2025 March - Weekend Intensive Teaching Through Zoom with Geshe Ngawang Gyatso. TOPIC: Three Higher Trainings: Ethical Discipline, Concentration and Wisdom

Weekend Intensive Teaching Through Zoom with Geshe Ngawang Gyatso.
 

TOPIC: Three Higher Trainings: Ethical Discipline, Concentration and Wisdom

DATE:     March 28-30, 2025

Cost: $100   Through Zoom meeting.

Note:  To register please sending an email to office@namgyal.org.  Please register by noon of the Friday of the weekend intensive start date.  This is necessary so there is time to send Zoom invitation.  Payment can be made through the website. www.namgyal.org   Click - Donation page and make payment OR send a check to Namgyal Monastery, 201 Tibet Drive, Ithaca, NY 14850

Description:

In Buddhism, the practice of the Three Higher Trainings is essential to attaining liberation.  The Three Higher Trainings are: ethical discipline, concentration and wisdom.  Ethical Discipline refers to not engaging in destructive/non-virtuous actions.  By refraining from such actions one’s mind becomes more conducive to maintaining more positive intentions and developing concentration.  Concentration refers to developing single-pointed meditation in which one can remain focused on one’s object of choice  for long periods without distraction.  The development of concentration then lays the foundation for cultivating wisdom.  Training in wisdom includes the development of discriminating awareness which discerns between what is to be adopted and what is to be discarded along the path as well as development of wisdom realizing emptiness.  During this weekend intensive, Geshe-la will provide in-depth explanations of the Three Higher Trainings as well as instructions on how to practice these in our daily lives.  This is an excellent teaching for students at all levels: it will provide an essential foundation for newer students in understanding these practices as well as assist more experienced students in deepening and further developing their practice of these trainings.

Biography:

Geshe Ngawang Gyatso joined Sera Je Monastery in India in 1993.  He studied for twenty two years on five major Buddhist Philosophical texts.  He received his doctorate in Buddhist Philosophy in the year 2013 and Tantrayana Degree from Gyudmed Trantric monastery.  He was Buddhist Philosophy teacher for two years in Serjhi Jamyang Choehorling Mopnastery in Arunachal Pradesh. 

 He attended special Buddhist Philosophy teacher's training organized by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama office at Central institute of higher Tibetan Studies and received two years courses in English at Bangalore.

 At present he is faculty at Namgyal Monastery – Tantric College in Dharamsa-la, India and Geshe Ngawang Gyatso will be the main teacher at Namgyal Mon-astery Institute of Buddhist Studies, Ithaca, NY.

 Schedule:
Friday - Introductory Talk: March 28, 2025 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.

Saturday: 

9:00 – 10:15 Morning Session

10:15 – 10:30 Tea Break

10:30 – 12:00 2^nd Morning Session

12:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:15 Afternoon Session

3:15 to 3:30 Tea Break

3:30 – 5:00 2^nd afternoon session

Sunday

9:00 – 10:15 Morning Session

10:15 – 10:30 Tea Break

10:30 – 12:00 Last Session