Guest Teacher: Lama Pema

Lama Pema will be our guest teacher for our dharma class on July 17th. He will give a talk on Chapter 6: Patience in the Guide to The Bodhisattva’s Way of Life.

"The Wisdom of Patience"

The enduring positive effects of peace, loving-kindness, and compassion, and everything else that is good in human nature—its values and ethics, its aspirations and goals—are possible only when combined with the element of patience.

Drawing on the teachings of Buddha, the virtues of patience, in the length and depth of its meaning, will be presented as an indispensable component of any venture, spiritual or mundane alike. It can be learned and developed through specific and organic disciplines, behavioral or lifestyle, and through contemplations and meditations.

"Our measure of accomplishment, both within or without, is fundamentally based on a solid foundation of patience".

In 1982, Lama Pema was sent to the West by the 41st Sakya Trichen, as the first of the younger generation of Tibetan teachers in America from the Sakya School.

In 1989, Khenpo Pema founded the Vikramasila Foundation. The Foundation encompasses the Palden Sakya Centers in New York City, and Woodstock, NY. The Palden Sakya Centers offer courses in Tibetan Buddhist studies and meditation. Khenpo Pema is the creator of "Bur Yig"--Tibetan Braille, and the founder of Pema Ts'al (English for Lotus Grove) Schools in Mundgod, India (for Tibetan lay children); Pokhara, Nepal (monastic schools for boys); and Pema Ts'al School in New York City.

He has been guiding Western students for 40 years, and he continues to teach extensively to Dharma centers around the world.