Community Events
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Volunteering Thursdays
Every Thursday 10am - 4pm
If you wish to meet people and work together for a good purpose, do pop in to engage with the volunteering team.
The Centre holds weekly volunteering day on Thursdays 10am-4pm, and during those days you can enjoy free communal lunch with others. You can come only for a short time or for the full day.
The works vary according to the time of the year, weather and your skills and interests, but you can volunteer for cooking, cleaning, small DIY like painting etc., garden works from weeding to planting and landscaping.
Get in touch with our volunteer coordinator if you wish to come and start volunteering, or just meet us to start with.
Please let us know if you are attending, so we know how many to cook for.
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Community / Volunteering Day
Saturday 16th March 2024 10am - 4.30pm
10am - 4.30pm Volunteering
These days are for the community to spend time with each other in a more informal manner, working together at the Centre / in the garden, and later in a day there’s also a film evening. We usually focus on a specific volunteering project these days because many hands make light work! Sometimes these days can also have an invited speaker, or a discussion around a specific theme.
Updates of each Community Day can be found in the newsletter & calendar
COMMUNITY & VOLUNTEERING DAY
10am Short meditation (15min) in the shrine; after a cup of tea & day's job share
10.30am-1pm Volunteering in the house & garden
1pm-2pm Lunch break
2pm-4.30pm Volunteering in the house & garden
5pm Film Evening (a Dharma themed film)You are very welcome to join the full day, or just parts of it.
ACCOMMODATION
If you are coming to volunteer for a full day and need accommodation, you can arrive already on Friday, and stay also Saturday night if needed. Meals (breakfast & lunch) and accommodation (Fri & Sat night) will be offered for free for the volunteersIf you need accommodation during the weekend, please email palpungukaccommodation@gmail.com
Please let us know if you are attending the day!
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Dharma Film Evening
Saturday 16th March 5pm onwards
We will hold Dharma film evenings in the Centre's lounge about once a month. These evenings are open to everyone.
These film evenings are also a part of our community day, so we welcome you to join us for the day too. However, if you cannot make it for the day, join us for the Film Evening!
FILM FOR THE EVENING
Wheel of Time
“Wheel of Time is a 2003 documentary film by German director Werner Herzog about Tibetan Buddhism. The title refers to the Kalachakra sand mandala that provides a recurring image for the film.
The film documents the two Kalachakra initiations of 2002, presided over by the fourteenth Dalai Lama. The first, in Bodhgaya India, was disrupted by the Dalai Lama’s illness. Later that same year, the event was held again, this time without disruption, in Graz, Austria. The film’s first location is the Bodhgaya, the site of the Mahabodhi Temple and the Bodhi tree. Herzog then turns to the pilgrimage at Mount Kailash, after which the film then focuses on the second gathering in Graz.
Herzog includes a personal interview with the Dalai Lama, as well as Tibetan former political prisoner Takna Jigme Zangpo, who served 37 years in a Chinese prison for his support of the International Tibet Independence Movement.” SOURCE
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Community & Volunteering Day
Saturday 4th May 10am-4.30pm
10am - 4.30pm Volunteering
These days are for the community to spend time with each other in a more informal manner, working together at the Centre / in the garden, and later in a day there’s also a film evening. We usually focus on a specific volunteering project these days because many hands make light work! Sometimes these days can also have an invited speaker, or a discussion around a specific theme.
Updates of each Community Day can be found in the newsletter & calendar
COMMUNITY & VOLUNTEERING DAY
10am Short meditation (15min) in the shrine; after a cup of tea & day's job share
10.30am-1pm Volunteering in the house & garden
1pm-2pm Lunch break
2-4.30pm Volunteering in the house & garden
5pm Film Evening (a Dharma themed film)You are very welcome to join the full day, or just parts of it.
ACCOMMODATION
If you are coming to volunteer for a full day and need accommodation, you can arrive already on Friday, and stay also Saturday night if needed. Meals (breakfast & lunch) and accommodation (Fri & Sat night) will be offered for free for the volunteersIf you need accommodation during the weekend, please email palpungukaccommodation@gmail.com
Please let us know if you are attending the day!
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Dharma Film Evening
Saturday 4th May 5pm onwards
We will hold Dharma film evenings in the Centre's lounge about once a month. These evenings are open to everyone.
These film evenings are also a part of our community day, so we welcome you to join us for the day too. However, if you cannot make it for the day, join us for the Film Evening!
FILM FOR THE EVENING
Tulku
“At age three, Gesar Tsewang Arthur Mukpo, son of renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his British wife Diana, was identified as the reincarnation of the late Jamgon Kongtrul of Sechen, one of his father’s own teachers in Tibet. Living in Boulder, Colorado and then Halifax, Nova Scotia, Gesar balanced competing cultures and strikingly different definitions of self. His life was far from that of an ordinary contemporary American or Canadian—his father was a world famous Buddhist teacher and author—but there was no monastery upbringing like that of perhaps the best known tulku, the Dalai Lama, or even like his father. And after his father’s untimely death, he was on his own with this challenge…
Inspired by Tibetan Buddhist teacher and noted filmmaker Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche (The Cup, Travellers & Magicians), Gesar Mukpo has documented his own story and those of several other tulkus in this personal and thoughtful film that asks the questions, “What does it mean to be identified as a tulku? and more broadly, “How does one live in this world, fulfill one’s destiny?”
Features rare archival footage from Tibet, with appearances by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche; HH Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa; Lady Diana Mukpo” SOURCE
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Community & Volunteering Day
Saturday 1st June 10am-4.30pm
10am - 4.30pm Volunteering
These days are for the community to spend time with each other in a more informal manner, working together at the Centre / in the garden, and later in a day there’s also a film evening. We usually focus on a specific volunteering project these days because many hands make light work! Sometimes these days can also have an invited speaker, or a discussion around a specific theme.
Updates of each Community Day can be found in the newsletter & calendar
COMMUNITY & VOLUNTEERING DAY
10am Short meditation (15min) in the shrine; after a cup of tea & day's job share
10.30am-1pm Volunteering in the house & garden
1pm-2pm Lunch break
2pm-4.30pm Volunteering in the house & garden
5pm Film Evening (a Dharma themed film)You are very welcome to join the full day, or just parts of it.
ACCOMMODATION
If you are coming to volunteer for a full day and need accommodation, you can arrive already on Friday, and stay also Saturday night if needed. Meals (breakfast & lunch) and accommodation (Fri & Sat night) will be offered for free for the volunteersIf you need accommodation during the weekend, please email palpungukaccommodation@gmail.com
Please let us know if you are attending the day!
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Dharma Film Evening
Saturday 1st June 5pm onwards
We will hold Dharma film evenings in the Centre's lounge about once a month. These evenings are open to everyone.
These film evenings are also a part of our community day, so we welcome you to join us for the day too. However, if you cannot make it for the day, join us for the Film Evening!
FILM FOR THE EVENING
TBC