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Buddhist Spring Festival
HAPPINESS IN A CHANGING WORLD
In the tradition of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Learn the art of finding happiness during the Buddhist Spring Festival at the Tibetan Buddhist Society's Peaceful Land of Joy Meditation centre on the weekend of 5 and 6 November 2011, 10am to 5pm on both days.
The Society's Spiritual Leader, 88 year-old Tibetan meditation master and scholar Venerable Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden says, "every living being shares the same wish: young and old, every nationality, humans and animals. All living beings want happiness and they don't want suffering."
Talks at the festival will explain Buddhist methods to develop the mind of compassion and a perspective of the world based on love, patience and care for all living beings.
The Society's 10-acre property in Yuroke is an oasis of landscaped gardens featuring 2000 trees including 23 Californian redwoods, 35 golden robinias, 31 olive trees and weeping mulberries.
Festival highlights include:
- Ceremony for World Peace on Saturday 5 November at 12 noon
- Teachers from various streams of Buddhist thought including Tibetan, Thai and Zen give talks and guided meditations
- Cosmopolitan market with wares from around the world
- The Enjoyment Shop stocks a wide range of foods, clothing, chai tea and gift cards.
- Garden tours with Venerable Tim McKibben
- Temple tours with Venerable Cathy Evans
- Outdoor cafe, and
- Photographic exhibition showing the Tibetan culture in pre-1959 Tibet and exiled Tibetan communities in India.
The Tibetan Buddhist Society's Peaceful Land of Joy Meditation Centre is 30 minutes from the Melbourne CBD, 1425 Mickleham Rd, Yuroke, Melways 385 J8 (Access from Cookes Rd).
Entry $5. Family rate $10 - parents and school age children or younger. Facility charge for talks is $10 for one class, $15 for two and $20 for three or four talks a day. Temple tours $5. All proceeds support the temple.
Tibetan Buddhist Society
1425 Mickleham Rd
Yuroke, Victoria 3063
Australia
