Welcome to the Jewel Heart Ann Arbor chapter webpage!

Jewel Heart was founded in Ann Arbor in 1988. Since then, we have been privileged to receive Gelek Rimpoche’s teachings on a regular basis, as well as to host other preeminent teachers and scholars in Tibetan Buddhism.

In 2008, we were honored when His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama accepted our invitation to teach in Ann Arbor and inaugurated our spacious new location at 1129 Oak Valley Drive.

Throughout the year, we offer retreats, courses, guest speakers, workshops, and talks geared to help individuals bring peace, joy, and understanding into their lives and the lives of others, all based on the authentic and accessible teachings of Gelek Rimpoche.

On a regular basis we hold film nights, dharma discussions, a book group, tai chi classes, and community events, such as potlucks and fun-raisers. We are also involved in outreach activities, providing classes in mindfulness meditation to prisoners and living will workshops offered by Jewel Heart Health Center and Community Hospice.

The Jewel Heart Store, located on site, sells books, transcripts, Tibetan rugs, and dharma objects. Our location also has a main assembly hall, multiple rooms for courses, kitchen and dining facilities, and green space with a pond.

Please feel free to join us on Sunday mornings, when we offer guided concentrated meditation, introductory Buddhist-inspired talks followed by tea, cookies, and conversation, and guided White Tara meditation.

Information about class offerings and special events can be found under the “programs” tab. If you have questions, please call 734-994-3387 or email:

annarbor@jewelheart.org

SUNDAY MORNING PROGRAMS AT JEWEL HEART

We are pleased to announce that Gelek Rimpoche will give weekly Sunday morning talks from 10 – 11am beginning Sunday, January 1. Speaking from Ann Arbor and New York and other locations, these talks will also be live video webcast.

Stay tuned to Rimpoche’s calendar and the webcast calendar for the 2012 schedule.

To become a Jewel Heart webcast subscriber, visit http://www.jewelheart.org/webcast-subscription/

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 7–9PM

at JEWEL HEART

1129 Oak Valley Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108

In Ann Arbor for his world renowned opera, Einstein on the Beach, Philip Glass will give a public talk on Tuesday, January 17, 7–9pm at the Jewel Heart Center in Ann Arbor. We invite you to join us for this unique evening with Philip Glass.
 
 
 
To register, please email registration@jewelheart.org or pay at the door

Sliding Scale: $15 – $30.

TIBETAN BUDDHISM IN THE WEST: ENLIGHTENMENT ON MAIN STREET

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 7 – 9pm

This talk looks at the unfolding of the enlightenment tradition as prophesied by Buddha himself, and at how you can be part of the fulfillment of that prophecy.

Suggested donation, $10

CHAKCHEN DE-NGA: THE FIVE SIDES OF MAHAMUDRA TRAINING

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 10am – 12pm, 2 – 5pm

Lama Tsongkhapa studied extensively in the Drikung Kargyu monastery. One of the many lineages he received is that known as Chakchen De-nga, or The Five Sides of Mahamudra. Here “mahamudra” refers to simultaneous the experience of bliss and void; it also refers to “ordinary enlightenment,” the special lineage of cultivating awareness of emptiness and seemingness in everyday activities. The lineage went to his main disciples, and passed through the early Dalai and Panchen Lamas. The Gelukpa lineage of this unique Drikung formula for enlightenment has become less known in recent centuries, but is still alive and well.

Sliding scale, $30 – 60.

Glenn Mullin studied in Dharamsala continuously for 12 years, from 1972 to 1984, and then six months a year for the six years to follow. His main tantra teachers were Kyabje Ling Dorjechang and Kyabje Trijang Dorjechang. After their passing in the early 1980s, his root guru became Kyabje Denma Locho Rinpoche, the lama who raised Gelek Rimpoche. Glenn is the translator of more than a dozen Tibetan Buddhist classics, and the author of numerous books on Tibetan Buddhist art, history and culture. His “The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation” was nominated for the prestigious NAPRA award, and his book “The Female Buddhas” won Foreword Magazine’s “Book of the Year Award.”

He is the director and main meditation teacher of the Stone Lotus Tantra Buddhism center in Korea. He spends four months a year in Mongolia, and the remainder travelling and teaching Buddhism. He also leads pilgrimages to Tibet every spring.

ALSO – Sunday, February 5, 7:30 – 9pm

Public Talk with Glenn Mullin, details to come

LOCATION: Birmingham Unitarian Church, 38651 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

6:30 – 7:30pm Reception preceding the talk