Month: September 2018

Meditation for Compassion and Wisdom, Saturday, Oct. 6th 2:30pm to 4pm, On the Ellipse besides the White House

  Schedule for this event: 2:30 to 3:20 Speakers/Presenters Introductory Remarks by Hugh Byrne, PhD, Insight Meditation Community of Washington Chanting and Guided Meditation led by Venerable Bhante Uparatna, Abbot of Maryland Buddhist Vihara Group Prayer of Compassion led by Lorne Ladner, PhD, Guhyasamaja Center Concluding Remarks by Wilson Hurley, LCSW, Mahayana Sutra and Tantric … [Read more…]

Letter and Request to all MSTC-WDC practitioners

In the afterglow of Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche’s incredible teachings on White Tara at the Mahayana Sutra and Tantra Center -Washington DC over the Labor Day weekend, we thought it a good time to reach out to members and friends to see what programs might be of interest this fall.  We have been alternating between classes … [Read more…]

Bodhisattvas Way of Life Class, Sunday, September 23rd, 3:30pm to 5pm Open to all!

Open to all! The Bodhisattvacharyāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra, sometimes translated into English as A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s[1] Way of Life, is a famous Mahāyāna Buddhist text written c. 700 AD in Sanskrit verse by Shantideva (Śāntideva), a Buddhist monk at Nālandā Monastic University in India. It has ten chapters dedicated to the development of bodhicitta … [Read more…]