
Vajrapani: Transforming Problems into Happiness with Ven. Tenzin Tsepal
April 3 - April 6

Hosted at Vajrapani Institute
Transforming Problems Into Happiness
with Ven. Tenzin Tsepal
April 3 – 6, 2025
Registration closes March 29, 2025
Transforming miserable conditions into necessary conditions that help us move along the path to enlightenment has great benefit, especially in the exceptionally difficult times in which we live. … If you cannot make use of every condition that arises, both undesirable and desirable, you are in danger of losing the Dharma, and you will never achieve the unsurpassed and lasting happiness of enlightenment.
—Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Ven. Tenzin Tsepal shares reflections based on a favorite Dharma book, Transforming Problems Into Happiness by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This small book contains volumes of practical advice for training the mind to see problems as beneficial conditions supportive of, and even necessary for, our happiness. While mind-training texts like this are not intended to eliminate the difficulties we inevitably encounter, they teach us how not to be disturbed by them, and instead how to accept and transform such harms to make swift progress along the path to full awakening.
Ven. Tenzin Tsepal shares, “Since his Parinirvana in April 2023, I feel closest to Lama Zopa Rinpoche when I’m immersed in one of his books. As the best way to repay a teacher’s kindness is to practice what they taught, I’m delighted the course on Transforming Problems Into Happiness is scheduled just before the 2nd anniversary of Rinpoche’s departure.”
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More about the teacher
Venerable Tsepal attended the 5 year Buddhist Studies Program at Chenrezig Institute, an FPMT center north of Brisbane, Queensland where she subsequently lived and engaged in intensive residential study until 2015. As the Western Teacher at CI, she taught Discovering Buddhism and tutored weekend teachings and retreats, but always had an eye on what was happening at Sravasti Abbey. In January 2016, Venerable Tsepal returned to the US to join the Sravasti Abbey community, and received full ordination in Taiwan in 2019.
Prior to ordaining, she completed a degree in Dental Hygiene, and pursued graduate school in hospital administration at UW. She was also successfully self-employed for 10 years teaching Reiki.
Venerable Tsepal currently serves as the Guest Master and Ritual Master at Sravasti Abbey, and supports the video team, forest work, editing and an occasional review.