Dharmapala College

A seminar-retreat exploring the Bodhicaryavatara

For people with good basic knowledge of the Dharma and a regular practice of meditation.

“As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world.”

For more than 1000 years, Shantideva’s text has acted as a guide for people throughout India, Tibet, China and Mongolia, and is increasingly valued in the west. This astonishing work is nothing less than a thorough-going guide to the awakening of the Bodhicitta. It was the subject of Sangharakshita’s first seminar “The Endlessly Fascinating Cry”, and is of course the source of the FWBO’s seven fold puja. It is a many-faceted text that richly repays constant revisiting - one will always find something new.

The ten sections of the work include rousing discussions of the six perfections. Here one finds practical advice, wise encouragement, fierce admonishment, invigorating imagery, humour, and vividly presented opportunities for reflection.

Retreat participants will be offered opportunities to study the text in detail, to recite it and meditate on it, and to engage in devotional and reflective exercises. While the retreat will be principally based on Crosby and Skilton’s translation, a shortened version put together by Jnanaketu will be available in English.

14 March, 6pm - 20 March, morning, in Strodehne, Germany
With Jnanaketu, Saramati, and Aryadeva

Further information and booking: info@buddhistisches-tor-berlin.de

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