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Welcome to Olmo Ling
Olmo Ling is a religious educational non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the ancient teachings of the Bon tradition of Tibet and making them available and accessible to lay practitioners.
Olmo Ling offers weekly meditation practice and teachings, prayers, meditation instruction and private interviews, and a study program that includes regular retreats with Tempa Dukte Lama and visiting lamas of the Bon tradition.
Public Talk & Blessing and Benefit Dinner with His Holiness, 33rd Menri Trizin, Spiritual Head of the Tibetan Bon Tradition
Proceeds benefit the nuns and children at Menri Monastery, India
Ordinary Mind and the True Nature of the Mind
A Public Talk and Blessing
Saturday, May 25th 3:00 – 5:00pm
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Benefit Dinner with His Holiness
Saturday, May 25th 6:30pm
Read more about this special dinner to honor His Holiness and support the nuns at Menri, featuring a delicious buffet dinner lovingly prepared by our very own chefs, a raffle with exciting prizes and live music.
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Please join us for two very special events with His Holiness, 33rd Menri Trizin, the worldwide spiritual leader of the Bon tradition of Tibet and Abbott of Menri Monastery. All proceeds from these events will go to benefit the nuns and children at Menri Monastery, Dolanji, India. Read more about the nuns and children here…
Read the newsletter about His Holiness’ historic first visit to Pittsburgh in June 2011 here.Read the Pittsburgh Post Gazette article about His Holiness’ visit and the Menri nuns .
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Help us raise funds to support ten nuns at Menri Monastery for one year
We invite you to join us in making an offering to His Holiness at the end of his visit. With our offering, several nuns at Menri Monastery will be fully supported for one year. Menri Monastery, India, is the main Bon monastery in exile. The Menri nunnery (“Redna Menling”) is still very small compared to the monks’ monastic community and the nuns very much need more support. There are always new young women arriving at the nunnery’s doorstep. They have left behind very difficult living conditions without educational prospect in remote Himalayan areas or as refugees in India and Nepal. At Menri, the nuns receive the same education as the monks with the explicit option to study toward a Geshe (doctor of philosophy) degree, which will enable them to travel and teach worldwide. To read more, for pictures of the nuns, and to offer a donation, click here.
Full support for one nun costs just $400/year. We have already raised $3.100. Help us reach our goal of $4,000 which will enable us to support 10 nuns for one year. Any donation, large or small is of great help. Thank you very much for your generosity!
Tuesday Dharma Talk: What is Buddha and the Three-fold manifestation of the Buddha Body?
Join us this for this special Dharma talk with Tempa Lama7:00 Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
This talk is part of our Tuesday night Mediation and Dharma Talk Series each week at Olmo Ling. These sessions are free and open to all. Donations appreciated.
Stress and the Flexible Mind: Benefits of Meditation Practice from the Bon Perspective
with Tempa Dukte Lama
1:00pm Friday, June 7, 2013Part of S’eclairer’s Monthly Psychiatric Grand Rounds
S’eclairer
341 Story Road
Export, PA, 15632
Living Compassionately Book Talk & Signing
with Tempa Dukte Lama
6:30pm Friday, June 21, 2013Part of Hampton Holistic’s Monthly Holistic Happy Hour
Hampton Holistic Center
Castle Town Square South
4284 William Flynn Highway, Ste. 207
Allison Park, PA 15101
Applying Tibetan Concepts to the Needs of the Dying
with Tempa Dukte Lama
8:00am Wednesday, June 26, 2013Part of UPMC Palliative Care Grand Rounds
UPMC
Iroquois Building, Suite 405
The Iroquois Building is located at the corner of Meyran and Forbes Avenues in Oakland
2013 Olmo Ling Schedule of Retreats & Events
Visit the 2013 Olmo Ling Schedule of Retreats & Events here.
Recent Publications now available from our online Bookstore
Tempa Dukte Lama’s two books The Intimate Mind and Inexhaustible Miracles are now for sale from our online store here, together with a small selection of other practice items. Please check back frequently as we will be adding further items.
The Intimate Mind
Illuminating Emotion and Transformation
By Tempa Dukte Lama
Foreword by H.H. 33rd Menri Trizin
When the wonders of the mind
Abide in the open heart
The Intimate Mind shines forth.
Read more here.
Inexhaustible Miracles
The Ten Perfections on the Path of Compassionate Beings
By Tempa Dukte Lama
Foreword by Roshi Joan Halifax.
This practice is the basis of all Bon teachings. A valuable book, of great benefit for all readers to bring them, and all beings, to peace and compassion.
Latri Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche, author of “Opening the Door to Bon”.
Read more here.