THE VENERABLE LAMA ATO RINPOCHE – The importance of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha in everyday life

The Venerable Lama Ato Rinpoche

THE IMPORTANCE OF BUDDHA, DHARMA AND SANGHA IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Sunday 8 March – 10.30am and 2.30pm 

Course fee: £15 per session 

We are delighted that the Venerable Lama Ato Rinpoche has accepted our invitation to teach at Marpa House this year. It is always a special event when Lama Ato Rinpoche teaches at the House and we are very pleased to welcome him and all students from the Cambridge area and elsewhere. Opportunities to hear teachings by masters trained in Tibet are becoming rare, so please make a note of the date of these teachings. In his talk, Lama Ato Rinpoche will touch on the Noble Eightfold Path and the Songs of Shabkar.

Born in Tibet, Rinpoche was recognised at a young age as the Eighth Tenzin Tulku of Nezang, a Kagyupa Monastery in Eastern Tibet. Rinpoche studied with teachers of all four Buddhist traditions of Tibet.  From 1959 he lived and worked in India. In 1967 he married and settled in England, where he worked as a nursing assistant at Fulbourn psychiatric hospital for twelve years.  Since retiring Rinpoche divides his time between teaching Buddhism and meditation in the West, and travelling to Tibet where he is re-establishing Nezang Monastery.