  Holy Bodhisattva of Compassion
One who surveys the world with
mercy
in the gesture of Fearlessness
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Dearest Friends @
CAS,
Apologies for the long absence of
nearly 3 weeks ( !! )
Camden Education Center
Camden Education Center has been
kept horrifyingly busy with major examinations of its nearly-a-hundred
students: PSLE / "O" Levels / "A" Levels --
Criss-crossing the FULL mounted
preparations with TALKS cum counselling, many ( though
not 100% !! ) students have shown marked improvements
in their work --
Do keep them in
your prayers and wishes .... the students, the parents and never
forgetting, the Teachers !!
Our precious Masters
The last 3 weeks, too, marks
the visit to Camden of 2 of CAS's very precious Masters: Lho Kunsang
Rinpoche ( the Teacher of Jet Li amongst the thousands of disciples
in Tibet and the world !! ) as well as Kalsang Rinpoche ( the
former resident Teacher of the local Nyingma Palyul Centre ) --
CAS's friends are truly blessed
to be infused with the noble and holy presence of these
Masters whom in turn, offer their staunch support and joy
to our work, particularly, expressing great happiness
at CAS's "Ri-mey" - Non-Sectarian -- stance --
"........the circle of
people who can grasp and practise the whole corpus of the Buddha's
teachings is limited even in the Land of Snows, which today
is in a state of crisis......
the brunt of the responsibility
therefore is on the ecumenical ( "Ri-May" ) religious centers
and their subsidiary colleges in exile...... " -- His Holiness
the Dalai Lama
To date, Camden has been awfully
honoured to be blessed with the holy presence of the 84th Nyingma Kathok
Throne-Holder ( technically, the Head of the most ancient Nyingma
monastery - the Kathok Dorje Den ), the Kagyu College Principal,
a senior Khenpo from the prestigious Sakya Dzongsar Institute
( who took English class too !! ), the Ngorpa Qu Mu Tulku, the
Grand Abbot of Drepung Loseling ( as prophesied by Je Tzongkhapa
Himself -- the foremost Gelugpa monastery ), the great
Palyul Khenpo Tsering Dorje --
All goodness and blessings are completely
dedicated to all our friends ( within and without ) CAS ....
all of whose support and kindness CAS / Camden is deeply indebted
to all the years --
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Prayers
The Truth of Impermanence lunged
upon too with signature random, claiming 2 of CAS's beings' grandfather
and cousin within span of one week and looks poised to strike
again soon --
We pray to drink and ingest
from the deep wisdom what Truth manifests as Impermanence;
We pray to train our minds to generate
authentic Renunciation of the illusory sufferings and joys of
samsara and the generation of Bodhicitta to all mother
beings gasping in its grip --
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This issue --
THE HEART
This issue offers the HEART of the
Buddha's Teachings, that of the Four Noble Truth / The Three Marks
of Existence / the Noble Eughtfold Path --
We have extracted the above from
a magnificently excellent website:
This will be the second of the second
Dharma series [ the first series being the 6 Lam Rim Online
series as taught by the Most Venerable Denma Locho Rinpoche's
blessed exposition on the Three Principle Aspects of the Dharma:
http://www.casotac.
Leading all the way up to and as
an extension of our continued, planned hosting of the sacred Longchen
Nyingthig from Guru Padmasambhava, we offer this and the
following issues --
Along the way, are scheduled for
release, THE Sakyapa's presentation of the Four Noble Truth
by Qu Mu Tulku, a monumental interview with Masyer Hsing
Yun, a highlight on a Grand Master in the form of the late great
Kalu Rinpoche --
[ So, for your friends
who are not yet subscribed to CASonline, drop us an email
!! ]
A note to all, the Palyul Khenpo
Tsering Dorje will not be visiting end of 2007 but will instead
come early 2008 to continue with the blessed Cycle of the Longchen
Nyingthig --
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An important appeal
Holding on, in the meantime, are
several appeals from our dear friends, many of which we
are so ashamed not to be able to send off on their behalf
due to overwhelming traffic, fizzy technicalities and what
have you !!
It truly becomes difficult once
bombarded with overflowing smashes of requests.... we will but try
our best still --
Jumping the queue, so to say, we are appealing to all the
below:
Venerable Gen Karma Khedrup from
the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives has embarked on an important project
to chronicle one of Tibet's last precious cultural relic --
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We are reproducing in full, Venerable's
letter:
Dear BB Tan-la and the Society members,
I am writing to you regarding my second project
I have been working on personally for some years to perpetuate
an interesting aspect of the vast and ancient Tibetan culture.
As you know, after fleeing from the Chinese occupation of Tibet,
a main priority of both His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the
Tibetan Government-in-
Having this in mind, and remembering the
particularly interesting and fast dying-out customs of the Ngari
Rongchung (Western Tibet) region, in which the village I come
from is situated, I have been researching and recording such
cultural activities from older Tibetans who still remember and
perform them, with a view to continuing and passing them on
to present and future younger generations. Since this activity
is no longer possible in Tibet, it can only be done amongst
exiled Tibetan, chiefly those in India.
Being from the Ngari Rongchung area myself
and still having older relatives, and also knowing most of the
other surviving people, I have taken it upon myself, as a personal
endeavor, to interview such people, record what they have to
tell, as well as recording and videoing their folk songs and
dances. These have never in the past been either written down
or recorded, but were only retained in the memory of some elders,
who orally transmitted them from one generation and lineage
to another. There are still some Tibetans in exile (as well
as in Tibet) who are living repositories of such ancient cultural
knowledge, but as time passes they are passing away and very
few at present remain.
Since beginning this work in my spare time
since 1988, I now have nearly two hundred hours of video and
audio tape recorded material, of such personal interviews and
actual songs (never either recorded on video or written down
before). I now have edited two different Videoing tapes one
entirely on Cultural Tradition performances (having customs
and ornaments) (78min) and other one is songs on win Drinks
with some harvesting songs etc. (60min). The written down
materials are being published a book, and they are made now
available without cost to interested people. Now, my second
project is ready to publish for two videoing tapes of such material,
so that they can be also made available for free distribution
to the Ngari Ronchung region people and Tibetan schools. In
the beginning it is planned to publish one thousand (500x2)
copies, the cost of which will be approximately rupees thirty
five thousand (Rs.35000/-) in low quality. The video recorded
tapes to go along with the book d I am quite confident that
this will benefit many people now and in time to come. However,
to accomplish these objectives, financial assistance is needed,
since I have been doing this work privately in my spare time
and holidays, at my own expenses and without any funding whatever.
I may say that the Ngari Rongchung people, who have freely shared
their traditions with me, are very supportive of this project,
but being simple agricultural workers, chiefly in Mundgod Tibetan
Settlement, they cannot help financially, though are very generous
in giving me their time and knowledge.
Jeff-la, knowing your interest in the preservation
of Tibetan culture, I am approaching you in this matter, with
the earnest hope that you will find it possible to assist. I
can, of course, assure you that any donations received will
neither be wasted nor misused, and that I will be extremely
grateful for your financial assistance and participation in
this project.
With respectful prayers,
Yours sincerely,
Karma Khedup (Ven.)
C/o Tibetan Library,
Dharamsala-176215,
Kangra, H.P.,
INDIA
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We really hope and
pray for the generous support of our friends, if anything,
for Tibet and her people ..... !!
You can send your contributions,
however much, through CAS, via the following channels --
A) Cash - Camden Education Center [
www.camden.edu.
B) Crossed Check to "Charitable
Assistance Society"
[ Posted to 170 Upper Bt
Timah Road, Bt Timah Shopping Centre, #B1-27, S(588179) ]
C) Funds Transfer: DBS Current
Account - 022-900386-5 ( Email to alert upon transfer )
With clasped palms,
"Namo Amituofo !!"
bb & all frens @ CAS
of Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa
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