Buddhist workshop on offer in the Bay

Shield Sangha
News Release

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The Abbess of the first Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in North America, Khenmo Drolma, will do two presentations in the North Bay area in early May:

“Radiating Kindness”
Ohana Wellness Centre
Callander
Thursday, May 5
7:00 pm
$15 plus donation for the teachings
Ohana

“Compassion in Your Life”
Nipissing University Fine Arts Building, Room M106
Monastery Road
North Bay
Saturday, May 7
9:30-3:30
$25 plus donation for the teachings
Compassion

For years Khenmo Drolma was an innovator in the fields of art and healing, creating the Art in Service program at the Maine College of Art and serving as an Art Fellow at the Connecticut Hospice. She has traveled and lived in India, Canada and Taiwan, working in the area of Tibetan arts and meditating in lengthy silent retreats. She directed the creation of original art for Songsten Library in India, leading an international team of artists. This included a three storey decorative entrance, 40′ murals, chapels and a life sized bronze equestrian statue. In the process she was assigned to create the first Western nunnery in North America, Vajra Dakini Nunnery in Bristol, VT. See www.vajradakininunnery.org.

For further details, contact Peggy Walsh Craig at 705-840-8466 or [email protected]

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