Daring Steps Retreat | Tuncurry | January 2025

Daring Steps: the bold and gentle heart of compassion
A retreat with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

Have you ever considered the practical implications of caring more about others than about yourself?

A bodhisattva is someone who says, from the depth of their heart, ‘I long to attain a state of everlasting peace and happiness, in which all suffering has ceased, and I want to do so for myself and for all sentient beings.’ The classic Buddhist text, the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, offers a practical guide on just how to do this. It shows us how to work with our own hearts and minds, starting with how we are now, to unravel our small-minded preoccupations and discover our own vast potential for compassion, love, and wisdom.

About Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is extremely knowledgeable and, with his excellent command of the English language, he is able to transmit the most complicated teachings in a remarkably accessible way, infused with warmth and humour.

Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters including His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India and has served as Professor of Tibetology in Sikkim for 17 years. His doctoral thesis was on the Ecumenical Movement in Tibet.

Since 1990, he has been traveling and teaching Buddhism and meditation at more than 50 universities, institutes and Buddhist centres in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. He also participates in various interfaith dialogues. He authored several books on Buddhism, including the Lazy Lama series, as well as some children’s books both in Tibetan and European languages.

He founded Bodhicharya, an international organization that coordinates worldwide activities to preserve and transmit Buddhist teachings, to promote inter-cultural dialogues and educational and social projects. He also founded Rigul Trust which supports projects in his birthplace, Rigul, Tibet.

Rinpoche is the Official Representative of His Holiness the 17th Karmapa for Europe and the Founder of Karmapa Foundation Europe

About the Retreat

Registration will be open between 12:30pm and 3:30pm on Saturday 18 January.

The retreat program will commence at 4:00pm on 18 January and conclude in the afternoon on 26 January 2025.

The retreat will be held at the Tuncurry Memorial Hall, 7 Point Rd, Tuncurry NSW. You will need to book your own accomodation in the Foster-Tuncurry area.

A $100 per person discount on retreat fee for Early Bird registration is available until midnight, Monday 9 December 2024.

This retreat will follow two public talks by Ringu Tulku in January: in Adelaide 9 January and Melbourne 10 January

Contact

If you have any questions please contact retreats@rigpa.org.au