NORBU WILL SPEAK ON TIBETAN CULTURE.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LANCASTER - Through their association with the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Interfaith Council, two churches will be providing opportunities for Antelope Valley residents to be introduced to Tibetan culture Tibetan civilization boasts a rich culture. Tibetan art
Lama Kunsang Norbu will speak about Tibetan culture at 10 a.m. Dec. 3 at Unity Church of the Antelope Valley, 39149 Eighth St. E.; and 11 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 43843 Division St., Lancaster. Lama Norbu's presentation will include the original condition of the human mind; how to develop loving kindness and compassion; how to reduce anger; and realization of the perception of voidness. Lama Norbu was born in Tibet and went into exile in India with the Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (dä`lī lä`mə) [Tibetan,=oceanic teacher], title of the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. Believed like his predecessors to be the incarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, 1935–, in 1959 when the Chinese communists occupied his country. After being appointed as a Buddhist teacher, he was sent to teach in Nepal in 1980. In 1986, Lama Norbu began an eight-year stint as a teacher in France, providing lessons on Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan Buddhism, form of Buddhism prevailing in the Tibet region of China, Bhutan, the state of Sikkim in India, Mongolia, and parts of Siberia and SW China. It has sometimes been called Lamaism, from the name of the Tibetan monks, the lamas [superior ones]. . The Vajirayana Foundation near Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, city, United States Santa Cruz (săn`tə kr  z), city (1990 pop. 49,040), seat of Santa Cruz co., W Calif., on the north shore of Monterey Bay; inc. 1866. , Calif., invited Lama Norbu to the United States to teach in May of 1994. Since that time, Lama Norbu has established a following of students in Bishop. The Antelope Valley Interfaith Council encourages acknowledgment, respect and support for all religious and spiritual traditions. |
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