Eco Dharma- Venerable Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche will be teaching at nine Shambhala Centres throughout North America in July

From The Shambhala News Service::::

At the Sakyong’s request, Venerable Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche will be teaching at nine Shambhala Centres throughout North America in July. Some of the topics he will be teaching on will be: Gesar of Ling, Eco-dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhism (see You Tube links below.) Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche is dharma heir to His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche and brother of Khandro Tseyang. Jigme Rinpoche is known for his fluency in English and his lively, direct, fluid, humorous and down to earth teaching style. His clear and fresh outlook very quickly cuts through cultural and personal misperceptions about the Buddhadharma.

Please contact those centres directly for registration information as it becomes available. Those listed with live links have current information on these programs.
July 4-6 Halifax Shambhala Centre
July 8-9 Washington DC Shambhala Center
July 10 Baltimore Shambhala Center (details pending)
July 11-13 Atlanta Shambhala Center (details pending)
July 15-16 Chicago Shambhala Center (details pending)
July 17 Milwaukee Shambhala Center (details pending)
July 18-20 Berkeley Shambhala Center (details pending)
July 22-23 Vancouver Shambhala Centre
July 25-27 Boulder Shambhala Center

Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in October, 1968. He is the son of the renowned Terton, His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, holder of the Ripa lineage. Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche is the holder of two spiritual lineages, including both the Nyingma Ripa Lineage, a dungjud or hereditary line, into which he was born, and which he will hold in future as heir, as well as head of the Pema Lingpa lineage of Gyeling Orgyan Mindrolling monastery in the hidden land of Pemako, which he carries forward from his previous life, as tulku.

In addition to fulfilling his role as a spiritual teacher, Jigme Rinpoche began, in September 1993 in Orissa, to fulfill his humanitarian role as a socially engaged Buddhist, a term he is happy to known by, and which has become a central part of his life’s work. Born in India, Jigme Rinpoche, has firsthand experience of the plight of Tibetan refugees and local villagers alike in finding and retrieving potable water. This inspired him to found the Pure Water Project, for which he received great admiration and a citation from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile.