(Note! This event is taking place at the MIAMI LIFE CENTER in Wynwood.)

Gaden Monastery was founded in Tibet by the great preacher, saint and indigenous Tibetan Buddhist scholar, Tsongkhapa (1357 – 1419) in the year 1409. Tsongkhapa’s school of thought came to be known as Gelug school and his followers are called Gelugpa. The monks are from the Gaden Shartse Phukhang Khangsten (or house) of Gaden Monastery in southern India. They are touring the United States in order to share with all people the monks’ culture, as well as practices of meditation and paths to inner peace and compassion. The second purpose of the tour is the construction of a new Khangtsen or dormitory. In their Khangtsen, they have only 120 rooms to accommodate 450 monks, with the monks facing the difficulty of sharing one room with three monks. They have jointly come to the decision to build 60 new rooms to accommodate those elder Geshe (high lama) for a better living standard.

The lecture will be given by Geshe Lharampa Tsering Dawa who is fluent in English. (A "Geshe" degree/title is extremely rigorous and is similar to a PhD in western education.)

$20 Donation