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GIFT OF SHAMATA: Settling the Mind in an Unsettling world

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Dr. Nida Chenagtsang

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September
24

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English

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Online
Course

Duration

3 DAYS
180 minuti video

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Euro 40,00

Cosa significa Shamatha?

La parola tibetana che indica la meditazione Shamatha significa calma. La pratica della meditazione

Shamatha sviluppa la capacità di focalizzare la mente in una concentrazione perfetta su un solo punto ed è un prerequisito per lo sviluppo della meditazione vipashyana o analitica.
La meditazione Shamatha dovrebbe essere praticata idealmente in un luogo isolato e ci si dovrebbe sedere nella postura di meditazione di Vairochana Buddha.

L'oggetto della concentrazione è solitamente l'immagine del Buddha o di una divinità. L'illustrazione dello sviluppo della tranquillità mentale è brillantemente rappresentata in questa thangka in nove stadi progressivi di sviluppo mentale che si ottengono attraverso i sei poteri di studio, contemplazione, memoria, comprensione, diligenza e perfezione.

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L'INSEGNANTE | THE TEACHER

Dr. Nida Chenagtsang è un medico tradizionale tibetano e detentore del lignaggio Yuthok Nyingthig, l'unica tradizione di guarigione spirituale della Medicina Tibetana. Nato ad Amdo, nel Tibet nord-orientale, ha iniziato i suoi primi studi di medicina presso il locale ospedale di Medicina Tibetana. In seguito ha ottenuto una borsa di studio per entrare all'Università Medica Tibetana di Lhasa, dove ha completato la sua formazione medica nel 1996 con una formazione pratica presso gli ospedali di Medicina Tibetana di Lhasa e Lhoka. Oltre alla sua formazione medica, il Dr. Nida si è formato nel Vajrayana con insegnanti di tutte le scuole del Buddhismo Tibetano, specialmente nel Longchen Nyingthig della scuola Nyingma dal suo maestro principale Ani Ngawang Gyaltsen e nel lignaggio Dudjom Tersar da Chönyid Rinpoche e Sremo Dechen Yudron. Ha ricevuto insegnamenti completi nel lignaggio Yuthok Nyingthig, l'unica tradizione spirituale della Medicina Tibetana, dai suoi insegnanti Khenpo Tsultrim Gyaltsen e Khenchen Troru Tsenam, ed è stato richiesto di continuare il lignaggio da Jamyang Rinpoche della tradizione Rebkong ngakpa/ma (yogi e yogini non monastici).
Il Dr. Nida è il direttore medico e insegnante principale del Sorig Khang International e dell'Istituto Sowa Rigpa: Scuola di Medicina Tradizionale Tibetana; co-fondatore dell'Istituto Internazionale Ngakmang, istituito per preservare e mantenere la cultura Rebkong ngakpa non-monastica yogi/ini nella moderna società tibetana; e co-fondatore di Pure Land Farms: Center for Tibetan Medicine, Meditation and Rejuvenation a Los Angeles, California. Oltre al suo lavoro di medico, forma studenti in Sowa Rigpa e nella tradizione Yuthok Nyingthig in oltre quaranta paesi del mondo.

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Songtsen Gampo is the forefather of Buddhism in Tibet. Two generations before King Trisong Detsen invited Shantarakshita and Padmasambhava to Tibet, King Songtsen Gampo cultivated the nation for its transformation, clearing pathways for the dharma to enter and ultimately permeate Tibetan culture. Without Songsten Gampo there would be no Tibetan alphabet, Lhasa would have no Jokang, and the supreme demoness of Central Tibet might still be roaming the earth unfettered.

Songtsen Gampo reigned from 617 to 650. His Yarlung dynasty was based in Central Tibet during an imperialist period in Tibetan history. Bön was the dominant religion, and Buddhism was only seminally present. No Tibetan translations of the Buddhist scriptures existed, partially because there was no written form of Tibetan, so Songsten Gampo instructed his minister Thonmi Sambota to travel to India, study Sanskrit, and develop a Tibetan script. He then commissioned the translation of several thousand texts.

His celebrated successes in battle expanded the Tibetan empire deep into Nepal and China, and it was during these battles that he gained an appreciation of the neighbouring cultures. As a reminder of the great empire that Songtsen Gampo ruled, a large pillar still stands before the Potala palace in Lhasa, erected during his reign, on which is inscribed the agreement between the Tibetan and Chinese rulers to respect each other’s borders. He studied Chinese, became skilled in the art of leadership, and most importantly, he adopted sacred codes of conduct from Buddhist scripture. Under his rule, sacred practices began to replace the shamanistic practices of the Bönpos.

Songtsen Gampo’s two queens can be credited for a great part of his cultural awareness. Bhirkuti, from Kathmandu, brought the traditions of Himalayan Buddhism. Princess Wengchin, daughter of the Tang emperor, brought a treasure trove of ancient Chinese wisdom. She travelled across the steppes to her husband with a collection of Chinese classic literature and texts on sacred astrology, geomancy, and medicine.

Many obstacles lay in Princess Wengchin’s path as she headed to Yarlung. She had a vision of a gargantuan demoness who lay sprawled across the Himalayas, so large that one limb lay in Paro, Bhutan and another lay in Western Tibet. When she arrived in Yarlung, she shared her vision with her new husband. Recognizing the value of the treasures that his bride brought to him, as well as the importance of her vision, King Songsten Gampo commissioned thirteen demoness-subjugating temples across the land, built over the demoness’s vital organs, ankles, wrists, and torso, forever binding her from wreaking havoc. The Lhasa Jokang was built over her heart centre, and Wengchin’s Buddha statue was placed inside, where it still resides. Other such temples are Trenduk Lhakhang in Tsetang and Paro Kyichu in Bhutan.

King Songtsen Gampo is considered a human emanation of Avalokiteshvara, and he was the grandfather of King Trisong Detsen. Songtsen Gampo meditated for several years in a cave that is now at the core of Potala palace, and is revered for his great patronage of Buddhism.

Through his enlightened leadership, the path was cleared for the dharma to be propagated throughout the provinces, and for Buddhism to flourish.

Terma (Tibetan: གཏེར་མ་, Wylie: gter ma; "hidden treasure") are various forms of hidden teachings that are key to Vajrayana or Tibetan Buddhist and Bon religious traditions. The belief is that these teachings were originally esoterically hidden by various adepts such as Padmasambhava and dakini such as Yeshe Tsogyal (consorts) during the 8th century, for future discovery at auspicious times by other adepts, who are known as tertöns. As such, terma represent a tradition of continuous revelation in Vajrayana or Tibetan Buddhism. Termas are a part of tantric literature.
1. Terma Tradition

Tradition holds that terma may be a physical object such as a text or ritual implement that is buried in the ground (or earth), hidden in a rock or crystal, secreted in a herb, or a tree, hidden in a lake (or water), or hidden in the sky (space). Though a literal understanding of terma is "hidden treasure", and sometimes refers to objects that are hidden away, the teachings associated should be understood as being 'concealed within the mind of the guru', that is, the true place of concealment is in the tertön's nature or essence of mind. If the concealed or encoded teaching or object is a text, it is often written in dakini script, a non-human type of code or writing that only a tertön can decipher.
In this way, one may see the tradition of terma and tertön as analogous to that of inspiration and providing a legitimate cultural forum to ensure continuation of tantric tradition, and ensuring Tibetan Buddhism's and Bön's continued relevancy in an evolving world.

The terma tradition is particularly prevalent in, and significant to, the Nyingma lineage. Two of the most famous tertön in the 20th century, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (2nd Dudjom Rinpoche) and Dilgo Khyentse, were Nyingmapa. Tertön are also prevalent in Bön traditions and a few tertön have been Kagyupa.

Padmasambhava and his principal consorts and disciples secreted away and hid religious texts, ritual objects and relics etc., to secure and protect Buddhism during the time of decline under Langdarma. Some of these terma have been rediscovered and special terma lineages established throughout Tibet as a result. Out of this activity developed, especially within the Nyingma tradition, two ways of dharma transmission: the so-called "long oral transmission" from teacher to student in unbroken disciplic lineages, and the "short transmission" of terma. The foremost revealers of these terma were the Five Terton Kings and the Eight Lingpas. In the 19th century, some of the most famous were the Khenkong Choksum referring to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Jamgon Kongtrul and Orgyen Chokgyur Lingpa.

Terma have been relayed by nāga and the dakini - of the underworld and the heavens, respectively - and have also been hidden by teachers such as the great translator Longchenpa. Sometimes terma are discovered by a master and reconcealed for a later tertön to find. (Encyclopedia: From Scholars for Scholars)

GIFT OF SHAMATA: Settling the Mind in an Unsettling world

Dr. Nida Chenagtsang

September24

English

OnlineCourse

3 DAYS180 minuti video

Euro 40,00

Cosa significa Shamatha?

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L'INSEGNANTE | THE TEACHER

Dr. Nida Chenagtsang

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