Mipham Project - A Constellation of Excellence

This event is organised by Khadro Ling, Brazil A long-time aspiration has now found the necessary conditions for realization: a study program based on the works of Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso (1846–1912), or Mipham Rinpoche. This is the third year of a study program that is expected to be held over five years, led by different teachers specialized in the works of Mipham Rinpoche. The third module’s online studies will be conducted by Arne Schelling, and will discuss the 2nd Volume of Mipham Rinpoche's celebrated Gateway to Knowledge, translated by Erik Pema Kunzang.

This is a live, online event in English with translation to Portuguese and to Spanish.  

THE MODULE’S THEME: ABHIDHARMA - PART 2

In this year’s Mipham Project, Arne Schelling will guide us through the most crucial topic of the entire Buddhadharma: The Four Noble Truths. This journey will be closely based on the second volume of Mipham Rinpoche’s Gateway to Knowledge.These teachings are both the fundamental basis and the underlying matrix of all Buddhist teachings in the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions. 

First, it is about understanding and recognizing suffering—all the pain, insecurities, fears, and dissatisfaction that we and other sentient beings experience in all possible realms of existence. We learn how to diagnose our situation accurately. 

Secondly, we will explore the causes and conditions for these problematic situations: karma and afflictions. Mipham Rinpoche takes us on a remarkably detailed journey into the various facets, types, and principles of karma, as well as the many subtleties and mechanisms of our afflictive emotions. In our practice, these are the causes that need to be abandoned. 

Thirdly, we are presented with the truth that liberation from all these sufferings and their causes is actually possible. Enlightenment is indeed attainable. 

Lastly, the Buddha laid out the noble path—the methods and Dharma practices we should apply in order to reach that innate state of freedom. Mipham Rinpoche’s chapter on the path also includes surprising topics that are highly worthwhile for us as practitioners to become familiar with.

This year’s course will conclude with an insight into the two truths, conventional and ultimate reality, which provide the space in which we perform all our various Dharma practices for the sake of all sentient beings.

SCHEDULE (CEST, e.g. Berlin)

Week 1

Wednesday, the 10th, 11 PM - 0:30 AM

Friday, the 12th, 11 PM - 0:30 AM

Saturday, the 13th, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Sunday, the 14th, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Week 2

Wednesday, the 17th, 11 PM - 0:30 AM

Friday, the 19th, 11 PM - 0:30 AM

Saturday, the 20th, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Sunday, the 21st, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Week 3

Wednesday, the 24th, 11 PM - 0:30 AM

Friday, the 26th, 11 PM - 0:30 AM

Saturday, the 27th, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Sunday, the 28th,1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

TEACHER’S BIOGRAPHY

Arne Schelling

Arne has been a Buddhist since his teenage time, and is now mainly working as a dharma instructor, editor, and translator in different sanghas of all Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He has helped to establish various Buddhist centers in Germany, is an archivist and a videographer, a physician in western and chinese medicine, a piano player, and is currently in the teacher training program of the Milinda Project. He is also a student in the Nalanda Master Course. Arne works for Khyentse Vision Project, for 84000 and as a teacher at the Nitartha Institute and the Longchen Shedra; he is also responsible for Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's center in Berlin. Registration & more Information