SPECIAL EVENT

In Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism, the oral transmission (lung) is regarded as the soul of the tradition. It is a sound or voice energy continuity that bears the power and energy of the masters lineage. Therefore it connects a student to a precious root teaching that has been transmitted across the centuries through unbroken masters lineages. It is through the voice of a master holding the tradition, and who reads or recites the teaching, that the hearer receives blessing and the self-confidence that removes doubts, and gains the spiritual awareness of the related lineage. The heart of the Gyud-shi’s ‘snyan rgyud lineage’ is the oral transmission, and its teaching and practice is a Tibetan medical tradition that comes from hundreds of masters to heal the body-mind’s five mental poisons by the five Medicine Buddha Dhyanis and four medical tantras.

The New Yuthok Institute for Tibetan Medicine has organized numerous courses and seminars on Tibetan Medicine since its foundation in 1999, in order to preserve and propagate the traditional Tibetan healing tradition ‘gsowa rigpa’ in the West. Yet, the treasured tradition of the Gyud-shi’s oral transmission has not been given so far. Therefore, the New Yuthok Institute has made a special request to Prof. Pasang Y. Arya to convey that precious lineage blessing to the Institute and its students. For the very first time, Dr. Pasang Y. Arya has accepted to fulfill that request, and will give the oral transmission of the precious Gyud-shi to the Tibetan Medicine students and ex-students.


The Gyud-shi’s lineage
According to the Gyud-shi (four tantras) itself, the lineage was transmitted from Medicine Buddha Bedurya to Kumara Jeevaka, then through an unbroken lineage to Nagarjuna, Vagbhata, Chandranandana and then to Vairochana who brought it to Tibet. Then from Terton Drapa Ngonshe, the lineage went in turn to Younger Yuthok Yonten Gonpo, Desid Sangye Gyatso, Chakpori, Lhasa Mentseekhang to finally reach the Dharamsala Mentseekhang. From the Dharamsala Mentseekhang, Prof. Barshee Phuntsog Wangyal and Dr. Jamyang Tashi Tsona (Personal Physician to H.H. the Dalai Lama) both gave the lineage transmission to Prof. Pasang Arya.
Prof. Pasang also received Medicine Buddha Initiations from H.H. the Dalai Lama and from several other Lamas, and he received the initiation of the Yuthok Nyingthik Tibetan medical tantric tradition from previous H.E. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

The lung transmission of Gyud-shi is divided in two parts on two years:

1st part:
July 2-3 2011 (1st tantra, 2nd, 4th tantra (1st part) in Milan

2nd Part:
April 5-7 2013, 3rd tantra and 4th tantra (2nd part), and closing with Medicine Buddha ceremony.

This very rare and special event is open to all Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya’s Tibetan Medicine students and ex-students.

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