Visit of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche 27th July - 1st August 2015 - extra teachings 2nd August

This year Rinpoche has agreed to teach on approaching death according to the Buddhist Tradition: At Kagyu Samye Dzong Dublin, he will give four evening teachings on The Bardo Thodöl, or Tibetan Book of the Dead. This classic text outlines the journey of consciousness after physical death, as taught in the Tibetan Tradition.

The PUBLIC TALK on Tuesday 28th July - 7.30 pm will address the topic, Living and Dying: a Buddhist perspective.   Hosted by Bodhicharya Ireland and Our Lady's Hospice, at the Education and Research Centre, OUR LADY'S HOSPICE, Harold's Cross Road, Dublin 6W.

WEEKEND TEACHINGS : Saturday 1st August 10.30am - 5pm, and Sunday 2nd August 10.30 - 1pm

GOOD IN THE BEGINNING, GOOD IN THE MIDDLE, GOOD IN THE END: 

a Buddhist Approach to Life and Death  

VENUE CHANGED,  it will now be at the HILTON HOTEL, KILMAINHAM, DUBLIN 8.

All sessions will include teachings from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche and give time for questions from the floor.

Entrance:
The Public talk at Our Lady's Hospice: suggested donations at the door 10 euro. Booking is not necessary.  Enquiries:  email  bodhicharya.ireland@gmail.com,  tel: 087 286 1090

Evening sessions at KSD: suggested donation 15 euro per evening.
Bookings contact KSD  tel: 01 4537427

Saturday and Sunday Sessions at HILTON HOTEL KILMAINHAM, Inchicore Road, Dublin 8  Contact Bodhicharya Ireland. Course fee Sat all day :30 euros.  Sun morning : 15 euros
We need to set a charge to cover costs but we are happy to receive what you are able to offer, your presence is more important!

There will be an opportunity to donate to  Rigul Trust which is currently working to raise funds for a nunnery that was completely devastated in the earthquake in a remote region of Nepal. The nuns who survived are being temporarily sheltered in a warehouse in Kathmandu and are in need of food, medical care and a permanent home.
Rigul Trust is Rinpoche's Charity that helps to support his monastery in Eastern Tibet where young people are fed, educated, and given medical care by a small team of doctors, nurses and teachers who depend on the generosity of donors for all their income.

Essential Summercamp Information

This year summercamp in Portugal will be dedicated to ngondro practice.  The whole group will accumulate the recitations and prostrations altogether, combining the totals:

"This Summer we will be performing them all together with Rinpoche and getting, as individual benefit, the sum of the numbers accumulated by all".

You will need to bring some supporting texts, mandala plates, rice etc, and all this and other travel information is on the Bodhicharya Portugal Website.

Navan Retreat in July - places available

Donal discussing a text with Ringu Tulku, Bodhicharya Meditation Centre, Sikkim.

Several  places have become available on the annual retreat with Donal Creedon at An Tobar, Navan, Ireland 4-11th July 2015.

The topic, On Being Hurt, will focus on dealing with difficulties and discovering freedom from a Mahamudra perspective.  The week will include periods of silence, personal study, sitting and walking meditation practise, dialogue, and, most importantly,  really excellent vegetarian food.....
Accommodation is in individual rooms. The venue, An Tobar, is set in beautiful wooded grounds beside a lake, not far from the sacred hill of Tara.Please click on this link for details.


About Dónal

Dónal Creedon studied and practiced with Buddhist masters of the Kagyu practice lineage in Europe as well as in India and Nepal. This involved many years of intense retreat.

He also spent a number of years at the Krishnamurti Centre in Varanasi as resident Buddhist scholar. Thus the radical inquiry of Krishnamurti informs his approach.

He is currently involved in leading retreats in a number of countries.

Rigul Trust Disaster Fund - please give for nuns in Nepal

Since the great quake on 25th April 2015 much of the world has focussed on Nepal and made essential contributions, through the help of NGO's, monasteries and charitable organisations in areas that are barely reachable, slowly bringing supplies and aid into the vast areas of mountainy terrain that are accessible only on foot, perhaps after days of walking.  There are many such places that have not yet received help because they are so remote.  One such place that has not yet received aid is a nunnery with 200 inhabitants: their needs will go on for a long time, so perhaps you may consider this group in the future when you are able to help again.  Please see below from Rinpoche and the Rigul Trust Ringu Tulku Rinpoche and Rigul Trust have been asked to a help village in very remote Nepal, near the Tibetan border which is only accessible by helicopter. There are 200 nuns and staff in urgent need of shelter, food and medicines. The monastery and nunnery there has been completely destroyed by the earthquake. The monsoon rains will be arriving within the next few weeks and urgent need is to get provisions, tents, sheds, food and medicines to them. Rigul Trust has a Disaster/Emergency Fund at www.rigultrust.org with a Donate page. Any help you can give then would of such great benefit.. Some nuns were buried under the rubble, some were injured and one died. The cost of hiring a helicopter is very expensive and only takes 4 people to help rebuild their community in this emergency situation. Thank you so much for your kindness and generosity.

With best wishes and great gratitude on behalf of Ringu Tulku and the trustees at Rigul Trust,  Margaret Richardson www.rigultrust.org - info@rigultrust.org - Tel:+44 (0)23 8046 2926 Patron: Ringu Tulku Rinpoche UK registered charity no.1124076

Latest Edition of Many Roads is now online

Here's the new Many Roads,  Bodhicharya's e-magazine, with lots to read, including a particularly poignant Prayer for Nepal by Jaiya John. 

Nepal Earthquake - Our help is needed

Bodhanath Stupa  in happier days

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has longstanding connections with Nepal, some of his family live there, and they have generously provided a place of refuge for many of Rinpoche's students visiting Nepal on pilgrimage, holiday or retreat,  he says that no lives were lost in the family and none  are hurt - news we are really thankful to receive.  Some of you may remember the incredible meal for 50 weary travellers that was offered by his aunt,  mother, uncle, brothers, and sisters in the family house at the end of our pilgrimage with them in 2007, after long days on the road together with the whole family who were on a private journey visiting all the sacred sites in honour of  Rinpoche's  recently deceased father. Their generosity was extraordinary.
Many many of Rinpoche's friends, students,  teachers and colleagues are living in Nepal.  Rinpoche's family's home is close to the Bodhanath Stupa, his brother, R. D. Salga has a thanka painting studio there, Salga's work is unique and very precious, his training was at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, beginning at  a very young age, and he is recognised as a master of his craft and has exquisitely decorated many shrinerooms and gompas in Nepal and Sikkim, including BMC.
The Bodhanath stupa was also damaged in the earthquake, as well as the Sechen Monastery nearby, and because aftershocks may cause buildings that remain standing to collapse, people must live and sleep outside,  it has rained heavily, and the overnight temperature is not yet warm.  The Nepalese infrastructure, which was already hopelessly inadequate is not supporting the current needs, many roads outside Kathmandu are impassible, and so many of the outlying hilly areas closer to the epicentre of the quake are unreachable. As hill villages are located by helicopter they are found to be flattened, and countless more lives are known to be lost. Foodstocks are in short supply, water is running out, there is no electricity and the monsoon is coming, landslides expected, disease will spread quickly.

There are several organisations working to help who are already based in Nepal and connected to monasteries and Tibetan communities,  many of which have also suffered massive damage. These organisations generally do not have massive overheads, and ensure that any money donated will go direct to where it is needed most. So if you would like to make a difference, donating money direct is the best way, but make sure you do the research and go through well established charities as there will be many money-making opportunists.
This well thought through article by Clare Bennett in the UK Guardian is worth reading.
Check out the following links for Buddhist organisations within Nepal who are working to help and accepting donations.

http://karuna-shechen.org/news/help-earthquake-victims-in-nepal/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kagyu-Monlam-Office/303948426320560
http://www.shedrub.org/news
https://www.facebook.com/ROKPA.org?fref=ts
http://www.lionsroar.com/how-you-can-help-nepal-after-the-earthquake/
http://www.karmapausa.com/#!kss-nepal/c1lgw

Irish Connections:
http://www.thejournal.ie/irish-nepal-earthquake-2069567-Apr2015/?utm_source=facebook_short
http://www.bothar.ie/
http://www.idonate.ie/1917_nepal-ireland-society.html

If you can recommend further authentic contacts that would be useful please get in touch and we'll post here.
Thank you

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