Ringu Tulku - 'the Lazy Lama' -
will be back in London between 29th April and 1st May 2009.

Public Talks

Friday, 8 May 2009: 19h00-21h00
Public Talk: 'Meditation'

Venue: Friend's Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ. Opposite Euston station. Map

Saturday, 9 May 2009: 10h30-12h30 and 14h00-16h00 AND
Sunday 10 May 2009: 10h30-12h30
Public Teachings: 'Beginners Mind: some heart advice of the lineage'

Sunday, 10 May: 14h00-16h00
Public Teachings (continuation): 'Beginners Mind: some heart advice of the lineage' & Empowerment: Medicine Buddha (Sangye Menia)

Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (near Holborn tube station). Map

Mondy, 11 May: Refuge Ceremony. Time to be confirmed.

Venue: The Buddhist Society, 58 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1PH (near Victoria station). Map.

Cost: £15 per session

Tickets for Talk and Teachnings at the door, please arrive early.

 

 

Ringu Tulku was born in Eastern Tibet in 1952.

A professor of Tibetan studies for seventeen years, for the last five years he has been teaching at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

He is the director of seven meditation centres in Europe, the United States, and India, and he travels and teaches extensively in Europe and the United States.

He fives in Gangtok, Sikkim in India.

Rinpoche teaches in warm and fluent English.

During my time as a monk in retreat, I had the dream of facilitating a gay and lesbian Buddhist group.

I am happy that despite many twists and turns since my emergence, this is one dream that has come true. The group has grown from strength to strength and takes place weekly at Kairos in Soho.

I am delighted to report that in April 2005, the group's guide, Ringu Tulku Rinpoché, a highly acclaimed and respected Tibetan Buddhist Master and our group guide, accepted an invitation to deliver teaching in London.

Ringu Tulku Rinpoché is a master of the Kagyu Order. He is warm, humble and very approachable and when I asked whether he would be prepared to guide the group, he replied that it would be 'an honour'. I felt mightily honoured myself. As far as I know, the KiS group is the only explicitly gay and lesbian group under direct guidance of a Tibetan Buddhist teacher.

Ringu Tulku Rinpoché has trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters and took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India. He has served as Professor of Tibetology in Sikkim for seventeen years. His doctoral thesis was on the Rimé (non-sectarian) movement.

Since 1990 he has been travelling and teaching Buddhism and Meditation at universities and institutes worldwide, participated in various interfaith dialogues and authored several books.

He also founded Bodhicharya, an international organisation that coordinates the worldwide activities to preserve and transmit Buddhist teachings, to promote intercultural dialogues and educational and social projects.

He is an immensely popular teacher and very busy and it is extremely generous of him to offer his support and guidance in this way. He is happy for people to take the teachings and test them rather than accept them at face value, revealing I believe the value and preciousness of true teachings.

A dream became a reality and made room for bigger dreams and better days.

Dirk de Klerk

Dirk has been facilitating the Buddhist meditation group at KiS, as a volunteer, since January 2004 and has been a meditation volunteer since KiS first opened. He is an asset to the organisation and KiS is extremely grateful to him for his dedication and support.