Lectures and Meditation with Tomek Lehnert
Friday - Sunday 10th-12th February 2012.
Venue: Dublin Diamond Way Buddhist Centre
Program:
Friday 10th
8 pm - Lecture 'Diamondway Buddhist Refuge in Everyday Life'
Saturday 11th
11 am – 1 pm meditation session (individual practice).
2 pm Lecture 'Identification with the Teacher' and 16th Karmapa meditation
-short explanation and common practice.
8 pm - Lecture 'Teacher and Student Relationship - my 20 years on the road with Lama Ole'
Q & A and meditation.
Sunday 12th
11 am Lecture 'The Process of Recognition of the 17th Karmapa'.
Q and A and meditation.
for more information please contact Keith 087 768 9728
Tomek Lehnert was born in 1956 in Gdansk, Poland. He studied Civil Engineering at the Polytechnics of Gdansk and English literature at the University of Poznan, Poland.In the early eighties, he became active in the students’ Solidarity movement in the then communist Poland.
In 1983, during martial law in Poland, Tomek met Lama Ole Nydahl, took Buddhist refuge and became Ole’s student. He began traveling with Lama Ole in 1987. Together with Ole’s wife Hannah Nydahl and Caty Hartung, he organized for twenty years Lama Ole’s dharma activity and helped start Diamond Way Buddhist centers in the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, Russia and Western and Eastern Europe. Tomek translated for Lama Ole at his lectures in Poland and Latin America for more than ten years. Tomek Lehnert is the author of ‘Rogues in Robes’, Blue Dolphin Publishing, 1998, a chronicle of a controversy over the recognition of HH the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
