February 27-March 1, 2026 - Weekend Intensive Teaching Through Zoom with Geshe Ngawang Gyatso -TOPIC: Karma, Compassion and Taking Responsibility.

Weekend Intensive Teaching Through Zoom with Geshe Ngawang Gyatso

Note:  To register please sending an email to office@namgyal.org.  Please register by noon of the Friday of the weekend intensive start date.  This is necessary so there is time to send Zoom invitation.  Payment can be made through the website. www.namgyal.org   Click - Donation page and make payment OR send a check to Namgyal Monastery, 201 Tibet Drive, Ithaca, NY 14850

TOPIC:  Karma, Compassion and Taking Responsibility.

 Cost: $100   Through Zoom meeting.

 February 27-March 1, 2026

Description:

Karma and compassion are central to Buddhist teachings and practice.  Teachings on karma describe the connection between our actions and our experiences of happiness or suffering.  Specifically, positive actions of body, speech and mind bring about positive experiences, while negative actions of body, speech and mind result in suffering.  Compassion is the wish to free beings from their suffering.  Through the practice of compassion, we bear witness to the suffering in the world and cultivate the desire to alleviate the suffering.  At a deeper level, we see how ourselves and others can become caught in negative habits that endlessly create suffering.  Based on this compassion we take responsibility to reduce both our own and others’ suffering. Taking responsibility requires reducing negative/non-virtuous actions and increasing positive/virtuous ones as well as doing what we can to help alleviate the suffering of ourselves and others.  This is the heart of daily Buddhist practice.  During this weekend intensive, Geshe-la will discuss in depth teachings on karma, compassion and taking responsibility.  This is an excellent teaching for newcomers to develop an understanding of these foundational teachings.  More seasoned students will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the relationship of karma, compassion and responsibility and how to integrate this into daily practice.   As always, Geshe-la will leave plenty of time for questions and discussion on these important topics.

Biography:

Geshe Ngawang Gyatso joined Sera Je Monastery in India in 1993.  He studied for twenty two years on five major Buddhist Philosophical texts.  He received his doctorate in Buddhist Philosophy in the year 2013 and Tantrayana Degree from Gyudmed Trantric monastery.  He was Buddhist Philosophy teacher for two years in Serjhi Jamyang Choehorling Mopnastery in Arunachal Pradesh.

He attended special Buddhist Philosophy teacher's training organized by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama office at Central institute of higher Tibetan Studies and received two years courses in English at Bangalore.

At present he is faculty at Namgyal Monastery – Tantric College in Dharamsa-la, India and Geshe Ngawang Gyatso will be the main teacher at Namgyal Mon-astery Institute of Buddhist Studies, Ithaca, NY.

Schedule:

Friday - Introductory Talk: February 27, 2026 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.

Saturday:

9:00 – 10:15am - Morning Session

10:15 – 10:30am - Tea Break

10:30 – 12:00 - Morning Session

12:00 – 2:00 - Lunch Break

02:00 – 3:15pm - Afternoon Session

3:15 – 3:30pm - Tea Break

3:30 – 5:00pm - Afternoon Session

Sunday:

9:00 – 10:15am - Morning Session

10:15 – 10:30am – Tea Break

10:30 - 12:00am – Last Session