Namo Buddha Tibetan and Dharma Classes, 2025
May 1–June 2, 2025
Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery,
Namo Buddha, Nepal
Contact: Sangay Dechok
Email: sdechok@gmail.com
This coming spring, we are pleased to offer five different classes in Namo Buddha:
Beginning Tibetan
A course for complete beginners that will start from the alphabet and give students a good foundation in reading, writing, and basic conversational skills.
Tibetan Level A1
This is a course for people who have completed the Beginning Tibetan class in a prior year or who know how to read and have some conversational skills.
Translation Workshop
Translating Prose. With Khenpo David Karma Choephel. For new translators who want to work on how to translate Tibetan prose into natural English with an emphasis on clarity of style and terminology.
Dharma Study Retreat
Dharma Class: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva. Daily classes with Khenpo Karma Choephel, covering the first half of this important text. In English with Mandarin translation.
Mind Training Retreat. A group mind training retreat on The Seven Points of Mind Training with meditation instruction, group discussion, and four meditation sessions per day.
Tibetan Language Classes at Namo Buddha
Beginning Tibetan
- For complete beginners
- Learn to read your practice texts and other texts in Tibetan
- Develop basic conversational skills
- Lay a good foundation for further study
- Participate in the daily dharma classes on the Way of the Bodhisattva
Tibetan Level A1
- For students who have completed our Beginning Tibetan course in a prior year or those who can read and know basic conversational skills
- Become able to do basic tasks and navigate ordinary situations in Tibetan
- Learn the basics of colloquial Tibetan grammar
- Increase your confidence in Tibetan
- Participate in the daily dharma classes on Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva
With Khenpo David Karma Choephel and the lamas, acharyas, and monks of Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery
2025 Translation Workshop
with Khenpo David Karma Choephel
A practical course for new translators who wish to become more proficient in translating Tibetan prose. Khenpo David Karma Choephel and the faculty of the Vajra Vidya Institute will help students work through practice translations of short texts in different styles and in the process discuss issues of style, terminology, methodology, and clarity. Emphasis will be placed on considering the motivation and audience for each text.
In addition to the translation classes, there will be daily classes on Tibetan grammar and a dharma class on Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva with Khenpo David Karma Choephel.
Students should bring a short to medium length text of their own choosing to work on as a final project.
Prerequisites:
Students should have an intermediate (B1) or higher level of Tibetan.
2025 Dharma Study Retreat
The Way of the Bodhisattva and Seven Points of Mind Training
For practitioners who wish to develop and intensify bodhichitta.
During this five-week retreat, participants will do four meditation sessions per day of mind training practice and have daily instruction in Shantideva’s Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva and Ja Chekawa Yeshe Dorje’s Seven Points of Mind Training.
Tuition is free; students staying in the monastery guesthouses will be expected to pay for their room and board.
New Guest house:
Shared accommodation: USD $15.00 per person per day
$30.00 per person if single rooms are available
Old Guest house:
Shared accommodation: $10.00 per person per day
$20.00 a day if single rooms are available
All the classes will be held at Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, Namo Buddha
May 1–June 2, 2025
Contact: Sangay Dechok
Email: sdechok@gmail.com