This intensive four-day course, taking place over an extended weekend and coinciding with India’s Independence Day—an auspicious day associated with political and social freedom—will focus on the deeper question of inner freedom as presented in the Buddha’s teachings.

The Four Noble Truths form the foundation of the Buddhist way of life. They offer a precise framework for understanding the nature of our problems, difficulties, and underlying patterns, their causes, how they can be overcome, and the psychological methods that enable us to accomplish this. Over four days, we will examine these essential points in a clear and structured way, based on the classical presentation, while explaining them in a contemporary way and relating them to a modern context.

Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding how these principles apply to our daily experience and how they can be integrated into a process of inner transformation. In this way, the course aims not only to convey a clear understanding of these four truths, but also to support the cultivation of insight that can be applied in daily life, helping us to engage more effectively with the challenges of the modern world.

Each session will include explanations, discussions, time for questions, and guided meditation.

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Geshema Kelsang Wangmo was the first woman who became a Geshe (equivalent to a PhD in Buddhist Philosophy) and is a well-known Buddhist nun, scholar and teacher. She was born in Germany and became a Buddhist nun in 1991. She signed up in the traditional Geshe curriculum at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD) in Dharamsala (a 17 year program) and became the first Geshema (female form of the Geshe title in Tibetan) in 2011.