Week 1: Sunday 18th August to Friday 23rd August
“Dispelling the Darkness of Suffering”

Lama Jampa Thaye will teach “Dispelling the Darkness of Suffering”, composed by Karma Thinley Rinpoche, a clear and authoritative, line by line commentary on The Seven Points of Mind Training written by Geshe Chekhawa. This classic twelfth century text on lojong (‘mind training’) is in the form of pith instructions that show the methods to transform everyday life into the path to enlightenment, by developing bodhichitta (‘enlightenment-mind’, the resolve to attain buddhahood for the benefit of others) on the basis of loving-kindness and compassion. Rinpoche brilliantly illuminates these pith instructions, enabling us to apply them to whatever situations we encounter.

During the course Lama Jampa will also bestow the initiations of Manjusri and Namgyalma. Refuge and the bodhisattva vow will be given to everyone during the preliminary part of each initiation.

Week 2: Sunday 25th August to Friday 30th August
“The Sweet Drops of the Blooming Lotus of Great Bliss”

Lama Jampa will teach the extensive notes on the practice of the Uncommon Sadhana of the Goddess Vajra Yogini Naro Kachoma, one of the most important systems of practice. This text was composed in recent years by Karma Thinley Rinpoche and so this course represents its first transmission in the West.

The prerequisites for attending this course are to have received a major (two-day) initiation of Chakrasamvara or Hevajra from a lama belonging to the Khon family of Sakya, and in addition the blessing initiation of Naro Kachoma. This blessing initiation will be given on the first day of the teaching.