TIBETAN ASTROLOGY


Khenpo Ngawang Dorjee

Founder & Director of Tashi Choeling Buddhist Center Charlottesville , VA


Heritage Center
314 Laskin Rd. , 2 nd floor, Virginia Beach VA
757-428-0110 x4200 to reserve space

According to the Buddhist teachings, whatever problems or happiness we encounter in this and future lives depends on our own past actions or karma. At the same time, Tibetan Buddhists believe that with the help of astrology and other divination techniques it is possible to determine whether certain actions are advisable or not, which particular activities are preferable, whether a particular action at a given time will result in happiness or not.

Friday, August 10 th 7-9 pm $15 donation - Heritage Center Auditorium

“Origins and Types of Tibetan Astrology”

Saturday, August 11 th 3 – 6 pm $25 donation - Heritage Center Auditorium

Part I: “ Combinations & Relationships of the Twelve Year Cycle.”

This talk will focus on the interaction of the Twelve Year Cycle, the Magic Square, the Nine Trigrams and Five Elements in their twofold relationships of “Mother-Child” and “Enemy-Friend.” This is what Tibetans refer to as “Elemental Calculations.

Part II: “ How and Why These Elements are Used/Applied in Daily Life”

& “How They are Linked with Different Rituals.”

Khenpo Ngawang Dorjee was born in Eastern Tibet and ordained as a Buddhist monk at a young age. He trained under His Eminence Ngawang Pema Namgyel Pelzangpo in the Generation and Completion stages of Glorious Supreme Kalacakra and perfected the practice of the Completion Stage Teaching of the Six Branches of Yoga. He has also studied Tibetan Grammar, Poetry, Astrology and the Five Key Scriptures of Exoteric Buddhism (sutra) and Four Classes of Esoteric Buddhism (tantra) for eight years as well as the arts and sciences, and achieved other distinctions both in India and the US, where he came in 2003 to teach in New York and Atlanta. Since 2006 he has worked in the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library at the University of Virginia as an editor for collected Tibetan writings and as a teacher of colloquial Tibetan. He founded the Tashi Choeling Buddhist Center in May of 2007. The purpose of this center is to teach Buddhist principles and meditation without focusing on a particular sect. In addition, the center will teach Tibetan culture with a primary focus on Tibetan language. This center is registered as a not-for-profit organization. For additional information visit www.tcbci.org .