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SUMMARY:Teacher Training Programme
DESCRIPTION: \nThe purpose of the Teacher Training Programme (TTP) is to provide an extensive presentation of particular subjects of Mahayana Buddhism to enable practitioners to deepen their knowledge and experience of Buddhism, and to train as qualified Teachers of Modern Buddhism.\nSaturdays 14:00 – 17:30 with the Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Mila\n \nBook: Tantric Grounds and Paths by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso\n \nA definitive manual for completing the spiritual path through the practice of Highest Yoga Tantra. Actual Tantra, also known as ‘Secret Mantra’; or ‘Vajrayana’ is a special method taught by Buddha to purify our world, our self, our enjoyments and our activities.\n\nTWELVE SUBJECTS\nThe program comprises the following twelve subjects, based on Buddha’s Sutra and Tantra teachings and the corresponding commentaries by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso:\n\nThe Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, based on the commentary Joyful Path of Good Fortune\nTraining the Mind, based on the commentaries Universal Compassion and The New Eight  Steps to Happiness\nThe Heart Sutra, based on the commentary The New Heart of Wisdom\nGuide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, based on the commentary Meaningful to Behold\nTypes of Mind, based on the commentary How to Understand the Mind\nGuide to the Middle Way, based on the commentary Ocean of Nectar\nVajrayana Mahamudra, based on the commentary Clear Light of Bliss\nThe Bodhisattva’s Moral Discipline, based on the commentary The Bodhisattva Vow\nOffering to the Spiritual Guide, based on the commentaries Great Treasury of Merit and Mahamudra Tantra\nVajrayogini Tantra, based on the commentary The New Guide to Dakini Land\nGrounds and Paths of Secret Mantra, based on the commentary Tantric Grounds and Paths\nThe Practice of Heruka Body Mandala, based on the commentary Essence of Vajrayana\n\n \nThe Teacher Training Program takes approximately twelve years to complete.\n \nThe Teacher Training Programme has three main purposes:\n1 to enable participants to deepen their knowledge and experience of Dharma.\n2  to enable participants to train as qualified Dharma Teachers.\n3 to benefit all living beings through the flourishing of pure Buddhadharma.\n \n*Commitments*\n To ensure the success of the Programme, participants are required to undertake the following:\n1 – to be personally motivated by the three purposes outlined above.\n2 – to attend every class.\n3 – to study thoroughly the relevant part of the particular book, or section of book, being studied that year and memorise to the best of their\n      ability its essential points, especially the root text and/or condensed meaning.\n4 – to sit an examination at the end of the course.\n \nIn addition, participants are required to observe the basic moral discipline of abandoning killing, abandoning stealing, abandoning sexual misconduct, abandoning lying and abandoning taking intoxicants.\n \nAbout the Teacher:\nAs a student of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso ( https://kadampa.org/the-founder ), Gen Kelsang Mila is a modern – day Kadampa Nun and the resident teacher of Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre. She has been a student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for 19 years and ordained for fourteen years. Her teachings are always practical and easy to apply to everyday life.\n \nThe Teacher Training Program has commitments and requires an enrollment procedure.\n \nTo find out more, please contact epc@meditation.org.za\n
URL:https://www.meditation.org.za/events/ttp-14/
ORGANIZER;CN=Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre (JHB):MAILTO:epc@meditation.org.za
CATEGORIES:Study Programmes
LOCATION:The Woods Shopping Centre, 345 Jan Smuts Ave, Craighall Park, Randburg, 2146
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