12/5 & 12/6, Saturday & Sunday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
The Dance of Anger and Wisdom with Ven. Khenmo Drolma

Lord Jigten Sumgon’s direct pointing out of the very purpose of practice, begins every session.  Our dance with an enemy, the arising of anger and confusion, can become our source of equanimity and path of bodhicitta.  Using Shantideva’s timeless wisdom and profound sutra instructions, Khenmo Drolma will explore how to take this simple prayer to heart and live it as a continuous practice.

Ven. Khenmo Konchog Nyima Drolma is the abbess of Vajra Dakini Nunnery in Maine, U.S.A.  In 1997, she took her novice ordination with H.H. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche in the Drikung Kagyu lineage and trained as a novice nun at Gampo Abbey in 1999, guided by Ven. Pema Chödrön in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2002 she took full ordination as a Buddhist nun in Taiwan.  To read a detailed account of Khenmo’s cross-cultural ordination experience in her own words please click here.

Khenmo Drolma was an esteemed Professor of Sculpture at the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine, before becoming a Buddhist nun.  In 1993, she created this sculpture Qyan Yin, or She Who Hears the Cries of the World, with ceramic hands in the Giving or Compassion Mudra.  Qyan Yin is the female form of Avalokitesvara, the great bodhisattva of compassion, known also under different names in different languages: Chenrezig, Guanyin, Kwan Yin, Kannon…   Khenmo’s vision is that, in a community, we each become one of her hands.  The sculpture has been exhibited in US museums, and now it is being offered to support Vajra Dakini Nunnery’s new nuns residence in Portland, ME.  You will receive one of the original ceramic hands from this sculpture with a donation to support her Qyan Yin Project.  For more information on how to support, please go to: https://vajradakininunnery.org/support/

ALL ARE WELCOME