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Part III of an online retreat of Düdjom Lingpa’s The Vajra Essence: From the Matrix of Pure Appearances and Primordial Consciousness, a Tantra on the Self-Emergent Nature of Existence, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and the Center for Contemplative Research
During this 8-week retreat, Lama Alan Wallace will grant an oral transmission and commentary to Düdjom Lingpa’s revealed treatise, The Vajra Essence, picking up where we left off last May in Phase Four, “Determining the Characteristics and Qualities of the Ground.”
This is the third in a series of 8-week retreats that will cover the first six of the seven phases as presented in this most elaborate of all Düdjom Lingpa’s pure visionary teachings on the Great Perfection. The oral transmission and commentary of the seventh phase will eventually be granted only to those individuals who have gained a firm, experiential foundation in the first six.
You can register for this online retreat at any time if you have participated in the 2020 and 2021 8-week retreats, and you can register for the 2020 8-week retreat here, and the 2021 8-week retreat here. This retreat is co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and the Center for Contemplative Research.
B. Alan Wallace will be speaking at the Italian Buddhist Union’s International Conference: Dharma Today, Faces of Contemporary Buddhism
B. Alan Wallace will speak on Contemplative & Scientific Ways of Knowing
March 6, 8:30 am PST / 5:30 pm CET
The Dharma Today conference aims at discussing identities, roles, and potentials of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary world. This multidisciplinary inquiry will also address the role of Buddhism in spreading meditative practices, as well as its contribution to scientific research, contemporary philosophy, and ethics.
Particular focus will be placed on global challenges involving the complex relationships between human beings, technology, and environment.
The conference begins March 5 and will be LIVE STREAMED at www.unionebuddhistaitaliana.it
You can read more about the conference at https://unionebuddhistaitaliana.it/en/dharma-today/
Online Zoom Forum: An Evening with B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. Toward a Renaissance in Contemplative Inquiry within the World’s Religions.
Join B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., 27 January 2022 for this online Zoom forum sponsored by the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace.
Event Description: Over the past several millennia, contemplatives in the world’s religions have made many discoveries about human identity, the inner sources of genuine well-being, the mind, and its role in nature; but with the rise of modern science, much of this knowledge has been forgotten. The many challenges humanity faces today stem from such ignorance—so now, more than ever before, the world is in urgent need of a renaissance in open-minded, rigorous, contemplative inquiry. B. Alan Wallace will speak on how such a contemplative renaissance might actually be catalyzed in the years to come.
Register here