Join me for a special afternoon of poetry and cultural reflection, alongside Tashi Chodron and Tenzin Dolker at Tibetan Museum in Staten Island, 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Sunday, 4 May, 2025
https://www.tibetanmuseum.org/event-details/awe-awakening-wisdom-experience-2025-05-04-13-30
AWE Awakening – Wisdom - Experience
Sun, May 04
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Staten Island
Join
us for a special course inspired by the themes of Global Resonance: Promoting
human values. Encouraging religious harmony. Preserving Tibetan culture.
Reviving ancient Indian wisdom
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& Location
Last available date
May 04, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Staten Island, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, NY
10306, USA
About
the event
Put
some AWE – Awakening, Wisdom, Experience- Into Saturday!
Grand
Finale, Art, Poetry, Mindfulness Meditation and Live performance May
4th!
Rsvp tickets here May 4 Free : from 1:30 PM to 3:30
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Please join us for a special course inspired by the theme of Global Resonance:
The Four Principal Commitments of HH The Dalai Lama, curated by Tashi Chodron, an expert in Tibetan art and Culture at JMMTA. The sessions will be ninety minutes long except for the 2 hrs special opening launch April 12th and includes a talk, art connection, Q & A and a closing discussion.
The Four Principal Commitments of the
14th Dalai Lama: Promoting Human Values, Promoting Religious Harmony, Tibetan
Cultural Preservation
and Revival of Ancient Indian wisdom.
You can attend one or all three series.
Highly recommend reading His Holiness most recent
book :
Voices for the Voiceless & Beyond Religion-Secular Ethics
Special launch : Beginning with a two-hour opening session that provides context for the course and examines the first two Principal Commitments the promotion of human values and Religious Harmony, each session will focus on a Principal Commitment and connect content to a Tibetan art from the exhibition, exploring the commitment’s significance, different ways in which it can be actualized, and its potential impact on our own experience, and personal transformation and on our global society’s well being and peace.
As part of the JMMTA’s Global Resonance Project, this program is offered free of charge supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
About the presenters: Tashi Chodron, Tenzin
Dolker, and Yuyutsu Sherma
Tashi Chödrön , a lay Buddhist practitioner, is one of the first women of her generation in exile to receive the entire teachings of the Vajrayana path directly from HH Penor Rinpoche (one of the greatest masters of the 20th century). This training included Ngondro—the preliminary teachings, Tsalung and Dzogchen, the pinnacle teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, which emphasisethe direct realization of one’s true nature. This sublime path is the most direct path to awakening, focusing on recognizing our pure, basic goodness that is within each of us.
As the Himalayan Programs and Communities Ambassador
at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, Tashi is the host of the
Rubin’s popular weekly mindfulness meditation at New York Insight meditation
center. She has taught a series of sold out Awakening Practice mindfulness
meditation classes on selected Saturdays along with guest teachers, and
educates university students and adults through gallery tours and classes on
Himalayan Art and Culture. Tashi curated and hosted popular monthly program
on Himalayan Art and Culture called “Himalayan Heritage”prior to the museum’s
physical space closing in October of 2024. During the Pandemic She also lead
virtual sessions with Tibet House New York, the Center for Adults Living Well @
the YMCA, and hosted virtual meditation sessions for Mayors Morning Mindfulness
and Prayers (audio only) including virtual Himalayan children Sunday virtual
Mindfulness meditation since the pandemic to help Parents and Children and led
a meditation session on the 21 Feminine Attributes for UN Women’s
USA. Tashi taught the Awakening Practice at Kripalu in partnership
with NY Yoga and Life Magazine for many years and taught Awakening Wisdom
Experience at Asia Society, Williams College, Baruch, Adjunct at Baruch and
University Open Air at Brooklyn Public Library. She helped raise funds for
Hospitals, winter warm cloths including raided funds for Heifer project founded
by President Jimmy Carter for sustainable living for Tibetans in Tibet. Board
of directors of UN Women USA, New York Chapter. Recipient of gold star
award from American Himalayan Foundation for tirelessly sharing and preserving
Tibetan Culture Heritage. Tashi was Recently awarded a citation of honor by
Queens President Donovan Richards Jr. for her tireless contribution to the New York
Community.
Tenzin Dolker :
Ms.
Tenzin Dolker is a graduate from Tibetan Institute of
Performing Arts (TIPA), Dharamsala, India. She has deidcated her life to
teaching and performing Tibetan Cultural music and dance throughout India,
North America and Europe. A former Tibetan Music and Dance teacher at
Central School for Tibetan (CST), Bylakuppe, Mysore District, India. She
currently teachers Tibetan music and dance to Tibetan Children in New York City
in
order to preserve its unique cultural heritage. After immigrating to the
U.S.A. She has performed all over North American including Metropolitan
Museum of Arts, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, Baruch College, Tibet House and
most recently performed at UBS area in Long Island in Aug of 2024 for His
Holiness and Dalai Lama and more then 20,000 live audience.
Yuyutsu
Sherma :
Recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu RD Sharma is an internationally acclaimed South Asian poet and translator. He has published nine poetry collections including, A BLIZZARD IN MY BONES: NEW YORK POEMS (Nirala, 2016), Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems (Nirala, 2016), Milarepa's Bones, 33 New Poems (Nirala, 2012), Photographs and Poetry on Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang (www.Nepal-Trilogy.de, Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe, 2010), a 900-page book with renowned German photographer, Andreas Stimm, and more. He has translated and edited several anthologies of contemporary Nepali poetry in English and launched a literary movement, Kathya Kayakalpa (Content Metamorphosis) in Nepali poetry. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world to read from his works and conducts creative writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home.
As
part of the JMMTA’s Global Resonance Project, this program is offered free of
charge supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
