About Kagyu Samten Chöling

Kagyu Palchen Chöling

Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center of Montpelier

9 Sunnyside Terrace, Montpelier, VT 05602-2153

phone 223-6822 email: socitele1@verizon.net

webpage: www.nhkagyu.org/; link to "Kagyu Palchen Chöling, Montpelier"

director: ven. Lama Norlha, Rinpoche coordinator: Herb Propper

newsletter (vol. II, no.6 Sept. 9, 2007)

ongoing activities:

Tuesday 8 - 8:45 a.m. Shinay (Tranquility) Meditation resumed Sept. 4

138 Main St., Montpelier (office of Don Rhoades)

6:30 - 8 p.m. Shinay and Medicine Buddha resumes Sept. 11

Vermont Integrative Medicine, 172 Berlin Street, Montpelier, 2nd floor

Sunday 10 am-Noon Ngöndro The 4 Ordinary Foundations, Refuge/Bodhicitta practice; resumes Oct. 21

3rd Sun. each month Varjasattva [Dorje Sempa]practice for those who have permission.

Vermont Integrative Medicine, 172 Berlin Street, Montpelier, 2nd floor

1st Saturday each month Public Medicine Buddha Practice: resumes Oct. 6

Healing Physical and Mental Conditions

10:45 - noon Shambala Center, Montpelier

(This meditation is open to all persons. Both the condensed and the Short Medicine Buddha practices will be chanted. Texts include English translation & Tibetan transliteration. Explanations for those unfamiliar with the practice. Simply being present during a practice of Medicine Buddha and generating healing intentions offers great benefits to both the person present and those to whom one sends thoughts. please bring a suitable offering.)

special events:.

1. Introduction to Classical Literary Tibetan [the language of prayers, sutras, practices and commentaries] - learn the alphabet, reading practice, basic grammar and beginning translation. alternate Mondays 3:00-4:30 p.m. and by appointment. call 223-6822 or email <socitele1@verizon.net>.

2. Lama Norlha Rinpoche Dharma Path program: a series of structured meditation practices and study of Dharma texts for Lay Practitioners that parallels the program of the traditional Three Year Retreats at Kagyu Thubten Chöling Monastery. Practitioners work under the mentorship of a senior monastic and Lama Norlha Rinpoche, and progress through a number of levels, beginning with foundation practices. For more information, contact Herb or visit the KTC webpage: <www.kagyu.com>, click on "Dharma Path"

Dharma thoughts:

from The Torch of Certainty by Jamgon Kongtrol The Great:

"Thus it is taught in the sutras 'If you wish to become manifestly, completely enlightened, you need not train in many Dharmas. Train in one. What is that one? Bodhicitta.'"