Bodhi Path
The Bodhi Path Buddhist Center’s off-season schedule will include meditation sessions on four days of the week.
Tuesday and Thursday sessions will be from 6 to 7 p.m., Saturday mornings will be from 10 to 11:15 a.m. and include sitting meditation and yoga. On Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m. there will be meditation or teachings.
The Bodhi Path center is located at 21 Laurand Drive in West Tisbury. For more information, call 508-696-5929.
Bodhi Path Buddhist Center founder Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Sharmapa, will be on Martha’s Vineyard for a weekend teaching series July 24 and 25, teaching from his latest book, The Path To Awakening. Teachings will be 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 to 4 p.m. both days. There will be a welcoming reception and book signing on Friday, July 23, from 5 to 8 p.m.
The Bodhi Path of Martha’s Vineyard hosts Professor Lara Braitstein for teachings on Saturday, March 13 and Sunday, March 14, from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. both days.
Noble Truths
Khenpo Tsering will visit Martha’s Vineyard tomorrow and Sunday for a weekend teaching series, the Four Noble Truths. An understanding of the Four Noble Truths is essential to Buddhist practice and offers a method to deal with the difficulties that are part of everyday life.
The teachings will be held from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. both days at the Bodhi Path Buddhist Center, 21 Laurand Drive in West Tisbury. All are welcome to attend a single session or the whole series.
End of August, 1999: In hindsight it was a stunning date, in that we had no idea how the coming new millennium would stand our world on its head and make us wonder what planet we were on. It was a perfect time, in other words, for a gently committed center for the study of Buddhism to establish itself on Martha’s Vineyard.
The Bodhi Path Buddhist Center in West Tisbury, the place where many Islanders and visitors practice Buddhist meditation and philosophy, hosted a very special event on Sunday. ShaMar Rinpoche, founder of the center and the third highest lama of Tibet, presided over a traditional haircutting ceremony and the official recognition of two-year-old Karma Yeshe Dorje as a tulku.
A tulku is a reincarnated lama.
