Venerable Bhikshu Khangser Rinpoche will teach ‘The SixPreparatory Practices’ at Choe Khor Sum Ling – Tibetan Buddhist Meditation& Study Center, Bangalore on September 8 & 9, 2007. The Six PreparatoryPractices are preliminary activities that practitioners engage in for allmeditations. During this weekend teaching Rinpoche will emphasize theimportance of correctly carrying out these preliminary practices. The SixPreparatory Practices are necessary causes for generating the experientialrealizations of the main practice in the practitioners’ minds. The preliminaryactivities include among other things maintaining the seven Vairochanaattributes of posture and then, with a mind of extraordinary virtue, takingrefuge, generating enlightenment mind, and so forth. It also includesperformance of the Seven-Limb Practice.

Venerable Bhikshu Khangser Rinpoche at the young age of 31, isalready among the foremost Buddhist scholars/practitioners of our time. Rinpoche stands apart in that he hasexperience in teaching non-Buddhist Indians and Westerners, and is trained inthe Old School (Nyingma) and New School (Sarma) traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.Rinpoche currently teaches at the Sera Jey Monastic University in Bylakuppe inMysore District in South India. Choe Khor Sum Ling Center, Bangalore invitespractitioners to take this rare opportunity to hear Rinpoche explain in easilyunderstood terms the importance of preliminary practices that are necessary forgenerating in our mind the experiential realizations of the main practice. Inaddition this teaching event will include group meditation and discussions.

Schedule:

Saturday, September 8, 2007

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM : Teachings on the Six Preliminary Practices

Sunday, September 9, 2007

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM : Teachings on the Six Preliminary Practices(contd)

Venue:

Ashwini, No. 24, First Floor, 3rd Main Street, Domlur Layout,Bangalore - 71 | Tel: 080 414 864 97

Please visit the Choe Khor Sum Ling website www.cksl.in for moreinformation on the Center’s activities.

Contact:

Anupama Saraf

+91.9845220563

admin@choekhorsumling.org

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Choe Khor Sum Ling (CKSL) – Tibetan Buddhist Meditation &Study Center, Bangalore is a center for the study and practice of MahayanaBuddhism following the lineage and example of Lord Buddha. The Center, whosename means 'The Sanctuary of the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma' wasfounded in 2003 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche under the guidance of HH the XIVth DalaiLama. CKSL offers courses in various Buddhist meditation techniques andteachings on the various aspects of the Graduated Path to Enlightenment.Teachings are offered free to the public and are conducted in English or inTibetan (with translation in English). In addition to regular teachings everyfew weeks the Center invites senior Lamas to give talks on important aspects ofthe Buddhist path. Such talks are also accompanied by instructions andinitiations by the Lama into different meditation practices and also includegroup meditation sessions.