Yushu Earthquake Appeal

Yushu Tibet Earthquake Appeal

Rigul Trust's response to helping the victims of the Yushu earthquake is below. Please go to the Rigul website for more information and see how to help.

Dear Friends,

"Such news from Tibet - words fail.

We see pictures of utter devastation, people helping each other and people in prayer.

Let us do as much as we can to help these people.

Please circulate this attachment to others and help us spread the appeal far and wide.

Thank you for your support.

Best Wishes,

Margaret Richardson, David Curtis, Jude Tarrant

Trustees of Rigul Trust"

Patron: Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

Rigul Trust, 13, St. Francis Avenue, Southampton, SO18 5QL, UK.

Tel: +44 (0)23 8046 2926 email: info@rigultrust.org: website: www.rigultrust.org

UK Charity Registration number: 1124076

17th Karmapa London visit postponed

April 6, 2010

Dear Dharma Friends,
I am sad to announce that the proposed visit of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorji was not approved by the Government of India.
The visit was scheduled to take place from 27th May to 2nd July in nine countries of Europe. The Kagyu Office, the Administration of The Gyalwang Karmapa, was informed of the decision by the Tibetan Government in Exile on 3rd April 2010. The process has begun to find out why this visit was not possible and what positive conditions are needed to make the visit possible in near future.
I know a huge number of followers and friends in Europe were eagerly waiting for the visit of Gyalwang Karmapa and I know that all of you are sad and disappointed. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the organizers, volunteers and donors for working so hard to prepare for the visit in last many months. Your cooperation and support were beyond any expectations.
I hope and pray together with you that the visit will happen in very near future and that all of us would be able to receive his teachings in Europe.

Ringu Tulku,
Coordinator,
Karmapa’s Visit to Europe

Films on Tibet and Mongolia by Wolf Kahlen

The Douglas Hyde Gallery at Trinity College Dublin will be showing a series of rare documentary footage of 'Tibet's Tibet and Mongolia's Mongolia' by Wolf Kahlen, starting Friday 26th March. The subjects include a Tulku Enthronement at Spiti monastery, Choed-Pa, Oracles....there will be three showings each day throughout April. There are 11 films in all :
see www.douglashydegallery.com for more information. Entrance is free
Kahlen will talk on the exhibition on Friday 26th March at 1.30pm.

Long Life Flags for Ringu Tulku

Amy writes:

Greetings from the Rigpa Shedra in Nepal!
I wanted to let you know that over losar a whole line of Lung ta flags were hung at the Boudhnath Stupa in Kathmandu for Ringu Tulku Rinpoches long life. This was on behalf of the Irish sangha.
love Amy

News from the Irish Buddhist Network

BUDDHIST NETWORK IRELAND was founded in 2006 with a view to connecting for the first time all the various mainstream Buddhist communities in Ireland, North and South. It is both a forum in which Irish Buddhists can dialogue and organise joint events, and a way to present information about Buddhism in Ireland to the public. BNI has a representative on the Irish Inter-Religious Council.

website: www.buddha.ie
blog: www.buddhistnetworkireland.blogspot.com
email: buddhist.network.ireland@gmail.com

DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST FILM FESTIVAL 2010 will be the first such event in Ireland. It is still in the planning stages but is scheduled to take place over a single weekend in September 2010. There will be a small festival membership fee, but all screenings will be free of charge.
The festival is part of a new grass-roots movement of independent film festivals that encourages similar events to start up around the world, no matter how remote the location or how small the event.

For more information on the Dublin IBFF, or to volunteer, or to get inspired to organise your own local festival, please enjoy...

www.buddhistfilmfestival.blogspot.com

Bruno

New Bodhicharya International Website Launched

Rinpoche has launched a beautiful new website designed with Irish artist and Paul O'Connor and an international team. It celebrates the activities of Ringu Tulku and his students worldwide. There are opportunities for comments and input from all the groups, (Pat Little's article on the Sikkim Meditation Centre is there) and all information from the previous Bodhicharya web page plus more from groups and centres worldwide is on www.bodhicharya.org

Dublin Teachings 13th - 18th April 2010

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Sections of Gampopa's Great Public Teachings, - Che Dagpo Rinpoche Tsog Chö Chenpo - will be the subject of Rinpoche's teaching for this week. This is a little known text by 12 century Tibetan saint and scholar, Jé Gampopa (1079 - 1153). Gampopa was renowned physician, who renounced the world and became a monk after he was unable to save his wife and two children who died in an epidemic that ravaged their homeland. After years of spiritual practice Gampopa was deeply moved on hearing the name of the great yogi, Milarepa, and sought him as his teacher. Milarepa subjected Gampopa to various tests before accepting him as a student, but subsequently gave him his complete teachings.

This text is one of these and was put into writing around the time of the second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi. These are both General and Specific Teachings, and have not yet been translated and published outside the Tibetan. It is only the second time that they have been taught in the west, the first was also by Ringu Tulku in Barcelona, between 2004 - 2006. According to Rinpoche they are the very basis of the Karma Kagyu teachings and represent the classic Kagyu teaching tradition.

Thanka painting of Jé Gampopa. by R D Salga.

If you plan to attend the whole week of teachings for both evenings and weekend talks, please book through Kagyu Samye Dzong, Dublin . If you plan to attend the weekend only at the Writers Musem, you may book through Bodhicharya Ireland, c/o 24, North Terrace, Dublin 8 and make your cheque payable to Sowa Rigpa Europe. The proceeds from the weekend will go directly towards helping Rinpoche with his educational and charitable work In India and Tibet. Numbers are limited for the teachings, so please book early to ensure a place .