Brought by
the TIBETAN CENTER FOR COMPASSION & WISDOM
610 16th Street, Suite 22, Oakland, CA 94612
For more information call
(415) 383-8824
Event Schedule - June 23,
2002
10:00 am - 11:45 pm Lamrim teaching
(Arjia Rinpoche continues his teachings on
Lamrim in Chinese with English translation.
Due to special circumstance the time has been
moved up from usual 2 p.m.) - 2nd Floor
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm Introducing Drepung
Gomang monks. Short introduction to Tibetan
Medicine by Dr. Yangdron Kalzang - 3rd Floor
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm Performance by
Drepung monks (The program consists of
chanting with different instruments, hand
gestures, multiphonic singing, richly
costumed dance including masked animal.) -
3rd Floor
1: 30 pm - 3:00 pm Food (Potluck:
please bring your delicious and sumptuous
foods to share) and Souvenir shopping. -3rd
Floor
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Special blessings
and prayer ceremonies by Drepung monks
includes general blessing (ku-rim),
prosperity prayer (yang-bo), and prayer to
the protectors (tin-chol). -2nd Floor
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Chod ceremony (Chod
means "to cut". It's a practice
which cuts through the demons of ego.
Traditionally done at night or at cemetaries
using the double sided drum, bell and thigh
bone trumpet. -2nd Floor
Event News
We very successfully organized
this event in the Frank Ogawa Plaza, City
Hall, Oakland, CA. Special Thanks for Jerry
Brown, Oakland City major to make this event
possible. Thanks to Arjia Rinpoche, Drepung
Goamg monks, Eric Wheel, Brain Li, Jo P.
Chernoff, Clair Potsatada, Christine Ho,
Yadgdron Kalsang, Paul Nolan, Shirchin
Altaisaikhan, Lobsang, Kalsang and other
supporters for your tireless works.
Pictures from the Dance
Event
Oakland
City Hall's Frank Ogawa Plaza
Blessing
for His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama
Dance
of Namsrai
Monks
dharma discussion
Arjia
Rinpoche and guests in the event
Dancing
with Yak
Tibetan
monk's mask dance
Smallest
Mongol Conqueror
Recent Performance by
the Tibetan Monks at Irish & B. Gareld
Cantor Center the Visual Arts at Stanford
University
Arjia Rinpoche, Deborah Cleanwaters
(program coordinator at the Asian Art Museum
of San Francisco), Dr. Wendy Abraham
(assistant director of the Stanford Center
for Buddhist Studies) organized the Tibetan
Monk's dance event at Irish & B. Gareld
Cantor Center the Visual Arts on 13th June,
2002.
Drepung Gomang
Monanstery, South India. In 1416 A.D.,
Drepung Monastic University was founded in
Tibet by Jamyang Choje, the closest disciple
of the Great Je Tsong Khapa, the founder of
the Gelukpa (Yellow Hat) sect of Tibetan
Buddhism. At the time, it was the largest
Buddhist University in Tibet. Gomang being
the oldest of the now existing four colleges.
At its height, over 3,300 monks from all
parts of the Himalayan Region studied there.
In 1959, 5,500 monks had been studying at
Drepung Gomang, near Lhasa, the capital. Only
about 100 were able to follow His Holiness
the 14th Dalai Lama into exile in India,
which the goal of preserving and maintaining
cultural identity and religion. Ten years
later, 60 monks succeeded in re-establishing
Drepung Gomang Monastery in a Tibetan
settlement in South India, on land donated by
the Indian government. Close to 1,500 monks
are currently studying at the monastery, with
about 150 new arrivals annually.
Irish & B.
Gareld Cantor Center the Visual Arts at
Stanford University. Founded with the
University in 1891 by Jane and Leland
Stanford as a memorial to their only child,
the Leland Stanford Junior Museum opened to
the public in 1894 as one of the largest
museums in the United States. More than
two-thirds of the building and collections
were established. The Museum was severely
damaged by the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989
and 1999. Then years after its closure due to
earthquake damage, the museum at Stanford,
splendidly renovated and expanded, reopened
and expanded, reopened as part of a new
virtual arts complex, the Irish & B.
Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at
Stanford University. The Center is cultural
hub of the Peninsuala, and an enriching
resource for the University's teaching
program.
Stanford Center for
Buddhist Studies. The Center serves
to coordinate, support, and develop the
University's resources for Buddhist studies
and other Asian religions in the areas of
teaching, research, scholarly communication,
and public outreach. It hosts visiting
scholars, postdoctoral fellows, and exchange
students from around the world. In addition,
it organizes conferences, workshops, annual
lecture series and colloquia, and promotes
scholarly publication through its Asian
Religions & Cultures series with Stanford
University Press. It encourages the public
understanding of Buddhism and other Asian
religions and administers the University's
Asian Religions & Cultures Initiative.
The Center aims to serve simultaneously as an
educational resource for the Stanford
community an informational resource for the
Bay Area community, and an intellectual
resource for the international community of
scholars.
