We are happy to announce that we will be resuming teachings via Zoom until the new temple is renovated and ready. Thank you for your patience.

We need to shift the time of the teachings to the afternoon to accommodate Geshe la and Ama la’s schedule. The teaching will be weekly on Sundays, starting September 13th, from 2pm to 3:30pm.

We recommend that you download and install Zoom before next Sunday to prepare for the virtual meeting. Feel free to reply to this email if you have any questions. The meeting details are included further down in the email.

We will start the teachings following the same format as in-person:
– Open with the refuge prayer
– Dharma teaching for 60 minutes
– 15-20 minutes for questions and clarification
– Closing comments and dedication prayer

Geshe la intends to begin a new topic on View and Behaviour in the Buddhist context.

We are happy to welcome you back and look forward to seeing you next week. To start off we will do Zoom-only teachings. If you are interested in joining, send an email to contact@jtclcalgary.ca for the meeting info, all are welcome.

Update: You can sign up for weekly reminders the day before teachings by subscribing or updating your email newsletter subscription and checking off “Weekly teaching reminders”.

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Events are open to attend in-person, and are often cast on Zoom.

Our resident teacher is available for private consultation by appointment.

Our Address:
Jam Tse Cho Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple Calgary
924 36 St SE
Calgary, Alberta   T2A 1B9
Canada

Phone:
587-434-4011

Email:
contact@jtclcalgary.ca

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  • Tibetan word of the day: གཞི་གྲུབ་

    གཞི་གྲུབ་

    Established basis

    Spelling (jorlok; Tib. སྦྱོར་ཀློག་) and pronunciation:
    གཞི་ – ga-o zha gigu zhi
    གྲུབ་ – ga ra-tak dra zhabkyu dru ba drub
    zhi drub

    From class notes:

    “First, what must be understood is this: the established basis (Tib. གཞི་གྲུབ་ gzhi grub), object of knowledge (Tib. ཤེས་བྱ་ shes bya), existence (Tib. ཡོད་པ་ yod pa), and phenomena (Tib. ཆོས་ chos) are all of one meaning.

    The meaning of an established basis is that which is established by valid cognition (Skt. pramāṇa).”


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