Exeter Sakya Buddhist Group

Starting this September we will begin releasing a new series of over 30 videos recorded by Lama Jampa earlier this year in LA! This is a mind blowing set of recordings covering a huge range of subjects. Watch this space for updates.

LamaJampaThaye Lama Jampa Thaye is a scholar and meditation master trained in the Sakya and Karma Kagyu traditions of Buddhism. His principal masters are His Holiness Sakya Trizin and Karma Thinley Rinpoche. Lama Jampa Thaye is one of a handful of western teachers to have mastered, and been granted permission to t...

SUMMER BREAK
Our last meeting is on 30th July before a summer break and we restart meetings on 3rd September
Topics: meditation (3rd) and wisdom (10th)

NEW COURSE begins on 17th September :

Mahayana Buddhism: ethics, meditation and philosophy

Email queries always welcome: [email protected]

Exeter Buddhist Meditation Group Exeter Buddhist Meditation Group: learn about Buddhism and meditation at our regular classes. We follow the Sakya tradition of Buddhism.

Today is one of the four great Buddha Days, Chokhor Duchen. Chokhor Duchen (Festival of Turning the Wheel of Dharma), celebrates the day the Buddha first taught the dharma (teachings) at the deer park in Sarnath, near the ancient city of Varanasi, 49 days after the Buddha's demonstration of enlightenment under the Bodhi tree.

The Buddha explained the Four Noble Truths (the truth of suffering and its cause and the truth of liberation from suffering and its cause) to the five ascetics who had been his companions during his six-years of extreme asceticism. Even the deer in the park were able to receive teachings from the Buddha at the same time.
On Chokor Duchen, as on all four of the great days of the Buddhist year, prayers and offerings are made to the Buddha himself, accompanied by the 16 Great Elders. This practice is particularly efficacious not only for the continuing spread of Buddha's teachings throughout the world, but also for the life of the precious teachers remaining stable. We'll recite these together at Sakya Buddhist Centre Bristol this evening.

The picture is of the roof of Karma Thinley Rinpoche's temple in Nangchen East Tibet, called Thegchen Chokhor Ling. The dharma wheel and two deer on the roof is a reminder of Chokhor Duchen, and also signifies that in this place the buddhadharma is preserved, taught and practised.

How do Buddhists view emotions? Lama Jampa talks about the importance of understanding and transforming our emotions in order to benefit others, achieve happiness and progress along the Buddhist path.

Do Buddhists believe in a soul? "If we assume that by soul we are referring to a kind of unchanging identity, which is somehow connected with the body but not of the body, not as it were, p...

What is the impact of Buddhism on society? "That when one person truly finds the capacity for selflessness and for living in the world as it is, a world in which interdependence is the core of everyth...

Clarifying the swift path to buddhahood in Bristol — Lama Jampa Thaye Last Saturday, 8 June, Lama Jampa resumed his teaching on Sakya Pandita’s ‘Discriminating the Three Vows’, continuing with the section on the vajrayana. Topics covered included the meaning and practice of mahamudra meditation, as outlined in the source texts, the tantras, and communicated thro...

A Happy and Joyful Saga Dawa Duchen / Vesak / Buddha Day to all beings!
Today May 23 2024 Buddhists around the world celebrate the Birth, Enlightenment and Parinirvana of Shakyamuni Buddha!
Buddhists make extra effort to practice more generosity, virtue, and compassion and on this auspicious day of Saga Dawa Düchen when the merits of your actions are hugely increased.

This Saturday - we'll be hosting a meditation day with four one hour sessions of meditation. The day is free and ideal for anyone wishing to deepen their meditation practice. For full details, view the Facebook event or the page below: https://www.sakyabristol.org/events/meditation-day-may2024/

Delighted to announced this day of Buddhist teachings in June by Lama Jampa Thaye. In the morning Lama Jampa will continue with part 9 of Sakya Pandita's work, 'Discriminating the 3 Vows', describing how to practise the Vajrayana so that it will actually bring us to enlightenment. This teaching is open to all with an interest in Buddhism and it isn't necessary to have attended the previous teachings to come along.

During the afternoon, Lama Jampa will give the initiation of Green Tara, open to those who have entered the Buddhist path through taking refuge. For more details and to book, see the link below:

https://www.sakyabristol.org/events/lama-jampa-june2024/

https://youtu.be/eWlVUINeFHY?si=_ieJIwRlsMW128po

What is mind in Buddhism? "Mind is therefore clear and cognisant, and a continuum, a stream of awareness. That is the nature of mind as we define it in Buddhism. And when mind recogni...

A rare opportunity to study Tibetan!

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹, 𝟳𝗽𝗺 𝗕𝗦𝗧
𝗔𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁, 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆

This short Zoom course, presented by Sakya Buddhist Centre Bristol and open to anyone who is interested, will cover the Tibetan writing system and pronunciation, as well as the beginnings of a Tibetan vocabulary.

The course will last about seven weeks, and the classes will last up to an hour. There will be exercises to complete in between classes. On this occasion, the classes will not be recorded, in the hope that this will make it easier for attendees to ask questions.

Please email [email protected] for the Zoom link or if you have any questions.
There is no charge for the sessions but if you would like to donate to the Sakya Buddhist Centre, a suggested amount is £5 per class.

(Photo credit: Franz Novotny)

What do Buddhists believe happens after death? "Simply the mind continues, because as we've discussed in previous times, the mind is a stream of awareness which is not generated from physical causes. And ...

WEDNESDAY MORNING MEDITATION GROUP
NORTHAM HALL 11:00 -12:00
All welcome!
From April 3 for 12 weeks we will reflect and meditate on a famous Tibetan Buddhist teaching text:
‘Atisha’s Jewel Rosary of a Bodhisattva’
The style of ‘Atisha’s Jewel Rosary’ is like a compendium of profound advice, like a rosary strings together many beads, here are strung together many pieces of direct heart instruction. In this text there are no complex explanations on emptiness or the procedures of meditation, but rather it’s a text useful for every level of practitioner.
For details contact: [email protected]

Discriminating the vows and pledges of the vajrayana — Lama Jampa Thaye Last Saturday, 16 March, having returned from the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute in Delhi, Lama Jampa Thaye gave a day of extraordinary vajrayana teachings in London.

New course beginning 7:30 pm Tuesday, 27th February :
Friends Meeting House Wynards Lane Exeter EX2 4HU
Exploring the Buddha’s teachings : Dharma to Live By
The Jewel Rosary of Atisha is a short but a comprehensive compendium of advice on how to practise Buddhism genuinely and effectively-as something to live. Its open and simple approach makes the meaning of its contents unmistakable. It embodies a very direct heart instruction; without very complex explanations on emptiness or meditation procedures.

Please email [email protected] for further queries.

Talk on Atisha by Lama Jampa Thaye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r01kiK1GZuY

Meditation Day: “Parting from the Four Attachments”
Saturday March 2nd 10.30 to 4.30
Friends Meeting House, Exeter, Devon, EX2 4HU
“Parting from the Four Attachments”, or Zhenpa Zhidral in Tibetan, is a four line teaching that originates with one of the five great masters of the Sakya tradition, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, who received it from the bodhisattva Manjusri, the very embodiment of wisdom.
This teaching highlights the four main kinds of attachment, from the more obvious to the more subtle, which are obstacles to realising the qualities of wisdom and compassion which are in fact our Buddha nature. The commentaries indicate the remedies to these attachments.
Outlining a clear path, it shows us where to begin from in dharma and what teachings to practise; it also demonstrates how the Mahayana teachings are embodied in the framework outlined by these four lines.

To lead the day we are very pleased to welcome back David Armstrong, a long-standing student of Lama Jampa Thaye.
David will spend the day working through this teaching in four sessions. There will be an opportunity to contemplate them in meditation and also ask questions.

Please arrive by 10.15am for a 10.30am start and bring food for lunch (to share if you wish)
Sessions: 10.30-11.30 / 12.00-1.00 / 2.00-3.00 / 3.30-4.30
Facility Fee: £15 for the full day – concessions available
Contact: [email protected]

Directions: Off Western Way inner ring road in Exeter, turn into Pavilion Place.
Parking: Two pay & display car parks are within easy reach but there will be some parking on the premises.
Disabled access is available.

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