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TIBETAN MODERN LANGUAGE CLASS - OPEN HOUSE

TIBETAN MODERN LANGUAGE CLASS
Guest Teacher, Ven. Tenzin Thutop

Early February, Venerable Thutop, a Tibetan monk, will be arriving from India after spending several weeks of prayers and teachings conducted by HH Dalai Lama. Ven. Thutop will be joining Land of Enlightened Wisdom, a Tibetan Buddhist Center in Pomona, California to teach students to speak Tibetan.

Venerable Thutop is looking forward to meeting his new students at the Open House on February 5, 2012 at 5:00pm. Both classes will be 8 weeks long and cost $150.00 each.  The two beginning classes start on Tuesday, Feb. 07, 2012 at 10:00am and Wednesday, Feb. 08, 2012 at 4:00pm. Students will learn the alphabet and basic grammar through drills and practicing conversational skills.  There will be class handouts for study

 Land of Enlightened Wisdom is called Kunkyen Yeshe Ling in Tibetan.  And it is the hope of one student there to be able to write the name of the center in Tibetan with the distinctive curved shapes of the Tibetan alphabet.  New students attending the class will not have to have any prior introduction to the language as they will be learning the alphabet in written and spoken forms.

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Venerable Tenzin Thutop has been teaching Tibetan to beginning and advance students from the west, since 1999 and is considered to be an excellent teacher by many of his colleagues and students.  For more information about Ven. Tenzin Thutop, please visit the website: www.landofenlightenedwisdom.org. or call 626 698-4756.

 You are welcome to preregister by mailing in your check to Land of Enlightened Wisdom 1317 N Park Ave. - Pomona Ca 91768 or you may pay your class tuition at the Open House. If you wish to take both classes, you can discuss this with the teacher at the Open House on February 5, 2012

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Venerable Tenzin Thutop will create the Arya Tara Sand Mandala at the Pomona center at the end of February and early March, approximately two weeks. We would like to again invite the public to view the making on the mandala.  The viewing will be for two hours in the morning and two hours in the early evening while he is working on the mandala. The exact dates and hours will be announced when he arrives.  Venerable Tenzin Thutop will visiting at the center for two months;  it is his wish and desire to share with you his care and interest in practicing and preserving the Tibetan Culture and Sacred Arts.  Tibet is a formerly sovereign country; it sits atop India and now is part by China.  There are many Tibetan families now who have taken refuge in India, United States, Canada and other countries throughout the world, due to the suppression of religious belief and practice. HH Dalai Lama, who has a dear wish to return to Tibet one day, will be speaking at a public talk “Peace of Mind in Troubled Times” in the Long Beach Arena on April 22, 2012 at 1:30pm.  HH Dalai Lama received the Noble Peace Prize in 1989.  Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster

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