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དགོངས་རྫོགས་མཆོད་འབུལ།

༅། །འཇམ་མགོན་རྒྱལ་བའི་གདུང་ཚབ་དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཐོག་༡༠༤ པ་༧རྗེ་བཙུན་བློ་བཟང་བསྟན་འཛིན་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་ མཆོག་གི་སྐུའི་བདུན་ཚིག་བདུན་པའམ་ཞེ་དགུའི་ཉིན། འདི་ག་ས་གནས་ཀྱི་སེ་ར་བྱེས་པའི་གྲྭ་ཟུར་ཚོ་དང་དགེ་བཤེས་

འཕྲིན་ལས་ལགས་ཐུན་མོངས་ནས་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པའི་གསོལ་ཚོགས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་དགོངས་རྫོགས་མཆོད་འབུལ་གཟབ་ རྒྱས་ཤིག ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ཟླ་བ་༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་༡༣ རེ་གཟའ་ཕུར་བུའི་ཕྱི་དྲོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་༦ པར་ཀེལ་གྷེ་རི་བྱམས་བརྩེ་ཆོས་གླིང་ དུ་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་ལགས་ན། དད་ལྡན་མི་མང་རྣམས་དུས་ཐོག་ངེས་ཕེབས་ཡོང་བར་ཞུ། ༢༠༢༥/༡༡/༢ ལ་ཕུལ། །

Grand Prayer Announcement

On the Seventh Week (49th Day) following the passing of His Holiness Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin Palsangpo, the 104th Gaden Tripa, successor to the spiritual lineage of Jamgön Gyalwa (Lama Tsongkhapa), the former monks of Sera Je Monastery in this area, along with Geshe Thinley, will jointly organize a grand memorial service with a Lama Chopa offering. This will take place on Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 6 PM at JamTse ChoeLing Tibetan Buddhist Center, Calgary. We kindly request all faithful devotees to attend on time. Submitted on November 2, 2025.

Date & Time: November 13, 2025 (THURSDAY) 6:00PM.

Location: Jamтse CHOELING (924 36 ST SE, CALGARY AB)

Hello Dharma Friends!

This is the schedule for the month.

2 NOV, SUN

Note that Daylight Saving Time ends

11am – 12:30pm
Introduction to Buddhism

5 NOV, WED

6:30 – 8pm
Meditation and Tara Prayer

9 NOV, SUN

11am – 12:30pm
Regular Dharma teaching

11 NOV, TUE

Remembrance Day (regional holiday)

6:30 – 8pm
Lhabab Duchen Prayer

The day Buddha returned to the world was celebrated as Lha Bab Düchen which falls on the 22nd of the 9th lunar month. Because of its huge potency, it is said that every action good or bad is multiplied 1 million times.

13 NOV, THU

6:00 – 8pm

དགོངས་རྫོགས་མཆོད་འབུལ།

༅། །འཇམ་མགོན་རྒྱལ་བའི་གདུང་ཚབ་དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཐོག་༡༠༤ པ་༧རྗེ་བཙུན་བློ་བཟང་བསྟན་འཛིན་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་ མཆོག་གི་སྐུའི་བདུན་ཚིག་བདུན་པའམ་ཞེ་དགུའི་ཉིན། འདི་ག་ས་གནས་ཀྱི་སེ་ར་བྱེས་པའི་གྲྭ་ཟུར་ཚོ་དང་དགེ་བཤེས་

འཕྲིན་ལས་ལགས་ཐུན་མོངས་ནས་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པའི་གསོལ་ཚོགས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་དགོངས་རྫོགས་མཆོད་འབུལ་གཟབ་ རྒྱས་ཤིག ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ཟླ་བ་༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་༡༣ རེ་གཟའ་ཕུར་བུའི་ཕྱི་དྲོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་༦ པར་ཀེལ་གྷེ་རི་བྱམས་བརྩེ་ཆོས་གླིང་ དུ་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་ལགས་ན། དད་ལྡན་མི་མང་རྣམས་དུས་ཐོག་ངེས་ཕེབས་ཡོང་བར་ཞུ། ༢༠༢༥/༡༡/༢ ལ་ཕུལ། །

Grand Prayer Announcement

On the Seventh Week (49th Day) following the passing of His Holiness Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin Palsangpo, the 104th Gaden Tripa, successor to the spiritual lineage of Jamgön Gyalwa (Lama Tsongkhapa), the former monks of Sera Je Monastery in this area, along with Geshe Thinley, will jointly organize a grand memorial service with a Lama Chopa offering. This will take place on Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 6 PM at JamTse ChoeLing Tibetan Buddhist Center, Calgary. We kindly request all faithful devotees to attend on time. Submitted on November 2, 2025.

16 NOV, SUN

11am – 12:30pm
Regular Dharma teaching

19 NOV, WED

6:30 – 8pm
Meditation and Tara Prayer

23 NOV, SUN

11am – 12:30pm
Regular Dharma teaching

26 NOV, WED

6:30 – 8pm
Meditation and Tara Prayer

30 NOV, SUN

11am – 12:30pm
Dharma teaching Q&A

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Scheduling is subject to change, please refer to the website calendar for the latest schedule: https://jtclcalgary.ca/calendar/

You can also attend virtually on Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4102590148?pwd=RkphclNKK21LUEQySmk1UVdSWnlMUT09

Regular Dharma Teaching

The Jam Tse Cho Ling Calgary Dharma teaching occurs every Sunday at 11am MT. The schedule can be checked on the website.

Topic: Eight verses of training the mind

Electronic copy of the prayer book for reciting before and after teaching: https://jtclcalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/dedication-100dpi.pdf

Meditation and Prayer

We meet Wednesday evenings 6:30pm to 7:30pm for a meditation followed by recitation of Tara prayer.

Prayer book: https://jtclcalgary.ca/prayer-books/#tara

Recordings

Oct 26 recording: https://youtube.com/live/bP-IKZBWZR4

• Follow-up on the importance of Refuge Vows
• What is Guru Yidam
• Three Types of Kindness from a Lama
• Samantabhadra’s Aspirational Prayer
• Buddhist View on End-of-Life Care
• Clarification on learning from a single teacher
• Upcoming Teaching on Mindfulness

This Wednesday’s usual meditation/prayer has been changed to a Medicine Buddha prayer. This practice is beneficial for healing physical, mental, and emotional ailments.

22 OCT, WED 6:30 – 8pm

Recordings

Oct 12 recording: https://youtube.com/live/JzTQ-s4dJ-M?feature=share

The first class on the Eight verses of mind training.

Geshe la emphasizes the importance of questioning and logical reasoning rather than blind faith. One should choose their spiritual path through deep study and understanding of benefits.

Proof of Enlightenment’s Possibility

Geshe la poses a question to students, whether they believe enlightenment is achievable for all sentient beings, if so, provide proof of why it is possible. After discussion, Geshe la explains how to reason about the proof.

True Compassion vs. Ordinary Compassion

Buddhist great compassion differs from ordinary compassion by being completely impartial – extending equally to friends, enemies, all humans, animals, and beings in all realms, without leaving anyone out.

Oct 19 recording: https://youtube.com/live/GgFfb73SF9Y?feature=share

Introduction to Eight Verses (0:04)

• Eight verses designed to transform the mind through constant contemplation
• All Buddhist teachings ultimately aim to transform the mind, like airplanes landing at an airport
• Goal: make the mind expansive, open, and inclusive, not narrow or rigid

Importance of Study (0:12)

• with effort you can learn anything; without effort you know nothing
• Learning is easy; applying teachings to transform yourself is difficult

Mind Training vs Body Training (0:24)

• Body training improves physical health but cannot transform the mind
• Mind training makes mind peaceful and expansive, which automatically benefits physical body as well

Types of Minds (0:28)

• Small-minded: easily affected, quick to anger, fear, depression
• Stubborn like rock in river: never changes mind, no improvement possible
• Negative/harmful: readily steals, kills, takes advantage without hesitation
• Complacent: “as long as I have food and shelter, everything is cool”—wastes life avoiding effort

Purpose of Practice (0:36)

First Verse (0:37)

Second Verse (0:42)

Practicing with Suffering People (0:49)

Story of Asanga and Maitreya Buddha and how the Buddhas are always with us (0:52)

Clarifying Second Verse (1:07)

• Not about becoming inferior or losing confidence

Third Verse (1:15)

Examples of Guarding Mind (1:21)

Why Stop Negative Emotions (1:28)

• Should desperately wish to escape bad habits like a prisoner wanting to escape prison

Three Things to Take Home (1:30)

1. Buddhas are always with you: Even if you can’t see them, they are 100% there. Remember Maitreya’s words to Asanga.
2. Stop harmful impulses immediately: When desire to harm arises, recognize and stop it. If you can’t help, at least refrain from harming.
3. Contemplate impermanence: Think on impermanence frequently so you’re not swayed by emotions—good things won’t last, bad things won’t last. This keeps you peaceful.