The Benefit of pilgrimage

A public teaching by Robin Bath
Saturday 26th April 10:00 to 16:30

has been cancelled

Thursdays: 19.00 to 21:00 – 15th May to 19th June

Buddhism in a Nutshell – a five week course

with David Midgley or Ven Mary

This well structured introductory course provides a general overview of basic Buddhist philosophy and principles for beginners.

Suggested donation: £5.50 per evening.

Dharma Festival 2008

We are delighted to offer a residential retreat and week of teachings with Geshe Tashi Tsering, resident Geshe at Jamyang London.

Tuesday 5th August 2008 to Tuesday 12th August 2008
Trinity & All Saints Residential College
Brownberrie Lane
Horsforth
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS18 5HD

The retreat is in a semi rural location on the outskirts of Leeds but is easily accessible by public transport. Details of how to find the college are at http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/about/travel.htm

Free parking is available.

Arrival and Departure

Arrival: Tuesday 5th August 2008 AFTER 5pm
Reception open 24hours
There will be no teachings or food available on this day
Departure: Tuesday 12th August 2008. Rooms vacated and luggage stored by 11am - retreat finishes 5pm

This retreat is a closed event. Due to the fact that each teaching builds on the proceeding one, and the atmosphere can be disturbed by fluctuating attendance, partial attendance of the retreat will not be possible. We request you attend the entire event from beginning to end. If you wish to leave the premises during the event, we request you inform the organisers.

Meals and accommodation
There will be a vegetarian buffet and drinks provided. Special diets may be catered for but you must let us know at the time of booking.
Food is also available in a canteen for those not able to take precepts but it is the participant's responsibility to organise this around the teachings and meditation sessions.

You can also bring food and drinks (fruit teas/juice etc) to keep in your room or shared kitchen.

Single room standard:

Single room with sink, wardrobe and study desk. Shared bathroom and toilets (2 between 6). Shared kitchen with fridge and tea/coffee making facility.  Towels and bedding provided.

Single room En-suite:

Single Room with En-suite shower and toilet. Tea and Coffee provided daily in the rooms. Wardrobe and study desk. Shared kitchen with fridge.  Towels and bedding provided.

There is no facility for camping.  

Prices

We have tried to keep prices down to be as inclusive as possible. If you are not able to afford the retreat but would like to attend, please email smile@jamyangleeds.co.uk specifying your financial circumstances and how much you could offer towards the fees.

All prices include food and drink (see schedule), accommodation, towels and bedding during the teachings by Geshe Tashi for the full period.

Standard Single Room: £270
En-suite Single Room: £350 .

Registration and Booking

Pre- registration is essential with payment of £150 and completion of booking information by 31st March 2008 to guarantee a place.

Full payment will be required by 1st June 2008.

Cancellation with full refund is available until 31st May 2008. After this date you will be liable for the full amount unless you can find someone to take your place.

There are limited places for both standard and en-suite accommodation. We will allocate rooms on a first come, first served basis

If you would like to book, please send the following information to
Gill Niven

Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds, Suite 39, Sunshine House
Whingate Business Park, Whingate, Leeds, LS12 3AT

OR Email:

 smile@jamyangleeds.co.uk

Name:
Address:
Contact Telephone:
Email:
 
Type of accommodation required:
Single Room/Single Room En-Suite
(Please note: camping is not available)
 
Any special dietary requirements:
 
You will also need to send a deposit of £150 by cheque or use the Paypal Donate button on the website.
Please email smile@jamyangleeds.co.uk with any enquiries.

Telephone 07866 760460 

 Disabled Access
There is full disabled access. If you do have a disability, please inform us before you book as certain conditions will apply

Supporting the Retreat

If you are able to volunteer with setting up the Gompa, light offerings, water bowl offerings, bell ringing or Gompa cleaning, please let us know on your booking form. If you would like to sponsor the retreat and are able to give a donation of £500 or more, please email smile@jamyangleeds.co.uk and we will provide further details
 
 
 

The new Practical Buddhist Meditations

This is an introductory course on basic Buddhist meditation techniques and follows on from the Monday night sessions ‘Meditation for Beginners’. It is a down to earth, no nonsense guide to Buddhist meditation. It does not assume that you know anything at all about meditation or about Buddhism. It does not even assume that you are even interested in learning more about Buddhism. This course assumes simply that those who come are interested in learning something about meditation and Buddhist meditation in particular.

Overall, the following topics will be covered during this 6 week course:

• · meditation posture and arranging the body

• · purposes and benefits of meditation

• · different skills used in meditation and useful in daily life

• · the difference between meditation and simple relaxation

• · obstacles to meditation and their antidotes

• · advice for establishing a long-term meditation practice

• · using the benefits of meditation in everyday living

• · breathing meditations, mindfulness meditations,     visualizations

• · analytical meditations: meditation on equanimity, transforming

· negative experiences into positive

16th Jan to 20th Feb and 19th Mar to 23rd April

Suggested Donation £5.50 per evening.

The Puja which is to be held on Thursday 25th 19.00 - 21.00 will be led by seven monks from Drepung Lubum Monastery in Mundgod South India.  We are delighted to welcome them back whilst they are involved in creating a sand mandala at Harewood House.

Don’t miss this opportunity!
The new Discovering Buddhism programme starts on 5 September
This term you have the chance to start the Discovering Buddhism programme which is suitable for beginners and for those who want to deepen their practice. Discovering Buddhism is the FPMT introductory programme designed to give an experiential taste of the Buddha’s teachings, consisting of fourteen half-term modules which take us two years to complete. It is taught on Wednesday evenings, with a weekend retreat to finish some modules.

This is the third time that JBCL has run this modular programme and students have found it very helpful. Each module can be done in two ways: 1) as a “certificate” student, you need to attend most of the module, do the required reading and do the two-day retreat, or 2) as a normal drop-in class. Sessions are taught by Venerable Mary or David Midgley

Sat 24th and Sunday 25th May

A Series of talks on Bringing Meaning to Our Lives

Mon 26th to Wed 28th May

Investigating the Nature of Reality

"Praise to the Buddha for His Discourses on Dependant Origination" Tsongkhapa

VAJRASATTVA INITIATION

For up to date information visit www.dalailama2008.org.uk

Please also visit

 http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/DalaiLama/

Thank you

The Yeshe Buddhist Centre Cumbria is to host a retreat with Ven Sangye Khadro Friday 31st Aug. Saturday and Sunday 1st and 2nd September.

Call Brenda Fishwick on 07887 846386 or email on Yeshebuddhistcentre@yahoo.co.uk for further details

This weekend saw the final teachings by Geshe Tashi before he leaves for 6 months retreat in India. This was marked by the sharing of three cakes signifying the three volumes of the Lam Rim and gifts of money by Jamyang on behalf of all the students at Jamyang and pleas for him to come back to Leeds soon. It also signified the end of a 3-year marathon teaching on all three volumes of the Lam Rim Chenmo and the occasion was marked by a traditional reading of the first page of volume one in Tibetan followed by the presentation of katas to students.

Some students were fortunate to be able to accompany Geshe Tashi to Harewood House to see the sand mandala and stupa located in the grounds. The evening sun shone, allbeit briefly, while Geshe Tashi lit incense and chanted Tibetan prayers followed by circumnambulations of the stupa itself.

On Sunday Jamyang ran a 'gompa in a garden shed' at the I Love West Leeds festival in Pudsey Park. The gompa created a lot of interest and visitors were encouraged to write out their wishes and pin them to the ribbons hanging from an adjacent tree. After a couple of hours there appeared to be hundreds of wishes fluttering in the breeze and the atmosphere this created was amazing - well done to all the Jamyangers who organised and manned the shed, especially those who were there at 7.00 in the morning to decorate our shed!

Photos from the weekend should be available on the web site shortly.

So that was this weekend - now for this coming week!

Monday - Mediation for Beginners with Jay Simpson and assisted by Bernie Lewis - 7.00-8.00pm

Wednesday - Purification Practices with David Midgeley - 7.00-9.00pm

Thursday - Puja & Community Meeting with Bob Charlton (including a dedication of all the wishes from Sunday at Pudsey Park) - 7.00-9.00pm

Friday & Saturday - 'How to Develop Mindfulness' with Andy Wistreich - Fri 7.00-9.00pm and Sat 10.00am-4.00pm. This will be Andy's final teaching at Jamyang Leeds before he goes on long retreat - we wish him many realisations!

This brings to an end this term's activities - apart from the Meditation for Beginners which continues throughout the summer. Many thanks to all our students, teachers, volunteers, trustees and our Director for all their hard work and supreme efforts. Now we get ready for next term with many more exciting visiting teachers coming to Jamyang Leeds in the autumn - so watch this space!

Have a peaceful summer!

Jamyang Leeds

The Healing day was a great success ! With the help of all the volunteers and Ven. Mary.

We had lots of treatments to offer and lots of goodies too.

Shiatsu, Reiki, Reflexology, Hot Wax Treatment, Meditation and of course food and drink.

The atmosphere was wonderful. Everyone was relaxed, calm and nourished.

You could either have a 1/2 hour treatment by the professionals or simply relax in the coffee shop with a slice of cake.

There was our usual shop with treats to buy and also a student, of our visiting teacher Geshe Tashi, donated a peace of artwork that was auctioned off, all proceeds to Jamyang !

The day was so successful that another will be held soon !

Jamyang wishes a heart felt thanks to all the therapists who donated there time and effort to help our Centre.

Jamyang would also like to thank everyone who helped to set up the day and who helped out.

May they quickly attain true happiness and enlightenment.