MAY 2026 TEACHINGS WITH LAMA CHOEDAK RINPOCHE.

05 Sunday Apr 2026

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Everyone is welcome to attend!

We warmly invite you to join us for a special teaching with Tibetan teacher Lama Choedak Rinpoche, held as part of Tharlam Ling Buddhist Centre’s 21st anniversary celebrations.

Offered at a special community rate, this session is a meaningful opportunity to deepen your understanding, receive blessings, and connect with the Dharma in a supportive and welcoming environment.

Available online (via Zoom) or in-person (Carville Seniors Villa, Corner of Albury & Diprose Streets, Pimlico 4812).

FRI 1 MAY 2026 – PUBLIC TALK: BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE ON THE CURRENT WORLD SITUATION – 7pm-9pm (AEST)

Often with  a change in circumstance there is an immediate and obvious happening, which people point the finger at and say, ‘This is what caused all these problems.’ But with the present situation in the world historians would point to many causes in history that have led to the present situation.Buddhists would agree but point to three main causes: Greed, Hatred and Ignorance.

  • OR book the whole weekend $150 (Friday night, Saturday & Sunday) HERE

SAT 2 MAY 2026 – VAJRASATTVA EMPOWERMENT + TEACHING – 9am-5pm (AEST)

Everyone wishes to live long and stay healthy. The length of lifespan is determined by positive stock of good deeds, words and thoughts. Good diet and exercise are important but the knowledge how to cultivate intelligent emotions is even more important. White Tara is the manifestation of intelligent and enlightened qualities, the ultimate potential that lies dormant within…(which allows) you to move beyond personal limitations, suffering, fears, and restrictions. White Tara is the goddess of rejuvenation and wisdom. Its empowerment and meditation will truly empower you to new heights of right livelihood.

  • ONLY $75 to attend (includes morning and afternoon tea) BOOK HERE
  • OR book the whole weekend $150 (Friday night, Saturday & Sunday) HERE

SUN 3 MAY 2026 – WHITE TARA EMPOWERMENT + TEACHING – Sunday 9am-5pm (AEST)

Everyone wishes to live long and stay healthy. The length of lifespan is determined by positive stock of good deeds, words and thoughts. Good diet and exercise are important but the knowledge how to cultivate intelligent emotions is even more important. White Tara is the manifestation of intelligent and enlightened qualities, the ultimate potential that lies dormant within…(which allows) you to move beyond personal limitations, suffering, fears, and restrictions. White Tara is the goddess of rejuvenation and wisdom. Its empowerment and meditation will truly empower you to new heights of right livelihood.

  • ONLY $75 to attend (includes morning and afternoon tea) BOOK HERE
  • OR book the whole weekend $150 (Friday night, Saturday & Sunday) HERE

We warmly encourage you to take part in this rare and meaningful opportunity to receive teachings and empowerments from Lama Choedak Rinpoche.

MAY 2026 TEACHINGS WITH LAMA CHOEDAK RINPOCHE.

14 Saturday Mar 2026

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Lama Choedak Rinpoche is coming to Townsville!

In a time when the world is searching for greater understanding and harmony, the teachings of the Buddha remind us that true peace begins within the mind.

Through cultivating compassion, wisdom, and awareness, each of us can contribute to peace in our communities and in the world.

Save the dates:

📅 Friday 1 May – 6pm-9pm (approx)

📅 Saturday 2 May 2026 – 9am-5pm (approx)

📅 Sunday 3 May 2026 9am-5pm (approx)

📍 Pimlico, Townsville

Topics, times and session details will be announced soon.

This is a wonderful opportunity to receive teachings and connect with one another.

Email: tharlambuddhist@gmail.com or call 0448 401 066

Introduction to Calm Abiding Meditation and Mindfulness Course will begin on Tuesday 20th MAY 2025.

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Phil Heang has taught Calm Abiding Meditation and Mindfulness since 2005 and follows the course designed by Tibetan Lama Choedak Rinpoche, Tharlam’s Spiritual Director.

During the lessons you will learn the sitting posture and be guided to develop Mindfulness of body, feeling and thought.

You will do a series of short, guided meditations during the hour.

Please bring your own mat and cushion if you prefer.
Chairs are available.
WHEN:           20TH MAY – 3RD JUNE   

EACH TUESDAY    6 – 7 pm

Please arrive by 5:55 pm to sign-in and settle in.

INTRODUCTION to
CALM ABIDING MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS
4-WEEK COURSE
6pm – 7pm each Tuesday
WHEN 20 th, 27 th MAY
3rd, 10 th JUNE 2025
COST $80 for the 4-week course
Learn Mindfulness of:
 Body
 Feeling
 Thought
For details and to register use this link:
https://forms.gle/D9raCrYmJPtGxkDX7
http://www.meditationtownsvilletharlamling.com
Email: tharlambuddhist@gmail.com

Tel: 0448 401 066

HOW BUDDHA’S TEACHINGS CAN HELP OVERCOME EVERYDAY PROBLEMS

08 Saturday Mar 2025

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 Buddha’s Teachings have helped people through the ages to deal with life’s problems.

You’ll hear the ways Buddhists use these ancient insights to deal with the things life puts in their path.

This three-hour session will include short meditations, question and answer sections and light morning tea.

The three hours spent at this event, could help give the insight you need to find peace of mind.

People of all faiths or no religious faith welcome.

Phil Heang will conduct the session.

He has been a student of Tibetan Lama Choedak Rinpoche since 2001.

Venue Pimlico   

Time 9am – Noon, 22nd March

Cost $30 MORNING TEA INCLUDED

For registration and further details, contact:

 tharlambuddhist@gmail.com

TIBETAN LAMA CHOEDAK IN TOWNSVILLE 2ND – 4TH MAY 2025

01 Saturday Mar 2025

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THARLAM LING BUDDHIST CENTRE INC. IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE:

TIBETAN LAMA CHOEDAK WILL BE IN TOWNSVILLE 2ND – 4TH MAY 2025 TO GIVE TEACHINGS AND EMPOWERMENT ON HEART SUTRA AND AVALOKITESHVARA.

Lama speaks excellent English and has been teaching in Australia for over 30 years.

You may attend the event the event either in person or on ZOOM.

Lama Will give a Public Talk on Friday night 2nd May and Teachings and Empowerments on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th May.

For registration email: tharlambuddhist@gmail.com

7.00pm Friday 2 May
Dealing with Violence in Society
There is so much violence in our society. The statistics show how many homes
are ravaged by domestic violence. Its negative impact is rocking the  core of
human society where almost two in five are suffering from depression, stress
and anxiety etc. In this talk, you will learn how to detect, pause, remedy and
prevent this problem and save our society from violence and educate to live
mindfully in peace, kindness, tolerance and compassion. This talk will be of
interest to all and especially people who work in health industry, education,
psychology, therapy and humane profession of helping others. Rinpoche’s
sharp discourse can awaken the good that lie dormant in you.


9.00am- 5.00pm Saturday 3 May 
Heart Sutra Teaching and Practices
The Heart Sutra is one of the most important Mahayana Buddhist text
containing the synthesis of 16 volume teaching on the Perfection of Wisdom. It
is  not only a daily personal prayer and meditation but no Buddhist ceremony
from Far east Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Tibet, Bhutan, Ladakh and many
central Asian Republics begin until the Heart Sutra is read. It is inscribed on
rocks, gold plates and plaques. Receiving comprehensive teaching and
transmission is a tradition that is only preserved in Tibetan Buddhism. So, it is
very auspicious that one will receive the teachings and transmission on Heart
Sutra from Rinpoche in one whole day. Insight meditation is an attempt to
meditate on the contents of Heart Sutra. Merely watching sensation on the
nostril is not insight meditation. Insight meditation reveals the realisation of
the truth that excel all truths, the essence of Buddha’s Perfection of wisdom
(Prajnaparamita). All are welcome.


9.00am-5.00pm Sunday 4 May
Empowerment of Avalokiteshvara and Meditation on Great Compassion
The Buddha of Compassion is known as Avalokiteshvara or in some places as
Kuan Yin. In either case, both of them represent great compassion which is the
essence of practising mindfulness.
To practice its sacred six syllable mantra OM MANI PAD ME HUM as one’s
meditation or as a prayer that one can do to remedy sadness, anxiety, worry
and all emotional problems caused by death, sickness and loss, one should
receive the empowerment and transmission of great compassion from an
authentic and unbroken lineage of the practice. In Tibetan Buddhism, this is a
must.

In this one day event, one will not only receive the empowerment and
transmission of the practice but one will receive detail teachings on the
practice and learn how to apply it in many difficult situations one may face in
life. It is for the living, dying and the dead. Compassionate mantra can help you
in a big way. That is why this sacred mantra is not only on the lips of
practitioners but are inscribed on rocks and mountains across the Himalayas.

For registration email: tharlambuddhist@gmail.com

INTRODUCTION TO CALM ABIDING MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS

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The next 4-Week Introduction to Calm Abiding Meditation and Mindfulness Course will begin on Tuesday 8TH OCTOBER.

Phil Heang has taught Calm Abiding Meditation since 2005 and follows the course designed by Tibetan Lama Choedak Rinpoche, Tharlam’s Spiritual Director.

During the lessons you will learn the sitting posture and be guided to develop Mindfulness of body, feeling and thought.

We do a series of short, guided meditations during the hour.
It’s good to meditate with others as the energy of the group seems to help you later when you meditate on your own.
Please bring your own mat. You can also bring your own cushion if you prefer.
Chairs are available.

WHEN:            OCTOBER 8th – 29th     

EACH TUESDAY    6 – 7 pm

Please arrive by 5:55 pm to sign-in and settle in.

WHERE:          CARVILLE SENIORS VILLA, corner Albury and Diprose Streets, Pimlico.

LEARN:            * MINDFULNESS OF BODY, FEELING AND THOUGHT.

*FIVE OBSTACLES TO MEDITATION AND 8 ANTIDOTES.

FEE:                 $80 PRIOR TO COURSE. Please email: tharlambuddhist@gmail.com for a Registration Form.

MAY 2024 TEACHINGS, WITH TIBETAN LAMA CHOEDAK RINPOCHE

19 Tuesday Mar 2024

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FULL WEEKEND 3-5 MAY 2024 – register today!

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3 MAY – FRIDAY NIGHT – 7PM – Public Talk: Other People as Cause of Growth – $15

4 MAY – SATURDAY – 9AM-5PM (approx) – How to regain consciousness and become free from six states of Life’s Limbo – $85

5 MAY – SUNDAY – 9AM-5PM (approx) – 7-Stacked Healing Medicine Buddha – $85

*full weekend $170 (Fri night + Sat + Sun)

VENUE:

  • live in person at Carville Seniors Hall (cnr Diprose & Albury Streets), Pimlico Townsville
  • OR
  • Via Zoom

EMAIL:

  • Email your REGISTRATION to Phil >> tharlambuddhist@gmail.com

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SATURDAY: How to regain consciousness and become free from six states of Life’s Limbo

Bardo is a Tibetan word which generally refers to a state of limbo of ‘unconscious consciousness’. Bardo is not just the intermediate state after death and before rebirth; there are many states of limbo or Bardo of life, dream, career, meditation, death etc.

One is often in life-limbo and get stuck in indecision and become unaware that all things are transient and nothing is real. We desire things to be real even in dreams. We think we are high in some meditative states while in others we may feel flat, even living human bardo beings are unaware that they are unconscious and tend to hold onto the past and its objects of attachments and aversion as real.

The dead (human and pets) bardo being is unconscious of its death and holds onto their past life and its objects of attachment and aversion as real.

In this special teaching, one will learn about how to become conscious when one in life, death, dream and meditation plunge into unconscious states and make numerous mistakes.

SUNDAY: 7-Stacked Healing Medicine Buddha

Healing Medicine Buddha is a famous practice the Buddha taught to help his bed ridden monks to do self healing through special visualisation and mantra recitation. 

Rinpoche will bestow the empowerment, give teachings and lead in the special healing meditation practices throughout the day. This is recommended for all people with health issues, prolonged illnesses and chronic diseases.

Email your REGISTRATION to Phil >> tharlambuddhist@gmail.com