Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen Spring Tour Europe 2022
We are grateful and happy to inform you that Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen will make a Spring Tour in Europe this May and June at the request of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. He will give teachings about various topics, including the Power of Mind, as well as guide us in various practices like Mahamudra within the Karma Kagyü tradition. These programs are mostly ‘hybrid’ (both online and in-person) in English and for each particular event you can find more information about the availability of recordings afterwards. Please learn more about the tour schedule, the ways to register and Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen below.
'Tour' schedule
May 13 – 15, Kamalashila Institute
“Power of Mind: Everything is mind – mind is everything
Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness: Cittamatra and selflessness of phenomena”
Hybrid (online and in-person), English with German translation
May 18 – 19, Heidelberg
“From the meditation of calm abiding to insight meditation”
Hybrid (online and in-person), English with German translation
May 20 – 22, Berlin
“Not even a middle. No self, no problem.
Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness: Madhyamaka and Buddha Nature”
Hybrid (Online and in-person), English with German translation
June 4 – 6, Hamburg
“Mahamudra Practice within the Karma Kagyu Tradition”
Hybrid (Online and in-person), English with German translation
June 11 – 12, Rotterdam
“Buddha Nature – The Shentong approach of Emptiness”
Hybrid (Online and in-person), English
Saturday and Sunday from 10 -12 am and 2 – 4 pm CEST.
For live attendance you have to be a member of Nalandabodhi.
The price is € 110,-
For zoom attendance the price is €50,-
About Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was born in Nepal and entered the monastery at the age of thirteen. In 1981, he began studying with Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche at Karma Shri Nalanda Institute of Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, India. Lama Tengyal completed his studies with the title of Acharya. He then taught Buddhist philosophy there for two years. Under the guidance of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, he then participated in a three-year meditation retreat at Pullahari Monastery near Kathmandu.
From 1997 to 2004 Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was resident lama at the Theksum Tashi Chöling Center in Hamburg. Since 1998, he has been one of the main teachers at the Nitartha Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies, founded by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in 1996. For many years he also taught as a professor of Buddhist studies and Tibetan language at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
