"The Wisdom of Emptiness" Workshop with Jampa Gendun

Saturday 5th March (9am – 5pm) and Sunday 6th March (10.15am – 5pm)

Through a combination of talks, discussions and meditations, this workshop will explore the central position of emptiness within Buddhism, its meaning and ways of developing the wisdom realizing it.

This wonderful teaching on Emptiness together with the Tantra module taught in Jan-Feb by Jampa Ignyen, will complete the 2 year course for the Discovering Buddhism students.

This weekend course is open to all students wanting to receive teaching on this important topic by Jampa Gendun who is extremely well qualified to teach it.

Without the view of emptiness Buddhism could not go beyond psychotherapy. For while therapy and much of Buddhism prune the branches of our misconceptions about what it means to be a "normal", "sane" or "worthwhile" person, the practice of emptiness aims at cutting the roots, namely our deep, unexamined and fallacious assumptions about what it means to be a person at all. Understanding emptiness is vital in freeing ourselves from the problematic nature of ordinary human existence in which we all share.

Through a combination of talks, discussions and meditations, this workshop will explore the central position of emptiness within Buddhism, its meaning and ways of developing the wisdom realizing it.

This wonderful teaching on Emptiness together with the Tantra teaching module taught in Jan-Feb by Jampa Ingyen, will complete the 2 year course for the Discovering Buddhism students.

This weekend course is open to all students wanting to receive teaching on this important topic by Jampa Gendun who is extremely well qualified to teach it.

About the teacher

Jampa Jaffe(Gendun) has been teaching Buddhism for over twenty years, being the resident teacher and Tibetan interpreter at Buddha House, South Australia in 1988-1995 and again in 2006-2009. American by birth, he was a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for seventeen years and studied for over fourteen years in India at the Tibetan Library of Works and Archives and the Buddhist School of Dialectics. He also spent one year in Thailand, studying and meditating in the Theravada tradition as well. In 1997-2004 Jampa was the teaching assistant in the FPMT's Masters Program in Italy. In 2005 he completed a solitary one year retreat. He now lives in Sydney, with his partner, Betsy, where he is learning to swim and grow veggies.

Facility fee for the 2 day course: $150 waged $120 concession $110 members.
Cost includes morning and afternoon tea and lunch is provided.