Lecture
Public Lecture: The Seven Points of Mind Training
- Date
- Thursday 10 October 2024
- Address
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- 2.02
Challenges and demands in daily life together with our thoughts and emotions can be overwhelming. In order to develop discriminative awareness regarding what to do or not to do and to become friends with your own mind, it is useful to know how to work with your mind. For these purposes, Prof. Ringu Tulku Rinpoche presents an introduction on the Seven Points of Mind Training.
About the speaker
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order.
He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters such as HH the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
He took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India and has served as Professor of Tibetology in Sikkim for 17 years. His doctoral thesis was on the Ecumenical Movement in Tibet.
Since 1990 he has been traveling and teaching Buddhism and meditation at more than 50 Universities, Institutes and Buddhist Centres in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. He also participates in various interfaith dialogues. He authored several books on Buddhism as well as some children’s books both in Tibetan and European languages.
He founded Bodhicharya, an international organization that coordinates the worldwide activities to preserve and transmit Buddhist teachings, to promote inter-cultural dialogues and educational & social projects. He also founded Rigul Trust which supports his projects in his birthplace, Rigul, Tibet.
Rinpoche is the Official Representative of His Holiness the 17th Karmapa for Europe and the Founder of Karmapa Foundation Europe.
