University Open Air: Healing: Ancient Tibetan Chod Healing Cleansing Negativities and Restoring Positivities
Chöd means “to cut.” Suffering that we human experience arises mainly through grasping at self and self-cherishing attitude. Cutting through this self-grasping and self-cherishing attitude is the main goal of Chöd practice. Chöd is also widely performed for healing physical and mental disorders. It is also used to restore peace to the environment and purify negative energies in homes etc. It involves a tantric ritual practice which “cuts” through the four maras (detrimental forces).
Dr. Chok will also do the Kago and Jabtrü rituals to sweeping and washing negative energies and infuse positive energies.
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*Participants should bring a yoga mat or blanket—something to lie down on.
Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam has dedicated his career to the continuance of Tibetan Buddhist culture and language in modern society. Ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he studied and practiced as a Tibetan monk for ten years. Having advanced his studies through institutions for two decades, Dr. Chok has obtained multiple degrees in Buddhist and Tibetan studies, including his PhD from the University of Delhi. He has studied and trained for decades in Buddhist studies, Tibetan yoga, healing, and meditation under the direction of many renowned Tibetan teachers of the major and minor Tibetan Buddhist traditions. An author, translator, and language instructor, Dr. Chok served as the Head of the Research and Translation Department at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala for thirteen years before relocating to the United States in 2019. Dr. Chok has taught prolifically in India, the United States, and over a dozen other countries, offering diverse and inclusive teaching series on meditation, Tibetan yoga, healing, Buddhist philosophy, and Tibetan language.
University Open Air is generously supported by The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund.
Chöd means “to cut.” Suffering that we human experience arises mainly through grasping at self and self-cherishing attitude. Cutting through this self-grasping and self-cherishing attitude is the main goal of Chöd practice. Chöd is also widely performed for healing physical and mental disorders. It is also used to restore peace to the environment and purify negative energies in homes etc. It involves a tantric ritual practice which “cuts” through the four maras (detrimental forces).
Dr. Chok will also do the Kago and Jabtrü rituals to sweeping and washing negative energies and infuse positive energies.
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*Participants should bring a yoga mat or blanket—something to lie down on.