AWE Awakening – Wisdom - Experience

Put some AWE – Awakening, Wisdom, Experience – Into Saturday!

Please join us for a special course inspired by the theme of Global Resonance:  The Four Principal Commitments of HH The Dalai Lama,

curated by Tashi Chodron, an expert in Tibetan art and Culture at JMMTA. The sessions will be one hour long except for the 2 hrs special opening launch April 12th and includes a talk, art connection, Q & A and a closing discussion. 

The Four  Principal Commitments of the 14th Dalai Lama: Promoting Human Values, Promoting Religious Harmony, Tibetan Cultural Preservation and Revival of Ancient Indian wisdom.

You can attend one or all three series. Highly recommend reading His Holiness most recent book :

Voices for the Voiceless  & Beyond Religion-Secular Ethics 

Special launch : Beginning with a two-hour opening session that provides context for the course and examines the first two commitments

the promotion of human values and Religious Harmony, each session will focus on a principal commitment and connect content to a Tibetan art from the exhibition, exploring the commitment’s significance, different ways in which it can be actualized, and its potential impact on our own experience, and personal transformation and on our global society’s well being and peace.  

This course will take place on three different dates:

• April 12 from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Link

• April 19 from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Link

• May 4 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Link

About the Instructor:

Tashi Chödrön , a lay Buddhist practitioner, is one of the first women of her generation in exile to receive the entire teachings of the Vajrayana path directly from HH Penor Rinpoche (one of the greatest masters of the 20th century). This training included Ngondro—the preliminary teachings, Tsalung and Dzogchen, the pinnacle teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, which emphasisethe direct realization of one’s true nature. This sublime path is the most direct path to awakening, focusing on recognizing our pure, basic goodness that is within each of us. 

As the Himalayan Programs and Communities Ambassador at the Rubin Museum of  Himalayan Art, Tashi is the host of the  Rubin’s popular weekly mindfulness meditation at New York Insight meditation center. She has taught a series of sold out Awakening Practice mindfulness meditation classes on selected Saturdays along with guest teachers, and educates university students and adults through gallery tours and classes on Himalayan Art and Culture.  Tashi curated and hosted popular monthly program on Himalayan Art and Culture called “Himalayan Heritage”prior to the museum’s physical space closing in October of 2024. During the Pandemic She also lead virtual sessions with Tibet House New York, the Center for Adults Living Well @ the YMCA, and hosted virtual meditation sessions for Mayors Morning Mindfulness and Prayers (audio only) including virtual Himalayan children Sunday virtual Mindfulness meditation since the pandemic to help Parents and Children and led a meditation session on the 21 Feminine Attributes for UN Women’s USA. Tashi  taught the Awakening Practice at Kripalu in partnership with NY Yoga and Life Magazine for many years and taught Awakening Wisdom Experience at Asia Society, Williams College, Baruch, Adjunct at Baruch and University Open Air at Brooklyn Public Library. She helped raise funds for Hospitals, winter warm cloths including raised funds for Heifer project founded by President Jimmy Carter for sustainable living for Tibetans in Tibet. Board of directors of UN Women USA, New York Chapter.  Recipient of gold star award from American Himalayan Foundation for tirelessly sharing and preserving Tibetan Culture Heritage. Tashi was Recently awarded a citation of honor by Queens President Donovan Richards Jr. for her tireless contribution to the New York Community.

As part of the JMMTA’s Global Resonance Project, this program is offered free of charge supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.