Buddhist monk Tsering Phuntsok will give a talk on sound therapy meditation at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, at Milkweed Health & Harmony Emporium. An informal chat and tea will start at 4:30 p.m.
Phuntsok has been a practicing Buddhist monk since 1987 when he entered a monastery in Bir, India.
Phuntsok will also present a lecture titled “Transforming Lives: Teaching Compassion” at noon Tuesday, March 14, in the Anderson Seminar Room, Emerging Technologies Building at Hopkinsville Community College.
“The lecture will cover how we can change from self-centered to altruistic thinking,” states a press release from HCC. “Tsering will draw upon the teachings from the 37 Practices of the Bodhisattva to suggest how such a transformation can take place. In practical ways, he hopes to show how we can transform our actions into compassion.”
The lecture is sponsored by the HCC Religion and Philosophy Club.
“For the first 17 years he studied and practiced in Nyingmapa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, receiving training in meditation, Buddhist scripture and philosophy, tantric ritual, lama dancing and music,” states an event flyer from Milkweed. “For several years he trained young monks in ritual and academic subjects.”
He has received teachings from the Dalai Lama and other high Lamas. For the past decade, he has visited Hopkinsville Community College annually.
Milkweed is downtown in the Odd Fellows Building at 202 E. Ninth St.
