Tara and Activating Feminine Energy in Spiritual Practice
Thursday, September 19, 2019
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Although we all feel that our gender strongly identifies who we are, within each of us there is an unlimited source of both male and female energy. The beloved deity Tara, a familiar figure in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, is a female manifestation of enlightenment and, as such, serves to aid all practitioners in arousing their feminine energy. In this session, we examine Tara's qualities and activities and explore the transformative power of feminine energy in Buddhist practice.
Don Handrick is the resident
teacher at Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center in Santa Fe,
NM, and he teaches for the FPMT at the Ksitigarbha Tibetan
Buddhist Center in Taos, NM. Don also serves as a Buddhist
teacher for Liberation Prison Project, which includes
teaching Buddhism at a local prison in New Mexico. Don's
study and practice of Buddhism began in 1993 when he read
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal
Rinpoche. Over the next two years he practiced with Rigpa,
Sogyal Rinpoche's organization, until he began attending
classes with Venerable Robina Courtin at Tse Chen Ling,
the FPMT center in San Francisco.
At the beginning of 1998, Don left the Bay Area to attend
the FPMT's Masters Program of Buddhist Studies in Sutra
and Tantra, a full-time seven-year residential study
program in Tuscany, Italy, taught by the incomparable
scholar and kind Spiritual Friend, Geshe Jampa Gyatso. By
2004, he successfully completed all five subjects of the
program and received an FPMT final certificate with high
honors. Soon after, Don moved to Santa Fe and served as
the Spiritual Program Coordinator for Thubten Norbu Ling,
and in 2006 he was appointed Resident Teacher.
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