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3rd Classical Music Summer Matinée

roman.laus — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:11:39 +0000

The third classical music concert will take place under the arcades at Gut Hochreute (or inside if it rains) on July 4th at 11:00 a.m.

Summer Concert at Gut Hochreute

“A Journey to the New World”

Classical music with vocals, string quartet and piano

It will conclude the currently shown statue exhibition (last guided tours from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.). As last year, some top-class artists are again expected to give virtuoso performances of vocal, string music and piano in this wonderful atmosphere. The entrance fee for the concert is 10 EUR.

Enjoy some drinks and snacks in the wonderful atmosphere of the courtyard framed by art nouveau buildings. You will listen to works from Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin, Porter and many more, interpreted by the top-class artists Sibylle Wolf (mezzo-soprano), the Rossini string quartet and Fabio Cerroni (piano).

Visitors to the opening of the statue exhibition and the classical concert can leave their cars at the public car park “Froschweiher”. From here a shuttle service to the venue and back has been organized free of charge.

Concert information:
Phone: +49 (0)170 7309766, exhibition {at} europe-center(.)org

(Illustration photo courtesy Michael Russo)

Russian week

roman.laus — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:00:10 +0000

Another wonderful country weekend, but with a difference…they’re staying for a whole week! Friends from Russia will help us experience the Russian spirit…

Russian week – the weekend program

Day	Topic of the day	Program
Friday, May 7	Buddhism in Russia	20.00 – Lecture “Buddhism in Russia: from the very beginning” (Tolek Sokolov) Presentation of BigMoskovsky and Volgograd centers Welcome party (light version)
Saturday, May 8	Russian Culture festival	10.00 – Lecture “Lama, Dharma and Sangha in Russia: transmission of experience” (Tolek Sokolov, Marina Viller and Olga Komarova) Guided tours of photo exhibition “Exciting moments of Russian Winter Tours” 15.00 – 18.00 Russian Culture Festival: Workshop: “Potential of human voice” (from folk to metal) KhoKhloma masterclass (we will paint Russian matreshka style and body art) Pelmeni masterclass (together we will prepare Russian dumplings for the dinner) Russian language lessons: what Westerners should know about it Russian joke club 21.00 – Concert of “Drugie Dyadi” Siberian jazz-rock band followed by DJs from Russia at Immenstadt – Rainbow club
Sunday, May 9	Farewell to the EC	11.00 – Centers presentations14.00 – EC cleaning time 16.00 – Outdoor games to break your concepts

Italian & Lithuanian weekend

roman.laus — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:50:24 +0000

We would like to invite you all to the first joint country weekend* at the Europe Center; the weekend will be hosted by both the Italian and Lithuanian sanghas. The Northern and Southern edges of Europe will meet to start an unusual and powerful connection. We are looking forward to meeting many more of you, making this event even more international.

*The idea of a country weekend is that your country or region organizes the whole weekend at the EC and invites the rest of the world to come and experience your unique style at the EC. You organize the program however you wish, (you may want to invite your own international traveling teachers, or plan outside activities e.g. skiing, climbing etc.). You organize the shopping, budgeting, cooking, cleaning and so on, simply put – run the whole weekend from beginning to end, with support from the EC crew.

Register here

24-hour meditation on the 16th Karmapa

roman.laus — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:30:30 +0000

About the 24-hour meditations at the EC

Apart from the daily morning and evening common sessions of the 16th Karmapa meditation and the designed hours for preliminary practices (tib. ngondro), we try to organize every year also several 24-hour meditations on various Buddha aspects such as the 16th Karmapa, Loving Eyes etc. It usually ends on Saturday evening with a lecture by a traveling teacher.

This weekend

This time we will meditate on the 16th Karmapa (still inspired by the last wonderful Transmission weekend) starting on Friday Feb 5, 2010 at 20:00 and will keep going until Saturday 20:00. A lecture about the meaning of meditation will follow.

Slovak weekend (weekend hosted by the Slovak sangha)

roman.laus — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:55:36 +0000

Registration open!

Welcome to the second of our country weekends, the weekend hosted by the Slovak sangha. The little big sangha invites everybody to enjoy big hearts, big laugh and big magic. We are looking forward to meet many of you, make new friends and strengthen old friendships.

ABOUT COUNTRY WEEKENDS

The idea of country weekends is that the hosting country or region organizes the whole weekend at the EC for other international friends and their sangha. They organize the program however they wish, (e.g. invite your own international traveling teachers, or plan outside activities like skiing, climbing etc.). It includes all the shopping, budgeting, cooking, cleaning and so on, simply put – run the whole weekend from beginning to end, with support from the EC crew. The world is invited to come, experience and get inspired by country’s way of doing things and the wonder of the EC at the same time.

REGISTRATION

If you plan to come, please register using the link bellow. Further information about accommodation changes, shuttling etc. will be emailed to those registered just before the event.

Register here

PROGRAM

FRIDAY 19.02.10

21:00 Q&A (with Slovak travelling teachers)

SATURDAY 20.02.10

08:00 Individual practice
09:00 breakfast
10:30 Lecture by a Slovak traveling teacher
11:00 Individual practice / EC daily life
13:00 lunch
15:00 “Mustang” (a movie made the Slovak sangha about their journey to Mustang)
16:00 Lecture by a Slovak traveling teacher
16:30 Individual practice / EC daily life
18:00 dinner
20:00 Lecture by a Slovak traveling teacher
22:00 Presentation of DWB in Slovakia

SUNDAY 21.02.10

08:00 Individual practice
09:00 breakfast
10:30 Lecture by a Slovak traveling teacher
11:00 Individual practice / EC daily life
13:00 lunch & cleaning

PRICES

Weekend price €35

Lecture (session) €6 – suggested donation

Breakfast €2
Lunch €4
Dinner €4

Accomodation at the EC €5 per night

Hungarian weekend (a weekend hosted by the Hungarian sangha)

roman.laus — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:18:01 +0000

Another friendly invasion! From the land that gave us the hologram, the biro, and the Rubik’s Cube comes a huge wave of energetic sangha friends, hosting their own weekend in their own way. They cordially invite all and sundry to come and partake of the activities.

Event details & registration »

4th Transmission weekend about the 16th Karmapa

roman.laus — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:58:07 +0000

Dear friends,

here is some latest information about arrival for those who come:

SHUTTLE & PARKING (+49 176 37183410)

Arriving by car
Due to the weather and number of people registered, we ask that you park at the Froschweiher car park (the last car park before the EC, by the lake) and we will provide a shuttle service from there. We do not advise anyone to drive up the EC road at the moment, but in case you decide to here’s some advice from our experience: you must have good winter tires. Unless you come with a four wheel drive car we also strongly recommend that you have snow chains, especially if your car has a rear wheel drive. Be prepared to drive up (and down) a steep and curvy mountain road covered with snow and ice. But again we ask that you do not drive up.

At peak times the shuttle will be going up and down to the car park so you won’t have to wait long for a ride up, otherwise, please call+49 176 37183410

Arriving by train
If you are arriving by train and need to be picked up from the station, please call or text +49 176 37183410 from the train to confirm your
arrival time. Please call us even if you wrote your arrival time on the registration form.

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Dear friends,

we are very happy to announce the 4th Transmission weekend, with the topic of the 16th Karmapa. Friends who met the 16th Karmapa will share their memories from those times, and we will be transported back to the early days with movies and pictures. Part of the program will be longer sessions of meditation on the 16th Karmapa.

As it will be deep winter here at this time, the snow and freezing conditions put some limitations on the EC. We will do our best to accommodate everyone here, but depending on the number registered there will probably come a point where we have to ask people to stay with the local sangha or in a hotel downtown. Therefore we ask everyone to bring their warm sleeping bags and mats, and be aware that the conditions may be tough for some ;0)

If you plan to come, please register asap using the link bellow. Further information about accommodation changes, shuttling etc. will be emailed to those registered just before the event.

Register here

PROGRAM

Friday (Jan 29, 2010)
20.00 lecture about 16th Karmapa meditation – by Gabi Volenko

Saturday (Jan 30, 2010)

8.30 – 9.30     Breakfast
10.00-12.00   How I met 16th Karmapa, Buddhism at that times — Leif Andersen
12.00-13.00   16th Karmapa meditation — 1 hour session
13.00-15.00   Lunch
15:00-16:00   How I met 16th Karmapa, Buddhism at that times — Ronald Knaack
16:00-17:30   How I met 16th Karmapa, Buddhism at that times — Erik Weiss
17.30-18.00   16. Karmapa meditation — 0.5 hour session
18.00-20.00   Dinner
20.00-             Q&A + stories with pictures running in the background (Gabi, Leif, Gerhard, Erik, Ronald) + movies

Sunday (Jan 31, 2010)
8.30 – 9.30       Breakfast
10.00 – 12:00 How I met 16th Karmapa, Buddhism at that times — Gabi Volenko
12.00 -13.00   16th Karmapa meditation — 1 hour session
13.00-15.00    Lunch, cleaning together

Any questions? Contact us at: join {at} europe-center(.)org

Looking forward to seeing you here,
Your EC Team

EC Summer Course Team weekend

roman.laus — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:55:06 +0000

The organizers of the International Summer Course, held at the Europe Centre, will come together and spend some time on reviewing experiences from the last summer course and also work on future vision of the summer courses at the EC.

Please register using the link bellow:

Register here

Any questions? Contact us at: join {at} europe-center(.)org

Mantra stone carving weekend

roman.laus — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:47:52 +0000

A last minute notice for a weekend for those who know or would like to learn how to carve mantra stones.

To register please email join {at} europe-center(.)org.

3rd Transmission weekend – How to build and live in a center (Nov 27-29)

roman.laus — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:44:24 +0000

For the 3rd Transmission weekend, many friends and traveling teachers from centers from around the world were invited (see the list bellow). They will share the experience and knowledge they have gained in the last 30 years of building and living in the first Diamond Way Buddhist centers.

We hope that this weekend will give us all new ideas, solutions and inspiration how to deal with the many different topics that come up when founding and running our centers. Register now, to reserve your place.

Looking forward to seeing you all here,

Your EC Team

REGISTRATION

Please register using our online registration form.

PROGRAM

Friday (Nov 27, 2009)

20.00 The meaning of sangha – a lecture by Zsuzsa Koszegi

Saturday (Nov 28, 2009)

8.30 – 9.30 Breakfast
10.00-13.00 Experiences from Copenhagen & “Zürich & Amden”
13.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-19.30 Experiences from Hamburg, Warsaw & Graz
19.30-21.00 Dinner
21.00- Q&A session + pictures from the building up the centers, short movies

Sunday (Nov 29, 2009)

8.30 – 9.30 Breakfast
10-13 Experiences from Schwarzenberg & Budapest
13.00-14.00 Lunch

Every center will have an 1.5 hour session to share their experience and stories, possibly using the suggested topics below:

Budapest – Zsuzsa Koszegi, Peter Major

Decision making in big city centers

Copenhagen – Johanne Vestergaard and Julia Strohbach

What does it mean to be Lama Ole and Hannah’s home center

Hamburg – Roland Knaack, Hinrich Vollmer

Integration of the younger generation

Warsaw – Rafal Olech

A small, strong group builds a big center — how to integrate more people and stay friends

Schwarzenberg – Erik Weiss, Karola Schneider

Center splits

Amden – Markus & Gisela Kuhn & Anne Katrin Thomas

Professionalism in our centers

Graz – Wolfgang & Astrid Poier

Lama Ole’s first center; family & children in the center

PRICES

Lecture (session) 6 euros

Breakfast 2 euros

Lunch 4 euros

Dinner 4 euros

Accommodation at the EC 5 euros per night per person