The 27th Kagyu Monlam Chenmo Live Webcast

The entire 27th Kagyu Monlam Chenmo will be webcast live on this site startings from 12/24/2009 to 12/31/2009. On 1/1/2010, the Milarepa Drama Play will also be live online.
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Kagyu Monlam 2009

The Kagyu Monlam
Before the start of this year's 27th Monlam (Wishing Prayers) at Bodhgaya, India, His Holiness Karmapa will be presenting teachings for Westerners at Tergar Monastery. The subject is Nagarjuna's 'Letter to a Friend' and the teachings will be broadcast live as a webcast.
Teaching dates will be December 20th - 22nd, 2009.
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM & 3:00-5:00 PM Indian Standard Time (GMT + 5 1/2 hrs)

For more details see http://www.kagyumonlam.tv/
For those who can attend the Monlam, Ringu Tulku will again be there, translating into English, and sends us all a message for Christmas.

He says:
"I would like to give my heartfelt greetings to all of you for a Merry Christmas and a very very Happy New Year too. May the coming year be healthy, happy, successful, meaningful and may you be beneficial to many people. I will keep all of you my dear friends in my mind when I pray under the Bodhi tree along with 10,000 other monks, nuns and many more Dharma brothers and sisters. May all your good wishes be fulfilled.

Your Friend, Ringu Tulku"

Rigul Trust News from Margaret Richardson

Dear Friends of Rigul Trust

We are happy to bring you more good news about Rigul Trust's projects in the field
Ringu Tulku is very appreciative of all the kindnesses and generosity that abounds amongst so many
Wishing you all good things and please let us know if you have any tips, suggestions, advice or can offer help in any way
Please feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone you may think would be interested

Best Wishes

Margaret Richardson

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Buddha Image has arrived in Sikkim

Ringu Tulku has sent us a photo of the new Buddha Rupa which is now in Sikkim, at the Bodhicharya Meditation & Retreat Centre, close to Rumtek Monastery. The statue was made in Kathmandu, Nepal and Rinpoche says it has yet to be filled and blessed with relics, prayers and precious stones, before taking it's place on a throne in the new shrine room. He thanks all those who have helped to bring it into being.
The retreatants will come to the end of their long term retreat in the spring. Irish retreat master Donal Creedan is travelling to Sikkim next week, to spend the next few months with them as they complete the last stages of the retreat and begin to re integrate into the outside world after more than three years of intensive practise.

Bodhicharya member Eileen Stevens has been helping to bring the 'Relics Tour' back to Dublin. The collection of relics includes ringsel of many great practitioners, and part of a letter said to have been written by Yeshe Tsogyal, who recorded the teachings of the 8th century Tibetan Saint, Guru Rinpoche [Padmasambhava].

Maitreya Project Relic Tour

RARE BUDDHIST RELICS ONPUBLIC DISPLAY IN DUBLIN

30th, 31st October and 1st November

Times Friday: 5pm: Opening Ceremony ,Saturday and Sunday: 10am to 7pm each day

Venue “Number 11”, no.11 North Great George's Street, Dublin 1

Contact Eileen Stephens, eileen@singsite.com 085 7382954

No entrance charge, donations welcome

A precious collection of sacred relics of the Buddha and many other Buddhist masters is currently touring the world. click here for more information. See also: www.maitrayaproject.org

Mindful Walking in Dublin

Mindfulness Ireland have invited Sister Jina, Abbess of Plum Village, France, to lead a Mindful Walking Meditation, at St Stephen's Green Dublin on Tuesday lunchtime, October 13th at 12.30pm. All are welcome to join in, meet at the bandstand. For details please click here.

Talk from the Environmental Childrens Organisation

click here to here watch Severn Cullis Suzuki of ECO - Environmental Children's Organisation. In 1992 Severn, along with 5 friends, funded themselves to attend a UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero conference and present delegates with a slightly different perspective to environmental issues. These words spoken in 1992 are not however out of date, they are perhaps, more relevant and poignant than ever. Many thanks to Albert Harris for sending it on.
Here's an update on Severn from Wikipedia:

Cullis-Suzuki graduated from Yale University in 2002 with a B.Sc. in ecology and evolutionary biology. After Yale, Cullis-Suzuki spent two years traveling. Cullis-Suzuki co-hosted Suzuki's Nature Quest, a children's television series that aired on the Discovery Channel in 2002. In early 2002, she helped launch an Internet-based think tank called The Skyfish Project. Kofi Annan's Special Advisory Panel, she and members of the Skyfish Project brought their first project, a pledge called the "Recognition of Responsibility", to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in August 2002

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On another note - just to remind you to send in any poems or writing you would like to be considered for the HHK publication to Margaret Ford, ( see below) by the end of this week.