Thursday 26 March 2015
Tseten on Buddhist Cosmology
In case you missed the talk on Tuesday, as promised it was recorded and is now up on Youtube. It's also been added to Tseten's original blog post, here.
Tuesday 24 March 2015
Tseten Thokmey Talk on Near Earth Realms, Fallen Angels and Human Beings in Buddhist Cosmology
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| Photo of Tseten Thokmey giving talk at Citta Bhavana Ashram, March 24 2015. Taken by Chraeloos Resident. |
We had a new teacher today who has so graciously agreed to present here once a week. I'd like to introduce you to Damian Glendullen, whose Buddhist name is Tseten Thokmey. He is a Buddhist blogger and published writer, including books on Buddhist philosophy and poetry, and a political blogger. He lives in Deer Park, Toronto. He will be giving talks at the Ashram every Tuesday at 4pmSLT/PST at the indoor meditation circle.
Over the years he undertook an extensive comparative study of all of the major spiritual, religious, mystical, and magical traditions of humanity, including magic, astrology, the Western esoteric tradition, Cabala, Gnosticism, Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Tantra, and Voudoun. He also studied the works of C.G. Jung, W.Y. Evans Wentz, Julius Evola, Mircea Eliade, and others.
After many years of personal study and practice, Duncan founded Chroniker Press in 2010 as a vehicle to publish his own and other’s writings on spirituality and poetry. Currently he has published eight books including two non-fiction books on Buddhism, two books of poetry, and a study of the mystic and magician Aleister Crowley.
Duncan undertook the Vow of a Bodhisattva as a self-ordained practitioner of Dzogchen Buddhism with special devotion to Padmasambhava in 2011, after which time he began to write and publish poetry, in fulfillment of a long-standing ambition, encouraged by Buddhist scholar Dr. Robert Thurman’s reaction to his poem, “The Loneliness of the Dalai Lama.” He is also engaged in an intensive study of the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, phenomenology, Heidegger, Herbert Guenther, and the Pali Canon, the results of which he publishes online and in print. Chroniker Press has published one collection of his Buddhist essays, entitled Dharma Notes, in 2012. Additional publications are pending. Altogether, Duncan’s websites, blogs, and YouTube channels are currently being read in over 100 countries.
He has also been a teacher at the Buddha Center for several years. His book, Fundamental View, is a compilation of ten talks that he gave at the Buddha Center a couple of years ago. Tseten describes himself as a non-sectarian, univeralist Buddhist eclectic.
Today Tseten will present his talk entitled NEAR-EARTH REALMS, FALLEN ANGELS AND HUMAN BEINGS IN BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY. See the original on his blog, here. The talk has also been recorded by KJ. We will post the recording as soon as it is available!
Thursday 19 March 2015
Saturday 14 March 2015
Ashram Re-Opening Party Sunday 11amSLT
Ashram Re-opening Party!!
Sunday at 11amSLT
Sunday at 11amSLT
Help us welcome the new ashram by coming to listen and wiggle to AfroIndoDesert tunes around the bonfire, followed by fireworks and then a piano performance by Sandia Beaumont!
Come get your wiggle on. Clothing is required as the new sim is PG, but wear something comfortable (and I'll be bare foot so you can be too wink emoticon )
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