BUDDHIST CENTER THE BUDDHIST VIEW OF EMPTINESS INTRODUCTION TO SHENTONG MADHYAMAKA FRIDAY JULY 10, 7-9PM • free intro session SATURDAY JULY 11, 1-6PM • with tea break SUNDAY JULY 12, 10:30AM-12:30 & 2-4 • lunch on your own Chicago Bodhi Path Center • 4043 North Ravenswood Avenue #214, Chicago, IL 60613 As a Buddhist practitioner, it is important not only to receive Lama Jampa Thaye is a scholar and meditation master trained in the Sakya and Karma Kagyu traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and authorized instruction on meditation technique, but also the Buddhist as a lama by his two masters, Karma Thinley Rinpoche and H.H. Sakya view. Lama Jampa Thaye, who's teaching style is at once Trizin. Born in England in 1952, he became a student of Rinpoche at the age of 20 and met His Holiness a year later. Lama Jampa Thaye is the very clear and structured without losing the profound depth author of various works that have been translated into multiple of the topic, will provide an introduction into the languages. He holds a doctorate from the University of Manchester for his work on Tibetan religious history and lectured for over twenty years philosophical school of Shentong Madhyamaka, which falls at the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan within the Mahayana teachings on Emptiness. The true University. In 1974 H.H. the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa appointed Lama Jampa to the Karma Kagyu Trust (UK) and he is now a member of nature of mind is empty of relative and confused states such the international teaching faculty of the Karmapa International as afflicting emotions and ego clinging. The true and unborn Buddhist Institute in Delhi. He lives in Bayswater, London with his family. He maintains a busy annual program of teachings, initiations for nature of mind is like space; it is the ground upon which Dechen and other international dharma organizations and personal conflicting states appear, but it is not stained and cannot be interviews at the request of his students. changed by these confused and obscured states of mind. SUGGESTED DONATION: Just as space can never be affected by whatever appears in Suggested Donation: $40 per day, $80 for the weekend. it, likewise the true nature of the mind is free of what Sustainer Level: $60 per day, $120 for the weekend. * Lack of ability to pay is no reason to stay away. appears in it. This is the essence of Shentong Madhyamaka. ONLINE REGISTRATION AT EZREGISTER. VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR DETAILS. For more information about Lama Jampa Thaye, please see http://www.lamajampa.org/ www.bodhipath.org/chicago/ • [email protected].