The Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA) is offering a unique experience for its members and guests by hosting six visiting monks from Gyuto Tantric Monastery, India.
In its internal event promotion blurb, the RSAA writes: “Reincarnation is an important aspect of major Eastern religions, notably Hinduism and Buddhism, in which the soul or part of the soul of an individual is reborn into new lives. It is seen as the ultimate expression of the cyclical nature of life and is a crucial aspect of the Buddhist faith whereby key figures, including the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama are chosen”.
The monks will recite deep throat Buddhist chanting, a unique tradition to the Gyuto order, and pray for World Peace.
Geshe Ngakrampa Thupten Sherab, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and the group’s leader, will talk about the reincarnation in the context of Tibet with reference to top Tibetan spiritual masters – The Dalai Lama and The Panchen Lama.
Tsering Passang, founder and chair of the Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities, will speak on the Future of Tibet and its international relations, particularly with India, the UK and other European countries and the USA.
Hosted by The Royal Society for Asian Affairs, this final public event of the Gyuto monks will be held at St. Anne’s Church, London on 29th January at 1.15pm and it is for RSAA Members and their guests only. The Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities has coordinated this event with the RSAA.
SPEAKERS:
Geshe Ngakrampa Thupten Sherab was educated at Gyuto Tantric Monastery, where he taught Buddhist philosophy for over three decades. He has written numerous teaching and learning materials for the Gyuto Tantric Monastery, which is now based in Dharamsala, northern India. Now in exile, he continues to teach students from Tibet, Nepal, Russia, Mongolia, Kalmykia and India.
Gyuto Tantric Monastery: https://www.gelukfoundation.org/gyuto-monastery
Tsering Passang is Founder and Chair of the Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities (GATPM). He was born in a refugee camp and his father was a member of the Tibetan guerilla resistance movement based in Mustang near the Nepal-Tibet border, a covert operation funded by the CIA in the 1960s. A former Chair of the Tibetan Community in Britain, Tsering Passang has served on various boards and worked for international development charities and campaigning organisations based in the UK since 2001. Blog: www.Tsamtruk.com
THE HOST:
The RSAA is an open, active, and international network for informed debate about Asia, engaging experts, policy makers, and the wider public with experience, analysis, and scholarship. The origin of the RSAA lies in the creation in 1901 of the Central Asian Society, which became the Royal Central Asian Society in 1931 and in 1975 adopted its present name of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.
‘A Proposal to Establish a Central Asian Society’ was circulated in November 1901, at the instigation of Dr Cotterell Tupp, Captain Francis Younghusband, Colonel Algernon Durand, and General Sir Thomas Gordon. Their objectives were set out as follows: “At present there is in London no society or institution which is devoted entirely to the consideration of Central Asian questions from their political as well as from their geographical, commercial or scientific aspect, though Societies such as the Royal Geographical and Royal Asiatic Society discuss these subjects incidentally. It is therefore proposed to establish a society to be called the Central Asian Society, with rooms, where those who either have travelled in Central Asia, or are interested in Central Asian questions, could meet one another.”
The Royal Society for Asian Affairs: www.rsaa.org.uk
Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities (GATPM) 