Echoes of Awakening: Words That Transform
A talk on the sutra tradition, with reference to two sutras in particular.
In this talk Khenpo Sangay Dorje, on a rare visit to London, will focus on two specific sutras, which are the inspiration for three of the paintings contained in the Bardo Series.
The first is ‘The Sutra of the Teaching to the Venerable Nanda on Entry into the Womb.
The talk will cover itsmain topics, with some additional comments on the concept of birth being, inherently, a form of suffering. The speaker will consider the causes and conditions of taking birth and offera detailed explanation of the process of entering the womb, including the formation of the embryo and the stages of gestation; explaining the assertion that the experience of birth is far more distressing than that of death.
The second is the Sutra on Questions Regarding Death and Transmigration.
Khenpo Sangay Dorje will provide us witha concise overview of the seven questions asked by King Suddodana. This will be followed by an explanation on why the term transmigration is used in relation to death. Finally, we will learn about the guidance offered by the sutra on how to help or benefit someone who has passed on.
Khenpo Sangay Dorje
Khenpo Sangay Dorje is from Helambu, a small Buddhist indigenous community in Sindhupalchok district, in thenorth-eastern Himalayan region of Nepal. At the age of ten, he expressed an interest in becoming a monk and he enrolled at Namdroling Monastery in south India under the guidance of H.H. Jadral Rinpoche.
He entered Namdorling monastery in1994 at the age of ten, where he acquired a foundation in Buddhist Studies over six years. He later spent several year learning Buddhist rites and rituals.
In 2001, he enrolled at the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, the prestigious monastic college attached to Namdroling Monastery, and studied advanced Buddhist philosophy and practice, successfully completing the nine-year course in 2010. He was then awarded the title of Lopen (equivalent to a Master’s Degree in Buddhist Philosophy). He has received many teachings on Buddhist philosophy from minent Tibetan Buddhist masters such as H.H. Dalai Lama, H.H. Penor Rinpoche, H.H. Jadral Rinpoche.
After completing his studies he was offered a teaching role in a Monastic Schoolwhere he taught Buddhist studies for several years. Later on, H.H. Karma Kuchen Rinpoche the 12th throne holder of the Palyul Lineage conferred on him the title of Khenpo (quivalent to a doctorate in Buddhist Philosophy).
Khenpo Sangay Dorje has taught Buddhist philosophy to many international students in the U.S., Singapore and Taiwan.
Currently, he is the administratorof Ngagyur Memorial School (a non-profit institution) in Kathmandu, established by his late Guru Khenchen Tashi Tsering Rinpoche. He and his team are working hard to provide free quality and equitable education, clothing,food and accommodation for more than six hundred underprivileged children from Nepal’s Himalayan regions.
18 сен 2024
