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Meditation and Mindfulness - The Buddhist Way with Harry Milward

This weekend Harry will concentrate on the way to get to know the mind as it really is and, on that basis, to progress on the Path to Enlightenment... click for more info

Start : February 3, 2012
End : February 5, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £63

Explanation of Refuge and 1000 Armed Chenrezig Initiation with Ken Holmes

Explanation of Refuge and 1000 Armed Chenrezig Initiation... click for more info

Start : February 22, 2012
End : February 22, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Refuge Ceremony & 1000 Armed Chenrezig Initiation with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche

Akong Tulku Rinpoche has kindly agreed to give refuge and bestow the Chenrezig Initiation so that anyone wishing to take part in the Nyungney Retreat... click for more info

Start : February 23, 2012
End : February 23, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Medicine Buddha Initiation with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche

On the afternoon of Sunday 11th March Akong Tulku Rinpoche will bestow the Medicine Buddha Initiation... click for more info

Start : March 11, 2012
End : March 11, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Amitabha Initiation with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche

Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche will bestow the Amitabha initiation... click for more info

Start : March 17, 2012
End : March 17, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Chenrezig Practice Weekend with Samye Ling Sangha

This weekend offers an opportunity for anyone who benefitted from the Christmas Retreat to continue and renew the practice of Chenrezig but is also open to anyone who is already familiar with the practice... click for more info

Start : March 30, 2012
End : April 1, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Refuge Ceremony with Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche

Refuge Ceremony with the Abbot of Kagyu Samye Ling, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche. click for more info

Start : April 8, 2012
End : April 8, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Tantra with Harry Milward

Harry will explain how the vast and powerful methods of Tantra, as taught and applied within Vajrayana Buddhism, can provide a quick, direct path towards Enlightenment... click for more info

Start : April 27, 2012
End : April 29, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £63

Vajrasattva Instructions with Lama Jinpa

Lama Jinpa will give instructions on the Vajrasattva practice... click for more info

Start : May 4, 2012
End : May 6, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £25 (suggested donation)

Refuge Ceremony with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche

Refuge Ceremony with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche... click for more info

Start : May 5, 2012
End : May 5, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Vajrasattva Initiation with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche

Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the Vajrasattva initiation... click for more info

Start : May 6, 2012
End : May 6, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Selected Verses from "The Way of the Bodhisattva" by Shantideva with Khenpo Damcho Dawa Rinpoche

This text is the best-known guide to living as a Bodhisattva and one very dear to the heart of Khenpo Damcho Dawa, who often refers to it when teaching the Rinpoches and masters who are his students in Tibet... click for more info

Start : May 11, 2012
End : May 18, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £125 (suggested donation)

Accepting Paradox with Harry Milward

The famous 'Mahamudra Prayer' of the 3rd Gyalwang Karmapa makes clear all the stages of the path of meditation. Harry will go through the prayer step by step, using his own extensive meditation experience to shed light on this profound and beautiful text... click for more info

Start : June 15, 2012
End : June 17, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £63

Introduction to Buddhism with Clive Holmes

This course will outline the basics of Buddhism, especially in terms of core principles: Refuge, Bodhicitta (awakening our potential), the Four Noble Truths, the Six Paramitas, and freedom from unnecessary suffering... click for more info

Start : July 6, 2012
End : July 8, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £63

Shedra Studies Course - The Mahayana Uttara Tantra Shastra with Drupon Rinpoche

The fourth part of Drupon Rinpoche's six year Shedra Studies Course, this course is open to new students as well as those who have attended in previous years... click for more info

Start : July 27, 2012
End : August 26, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £250 (suggested donation)

Guru Rinpoche Initiation with Drupon Rinpoche

Drupon Rinpoche will bestow the Guru Rinpoche initiation... click for more info

Start : August 26, 2012
End : August 26, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Pathways to Happiness with Clive Holmes

We are all looking for happiness but often are looking for it in the wrong place. It is not our fault we get into all kinds of difficulty. The simple truth is we just do not know our own minds and how they work... click for more info

Start : September 14, 2012
End : September 16, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £63

Approaching Mahamudra with Harry Milward

Mahamudra is one of the highest teachings of the Karma Kagyu Lineage. To be able to practice it properly clearly needs a good practical knowledge of the basic practices and overall view of Vajrayana teachings... click for more info

Start : October 5, 2012
End : October 7, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £63

How to Discover Peace in A Busy World with Clive Holmes

As today's world gets busier and more hectic just how is it possible to find the time to slow down and discover peace in a meaningful way?... click for more info

Start : November 9, 2012
End : November 11, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £63

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