Upcoming Tuesday Night Dharma Talks

Tempa Lama will return in mid January 2012. He has invited senior Sangha members to give Dharma talks while he is traveling. The talks cover a variety of important topics, and we hope you are able to join us for several of the talks. Information about the speakers can be found at the bottom of the page.

October 25th		Eileen Nadzam: “An Evening of Chanting”
November 1st		Zen Priest Catherine Gammon: “The Four Noble Truths and the Heart Sutra, Part I”
November 8th		Zen Priest Catherine Gammon: “The Four Noble Truths and the Heart Sutra, Part II”
November 15th		Dr. Stan Perelman: “The conceptual karmic body”
November 22nd		Dr. Stan Perelman: “The aim of practice”
November 29th		Bob Labogah: Generating the heart and mind of compassion -
		and how meditation and non-attachment help us reach this goal”
December 6th		Khenpo Ratsa Tenzin Dargye: Topic to be announced
December 13th		Lowell Britson: “The practice of equanimity”
December 20th		Mark Shefsiek: “The Many Paths of Healing”
		Jan. 3 meditation & talk is canceled due to winter weather!
January 10th		Andrew Kaiser: “The Bon Chod practice Laughter of the Dakinis“
January 17th		Iris Grossmann: “The power of prayer and the teacher student connection”

More about the speakers

Eileen Nadzam is the chant leader (Umze) at Olmo Ling. Eileen has a Master of Fine Arts in Music from Carnegie-Mellon University, and owns and operates her own music studio. She has also taught at the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA), has been Adjunct Faculty in the Music Department of CCAC as well as accompanist to the Community College Choir. She is also a member of the Pittsburgh Musicians Union and past vice president of the Pittsburgh Music Teachers Association. Eileen is a Registered Suzuki Instructor for violin and piano and has performed with many venues including the Wheeling Symphony, and the Pittsburgh Opera and Ballet. She has been a long time student of Yoga, Aikido, and Chi Gong, and is dedicated to the practice of Bön Buddhism.

 

Catherine Gammon trained for ten years in residence at Green Gulch and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and was ordained a priest by Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi in 2005. Catherine is also a fiction writer and has published short work in many literary magazines as well as a novel, Isabel Out of the Rain. After serving as shuso, or head monk, for the Spring 2010 practice period at Green Dragon Temple, Catherine has given teachings in Zen and writing in the U.K., in Brooklyn, in Pittsburgh, and at Green Gulch Farm.

 

Dr. Stan Perelman is a psychologist and Jungian Analyst with a private practice in Pittsburgh. He also consults with the Chatham University Counseling Center. He is a member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York and an affiliate member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute. He has given seminars, talks and papers on a variety of subjects including personality disorders, aspects of Jungian psychology, dreams, Buddhism and the nature of spirituality. He has a long time meditation practice and has been a student of Bon Buddhism for about twelve years.

 

Bob Labobgah was trained as a clinical psychologist but has worked in the visual arts, both performance and dance during the last forty years. Now he chants in Tibetan Bon Buddhism, letting his heart joyfully dance.

 

Lowell Britson is the president of Olmo Ling and director of marketing for the University of Pittsburgh Press. He has held similar positions with Oxford, Stanford and McGraw-Hill. His Buddhist teachers include Suzuki Roshi and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

 

Mark Shefsiek has been teaching meditation and healing since moving to Pittsburgh 15 years ago. He has worked at both major medical systems, early intervention, and in private practice. Mark now divides his time in private teaching, practice of Bon, and mostly being a dad. Mark will lead a discussion on what it means to “Heal” and how he uses Bon practices to heal body, speech and mind.

 

Iris Grossmann has studied Buddhism and meditation since ca. 1990. She has been a close student of Tempa Lama and helped to organize his teachings and writings as his assistant since 2004.

 

Andrew Kaiser works for PNC Bank, where he is a senior project manager in the Institutional Banking Program Management Office. He has previously served on boards, including a term as President of the Board of Trustees at the Waldord School of Pittsburgh. He is also a composer and writer on topics related to music and spirituality. Andrew is a student of Tempa Lama.