Brazil. With nearly 250,000 Buddhists, Brazil is home to the third largest Buddhist population in the Americas, after the United States and Canada. Buddhism in Brazil consists of practitioners from various Buddhist traditions and schools. All four major schools of Vajrayana Buddhism, Nyingma, Gelug, Sakya and Kagyu schools, maintain active centres in Brazil. Buddhism was[…]
Brazil. IBA Principal Khenpo Dr Ngawang Jorden is visiting Brazil for 3 weeks where he is teaching The Complete Path at Mosteiro Sakya Brasil. The Centre has a meditation class every Tuesday and students attended a talk by Khenpo La last week. Lama Rinchen, abbot of the centre, also took Khenpo La for a short[…]
Ven Kunsang Choephel will give a free teaching on ‘Shamatha Meditation’ at IBA on Sat 18 May. The Sanskrit word Shamatha, (calm abiding), refers to a state of mind which is characterised by the stabilisation of attention on an internal object of observation, conjoined with the calming of external distractions to the mind. Shamatha is[…]
