Death & Dying
Free Talk with Lama Justin von Bujdoss
(Online)
Join Lama Justin Von Bujdoss online for an introductory talk about death & dying from a spiritual perspective specifically as it pertains to Vajrayana tradition.
This introduction provides a framework and taste of what we will explore in depth during our upcoming retreat this July 2022. For more details and registration please click here or view below.
Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American Vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice published by North Atlantic Books, and contributor to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections published by Lexington Books. Justin serves as the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for NYC Department of Correction where he also serves as Staff Chaplain supervising over 30 chaplains and guides wellness programming for staff. Justin professional experience in home hospice and hospital settings as a pastoral caregiver.
Justin was ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, Wellesley, Columbia University, has been a visiting instructor at Union Theological Seminary and has led retreats at a variety of dharma centers. Justin is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist spiritual practice in the West.
You can purchase Modern Tantric Buddhism here.
More of his work can be seen at: justinvonbujdoss.com and https://bhumisparsha.org
DEATH & DYING RETREAT
WITH LAMA JUSTIN JULY 20-28 2022
One of the most profound places of practice that we find in the Vajrayana tradition is the inclusion of the process of death and the bardo experience into the spiritual path. In this retreat we will journey together into this unique and powerful way of bringing insight and wisdom into our own eventual experience of death. We will also develop skills around caring for loved ones who may be entering into the death process, and hone skills for professional caregivers including chaplains, social workers and other clinicians who wish to go deeper into the intersection of Vajrayana spiritual formation and their respective caregiving modalities. This retreat is a wonderful way to deepen the relationship of dharma into caregiving and how we can understand caregiving to be a profound spiritual practice.