For the first time since 2019, Nitartha’s Summer Institute is back in person!

Study and practice in person with our exceptional faculty.

Rejoice in the company of old and new friends.

Benefit from onsite enhancement activities.

Converse with faculty and friends over meals.

Visit the beautiful Rocky Mountains and the lively city of Boulder.

All courses will also be offered online for those who are unable to attend on site.

MAIN TEACHING
BY ACHARYA LAMA TENPA GYALTSEN
daily during Sessions 1 and 2
July 7 – 15 and 17 – 25, 2023

In this course, we will first explore how our mind is both the cause of delusion as well as the basis for freedom from delusion. Then we will receive an instruction on how to discover the wisdom within.

These teachings will be based on The Treatise on the Distinction between Consciousness and Wisdom, a crucial text by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339). This text delineates the eight types of consciousness and the five wisdoms, and explains why the nature of mind is ultimate wisdom.

About Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen

IN ADDITION, THE 2023 SUMMER INSTITUTE INCLUDES:

• MEDITATION
  • Morning community meditation
  • Mahamudra shamatha
  • Two levels of Mahamudra vipashyana

• • SILENT MAHAMUDRA MEDITATION RETREAT (ON SITE ONLY)
    Led by Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
    during Session 3

• THREE LEVELS OF NITARTHA’S CORE STUDY COURSES (SHEDRA)
  Your tuition includes one level (Sessions 1, 2 and 3)
  • Level 1: Mind and Its World I and II
  • Level 2: Madhyamaka Philosophical System
  • Level 3: Mind Only and Buddha Nature

• TIBETAN LANGUAGE COURSES
  • Colloquial Tibetan
  • Literary Tibetan

• ENHANCEMENT ACTIVITIES (ON SITE ONLY)

• • Debate with Alison McKee, Francis Sullivan and Jirka Hladiš
    
  • Space Awareness with Mitra Lee Worley
  • Lujong (mind-body exercises)
  • Health and Healing for Meditators, taught by Dr. Phil Weber
  • Thangka painting and talks on art and valid cognition

For all the details and to register, visit our Summer Institute website.

Constructed in the 1870s with sandstone from the front range quarries, the University of Colorado campus was named one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States by Travel+Leisure. It is conveniently located a short distance from the Boulder Creek path and just a little over one mile from the lively Pearl Street Mall, downtown Boulder.

AROUND CAMPUS

Boulder is a beautiful city in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, just 30 minutes northwest of Denver, “where the Rocky Mountains meet the plains.” It is a spiritual place, with Naropa University, which was founded by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and many Rinpoches having visited from different traditions. Boulder is also home to hundreds of Tibetans.

A short distance from the University of Colorado campus, you can walk in nature along the Boulder Creek path, or enjoy the lively and popular Pearl Street Mall, just a mile away, with its local breweries, amazing food scene, and public art, fountains and sculptures. You might even catch some incredible street performers.

Here are some of the activities you can find in and around Boulder.

HIKING & BIKING

SHOPPING

MORE ATTRACTIONS

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