Webcast: Atisha's "Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland"
Venerable Thubten Damcho 
Apr 3, 2023 
24 hours
Online
Teachings on Lama Atisha's "Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland"
Webcast starting April 7, 2023
Hosted by Gompa Tibetan Monastery Services
Gompa Tibetan Monastery Services is delighted to announce a four-session teaching by the Venerable Thubten Chodron on Lama Atisha’s ‘Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland’. All four sessions of the teaching will be available to view on Friday, April 7th, 2023. The teachings are given in English and are recorded by Sravasti Abbey, Newport, Washington, USA.
Registration for the webcast of this teaching is now open to Gompa member-supporters at www.gompaservices.com until May 8th, 2023, after which date the teaching will be continuously available to Gompa member-supporters from the Gompa Library (www.gompaservices.com/Library). At the time you register there will also be the opportunity to make an offering in support of the Sravasti Abbey, Newport, Washington, USA.
The Webcast:
The great master Atisha (982-1054) wrote the Jewel Garland while in Tibet in response to questions from his student Dromtonpa. It is a short text belonging to the mind training, or lojong, tradition. In a beautiful poetic style, Atisha provides instructions on how bodhisattvas practice the path, and concludes his work by affirming that practicing according to this text will help us to reach enlightenment. His advice is just as powerful and helpful today in our Western society as it was in Tibet. Each verse shines by itself, but taken together they become a precious garland of jewels, a complete instruction on how to live a meaningful life with altruism and compassion. Behind every sentence of every verse is a wealth of spiritual insights, “food for thought” for years!
To register for this event, please go to www.gompaservices.com and sign in to your Gompa member-supporter account and select Special Events / See details of all events and webcasts; then select the event (from the list in date order, or by selecting Sravasti Abbey (USA) from the international teaching centre list). If you are not currently a Gompa member-supporter you can join Gompa at: www.gompaservices.com/join.
Venerable Thubten Damcho
Ven. Damcho (Ruby Xuequn Pan) met the Dharma through the Buddhist Students’ Group at Princeton University. After graduating in 2006, she returned to Singapore and took refuge at Kong Meng San Phor Kark See (KMSPKS) Monastery in 2007, where she served as a Sunday School teacher. Struck by the aspiration to ordain, she attended a novitiate retreat in the Theravada tradition in 2007, and attended an 8-Precepts retreat in Bodhgaya and a Nyung Ne retreat in Kathmandu in 2008. Inspired after meeting Ven. Chodron in Singapore in 2008 and attending the one-month course at Kopan Monastery in 2009, Ven. Damcho visited Sravasti Abbey for 2 weeks in 2010. She was shocked to discover that monastics did not live in blissful retreat, but worked extremely hard! Confused about her aspirations, she took refuge in her job in the Singapore civil service, where she served as a high school English teacher and a public policy analyst. Offering service as Ven. Chodron’s attendant in Indonesia in 2012 was a wake-up call. After attending the Exploring Monastic Life Program, Ven. Damcho quickly moved to the Abbey to train as an Anagarika in December 2012. She ordained on October 2, 2013 and is the Abbey’s current video manager. Ven. Damcho also manages Ven. Chodron’s schedule and website, helps with editing and publicity for Venerable’s books, and supports the care of the forest and vegetable garden.