The Mind, Its Nature and Where to From Here? Join the FREE public talk with Lama Thubten Gyatso on Monday 4 July 4 at 7:30pm - 9pm at the Water Garden Oasis Function Centre, Picnic Bay Hotel. This is an opportunity not to be missed!

Born in Melbourne in 1946, Adrian Feldmann graduated from the University of Melbourne with a degree in medicine. After practising medicine in Australia and overseas, he travelled for several years through Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, eventually finding his way to a Tibetan monastery in Nepal. After much study and soul-searching, he became ordained in the 1970s by Lama Thubten Yeshe as the Buddhist monk, Thubten Gyatso. Since then he has run a free medical practice in Nepal, taught Buddhism and meditation in Nepal, Mongolia, Taiwan, USA, France, New Zealand and Australia, establishing monasteries in France and in Bendigo. He was one of the first Westerners to become a monk in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is an FPMT veteran who has been instrumental in establishing a number of Dharma centres in France, Taiwan, Australia and Mongolia. As well as teaching extensively around the world, Gyatso is the author of two books.

In his talks and in his writing Gyatso doesn't shirk revealing the mistakes and failings which help to highlight his personal message of hope. He wants us to know that the ego undermines our happiness and fortifies our habitual destructive emotions. His spiritual path is a quest to slay the ego and his life story is a parable for modern times.

Lama Thubten Gyasto will be visiting Townsville to join a panel on 'Mindfulness in Health' for the Australian Medical Students Association Annual Convention. He has kindly accepted this invitation from Magnetic Buddha Dharma.