Hyderabad|India|Mayl'2009:
The first initiative of Dharma Megha Foundation – Bodhi Sampanna, a
Mahayana Buddhist Meditation & Study Center, is to be launched on the
auspicious day of Buddha Poornima, May 9, 2009.
Bodhi Sampanna, whose name means ‘an abode endowed with Bodhi’, is a
center for the study and practice of Mahayana Buddhism, following the
lineage and example of Lord Buddha and the lineage masters from the
ancient Nalanda University. The center will offer teachings on various
aspects of the Dharma and courses in various meditation techniques by
highly learned and accomplished lamas for free.
The inauguration session will have a teaching by Venerable Khangser
Rinpoche on the auspicious day of Buddha Poornima, the day of the Buddha’s
birth, Enlightenment and Parinirvana. An introductory teaching will be
given on ’The Buddha’s Path to Enlightenment – A Presentation of the Four
Noble Truths’, which was the basis of the Buddha’s first discourse seven
weeks after he attained Enlightenment. The truths of suffering and its
causes, the cessation of suffering and the noble path to cessation of
suffering were taught by the Buddha as he believed that it is beneficial
and that it leads to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation of
suffering, to peace, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment and to Nirvana.
Later on the teachings of the Awakened One were compiled in 84 000
discourses, but the essence remained the same. Buddha himself made it
clear by declaring that he teaches nothing but “suffering and the end of
suffering”.
Khangser Rinpoche will look in depth into the theory and practice of the
Four Noble Truths and at their relevance to our own daily life. Rinpoche,
one of the foremost Buddhist scholars and practitioners at the young age
of 33, currently teaches at Sera Jey monastic university in Karnataka.
Dharma Megha Foundation is a newly established cultural and educational
institution that aspires to play a role in reviving the Prajna Paramita
tradition in India, the land of its origin, and introduce to the precious
teachings of the Buddha as many Dharma aspirants as possible. Bodhi
Sampanna is the first initiative of the Foundation.
For further information please visit the Dharma Megha Foundation website –
www.dharmamegha.org
Reachout's News Bureau
May' 2009
