2015
At the request of H.H. the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, H.H. the Sakya Trizin came to the 32nd Kagyu Monlam Special Program and gave the empowerment to H.H. the Karmapa, Kagyu rinpoches and tulkus, and 8000 monks and lay people of the Karma Kagyu. H.H. the Sakya Trizin’s two sons accompanied Him.
H.H. the Sakya Trizin and His sons were received with the highest honors, and the warm affection they share with the 17th Karmapa was obvious for all to see.
It was marvelous to see the closeness between these two heads of lineages.
Vipashyana (insight meditation) workshop with Lama Migmar Tseten
February 16th, 2015
Lama Migmar will be leading an vipashyana (insight meditation workshop) at Akasha Studio, Jamaica Plain, MA. Please find the flyer below and email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com if you have any question.
Lama Migmar’s upcoming outreach program in February and March
February 11th, 2015
Please find Lama Migmar’s outreach program schedule in February and March 2015 below. Please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com if you have any question.
Feb 6th: Stil Studio, Dedham, MA
Feb 13th: Karma Studio, Newbury St., Boston, MA
Feb 24th: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Feb 26th – March 2nd: Palm Beach, Florida with Dreyfoos School, Parasutra and Mar-A-Lago
March 14th: Akasha Studio, West Roxbury, MA
March 20th: Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Lama Migmar’s Retreat Schedule at Kripalu, MA
February 7th, 2015
On August 23rd – 28th, Lama Migmar will be leading Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practice and bestow empowerments at Kripalu, MA.
To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com or visit the following page:
http://kripalu.org/program/view/BHR-151/a_buddhist_healing_ritual_dakinis_heart_essence
Lama Migmar’s upcoming workshop at Mar Lago, Palm Beach
February 2nd, 2015
Lama Migmar will be leading a workshop at Mar Lago, Palm Beach from February 26th to March 2nd, 2015. Please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com for more information.
Lama Migmar Upcoming Teaching
December 19th, 2014
Lama Migmar will be teaching at Marlago, Palm Beach, Florida on Feb 27th – 29th, 2015.
For more details, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Lama Migmar’s advice on “What does it mean to live a ‘successful’ life?”
November 25th, 2014
Lama Migmar was recently interviewed at Harvard Business School on “What does it mean to live a ‘successful’ life?” The following is the quote from the interview.
Advice to 25 year old self:
1. Be healthy. Emotionally and mentally you have to become strong. Before you can help others, you have to build emotional strength and inner peace.
2. Be wealthy. Wealth is having the ability to share. Inner wealth and outer wealth are both important. Tibet has lots of inner wealth and America has lots of outer wealth. You need both. Although inner wealth can overpower outer wealth as mind is stronger than body. Inner wealth includes loving-kindness, compassion and wisdom. Outer wealth includes access to water, air, earth and energy (fire). We can include money when it has purchasing power. Currency in itself does not have any intrinsic value – you can’t eat money. When my family moved from Tibet to India, the paper money we took with us was worthless.
3. Be beneficial to others. This means helping oneself and others. For example, by sharing and loving others. When you love someone, that makes them happy, this in turn will make you happy. Happiness is interdependent.
4. Live to bring purpose in your life. Consume to live and live to do something beneficial for oneself and others. Eat to live, rather than living to eat.
Other thoughts:
1. Loving-kindness is about wishing oneself and others well. Selfless love, like a mother’s love to a child, is when you love someone because you want them to be happy. Selfish love is when you love someone because they make you happy. Selfish love is uncertain.
2. Faith is about putting trust in something you don’t know; it is from the heart and not from the brain. The heart is stronger than the brain.
3. Being “present” requires memory / mindfulness and attention. People that remain in the present are more peaceful. When you think about the past you remember the pain or the pleasure. When you think about the future you dream of something that is not real.
4. Mind – The mind is stronger than the body. When the mind is calm you have less aggression and desire.
Three words for success:
1. Happiness
2. Freedom
3. Beneficial
Lama Migmar at His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Teaching on Eight Verses of Training of the Mind and Generation of Bodhicitta (The Enlightened Mind)
October 30th, 2014
Remembering Dezung Rinpoche and Gene Smith
October 18th, 2014
Lama Migmar Tseten has kindly offered to share his personal recollections of Dezhung Rinpoche and Gene Smith. This is a unique opportunity to hear, in an informal setting, about two extraordinary people who established the vision that is Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center.
Saturday, Ocotber 18th
Doors open at 6pm. Talk begins promptly at 7pm.
This event is free and open for all to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
Harvard Interfaith Meet and Greet
October 17th, 2014
Lama Migmar Tseten will be participating in the upcoming Harvard Interfaith Meet and Greet at October 23rd, 6 pm.
Location: Phillips Brooks House, Harvard Yard.
Lama Migmar’s visit to Hudson Valley Dam at Chappaqua, New York
October 4th, 2014
Lama Migmar’s visit to Rib Mountain, the oldest and highest mountain in the middle of USA, in Wausa, Wisconsin
October 3rd, 2014
Lama Migmar Upcoming Teaching and Retreat Schedules
September 19th, 2014
Lama Migmar will be teaching and leading retreats in the next few months – the schedule is as follows:
September 24th – 29th, 2014: Teaching Programs in Minnesota and Wisconsin
November 28th – 30th, 2014: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practice at Kripalu, MA
November 30th – December 2nd, 2014: Healing through Medicine Buddha at Kripalu, MA
January 2nd – 4th, 2015: Tara Empowerment at Kripalu, MA
Please download the magazine page for more details here: Kripalu 2014
For more details, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Meditation, Empowerment, and Teachings with Lama Migmar at Tara Hudson Valley, Chappaqua, NY
August 21st, 2014
Lama Migmar will be leading a weekend workshop including meditation, Tara empowerment, transmission, mindfulness teachings and discussion on Sept 20th and 21st at Tara Hudson Valley, Chappaqua, NY.
Saturday, Sept 20th, 12 – 5 pm: Green Tara empowerment
Sunday, Sept 21st, 10 am – 12 pm: Meditation
Sunday, Sept 21st, 1 – 3 pm: Teachings on mindfulness
Registration: www.facebook.com/tarahudsonvalley or dlauter@me.com
Lama Migmar’s teaching at Burlington, Vermont
August 9th - 10th, 2014
Lama Migmar’s Retreat Schedule in August 2014
August 4th, 2014
Lama Migmar will be leading a series of retreats in August 2014:
August 8th to 10th: Burlington, Vermont Retreat
August 13th to 18th: Ewam Choden, Berkeley, California Retreat
August 18th to 20th: Thupten Dargye Ling, Minneapolis Retreat
August 20th to 22nd: Wisconsin Retreat
August 24th to 29th: Kripalu, Berkshire, MA Retreat
Please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com for more information.
Heart Sutra Weekend Retreat at Ewam Choden, Berkeley
July 5th, 2014
There will be a Heart Sutra weekend retreat with Khenpo Migmar at the invitation of Thartse Kunga Rinpoche at Ewam Choden, Berkeley, CA on August 16th and 17th, 2014.
For more details, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com
Retreat at Laughing River Yoga, Burlington, Vermont
July 4th, 2014
From August 9th – 10th, Lama Migmar will be leading a retreat at Laughing River Yoga in Burlington, Vermont. The retreat includes meditation, workshop, Medicine Buddha healing empowerment, transmission, and meditation instruction.
To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Mangalam Yantra Yoga Level I
July 4th, 2014
Guided by Lama Migmar Tseten, this training will offer an unparalleled opportunity to become part of an unbroken lineage of yogis. Mangalam Yantra Yoga techniques were passed down from Indian mahasiddhas to Tibetan Lamas in an unbroken lineage for over 1,000 years.
The Mangalam Yantra Yoga Level I intensive training is designed to give you an in depth immersion into Buddhist meditative practices, pranayama techniques and basic physical asanas.
Please download the flyer in the following link: Mangalam Yantra Yoga
To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Lama Migmar’s Retreat Schedule at Kripalu, MA
April 26th, 2014
Lama Migmar will be leading a series of retreats at Kripalu, MA:
August 24th – 29th, 2014: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practice and Empowerments
November 28th – 30th, 2014: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practice
November 30th – December 2nd, 2014: Healing through Medicine Buddha
To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practice and Empowerments
April 26th, 2014
From August 24th – 29th, 2014, Lama Migmar Tseten will be leading Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd practice and bestowing empowerments at Kripalu. For more details, please download the Kripalu magazine page: Chod2014
To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Lama Migmar’s Teaching Certification at the Harvard Medical School
April 26th, 2014
The Harvard Medical School certifies that Lama Migmar Tseten has participated in “Effective Pediatric Pain Management and End of Life Care” on March 22nd, 2014.
Effective Pediatric Pain Management and End of Life Care
March 12th, 2014
LAST DAY FOR REGISTRATION SATURDAY, MARCH 15
To register, visit the following link
https://cme.med.harvard.edu/registration1.asp?SECTION=REGISTRATIONS&ID=03424652#register
The Medical Staff Organization of Boston Children’s Hospital invites you to join us for a Live CME Event on “Effective Pediatric Pain Management and End of Life Care” to be held on March 22nd, at Folkman Auditorium. Don’t miss this opportunity to obtain Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine 5.00 credits of Risk Management Study, including 3.00 Credits of Opioid Education and Pain Management Training and 2.00 Credits of End-of-Life Care Studies
See below for additional details and to view the program!
Current Medical Staff wishing to attend can register by contacting Ms. Amanda Nowicki at Amanda.nowicki@childrens.harvard.edu as the Medical Staff Organization of Boston Children’s will support your costs to attend! All CME Certificates will be sent via e-mail.
Continuing Medical Education Requirements for Physician New & Renewal Licensure in Massachusetts
New Licensing Requirements Effective Feb 1st, 2012
Effective Pain Management
Effective Feb. 1, 2012, physicians applying to renew their license or obtain a new license must complete at least three (3) credits of education and training in pain management and opioid education.
End of Life Care
Effective Feb. 1, 2012, physicians must also take two (2) CME credits in end of life care. The credits qualify as either category 1 or category 2, and may be counted as risk management credits.
Burlington Yoga Conference
March 4th, 2014
Lama Migmar will be the keynote speaker at Burlington Yoga Conference. If you would like to attend or have any question, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Public Talk: Tibetan Buddhist teachings on what is meditation, yoga, and their benefits
February 10th, 2014
Lama Migmar will be giving a public talk on what is meditation, yoga, and their benefits on February 25th, 2014 at Edison College, Fort Myers, Bldg J, Room J117/118, Florida. If you would like to attend or have any question, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Meditation at Mar-a-Lago Club
February 10th, 2014
Please join us on Saturday, February 22nd at 12:00 noon for a Meditation Event and Luncheon hosted by The Mar-A-Lago Club, featuring the world-renowned Lama Migmar Tseten. Please click the following link for the flyer.
Effective Pediatric Pain Management and End of Life Care
February 10th, 2014
Lama Migmar will be giving a talk on Peaceful Death in the course “Effective Pediatric Pain Management and End of Life Care” at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Please download the following flyer for details about the class.
February and March Teachings and Festivals
January 24th, 2014
The followings are Lama Migmar schedules in February and March. If you have any question or would like to attend, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Starting from February 21st: workshops at Mar-a-Lago, Parasutra and Sail Club in Palm Beach, Florida.
March:
Keynote speaker at Burlington Yoga festival
Talk on Peaceful Death at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
Talk organized by Northeastern University Religious Department
Blessings at Stil gathering
Workshop at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida
Lama Migmar teaching during retreat at Kripalu, MA
December 5th, 2013
Mindful Meditation and Healing Mantra Singing
November 30th, 2013
Lama Migmar will introduce mindful meditation to bring calmness and insight to the cultivation of attention and awareness. This meditation is suitable for all. He will also introduce mantras for healings to overcome different sufferings. To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
For more details, please download the following flyer: Mindful Meditation 113013
Mother Tara Empowerment
December 7th, 2013
From January 10th – 12th, 2014, Lama Migmar Tseten will bestow the empowerments of the White, Gold, Red, and Green Tara, as well as lead Tara practices at Kripalu.
To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Meditation, Mantra, and Yoga
November 8 - 10th, 2013
Lama Migmar will be leading a three-day retreat from Friday, November 8th to Sunday, November 10th, 2013 in Bermuda. To register, please email dandmpstr@gmail.com. The schedule is as follows:
Friday, Nov 8th
7 pm: Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
Saturday, Nov 9th
8 – 9.30 am: Blue Flower Meditation for Calm and Focus
10 – 11.30 am: Green Tara Empowerment for Protection
1 – 2 pm: Life Saving Ceremony Cedar Planting and Dedication
2.30 – 4.30 pm: Tibetan Yantra Yoga for Energy
7 – 9 pm: Tibetan Yantra Yoga for Energy
Sunday, Nov 10th
8 – 9.30 am: Tibetan Yantra Yoga for Energy
10 – 11.30 am: Tibetan Yantra Yoga for Energy
12 pm: Potluck lunch
1 – 3 pm: Medicine Buddha Empowerment for Healing
Please download the following flyer for more details: 2013BermudaRetreat
Retreats with Lama Migmar Tseten at Kripalu, MA
November 8th, 2013
Lama Migmar will be leading a series of retreats at Kripalu, MA. Registration for all of the sessions are now open. To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com
1. 29 Nov – 1 Dec 13: A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd: Lama Migmar faculty flyer 11-2013
4. 1 – 3 Dec 13: Healing Through Medicine Buddha: Lama Migmar faculty flier 12-2013
5. 10 – 12 Jan 14: Mother Tara Empowerment: Lama Migmar Tseten January flier 2014
Four Immeasurables: Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
November 8th, 2013
Lama Migmar will be giving a public talk on the Four Immeasurables: Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity at Phoebe Purvis Memorial Hall, Warwick Academy in Bermuda on Friday, November 8th 2013, 7-9 pm. If you have any question, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Please download the following flyer for more details: 2013BermudaRetreatWA
The Yoga of Lucid Dreaming
November 3rd, 2013
“Dream Yoga” (Milam), is a meditative practice from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition that can be used to cultivate lucid or conscious dreams. Based on the meditative practices of two realized Indian masters, this workshop will introduce you to techniques that can be used to transform the hours that you normally spend sleeping into further opportunities for insight and spiritual growth. This program is guided by Harvard University Buddhist Chaplain Lama Migmar Tseten and assisted by David Magone.
For more details, please download the following flyer: The_Yoga_of_Lucid_Dreaming_Flyer
Upcoming October & November retreats with Lama Migmar
October 16th, 2013
Locations for the upcoming October & November retreats with Lama Migmar:
Long Island, NY
Toronto, Canada
Sports Club LA Boston
Bermuda
Kripalu, Berkshires, MA
Please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com for more information.
Mother Tara Empowerment
October 11th, 2013
From January 10th – 12th, 2014, Lama Migmar Tseten will bestow the empowerments of the White, Gold, Red, and Green Tara, as well as lead Tara practices at Kripalu. For more details, please download the Kripalu magazine page. To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Medicine Buddha and Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practices
October 11th, 2013
From November 29th to December 3rd, 2013, Lama Migmar Tseten will be leading Medicine Buddha and Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd practices at Kripalu. For more details, please download the Kripalu magazine page. To register, please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
Mangalam Yantra Yoga
August 9th, 2013
From August 28th to September 2nd, 2013, Lama Migmar Tseten will be leading Mangalam Yantra Yoga at Kripalu. For more details, please view the following page from Kripalu magazine. To register, please click here.
Medicine Buddha and Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practices
August 9th, 2013
From November 29th to December 3rd, 2013, Lama Migmar Tseten will be leading Medicine Buddha and Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd practices at Kripalu. For more details, please view the following page from Kripalu magazine.
To register for “Healing through Medicine Buddha”, please click here.
To register for “A Buddhist Healing Ritual – Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd”, please click here.
Retreats with Lama Migmar Tseten at Kripalu, MA
July 27th, 2013
Lama Migmar will be leading a series of retreats at Kripalu, MA. Registration for all of the sessions are now open. Please visit the following pages:
1. 28 – 30 Aug 13: A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd
http://kripalu.org/program/view/BHR-131/a_buddhist_healing_ritual_dakini8217s_heart_essence
2. 30 Aug – 2 Sep 13: Mangalam Yantra Yoga: Tibetan Yoga and Meditation
http://kripalu.org/program/view/YY-131/mangalam_yantra_yoga_tibetan_yoga_and_meditation
3. 29 Nov – 1 Dec 13: A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd
http://kripalu.org/program/view/BHR-132/a_buddhist_healing_ritual_dakinis_heart_essence
4. 1 – 3 Dec 13: Healing Through Medicine Buddha
http://kripalu.org/program/view/HMB-131/healing_through_medicine_buddha
5. 10 – 12 Jan 14: Mother Tara Empowerment
http://kripalu.org/program/view/MTE-141/mother_tara_empowerment
Heart Sutra Retreat
July 25th, 2013
Lama Migmar will be leading a retreat on Heart Sutra on August 17th and 18th, 2013 in Kensington, California. For more details, please download a flyer from the following link: Lama Migmar flyer 8-10-13
Retreats on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Shamatha, and Vipashyana
July 24th, 2013
Lama Migmar will be leading a retreat on the Four Foundation of Mindfulness on August 10th and 11th, 2013 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as well as a retreat on Shamatha (calm abiding meditation) and Vipashyana (insight meditation) on August 12th and 13th in Wausau, Wisconsin. For more details, please download a two-page flyer from the following link: KhenpoMigmar_Retreat_August 2013
Mindful Meditation and Healing Mantra Singing
July 21st, 2013
On August 31st, 2013 at Kripalu, MA, Lama Migmar Tseten will introduce mindful meditation to bring calmness and insight to the cultivation of attention and awareness, as well as mantras for healing to overcome different sufferings. For more details, please download the flyer from the following link: Lama Migmar Tseten flyer 08-31-13
Mother Tara Empowerment
July 11th, 2013
From January 10th – 12th, 2014, Lama Migmar Tseten will bestow the empowerments of the White, Gold, Red, and Green Tara, as well as lead Tara practices at Kripalu. For more details, please download the flyer from the following link: Lama Migmar Tseten January flyer 2014
To register, please click here.
Medicine Buddha and Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd Practices
July 9th, 2013
From November 29th to December 3rd, 2013, Lama Migmar Tseten will be leading Medicine Buddha and Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd practices at Kripalu. For more details, please download the flyers from the following links:
Healing through Medicine Buddha: Lama Migmar faculty flyer 12-2013
To register, please click here.
A Buddhist Healing Ritual – Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd: Lama Migmar faculty flyer 11-2013
To register, please click here.
Mangalam Yantra Yoga and Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd
June 29th, 2013
From August 28th to September 2nd, 2013, Lama Migmar Tseten will be leading Mangalam Yantra Yoga and Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd practices at Kripalu. For more details, please download the flyers from the following links:
Mangalam Yantra Yoga – Tibetan Yoga and Meditation: Lama Migmar Faculty flyer 8-30-13
To register, please click here.
A Buddhist Healing Ritual – Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd: Lama Migmar Faculty Flyer 8-28-13
To register, please click here.
POSTS
Mahasiddha of the Month - Mahasiddha Zokipa
December 1st, 2018
We at Mangalam are working on Asian Art Preservation Project for 108 Mahasiddhas and Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and would like to ask you for your support. We need to raise fund for painting and brocading 84 Indian Mahasiddhas, 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddhas, Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Art Preservation Projects. We have completed 84 Indian Mahasiddha thangkas, and still need funding for 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddha thangkas, 45 Root and Lineage Gurus of Naropa Vajrayogini thangkas, and 62 Deities of Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala. These 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus are the source of the Vajrayana Buddhist teachings, meditations, and yantra yogas, including vayu, nadi, bliss, and mahamudra practices.
We will then use these paintings for various activities:
- Spiritual art exhibition where we will show the paintings of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus, share their inspiring life stories, teachings, and meditation practices.
- Creating spiritual videos and podcasts about the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus that we will share for free on our websites (Mangalam Studio, 108 Mahasiddha, and Vajrayogini).
- Publishing books presenting the teachings and meditation practices taught by these 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus compiled from original sources. These books will also present color prints of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus. This project will also require translation of original sources from Tibetan and Sanskrit to English.
- Teachings and meditation practices at Buddhist centers.
One example of our previous Asian Art Preservation Project is 21 Tārā Art Preservation Project. Here, we commissioned painting and brocading thangkas of 22 female Buddhas, Green Tārā and 21 Tārā. These paintings were used for spiritual art exhibition at Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge; publishing “Āryā Tārā Practice Manual”, which provides a complete set of texts and instructions for the practice of Tārā compiled from traditional sources, 22 color Tārā thangka pictures, and various Tārā paintings for visualization meditation aid (Mangalamkosha); sharing Tārā praises, mantras, and videos for free on our website (21 Tara); as well as studying, contemplating, and practicing Tārā meditation at various Tārā groups throughout the United States (Tara Groups).
We will not be able to complete this project without your support, and you can make a big impact by making a gift today. To date, our Asian Art Preservation Project has been shared in more than 130 countries in all four continents. If this project is valuable for you, please help us by making a donation using the following button. The donation can be made by credit card or PayPal.
Mahasiddha of the Month - Mahasiddha Mikaripa
November 3rd, 2018
We at Mangalam are working on Asian Art Preservation Project for 108 Mahasiddhas and Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and would like to ask you for your support. We need to raise fund for painting and brocading 84 Indian Mahasiddhas, 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddhas, Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Art Preservation Projects. We have completed 84 Indian Mahasiddha thangkas, and still need funding for 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddha thangkas, 45 Root and Lineage Gurus of Naropa Vajrayogini thangkas, and 62 Deities of Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala. These 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus are the source of the Vajrayana Buddhist teachings, meditations, and yantra yogas, including vayu, nadi, bliss, and mahamudra practices.
We will then use these paintings for various activities:
- Spiritual art exhibition where we will show the paintings of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus, share their inspiring life stories, teachings, and meditation practices.
- Creating spiritual videos and podcasts about the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus that we will share for free on our websites (Mangalam Studio, 108 Mahasiddha, and Vajrayogini).
- Publishing books presenting the teachings and meditation practices taught by these 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus compiled from original sources. These books will also present color prints of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus. This project will also require translation of original sources from Tibetan and Sanskrit to English.
- Teachings and meditation practices at Buddhist centers.
One example of our previous Asian Art Preservation Project is 21 Tārā Art Preservation Project. Here, we commissioned painting and brocading thangkas of 22 female Buddhas, Green Tārā and 21 Tārā. These paintings were used for spiritual art exhibition at Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge; publishing “Āryā Tārā Practice Manual”, which provides a complete set of texts and instructions for the practice of Tārā compiled from traditional sources, 22 color Tārā thangka pictures, and various Tārā paintings for visualization meditation aid (Mangalamkosha); sharing Tārā praises, mantras, and videos for free on our website (21 Tara); as well as studying, contemplating, and practicing Tārā meditation at various Tārā groups throughout the United States (Tara Groups).
We will not be able to complete this project without your support, and you can make a big impact by making a gift today. To date, our Asian Art Preservation Project has been shared in more than 130 countries in all four continents. If this project is valuable for you, please help us by making a donation using the following button. The donation can be made by credit card or PayPal.
Mahasiddha of the Month - Mahasiddha Tentalipa
October 6th, 2018
We at Mangalam are working on Asian Art Preservation Project for 108 Mahasiddhas and Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and would like to ask you for your support. We need to raise fund for painting and brocading 84 Indian Mahasiddhas, 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddhas, Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Art Preservation Projects. We have completed 84 Indian Mahasiddha thangkas, and still need funding for 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddha thangkas, 45 Root and Lineage Gurus of Naropa Vajrayogini thangkas, and 62 Deities of Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala. These 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus are the source of the Vajrayana Buddhist teachings, meditations, and yantra yogas, including vayu, nadi, bliss, and mahamudra practices.
We will then use these paintings for various activities:
- Spiritual art exhibition where we will show the paintings of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus, share their inspiring life stories, teachings, and meditation practices.
- Creating spiritual videos and podcasts about the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus that we will share for free on our websites (Mangalam Studio, 108 Mahasiddha, and Vajrayogini).
- Publishing books presenting the teachings and meditation practices taught by these 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus compiled from original sources. These books will also present color prints of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus. This project will also require translation of original sources from Tibetan and Sanskrit to English.
- Teachings and meditation practices at Buddhist centers.
One example of our previous Asian Art Preservation Project is 21 Tārā Art Preservation Project. Here, we commissioned painting and brocading thangkas of 22 female Buddhas, Green Tārā and 21 Tārā. These paintings were used for spiritual art exhibition at Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge; publishing “Āryā Tārā Practice Manual”, which provides a complete set of texts and instructions for the practice of Tārā compiled from traditional sources, 22 color Tārā thangka pictures, and various Tārā paintings for visualization meditation aid (Mangalamkosha); sharing Tārā praises, mantras, and videos for free on our website (21 Tara); as well as studying, contemplating, and practicing Tārā meditation at various Tārā groups throughout the United States (Tara Groups).
We will not be able to complete this project without your support, and you can make a big impact by making a gift today. To date, our Asian Art Preservation Project has been shared in more than 130 countries in all four continents. If this project is valuable for you, please help us by making a donation using the following button. The donation can be made by credit card or PayPal.
Mahasiddha of the Month - Mahasiddha Kukuripa
September 1st, 2018
We at Mangalam are working on Asian Art Preservation Project for 108 Mahasiddhas and Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and would like to ask you for your support. We need to raise fund for painting and brocading 84 Indian Mahasiddhas, 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddhas, Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Art Preservation Projects. We have completed 84 Indian Mahasiddha thangkas, and still need funding for 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddha thangkas, 45 Root and Lineage Gurus of Naropa Vajrayogini thangkas, and 62 Deities of Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala. These 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus are the source of the Vajrayana Buddhist teachings, meditations, and yantra yogas, including vayu, nadi, bliss, and mahamudra practices.
We will then use these paintings for various activities:
- Spiritual art exhibition where we will show the paintings of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus, share their inspiring life stories, teachings, and meditation practices.
- Creating spiritual videos and podcasts about the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus that we will share for free on our websites (Mangalam Studio, 108 Mahasiddha, and Vajrayogini).
- Publishing books presenting the teachings and meditation practices taught by these 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus compiled from original sources. These books will also present color prints of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus. This project will also require translation of original sources from Tibetan and Sanskrit to English.
- Teachings and meditation practices at Buddhist centers.
One example of our previous Asian Art Preservation Project is 21 Tārā Art Preservation Project. Here, we commissioned painting and brocading thangkas of 22 female Buddhas, Green Tārā and 21 Tārā. These paintings were used for spiritual art exhibition at Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge; publishing “Āryā Tārā Practice Manual”, which provides a complete set of texts and instructions for the practice of Tārā compiled from traditional sources, 22 color Tārā thangka pictures, and various Tārā paintings for visualization meditation aid (Mangalamkosha); sharing Tārā praises, mantras, and videos for free on our website (21 Tara); as well as studying, contemplating, and practicing Tārā meditation at various Tārā groups throughout the United States (Tara Groups).
We will not be able to complete this project without your support, and you can make a big impact by making a gift today. To date, our Asian Art Preservation Project has been shared in more than 130 countries in all four continents. If this project is valuable for you, please help us by making a donation using the following button. The donation can be made by credit card or PayPal.
Mahasiddha of the Month - Mahasiddha Dhamapala
August 4th, 2018
We at Mangalam are working on Asian Art Preservation Project for 108 Mahasiddhas and Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and would like to ask you for your support. We need to raise fund for painting and brocading 84 Indian Mahasiddhas, 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddhas, Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Art Preservation Projects. We have completed 84 Indian Mahasiddha thangkas, and still need funding for 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddha thangkas, 45 Root and Lineage Gurus of Naropa Vajrayogini thangkas, and 62 Deities of Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala. These 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus are the source of the Vajrayana Buddhist teachings, meditations, and yantra yogas, including vayu, nadi, bliss, and mahamudra practices.
We will then use these paintings for various activities:
- Spiritual art exhibition where we will show the paintings of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus, share their inspiring life stories, teachings, and meditation practices.
- Creating spiritual videos and podcasts about the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus that we will share for free on our websites (Mangalam Studio, 108 Mahasiddha, and Vajrayogini).
- Publishing books presenting the teachings and meditation practices taught by these 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus compiled from original sources. These books will also present color prints of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus. This project will also require translation of original sources from Tibetan and Sanskrit to English.
- Teachings and meditation practices at Buddhist centers.
One example of our previous Asian Art Preservation Project is 21 Tārā Art Preservation Project. Here, we commissioned painting and brocading thangkas of 22 female Buddhas, Green Tārā and 21 Tārā. These paintings were used for spiritual art exhibition at Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge; publishing “Āryā Tārā Practice Manual”, which provides a complete set of texts and instructions for the practice of Tārā compiled from traditional sources, 22 color Tārā thangka pictures, and various Tārā paintings for visualization meditation aid (Mangalamkosha); sharing Tārā praises, mantras, and videos for free on our website (21 Tara); as well as studying, contemplating, and practicing Tārā meditation at various Tārā groups throughout the United States (Tara Groups).
We will not be able to complete this project without your support, and you can make a big impact by making a gift today. To date, our Asian Art Preservation Project has been shared in more than 130 countries in all four continents. If this project is valuable for you, please help us by making a donation using the following button. The donation can be made by credit card or PayPal.
Guru Rinpoche's Seven Line Prayer Empowerment by His Holiness the Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche
April 15th, 2018
His Holiness the Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche will bestow Guru Rinpoche's Seven Line Prayer Empowerment, preside over the Guru Bumtsog Puja and impart teachings for daily life and all other lifetimes: https://www.facebook.com/events/2160583150625756/
Mahasiddha of the Month - Mahasiddha Vinapa
March 4th, 2018
We at Mangalam are working on Asian Art Preservation Project for 108 Mahasiddhas and Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and would like to ask you for your support. We need to raise fund for painting and brocading 84 Indian Mahasiddhas, 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddhas, Vajrayogini Naropa Lineage, and Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Art Preservation Projects. We have completed 84 Indian Mahasiddha thangkas, and still need funding for 24 Togden Tibetan Mahasiddha thangkas, 45 Root and Lineage Gurus of Naropa Vajrayogini thangkas, and 62 Deities of Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala. These 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus are the source of the Vajrayana Buddhist teachings, meditations, and yantra yogas, including vayu, nadi, bliss, and mahamudra practices.
We will then use these paintings for various activities:
- Spiritual art exhibition where we will show the paintings of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus, share their inspiring life stories, teachings, and meditation practices.
- Creating spiritual videos and podcasts about the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus that we will share for free on our websites (Mangalam Studio, 108 Mahasiddha, and Vajrayogini).
- Publishing books presenting the teachings and meditation practices taught by these 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus compiled from original sources. These books will also present color prints of the 108 Mahasiddhas and 45 Gurus. This project will also require translation of original sources from Tibetan and Sanskrit to English.
- Teachings and meditation practices at Buddhist centers.
One example of our previous Asian Art Preservation Project is 21 Tārā Art Preservation Project. Here, we commissioned painting and brocading thangkas of 22 female Buddhas, Green Tārā and 21 Tārā. These paintings were used for spiritual art exhibition at Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge; publishing “Āryā Tārā Practice Manual”, which provides a complete set of texts and instructions for the practice of Tārā compiled from traditional sources, 22 color Tārā thangka pictures, and various Tārā paintings for visualization meditation aid (Mangalamkosha); sharing Tārā praises, mantras, and videos for free on our website (21 Tara); as well as studying, contemplating, and practicing Tārā meditation at various Tārā groups throughout the United States (Tara Groups).
We will not be able to complete this project without your support, and you can make a big impact by making a gift today. To date, our Asian Art Preservation Project has been shared in more than 130 countries in all four continents. If this project is valuable for you, please help us by making a donation using the following button. The donation can be made by credit card or PayPal.
Happy Lunar New Year 2018
February 16th, 2018
Mangalam Online Course is Launched!
March 19th, 2017
We are pleased to launch Mangalam Online Course – Systematic Learning of Profound Buddhist Teachings: mangalamonlinecourse.com
Mangalam Online Course provides podcasts, books, and quizzes for thorough studies of profound Buddhist teachings with coherent curriculums.
Participants will be guided through carefully curated content before their understanding of the materials are quizzed.
A certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of the course.
The first online course that we offer focuses on teachings and commentaries of the Heart Sutra.
Yamantaka Empowerment by His Holiness the Sakya Trizin in April 2018 in Massachusetts
March 8th, 2017
We are very honored to announce that on the request of Khenpo Migmar, His Holiness the Sakya Trizin will bestow the Empowerment of Yamantaka (The Destroyer of Death & Aggression) for the first time in the West during the April 2018 event in Massachusetts.
In preparation for the event and to help practitioners, we would like to commission a Yamantaka Thanka. We need your help to complete the Thanka. Please make the donation to the Thanka Fund using the following link.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=8MKNZNV3WHSCQ
Thank you for your support.
Happy Losar of Rooster New Year 2017
February 27th, 2017
Happy Chinese New Year
January 26th, 2017
The King of Noble Prayers for victims in Orlando, FL
June 12th, 2016
During our White Tara weekend retreat at the Sakya Institute, participants dedicated the King of Noble Prayer (https://mangalamstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-King-of-Noble-Prayers.pdf) for those who passed away in Orlando, FL.
Jetsun Rinpoche’s 800th year of Mahaparinirvana Anniversary
May 17th, 2016
We will celebrate the upcoming Lunar Monkey Year from February 8th in commemoration of one of the greatest Yogis of Tibet, Jestun Rinpoche Dakpa Gyaltsen on the advice of His Holiness the Sakya Trizin.
Jetsun Rinpoche’s 800th year of Mahaparinirvana Anniversary falls during this upcoming Monkey Year. During the year, we will share podcasts of Lama Migmar’s teachings on Jetsun Rinpoche’s Doha, the great Song of Spiritual Realizations.
Many masters have praised Jetsun Rinpoche’s Doha as the essence of Dzogchen, Mahamudra, and Great Madhyamika.
We will also work hard to publish the long overdue volumes of teachings on Jetsun Rinpoche’s Doha by Lama Migmar.
The Doha podcasts and books will be dedicated to the memory of Jetsun Rinpoche.
Please visit Podcasts for podcasts of teachings by Lama Migmar.
Jestun Rinpoche Dakpa Gyaltsen
Harvard University 365th Commencement
May 17th, 2016
Mangalam Studio and Talamas Broadcasting will represent Harvard Buddhist Chaplaincy to cover the media during Harvard University 365th commencement on May 26th, 2016.
How Many Miles – A new double album from the archives
May 14th, 2016
Our singer and composer Meg Hutchinson (https://www.facebook.com/meghutchinson) is launching a new album. Please see the video and project description below. Help support her kickstarter project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1250984848/how-many-miles-a-new-double-album-from-the-archive
About this project
Keith Richardson has been recording my shows for more than 15 years. He has spent a year listening through the material and curating this collection. From eighty favorites we’ve selected 32 songs, 3 poems and some stories that capture the journey. I covered a whole lot of miles in these years but the real journey has always been about traveling in. These songs chart that course. Can’t wait to share them with you!
Risks and challenges
Raising enough money in time!
“THE SAKYA SCHOOL OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM”
May 12th, 2016
Explore a complete history of one of Tibet’s four main Buddhist schools, from its origins to the present day in a new book “THE SAKYA SCHOOL OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM”. The book is available here: http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/sakya-school-tibetan-buddhism
Nirvana Stupa
May 9th, 2016
Lama Migmar’s dad’s name Tashi Phuntsok is dedicated during the traditional 49 day memorial service at the Nirvana Stupa, Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA
Gongzog for His Holiness the Jigdal Sakya Dagchen Rinpoche and 49th day Memorial Service of Lama Migmar’s dad with Boston Tibetan Community on the first day of Holy Saka month on May 7th
May 7th, 2016
Practices for H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Rinpoche
May 7th, 2016
Lama Migmar invites practitioners to perform practices and prayers, such as the King of Noble Prayers (https://mangalamstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-King-of-Noble-Prayers.pdf) for swift reincarnation of His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Rinpoche to benefit all sentient beings.
Practices dedicated to Lama Migmar’s father
March 18th, 2016
Lama Migmar’s father passed away on Friday, the 18th evening on Dakini’s day after performing the Vajrayogini Ganapuja. The family is observing the traditional Buddhist 49-day memorial service starting Saturday, March 19th, with Tibetan community and others. Anyone can join and participate during this 49-day memorial service by dedicating one’s practice and prayers, such as The King of Noble Prayers and recitation of Avalokiteshvara mantra: OM MANI PADME HUM (Dad’s main practice) for his higher rebirth and eventual enlightenment.
ༀ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ།
Oṃ Maṇi Padme Hūṃ
A Silent Auction for Mangalam Asian Art Preservation
February 29th, 2016
Open to the public! A silent auction for Mangalam Asian Art Preservation Project will be hold on April 2nd – 3rd, 9 am – 5 pm at Burlington Yoga Conference at UVM Davis Center, 4th floor, Burlington, Vermont. Please see the attached flyer for more details.
If you would like to learn more about Mangalam Asian Art Preservation Project, please visit: mangalamstudio.com/asian-art-preservation
Donation can be made online using the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2NJU4EWUCF5PL
Tibetan Losar of Monkey New Year
February 8th, 2016
Ghantapada Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Weekend Retreat
December 15th, 2015
We are very joyful with our auspicious launching of annual Ghantapada Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Weekend Retreat at Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, MA on December 12th and 13th, 2015. Participants came from Massachusetts as well as far places, such as Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Seattle, Washington DC, and New York to attend the retreat. The retreat will continue next year on December 10th and 11th, 2016 to learn more deeply into the profound Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala and discuss any questions we encounter as we do our daily practice throughout the year.
We also launched Mangalam Asian Art Preservation Project for 62 Deities of Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala. At present, there is no detailed picture of the 62 deities of Shri Chakrasamvara Mandala according to Ghantapada lineage from Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism. The thangkas that we aim to produce in this project will be used to publish books and practice materials to provide guidance and support for Shri Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini practitioners in their daily practices. These paintings will be especially helpful to perfect our concentration and visualization practices, as well as understand more deeply the profound teachings of the Buddha embedded in each of the 62 Chakrasamvara deities. This project will cost $9,300 in total. More information about Mangalam Asian Art Preservation Project is provided below.
National Archives – Tibet in the News – National Security Council
September 23rd, 2015
Tribute to Buddha’s Legacy 2015 event in Indonesia
June 12th, 2015
Dan from Tara Hudson Valley and others are giving presentation of mindfulness at MIT
June 10th, 2015
http://www.vanessagobes.com/workshops.html
Lama Migmar will speak at the United Nations International Yoga Day celebration at MIT Boston on June 21st, 2015
June 6th, 2015
Celebrate the Vesak in honor of Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing into nirvana, Mahasiddha Virupa’s enlightenment, and Lama Migmar’s birthday
June 2nd, 2015
We are inviting all Tara Groups (Tara Berkshire, Tara Bermuda, Tara Hudson Valley – Chappaqua, Tara Los Angeles, Tara Naples, Tara Metrowest, Tara Richmond Hill), all yogis, spiritual friends, and students of Lama Migmar Tseten to celebrate the Vesak in honor of Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing into nirvana, Mahasiddha Virupa’s enlightenment, and Lama Migmar’s birthday by making donations to animal shelters and zoos, Nepal earthquake victims, engaging on one’s spiritual practice during this holy month of Saka Dawa, and dedicating the merit to achieve enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings.
Tara Hudson Valley, Chappaqua, New York
16 Arhats Puja
June 2nd, 2015
In celebration of the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing away, Lama Migmar is leading the 16 Arhats Puja at Sakya Institute on Vesak Day, June 2nd, 2015.
Mangalam Studio Composer and Singer Meg Hutchinson is starring in a new movie “Pack Up Your Sorrows”
May 25th, 2015
Here’s a trailer for the Pack Up Your Sorrows film!
June 18th is the Boston Premiere at the Regent Theatre. Get your tickets before they are sold out!
http://www.regenttheatre.com/details/pack_up_your_sorrows_boston_film_premiere_event
For more info about Meg Hutchinson, please visit:
https://www.facebook.com/meghutchinson
Mangalam Spiritual Art Exhibition
May 5th, 2015
21 Tara (21tara.net) - sharing spiritual practice materials to support worldwide Tara practitioners.
Mangalam Team is pleased to invite you to attend our Mangalam Spiritual Art Exhibition.
The theme of this exhibition is “Female Buddha Paintings”. We will display paintings of 22 Female Buddhas, Green Tara and 21 Tara, according to the lineage of Atisha Dipamkara, one of the great Indian yogis. These paintings were commissioned by Lama Migmar as part of Mangalam Art Preservation Project. Embedded within this art is the wisdom and compassion of Tara. Out of wisdom and compassion, Green Tara manifests into 21 different Tara to pacify all obstacles and provide auspicious causes and conditions for all sentient beings in their daily lives, as well as their practice to achieve enlightenment. Each of these 22 Tara has various practices to overcome various obstacles and attain various siddhis. The spiritual practice of Tara has been one of the most popular practices in Himalayan countries up to now. You are welcome to join us to learn more about the spiritual art, teachings, and practices of Tara.
Location:
Sakya Institute
59 Church Street Unit 3
Cambridge, MA 02138
Time:
May 26th – 29th, 2015
2 – 5 pm
Please email mangalamstudio8@gmail.com if you have any question. Please visit the event facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1426991054273298/
April 28th, 2015 – Statues and thangkas of 84 Mahasiddhas
Statues and thangkas of 84 Mahasiddhas
April 28th, 2015
Most blessed and precious Vajrayogini image at Pharphing, Nepal
April 27th, 2015
Prayers for Nepal
April 26th, 2015
Lama Migmar invites practitioners to recite Green Tara mantra (Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha), Bodhisattva of Compassion Avalokiteshvara Mantra (Om Mani Padme Hum), and The King of Noble Prayers for many deceased and living casualties of earthquakes in Nepal. The followings are the mantras and videos to help you with your practices and prayers.
ༀ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā
ༀ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ།
Oṃ Maṇi Padme Hūṃ
The most precious 12th century Chakrasamvara with Vajrayogini on display at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
April 21st, 2015
Chakrasamvara with Vajrayogini on display at Tibetan Museum in Staten Island, NY
April 21st, 2015
Interview with His Holiness the Sakya Trizin by Tibet House United States
April 18th, 2015
Please visit the following link to read an article from Tibet House United States describing a highlight of the Two-Day Empowerment with His Holiness the Sakya Trizin in Massachusetts and an interview with His Holiness on various subject.
http://www.tibethouse.us/tibethouse.us/index.php?option=com_content&id=332
Mangalam Yantra Yoga Classes Start Next Week in Needham Center
March 18th, 2015
Blue Lotus Healing Arts in Needham Center opens its yoga studio today and will start offering Mangalam Yantra Yoga classes next Tuesday, March 24th.
Mangalam Yantra Yoga explores how yoga practices from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition can be used to improve your health, transform emotional blockages, deepen your meditative experience and cultivate a deeper awareness of the true nature of your mind. Based on Mangalam Yantra Yoga, a practice originally introduced to Tibet by the Indian master Virupa in the 10th century, this class includes mantras, guided pranayama practices (Vayu Yoga) and the basics of Kaya Shuddhi—a set of simple physical postures designed to release energetic blockages and create more fluidity in the joints. Traditionally considered a secret teaching rarely taught outside of Tibetan monasteries, this class will give you an unparalleled opportunity to become part of an unbroken lineage of Yantra Yoga practitioners that extends over a millennium.
Guided by Mangalam Yantra Yoga instructor Susan Prentiss, this 75-minute class will be held on Tuesday evenings at 6:00 pm at Blue Lotus Healing Arts in Needham Center. The first class kicks off next week on March 24th.
Susan completed her 500-hour RYT certification under PranaVayu Yoga founder David Magone and received her Relax and Renew® Trainer certification in Restorative Yoga from Judith Hanson Lasater. She also holds certifications in Shamatha Calm-Abiding Meditation and Mangalam Yantra Yoga from Khenpo Migmar Tseten Rinpoche at the Harvard University Buddhist Chaplaincy.
Please note: Due to the emphasis on breath retention practices, this class is contraindicated for expectant mothers
Location | Blue Lotus Healing Arts, 945 Great Plain Ave, Ste #7, Needham
Schedule | Tuesday evenings from 6:00-7:15 pm
Web | www.bluelotushealingarts.com
Facebook | www.facebook.com/
ORAL TRANSMISSION OF THE CHAKRASAMVARA ROOT TANTRA (LAGHUSAMVARA)
March 18th, 2015
We are very excited and honored to announce that His Holiness the Sakya Trizin has assented to bestow the oral transmission of the Chakrasamvara Root Tantra at the request of Khenpo Migmar Tseten and the Sakya Institute for the benefit and blessings of all Chakrasamvara and Vajrayoginī practitioners. His Holiness will bestow the oral transmission after the Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Empowerment on April 12th, 2015. Tickets are still available. Please visit www.sakya.net to purchase the tickets and for more details.
There exists a very special lineage of the practice and explanation of the Chakrasamvara tantra held called “The Ultimate Secret”. The Ultimate Secret is the special oral instructions on the Chakrasamvara system which comes from Mahāsiddha Naropa and was only passed onto his Nepalese disciple, Abhayakīrti of modern day Pharping (Phaimting), Nepal, whose Vajrayoginī temple still exists today.
Guru Abhayakīrti in turn transmitted the Root Tantra to Mal Lotsawa Lodo Dragpa seventy-three times. Each time it was transmitted, Mal Lotsawa offered a ganacakra. Guru Abhayakīrti also directly gave Mal Lotsawa the transmissions for the Ultimate Secret system, including the three main traditions of Chakrasamvara, Luipa, Ghantapāda and Krishnacarya, as well as the transmission for Naropa’s Khechari. Mal Lotsawa also translated the root tantra with the Nepalese master, Sumatikirti.
Towards the end of Mal Lotsawa’s life, he met Sachen Kungpa Nyingpo to whom he granted all his teachings, including the eight deity Mahākala that is the main protector practice of the Sakyapa school. Thus Sachen became the main heir of the Ultimate Secret system.
Sachen Kunga Nyingpo in turn wrote three texts on the Chakrasamvara Root Tantra from the point of view of the Ultimate Secret system: an outline, a selection of difficult points and a word by word commentary on the entire text. He also passed on all the teachings of the Ultimate Secret system to his sons and lineage holders, Loppon Rinpoche and Jetsun Rinpoche.
Nirvana Stupa in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge in memory of Lama Migmar’s mother Sonam Yudon
March 17th, 2015
Tara Metrowest Schedule
March 15th, 2015
Sunday at 7 PM: A twenty-five minute session of Samatha Meditation, Walking meditation, a discussion of “The Buddha’s Brain” by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius.
Tuesday Morning Meditation at 11 AM: Samatha Meditation. Discussion of Tara Brach’s book “True Refuge”.
Tuesday Evening Meditation at 7 PM: Green Tara practice and discussion of Lama Migmar’s new book “Awakening to the Noble Truth”, which is Lama’s teachings on The Four Noble Truths of the Buddha.
For more information, please email revjudithwright@gmail.com.
Harvard Buddhist Chaplaincy Welcomes H.H. the Karmapa and H.H. the Sakya Trizin to Boston
March 13th, 2015
Please download the press release from Harvard Buddhist Chaplaincy here:
Harvard Buddhist Chaplaincy Press Release 13 March 2015
Eight Verses of Mind Training Teaching with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Boston, MA 2014
March 13th, 2015
The following video clip is a highlight of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teaching on Eight Verses of Mind Training in Boston, MA in 2014.
Happy Tibetan Losar of Wood-Sheep New Year
February 19th, 2015
Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Empowerment with His Holiness the Sakya Trizin is coming soon!
February 19th, 2015
The following is the information about the event in Chinese. Please visit www.sakya.net for more details and to buy tickets. Monks and Nuns can attend the event for free, but need to email names to mangalamstudio8@gmail.com.
薩迦法王 – 勝樂金剛身壇城灌頂法會 -波士頓 2015年4月
彌瑪喇嘛與薩迦佛學研究院歡喜的宣佈，於2015年4月11日至12日的週末在波士頓地區舉行這個殊勝的活動。
這將是尊貴的薩迦法王於4月12日（星期日）下午，第一次在西方所賜予的勝樂金剛身壇城灌頂。這個活動，只給那些已經受過薩迦法王或其他薩迦派喇嘛的兩天勝樂金剛大灌頂的人參加。如果，您於2011年5月參加過薩迦法王在波士頓的勝樂金剛灌頂法會，您就可以參加這個勝樂金剛身壇城灌頂法會。這個活動，現在已開始在 http://sakya.net 報名。
薩迦法王也將於4月11日（星期六），賜予長壽佛，度母與尊勝佛母的灌頂，這些灌頂沒有任何先決條件。同一天下午接著有，安寧的死與臨終的教授，破瓦法把神識轉送到淨土，還有，薩迦法王將主持一個度亡法會，來清淨過世的親人的業力。
也有贊助人的票－－如果，您有興趣成為一個贊助人，請聯絡 mangalamstudio8@gmail.com
還有更多的訊息或是報名，請觀 http://sakya.net
Life is impermanent
February 1st, 2015
This is a picture of Lama Migmar 45 years ago when he was a second year student at Tibetan Institute of Sanskrit University in Varanasi, India.
Major changes in the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism and an upcoming Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Empowerment with His Holiness the Sakya Trizin
January 30th, 2015
Please visit the following website to read an interview with Lama Migmar regarding major changes in the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism and an upcoming Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Empowerment with His Holiness the Sakya Trizin. This empowerment is an exceptionally rare empowerment for His Holiness to grant; it will be only the second time in His life that He has given it.
http://www.lionsroar.com/major-changes-sakya-school-tibetan-buddhism-announced/
Tara Groups
November 4th, 2014
We are pleased to announce new Tara Groups in Bermuda, Chappaqua (New York), Los Angeles, and Naples. Please visit the following facebook pages to follow their practice activities.
Tara Bermuda: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tara-Bermuda/603995059730037
Tara Hudson Valley (Chappaqua, NY): https://www.facebook.com/tarahudsonvalley/info
Tara Los Angeles: https://www.facebook.com/TaraLosAngeles
Tara Naples: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tara-Meditation-Naples/1718658858358653
Celebration of the Founder of Sakya Lineage Sachen Kunga Nyingpo in New York
November 8th, 2014
His Holiness the Sakya Trizin Boston Program
October 24th, 2014
We are very pleased to announce that His Holiness the Sakya Trizin will be visiting us again in Massachusetts. Please save the date: Friday, April 10th to Sunday, April 12th, 2015.
Schedules:
Shri Chakrasamvara Body Mandala Empowerment
Long and Good Life Empowerment
Teaching on Peaceful Death and Dying
Phowa to Transfer Consciousness to Pureland
Changchog Ceremony to Purify Karma
We will post more information as they become available in the next few months.
Please visit sakya.net for more information.
Long Life and Birthday Celebration of H.H. the Dagchen Rinpoche with New York and New Jersey Sakya Association at New York
October 24th, 2014
His Holiness the Sakya Trizin Boston Program
October 10th, 2014
We are very pleased to announce that His Holiness the Sakya Trizin will be visiting us again in Massachusetts. Please save the date: Friday, April 10th to Sunday, April 12th, 2015.
We will post more information as they become available in the next few months. Please visit www.sakya.net for more information.
His Holiness the Sakya Trizin is sitting on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s right hand side.
Eight Verses of Training of the Mind & Generation of Bodhicitta (The Enlightened Mind)
July 4th, 2014
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will give a teaching on Geshe Langri Thang pa’s Eight Verses of Training of the Mind and also confer Generation of Bodhicitta (The Enlightened Mind)
The Prajna Upadesa Foundation is most honored to announce that His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will give a teaching on Geshe Langri Thangpa’s Eight Verses of Training of the Mind and also confer Generation of Bodhicitta (The Enlightened Mind).
To purchase a ticket, please visit
http://www.ticketmaster.com/Dalai-Lama-tickets/artist/714781?tm_link=artist_artistvenue_module
Date: Thursday, October 30th, 2014
Location: The Citi Wang Theatre (SM), located at 270 Tremont Street, Boston
Time: 9:00 AM-3:00 PM
Please visit the following website for more information:
http://prajnaupadesa.net/PrajnaUpadesa/Special_Event_-_English.html
His Holiness the Sakya Trizin’s Kalachakra Empowerment
March 12th, 2014
Mangalam is happy to announce His Holiness the Sakya Trizin’s Kalachakra Empowerment organized by our sister organization, Tsechen Association.
To register, please visit the following link.
http://www.tsechen.org/#!life-coaching/mainPage
For more details, please download the following flyer.
HH Sakya Trizin Kalachakra 2014
Nirvana Stupa in memory of Khenpo Lama Migmar’s late mother, Sonam Yudon
November 24th, 2013
Nirvana Stupa was erected on November 24th, 2012 in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA. Sonam Yudon’s five children, led by her two eldest sons Khenpo Lama Migmar and Trinley Tsewang, dedicated the stupa to their late mother on her anniversary. It has quickly become an object for prayer, meditation, and mantra recitation for New England’s Buddhist community. Each of the four sides of the stupa is engraved with the Green Tara mantra to receive healing to overcome suffering, and the Avalokiteshvara mantra to cultivate loving kindness, compassion, and wisdom. Khenpo Lama Migmar says of the memorial, “May whoever comes into contact with this Nirvana Stupa further develop these inner qualities of love, compassion, and wisdom.”
For more information about Nirvana Stupa, please download the following magazine page: Nirvana Stupa
ༀ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā
ༀ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ།
Oṃ Maṇi Padme Hūṃ
In Memory of Sakya Khenchen Rinchen Zangpo Rinpoche: the Heart Master of Khenpo Migmar
October 15th, 2013
Khenpo Rinchen
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has praised Khenpo Rinchen repeatedly during the empowerments and teachings at Bodhgaya in India, Lerab Ling in France, Ladakh in India, and Sarnath, Varanasi in India,
“Khenpo Rinchen is the only Khenpo who has mastered the scholarships of Sakya, Kagyu, Gelug, and Nyingma.”
Many of the present Khenpos and Teachers of Sakya, Nyingma, and Kagyu are his students.
Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro’s upadesha to his heart disciple Sakya Khenchen Rinchen Zangpo,
“The profound essence of the most profound Dharma Dzogpa Chenpo, obtained from the kind blessings of the Guru, and the Wish Fulfilling Lamdre, the oral lineage Dharma of Shri Virupa, ultimately agree on the same essential point. They differ only in method of gradual and sudden instructions. Further, give up bias about different schools.”
Then Khenchen Rinpoche Rinchen Zangpo requested his Guru for divination about his practice, and received instruction
“Practice Madhyamika, Mahamudra, and Dzogchen combined into one.
Support Mangalamkosha Publications
November 15th, 2013
This has been an exciting year for Mangalamkosha Publications. In 2013 we celebrated the release of three volumes of commentary on the mystical songs of Mahasiddha Virupa.
These recent publications mark the beginning of a very productive time here at Mangalamkosha. Khenpo Lama Migmar has already commenced work on his next book entitled “Awakening To The Noble Truth”, which will be an extensive explanation on the Four Noble Truths including the sixteen aspects relating to those vital Buddhist teachings.
We are currently planning to release ten books between January 2014 and February 2017. These will include a commentary on the essence of the “Heart Sutra”, an explanation on “The Thirty-seven Noble Path” as well as “The Seven Noble Wealth” and three volumes of teachings on Jetsun Rinpoche Dragpa Gyaltsen’s profound songs of experience which will be called “Doha, The Great Song Of Awakening”. We plan to publish a study of the “Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Path”, as well as a book detailing the “One Hundred and Eight Mahisiddhas”. We are also in the process of completing a book on the “Twenty-one Taras” complete with full color reprints of the Tara thangkas which Lama Migmar recently commissioned.
Our translators have also been hard at work this year. We have already completed translations of Mahasiddha Virupa’s “Amritasiddhi” and are currently translating “Yoginisancharya”. In the year ahead we will translate Mal Lotsawa’s “Lagu Samvara”, the condensed root tantra of Chakrasamvara, the most important text in the Sakya Tradition is the translation of this text done by Mal Lotsawa Lodo Dragpa. This text was then transmitted to Sachen Kungpa Nyingpo. Sachen then wrote a detailed commentary on this tantra, the first in Tibetan. Later, Sakya masters, such as Amyezhabs, also composed important commentaries on this version. We are planning to translate Mal Lotsawa’s Laghusamvara into English. Next, we are planning to translate the self-intiation texts of both the Ghantapada Chakrasamvara and the Naropa’s Vajrayogini into English. Finally, we are going to translate the fire puja of Naropa’s Vajrayogini, which is essential for completing the basic approach retreat of Vajrayogini. We hope to provide a complete library of original Sakya Tradition texts for the practice of the Ghantapada Chakrasamvara tradition and Naropa’s Vajrayogini tradition. There are many important texts necessary for the practice of these profound paths.
We have extensive work to do transcribing, translating, arranging and editing all of these manuscripts before they can be published. We will also need to hire professional graphic designers to bring these projects to completion.
We invite you to participate in making these precious teachings widely available by supporting our efforts through your generous donations. Please use the following PayPal button for donation.
With gratitude,
Mangalamkosha Publications
108 Mahasiddha
September 28th, 2013
This website is set up to celebrate the lives and teachings of the 84 Indian Mahasiddhas and the 24 Tibetan Togdan Mahasiddhas. These 108 Mahasiddhas are the source of the Vajrayana teachings, meditations, and yantra yogas, including vayu, nadi, bliss, and mahamudra practices.
Lama Migmar is commissioning paintings of the 108 thangkas. The paintings together with dohas, practices, and teachings from each mahasiddha will be published as a book as well as shared on this website.
More funding is required to complete these projects. Please provide your financial support using the following PayPal button. Please contact mangalamstudio8@gmail.com if you prefer other methods of payment.
We thank you for your generosity.
Green Tara Painting
July 9th, 2013
Green Tara painting by Jeannie dedicated with our prayers at the 78th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to have long life for the benefit of all sentient beings.
Mahasiddha Gorakshanath Thanka Painting
June 15th, 2013
Posted from Lama Migmar’s private collections in memory of Mahasiddha Gorakshanath and Natha traditions of Buddhist and Hindu yogis.
E MA HO – Amazing Bliss of Union of Wisdom and Compassion
June 1st, 2013
In the following music video, Meg Hutchinson sings “E MA HO – Amazing Bliss of Union of Wisdom and Compassion”, adapted from the Great Doha of Mahasiddha Virupa.
This song is released as a celebration of Mahasiddha Virupa’s enlightenment.
16 Arhats Puja
May 29th, 2013
In celebration of the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing away, Lama Migmar leads the 16 Arhats Puja.
Walking on the Footsteps of the Buddha
May 10th, 2013
Offering of praise to Shakyamuni Buddha in celebration of Saka month (May 10th – June 8th, 2013), during which, the Buddha was born, enlightened, & passed away into Nirvana. Music was performed by Meg Hutchinson.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Harvard
April 29th, 2013
His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaks at Harvard on April 30th, 2009.
Recitation of Arya Bhadra Charya: the King of Noble Prayers Aspiring to the Deeds of the Excellent for the victims of bombings at Boston marathon
April 15th, 2013
Khenpo Migmar Tseten asks that you join him in reciting the King of Noble Prayers and dedicate your prayers to the people who were killed as well as those who were injured by the bombings at Boston marathon this afternoon.
Our thoughts are with all families and friends affected by this event. May all find peace during this difficult time. To download the English text of the prayers, please click The King of Noble Prayers.
Sometimes There is Bliss
March 24th, 2013
In the following music video, Meg Hutchinson sings “Sometimes There is Bliss”, adapted from the Great Doha of Jetsun Rinpoche Dragpa Gyaltsen.
This song is released as Yogi Day celebration in memory of Jetsun Rinpoche Dragpa Gyaltsen.
The art of passing into Nirvana: in memory of H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche, the Guru of Gurus, in His anniversary month of January
January 30th, 2013
The following videos are short biography of H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche, who is regarded as the Guru of Gurus; most Tibetan Buddhist lineage holders were His disciples, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, His Holiness the Sakya Trizin, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, and the late His Holiness the Dudjom Rinpoche. H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche is also the Guru of Lama Migmar Tseten and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
A Documentary Film on H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche’s Succinct Biography Part 1 – Biography
A Documentary Film on H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche’s Succinct Biography Part 2 – Kudung Procession.
A Documentary Film on H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche’s Succinct Biography Part 3 – Cremation Ceremony.
A Documentary Film on H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche’s Succinct Biography Part 4 – Holy TsaTsa & Stupa.
Live Webcasts: Mind and Life XXVI: Mind, Brain, and Matter – Critical Conversations Between Buddhist Thought and Science
January 17th - 22nd, 2013
His Holiness the Dalai Lama together with senior Tibetan scholars, twenty of the world foremost scientists and philosophers will discuss various topics in science and Buddhist philosophy. The live webcast can be watched from here during the event. The videos of the events are also available here after the event finishes. All of the videos and complete schedule below are provided by His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s website: dalailama.com.
There are two sessions each day, except on January 22nd (one session).
Morning session: 9.00 am – 11.30 am IST (GMT + 5.30)
Afternoon session: 1.00 pm – 3.30 pm IST
For times in your region 9.00am IST on January 17th at Drepung Monastery, India, is the same as 3.30am GMT on January 17th in London, England; 7.30pm PST on January 16th in Los Angeles, California, USA; and 10.30pm EST on January 16th in New York City, USA.
The complete schedule is as follows:
January 17th – Introduction
Morning: Exploring the Nature of Reality – Buddhist and Scientific Perspectives
Afternoon: The Sweep of Science – Knowledge and the Nature of Reality
January 18th – Physics
Morning: Quantum Physics, Relativity, and Cosmology
Afternoon: The Nature of Reality
January 19th – Neuroscience
Morning: Changing the Brain
Afternoon: Exploring Neuroplasticity
January 20th – Consciousness
Morning: Consciousness in Western Science and Philosophy
Afternoon: Approaches to Consciousness
January 21th – Applications of Contemplative Practice
Morning: Clinical and Educational Applications of Contemplative Practice
Afternoon: Promoting Human Development
January 22nd – Future Directions
Morning: The Future of Monastic Science Education & Buddhism, Science, and Modernity