Nebraska


 Welcome to the Jewel Heart Nebraska chapter webpage!

Gelek Rimpoche has been making teaching visits to Nebraska once or twice a year, and we receive the webcast teachings at our High Street location, frequently.
 
 

We have two meeting locations: the main one at 3100 S. 72nd Street in Lincoln (pictured), and the NW corner of 13th & High Streets.

Throughout the year, we offer 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 an irregular basis we hold film nights, and community events, such as potlucks and momo-making demonstrations.

Information about class offerings and special events can be found under the “Programs” link. If you have questions, please call 402-968-7779 or email: nebraska@jewelheart.org


Lama Chopa Tsoh and Potluck

LAMA CHOPA TSOH OFFERING IN CELEBRATION OF RIMPOCHE’S BIRTHDAY 

Wednesday, October 26
at 3100 S. 72nd Street
7:30 PM
 
To celebrate the October 26 birthday of Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche, Jewel Heart Nebraska welcomes everyone who wishes to celebrate the Lama Chöpa Tsoh, a practice which can be of great benefit for beginners as well as advanced practitioners.
 
The Tibetan word Tsoh means gathering, collection, or assembly. The Tsoh offering is a great feast offered to all enlightened beings and to all non-enlightened beings as well, including ourselves. It is one of the most important practices of generosity, and is also extremely effective for accumulation of merit. This comprehensive practice strengthens our relationship with our spiritual teachers through offerings, especially offerings of our practice. It guides us through a meditation that includes all the necessary prerequisites: after beginning with Mahayana refuge and bodhimind, we generate our visualization of the merit field and invite the actual enlightened beings, to whom we then offer the Seven Limb practice in elaborate and beautiful verses. Also included is a detailed meditation on all the stages of the path to enlightenment.

 

To participate fully, bring either an offering of good quality food such as bread, cookies, cake or fruit, or an offering of money, which will help to pay for the food which the center has purchased for the Tsoh.

 

A pot luck dinner will follow the Lama Chopa practice. Bring a dish to share or just stay and enjoy good food, good company. 


Live Weekend Webcast – Geshe Yeshe Thabke

AWAKENING TO ULTIMATE TRUTH

Weekend Teachings with

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Saturday, October 29

9am – 11 & 1 – 4pm

Sunday, October 30

1– 3pm

Dedicated to the complete extinction of all suffering experienced by each and every living being, the ancient sage Shantideva shared Buddha’s revolutionary message of compassion and interrelationship, the true nature of reality.
Eminent scholar and practitioner, Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe, is particularly renowned for his expertise with these profound and transformative topics and will address them within the context of Shantideva’s inspirational text, Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life.

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe is currently a professor of Mool Shastra (Indian Tradition of Buddhist Philosophy)at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, the only Tibetan university in India, and is regarded as one of the most eminent scholars of both the Madhyamaka tradition and Indian Buddhist studies. As one of the greatest learned scholars of Drepung Loseling Monastery he facilitated the completion of numerous research works, including a complete translation of Lama Tsongkhapa’s ‘Lam rim chen mo’ or ‘Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment’.

Webcasts are at 1244 High St, A&E Inc. Building, Lincoln, NE 68502

Donations Accepted and Appreciated

Visit http://www.jewelheart.org/webcast to become a Jewel Heart Webcast subscriber.

Jewel Heart is open to all, regardless of ability to pay.
If you are unable to afford a fee, please speak with registration about the possibility of a partial or full scholarship.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 , 9 – 10am

CULTIVATING COMPASSION

Jewel Heart Sunday Morning Free Public Talk

with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe
To cultivate compassion for others, we draw from the love and compassion we have developed for ourselves.