External Link to Sister Yeshe's charity web site
External Link to Sister Yeshe's charity web site
Sister Yeshe Tour 2008
"Indian Buddhists and Western Monastics"
Presented by Blue Padma Services Inc
NORTHERN NSW TOUR SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2008
The Northern NSW Tour will incorporate screening documentaries, book signings, great teachings, talks and workshops!
If you would like to host an event or offer accommodation at the end of September or early October in the Byron Bay / Lismore area, email myi4i. You can purchase your copy of EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT at your local event, and be in the draw to win a digital camera or an MP4 player, donated by Andrews Communications (Sydney).
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2pm-4pm |
Sat 27th Sept |
Temple Byron |
Talk, Book-Signing & Documentary: Through the Eastern Gate |
46 Melaleuca Drive, Byron Bay |
| 10am-2pm | Sun 28th Sept | Bodhi Farm | Workshop: A Guide to compassionate living - the Bodhisattva's Way of Life | The Channon |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Mon 29th Sept | Southern Cross Uni | Transforming the Psychology of Poverty - a talk on the social justice work of a Buddhist nun amongst the ex-untouchables of India | Room B306 Lismore Campus |
| 2pm-4pm | Sat 4th Oct | Drill Hall Theatre | Talk, Book-Signing & Documentary: Through the Eastern Gate | 2 Jubilee Ave, Mullumbimby |
| 2pm-4pm | Sun 5th Oct | Lismore Public Library | Talk, Book-Signing & Documentary: Life Beyond the Begging Bowl | Magellan St, Lismore |
Venerable Yeshe Chodron is a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She became a Buddhist in 1994 when, at the age of 17, she encountered Buddhism while travelling in India. She has since trained with Tibetan Lamas in the Sakya tradition and currently teaches Buddhism and meditation retreats at various centres in India and Australia. In addition to her meditational practice and personal studies, she has worked with the poor in India, HIV-positive patients, nursing home residents, and students, offering counselling and other services. Sister Yeshe is committed to living the traditional contemplative life of a wandering mendicant - she may often be seen wandering the streets of Sydney and India with a Buddhist begging bowl!
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Kalyanamitra is a socially engaged Tibetan Buddhist organisation for Non-Himalayan monastics and lay people.
We are raising money to build a monastery in the middle of India in a place called Nagpur, which will be a haven for Indian Buddhists and Western monastics and also a centre for our Dharma training and social work projects.
We are currently supporting several Western monastics to study and practice Dharma full time. They are making a real contribution to peace in the world and the increase of spiritual wisdom. They will eventually become inspiring examples for others.
We take the Dharma to people who are suffering, offering couselling, teaching Dharma in schools, jails, to poor and remote communities etc. We offer all teachings by donation.
We are supporting Indian Buddhists to train
and study the Dharma, young students from poor and large families to get job
training that will allow them to get good jobs and pull their whole families
out of poverty and some widows and divorced women with young children, whom
by being financially independent can leave severely abusive marriages.
We do social work with Indians who
previously belonged to the 'untouchable' caste within the Indian Caste
system. These people were oppressed for thousands of years, denied education
and basic human rights and made to do the most degrading jobs or work for
little pay or meager food for people from the higher castes.
We hold workshops in basic health, job skills, self esteem and spiritual transformation. We are available in India and the west on a needs basis to bring wisdom, a compassionate ear or practical upliftment and empowerment to the darkest places and people who have fallen through the cracks of society.
CENTRAL WEST TOUR SUCCESS
THANK YOU so much to everyone involved in Sister Yeshe's tour, including Venerable Thubten Tenzin who offered and organized the tour, the nuns and monk from Tharpa Choeling Abbey who provided so much assistance, gift packs and accommodation, thank you to all the kind venue hosts, to all the wonderful people who offered their homes for Sister Yeshe to stay in, and all the people who came along to hear Sister Yeshe, to watch a documentary, and to donate to the Kalyanamitra Fund. Together we raised $4,000 and a lot of awareness for Sister Yeshe's work for Indian Buddhists and Western Monastics. THANK YOU!
