Tibetan monks Geshe Thupten Dorjee and Renzin Dorjee will lead the regular session of the UU Buddhist Fellowship on Tuesday, September 5 at 7:00 pm.  The session will probably run later than it’s usual 1 hour, probably until 8:30 or 9:00 pm.  The meeting will include a demonstration of Tibetan polyphonic chanting, a meditation, and a teaching.

Geshe Thupten Dorjee was born in Tibet and escaped the Chinese Communist occupation with his family at the age of 3.  He entered Drepung Loseling Monastery in Karmataka, South India at the age of 13, intensively studying the vast body of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures for the next 22 years.  Geshe-la was ordained a Buddhist monk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1986; in 1994, he received the degree of Geshe Lhatampa (meaning “Spiritual Guide”), the highest scholastic honor available within the arduous Tibetan educational system (roughly equivalent to, but a lot harder to earn than the western Ph.D.) He’s teaching 2 classes in Tibetan Culture and Buddhist philosophy at the U of A this Fall.

The Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship meets every Tuesday evening from 7:00 to 8:00 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville (901 West Cleveland Street.)  Meetings are free open to any and all who feel an “affinity with both Unitarian Universalism and Buddhism”. For more information, see their web site at http://buddhist.fayettevilleunitarian.org.  For a map and driving directions, visit http://www.fayettevilleunitarian.org/contact/