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Tara Institute up to 2000
- Gautama Buddha — India
- Jetsun Tsong Khapa — Tibet
- Lama Yeshe / Lama Zopa Rinpoche — Nepal
- Kopan, Nepal — One Month Meditation Course
- 1973 March
- Maggie Feldmann
- Max Feldmann
- Peter Guiliano
- Peter Langham (Stripes)
- Gil Richards
- Dugald Sinclair
- Keith Tudor
- Gabe Wallace
- 1974 March
- Adrian Feldmann (Ven Thubten Gyatso)
- Chrissie Foulkes
- Peter Guiliano
- Adele Hulse
- Ali Ribush
- Dorian Ribush
- 1979
- Alan Molloy
- Dugald Sinclair
- Alys Andrews
- David Andrews
- 1973 March
- 1974 August Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa first visit to Australia
- Several public talks in Melbourne
- Diamond Valley, Queensland: One Month Course with both Lamas
- Lama Yeshe circulates petition to invite His Holiness to Australia
- Lama Yeshe surprise visit to Gabe Wallace at her home (20th October 1974?)
- 1975 Lama Yeshe returns to Melbourne
- teaches at Latrobe University, Assembly Hall, Dromana: 5 day course, Melbourne University, Prince Phillip Theatre: 3 nights
- ??Weekly meditation evenings at Inta McKimm’s home in Fitzroy
- 1976 Lama Yeshe weekend course at Olinda
- Tara House starts in Palmerston Street Carlton
- 1977 Lama Yeshe public talk Kew Town Hall (over 300 people)
- Tara House rents 12 Miller Grove, Kew. 1st Centre Director appointed: Ven Konchog Donma (Bonnie Rothenberg)
- 1978 Tara House starts retreat centre at Noojee (“Tara Institute”)
- 1979 Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa, Melbourne
- Lama Zopa: Eight Point Thought Transformation; Anglesea August 30 – September 9
- Lama Yeshe: public talk Malvern Town Hall (500 people)
- Lama Zopa: 10-day LamRim Course; Noojee (45 people)
- Lama Yeshe: Chittamani Tara Initiation; Noojee (30 people)
- Both Lamas consecrated our Buddha statue in all night ceremony at Marianne Baillieu’s Realities gallery in Toorak
- 1980 Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Melbourne
- Public Talk (Archive #074) August 29, 1980
- Refuge (Archive #384) September 1, 1980
- Bodhicitta / Emptiness (Archive #437) September 1, 1980
- Lam Rim (Archive #076) September 1, 1980
- First Vietnamese monks brought to Australia, Most Venerable Thich Tac Phuoc and Venerable Thich Huyen Ton live and teach at Miller Grove for several months
- Geshe Thubten Dawa (TI’s first resident geshe arrives at Miller Grove, end of 1980)
- 1981 Lama Yeshe, Melbourne
- Lama Yeshe: Nagarjuna’s Letter to a King (Dallas Brookes Hall)
- Lama Yeshe: Mahamudra, Bendigo (approves Atisha Centre and picks site for Great Stupa)
- Lama Yeshe: Nightclub Party, Collins Street
- Lama chairs HHDL first-visit meeting at Miller Grove
- Tara House rents a second house for Geshela and translator, Ven Kelsang Tsering: Annexe, High St Kew (1981 – 82)
- 1982
- Tara Institute buys 3 Crimea Street, St Kilda, December ($125,000?)
- Geshe Dharghyey teaches 3 nights
- HHDL First Tour: TI played key role
- 1983
- Lama Zopa: 5 evenings at Prahran High School Hall
- Lama Zopa: weekend course at TI
- Prof Jeffrey Hopkins: Weekend Seminar at Melbourne Uni
- Prof Jeffrey Hopkins: 3 nights teachings and meditation at TI
- Ven. Geshe Thubten Dawa (left October 1984) | Kelsang Tsering (left May 12)
- 1984
- Lama Yeshe died March 3
- Geshe Lobsang Doga (appointed TI’s second resident Geshe October)
- Jonathan Landaw (October 16, 17, 18)
- Ven Roger Mier (taught November while Geshe Doga was in Adelaide)
- Sandup Tsering: translator (arrived August 21)
- 1985
- Geshe Ngawang Dharghyey
- April Weekend Course/TI; 3 nights/Dallas Brookes Hall; 2 Initiations/TI; LL puja HHDL
- Gomo Tulku in Melbourne (August)
- Geshe Ngawang Dharghyey
- 1986
- Geshe Sonam Rinchen (15 March) Heart Sutra, Crimea St church hall
- Geshe Sopa (June 11 – 18)
- Panchen Lama with Geshe Doga: Melbourne (June)
- 1987
- Lama Osel inauguration, 28 February, Kopan
- Dr Alexander Berzin (28 May)
- 3 Mavis Avenue, East Brighton Bought for $1.2 million (March). We moved in July
- Crimea Street, St Kilda sold for $470k (May 14th —2 months after Mavis Av purchase)
- Lama Zopa, Lama Osel, August
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Yamantaka Self-Initiation August 12, 1987
- Heruka Body Mandala Initiation (2) August 13, 1987
- Heruka Body Mandala Commentary August 16, 1987
- Vajrayogini Self Initiation August 19, 1987
- Public Talk August 24, 1987
- Chod Puja August 24, 1987
- Heruka Initiation August 4, 1987
- Heruka Body Mandala Initiation August 4, 1987
- 1988
- Lama Zopa, Lam Rim (May 14, 15)
- HH Sakya Trizin, June 1-5 FPMT-A tour, no teaching at TI
- TI booked Melbourne University lecture hall for public talk
- Khensur Urgyen Tseten: TI (October)
- 1990
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche Public Talk (November 17)
- 1991
- Lama Zopa Healing Course (August)
- Thubten Dhonyu (Assistant Translator) arrives but he thinks he arrived June 1990
- CPMT — hosted at TI attended and led by Lama Zopa Rinpoche (June)
- 7 Point Thought Training (June 16)
- Cittamani Tara Initiation Commentary (June 20)
- Healing Course June 30, 1991
- 1992
- Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, (November)
- HHDL Second Tour (TI hosted the Tour Office)
- Geshe Dawo and Geshe Dhargyey stayed at TI
- 1993
- Kensur Urgyen Tseten (February 6,7)
- 1994
- Gyuto Monks at TI (March)
- Ribur Rinpoche at TI (April)
- 1995
- 1996
- HHDL Visit for Kalachakra (Third Tour) Sydney
- Lama Zopa, October 3 -5
- Public Talk
- 1997
- Geshe Conference (April) Khensur Rinpoche, Geshe Doga, Geshe Enge, Geshe Dawa, Geshe Pal Tsering
- Thubten Dhonyu leaves end of year
- HH Sakya Trizin (June)
- Geshe Lama Konchog visits Geshe Doga
- 1998
- 1999
- Geshe Michael Roach at Melbourne Uni and Deakin (April)
- 2000
- Lama Zopa: Heart Sutra (March)
- Kopan, Nepal — One Month Meditation Course