Luminous Emptiness Class

Luminous Emptiness:
Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo

A Study of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
and the Practical Considerations of Death and Dying

A ten week course presented by Ri-mé Society in the Spring of 2021

This course engages the text and spiritual instructions of The Tibetan Book of the Dead itself, using Francesca Fremantle’s guiding chapters in Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead on the text, as well as the commentary on the text by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. The series also includes sessions on the practical details and considerations around dying, whether approaching one’s own death or the death of others.

CLASS SYLLABUS

Class 1: Impermanence, Life and Death
Keynote presentation by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Class 2: Transitions: Buddhist Teachings, Meditation, and Direct Experience as the Foundations of The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Presented by Bob King and Clarke Warren

Class 3: Dissolving this Life - Inner and Outer Processes
Presented by Kathy Gambino and Cassell Gross
(Reading: Chapter 11 in Luminous Emptiness, Luminosity of Death)

Class 4: How to Help the Dying
Recording of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche from The Tibetan Book of the Dead Seminar, 1971.

Class 5: Releasing Fixed Mind: The Moment of Death
Presented by John Weber
(Reading: Chapter 11 in Luminous Emptiness, Luminosity of Death)

Class 6: Crazy Wisdom: Vidyadharas, Dakinis, and the Penetrating Power of Symbolism
Presented by Hazel Bercholz
(Reading: Chapter 13 in Luminous Emptiness: Crazy Wisdom)

Class 7: The Radiant Display of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones
Presented by Bob King
(Reading: Chapters 12 & 14 of Luminous Emptiness: Invincible Peace and Wrathful Compassion)

Class 8: Caring for the Dying and for the Body after Death
Presented by Lindy King

Class 9: The Bardo of Becoming: What’s Next?
Presented by Andrew Holocek
(Reading: Chapter 15 of Luminous Emptiness: At the Womb Door)

Class 10: Grieving: Living Amidst Loss
Presented by Victoria Howard

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    Luminous Emptiness:
    Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo

    A Study of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
    and the Practical Considerations of Death and Dying

    A ten week course presented by Ri-mé Society in the Spring of 2021

    This course engages the text and spiritual instructions of The Tibetan Bo...

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