'Being Reborn in Bhutan'

Monday 13 July 6.30pm
at Vajrayana Institute, 9 Victoria Square, Ashfield.

Renate Ogilvie, inspiring senior teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, talks about her journey to Bhutan in May this year. Renate will launch the photographic exhibition by Julie Martin featuring Bhutan and Cambodia.

For many years Renate has been teaching ways to apply Buddhist philosophy to ordinary, daily life and recently she travelled to Bhutan to explore how this Buddhist country does it. Bhutan is unique in taking happiness seriously enough to use it as a measure on how its inhabitants are feeling in their daily life. Instead of measuring GNP (gross national product) it measures GNH (gross national happiness).

Photographic exhibition featuring Bhutan and Cambodia

Julie Martin is a fine art and portrait photographer from the Blue Mountains. Her exhibition will feature images of Bhutan’s famous monasteries, architectural details displaying the finely detailed painted images on exteriors and interiors, traditional landscapes, some Buddhist ceremonial objects and some whimsical candid people photographs.  Also featured are images of Angkor Wat and jungle temple ruins in Cambodia.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 13 July to 20 August
during office hours 10am to 5pm weekdays.

Both events are free.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has a fascination for science. As a boy, he tinkered with machines, made startling discoveries through his telescope and questioned his teachers when his own observations contradicted the Buddhist scriptures.

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