The series, called Buddhafeszt, is being organised by the Tibet-Europe Foundation and the Diamond Way Buddhist Community.
The exhibition displays artwork reflecting the spiritual and cultural heritage of eastern Buddhism. It shows objects from all over the world that are hoped to bring visitors closer to a closed world whose very survival is danger. The spiritual significance of all of the objects is explained to exhibition-goers.
Nóra Winkler, host of the Hungarian State Television's Kultúrház programme; Péter Major a representative of the Tibet-Europe Foundation; and Gergely Puskás of Diamond Way Buddhist Community will open Buddhafeszt on Monday, December 14.
On Tuesday, Tommy Boggs, a sound engineer for one of Denmark's most popular rock bands in the 70s and 80s who later dedicated himself to the study of Buddhism in Asia, will speak about the history of western Buddhism.
Gergely Porkoláb and Péter Porkoláb will give a lecture on Buddhist art, called The Art of the East: Statues, Thangkas and Stupas as the Expressions of the Limitless Possibilities Within Us, on Wednesday.
One of the most anticipated speakers, to come to the Gödör Klub on Thursday, will be Michael Fuchs, an organisational developer and trainer who has practiced Buddhism for 20 years. Fuchs integrates the Buddhist view and methods into organisational culture and performance management. He has worked as a consultant for multinationals such as Allianz, Bosch, BP, and Metro.
Zsuzsa Kőszegi and Róbert Szilágyi will speak on Buddha and Love on Friday, and the series will wrap up with a lecture by Lama Ole Nydahl, one of the few Westerners fully qualified as a lama and meditation teacher in the Karma Kagyu Buddhist tradition. In 1969, Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah became the first Western students of H.H. the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, who was one of the greatest yogis of the century and head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. After Ole and Hannah completed their intensive studies and training in the Himalayas, Karmapa asked Hannah and Ole to bring Tibetan Buddhism to the West.
Author: Éva Kelemen / Photo: Dániel Kováts
