Date: August 22 to 24, 2025 - TOPIC: MEDITATION - Weekend Intensive Teaching Through Zoom and In-person with Geshe Ngawang Gyatso.

TOPIC:   Meditation:   

DATE:     August 22 to 24, 2025
 

Cost : 140 In-person
Cost: $100   Through Zoom meeting.

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

Description:
Meditation practice is a foundational part of the Buddhist path.  After listening to and contemplating teachings, it is through meditation that we can deepen our level of understanding and realize change in our emotions, attitudes and actions in daily life. 

In Buddhism there are two general types of meditation: stabilizing meditation and analytical meditation.  Stabilizing meditation aims to quiet the mind and focus on a specific object in order to deepen concentration.  Analytical meditation utilizes focused analysis of an object such as great compassion, bodhichitta or wisdom realizing emptiness to deepen one’s realization or experience of that object. 

During this weekend intensive Geshe Ngawang  Gyatso will provide instruction on these different types of meditation and provide guidance and advice on how to integrate these practices into our daily lives.  Geshe-la will provide time for questions and discussion on this important topic.

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: August 22nd, 2025 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm – Open to Public - Welcome to attain.

Saturday:

8:00am to 9:00am Breakfast - At Monastery
9:00-10:15: Morning Session
10:15-10:30 Break
12:00-2:00LunchBreak - at Monastery
2:00- 3:15 Afternoon Session
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30-5:00PMAfternoonSession
 

Sunday:

8:00am to 9:00am Breakfast at Monasttery.
9:00 - 10-15 Morning Session
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Last Session