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On this incredibly auspicious full moon day hundreds of years ago, Shakyamuni Buddha in the form of the Yidam Deity appeared in Amravati to turn the wheel of Dharma. On this incredible day marking the month of Nagpa Dawa, at the request of Dharma King Suchandra from Shambhala, the Kalachakra Tantra was taught along with all other forms of tantra from the 4 faces of Kalachakra while the Buddha in the form of a monk simultaneously taught the Heart Sutra on Vulture Peak Mountain. While we do not have the full form of the Tantra that was taught that day, the abridged form of the Tantra that we have now is still the most extensive Tantra in the world. It has incredibly detailed and clear instructions explaining how to work with the external world, and the internal world to reveal the enlightened nature. This day is very important for our world because it has been prophesied by Buddha Shakyamuni in the form of Kalachakra, that our world will transform into a Golden Age of Global Peace and harmony with the help of the Shambhala Dharma kings. On this day we will increase our connection to the 10th Level Bodhisattva Kings to help us on our Dharma path and remove obstacles so that we may reveal our own sacred truth and manifest a Golden Age on earth for the benefit of all beings.
We will celebrate this year with teachings on Shambhala, along with prayers to Shambhala and obstacle removal with the power of Shambhala Dharma Kings. The Kalachakra Tsok and various Prayers of Shambhala and the Kalki King Obstacle removing prayer will be recited. Please make sure to have access to the Unrestricted Prayers and text in the learning center.
Schedule by Timezone
Melbourne, Australia – MONDAY May 12, 2025 / 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – MONDAY May 12, 2025 / 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Hanoi, Vietnam – MONDAY May 12, 2025 / 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Central Europe and South Africa – MONDAY May 12, 2025 / 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Sao Paulo, Brazil – MONDAY May 12, 2025 / 6:00 AM – 8:00 AM East Coast USA, Toronto – MONDAY May 12, 2025 / 5:00 AM – 7:00 AM West Coast USA – MONDAY May 12, 2025 / 2:00 AM – 4:00 AM
We invite everyone to participate in the accumulation of 21st Tara Marichi’s Mantra and Rinpoche’s Guru Name mantra for Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodro Rinpoche’s Birthday. This year we hope to strengthen our connection with Rinpoche so that we may all cultivate the capacity to support him in his Golden Age aspiration. Marichi is Rinpoche’s personal dharma protector as well as the Dharma protectress of Kalapa in Shambhala. We offer her mantras in aspiration that Rinpoche’s global journeys are safe and fruitful for the flourishing of the Dzokden Dharma. We will recite the mantras lead by different volunteers over a 24 hour period on his birthday. Just login to the zoom to join along.
When Lama Lobsang Trinlé officially recognised Khentrul Rinpoché as the reincarnation of Ghetse Khentrul and Ngawang Chözin Gyatso, he bestowed on Rinpoché two names—one short and one long. Students who wish to cultivate their connection to Rinpoché can recite these mantras as part of their practice.
Short Version
OM AH GURU VAJRADHARA MANJUSHRI PRIYA MATI SARVA SIDDHI HUNG HUNG
Sanskrit
Meaning
OM
The enlightened body
AH
The enlightened speech
GURU VAJRADHARA
The Absolute Guru of Primordial Wisdom
MANJUSHRI
The Bodhisattva of Wisdom
PRIYA MATI
Joyful Intellect
SARVA SIDDHI
Bestow all accomplishments
HUNG HUNG
The enlightened mind and nature
Long Version
OM AH GURU VAJRADHARA DHARMADHATU JÑANA MANJUSHRI PRIYA MATI DIGVIJAYA SENA SARVA SIDDHI HUNG HUNG
Sanskrit
Meaning
OM
The enlightened body
AH
The enlightened speech
GURU VAJRADHARA
The Absolute Guru of Primordial Wisdom
DHARMADHATU
The Absolute Space of Reality
JÑANA
Primordial Wisdom
MANJUSHRI
The Bodhisattva of Wisdom
PRIYA MATI
Joyful Intellect
DIGVIJAYA SENA
General Who is Victorious Over Bias
SARVA SIDDHI
Bestow all accomplishments
HUNG HUNG
The enlightened mind and nature
Name mantra
Om ah Guru Vajradhara Manjushri Priyamati Sarva Siddhi Hung Hung
Schedule by Timezone
Central Europe and South Africa — FRIDAY April 18, 2025 12:00 AM – SATURDAY April 19, 2025 12:00 AM Melbourne, Australia — FRIDAY April 18, 2025 8:00 AM – SATURDAY April 19, 2025 8:00 AM Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan — FRIDAY April 18, 2025 6:00 AM – SATURDAY April 19, 2025 6:00 AM Hanoi, Vietnam — FRIDAY April 18, 2025 5:00 AM – SATURDAY April 19, 2025 5:00 AM Sao Paulo, Brazil —THURSDAY April 17, 2025 7:00 PM – FRIDAY April 18, 2025 7:00 PM East Coast USA, Toronto — THURSDAY April 17, 2025 6:00 PM – FRIDAY April 18, 2025 6:00 PM West Coast USA — THURSDAY April 17, 2025 3:00 PM – FRIDAY April 18, 2025 3:00 PM
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Amitabha is the most well-known Buddha after Buddha Shakyamuni himself. Some Chinese traditions only focus on Amitabha, and many Tibetans also focus on him because, in the Amitabha sutra, it is said he has taken many vows to help sentient beings easily be reborn in his Pureland of Sukhavati, the Land of Bliss.
Amitabha Pureland is one of the well-known easiest pure lands to get to, although perhaps harder to reach than the Bodhisattva realm of Shambhala. Through this empowerment, one can connect with and work to cultivate unwavering faith and devotion to Amitabha. If one is reborn in his pure land, the path to Buddhahood is natural.
Two of Khentrul Rinpoche’s Lamas, including his root Guru Lama Lobsang Trinlé emphasized Amitabha a lot, especially for non-monastic householder practitioners. Even though Lama Lobsang Trinlé was a Kalachakra master, he spent his whole life practicing and extensively teaching Amitabha to everyone. He eventually bestowed not only his hat but also his precious practice text of Amitabha to Khentrul Rinpoche. It had become warn out because he had used it for so many years. Lama Lutrin instructed Khentrul Rinpoche to teach this practice to Amitabha to many people in the future. Up until now, Khentrul Rinpoche has focused on sharing his passion for Shambhala and the Golden Age, so he has not had a chance to emphasize Amitaha enough. But now he sees that it is the right time to start emphasizing and sharing these teachings to fulfill his responsibility to his precious teacher.
Many of the people with great faith and devotion feel at peace upon death, They often see Amitabha before they die and feel at peace and secure after they have become dedicated to this practice. A Jonang Lama and a Khandro said that Khentrul Rinpoche’s own mother went to Sukhavati so the practice is very powerful. Khentrul Rinpoche received this empowerment and practice many times from Nyingma Lama, Zhigli Khenpo Tenzin Zangpo and Lama Lobsang Trinley.
Rinpoche will give the empowerment and a practice with it.
Schedule by Timezone
Melbourne, Australia
SATURDAY April 05, 2025 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Session 1: Amitabha Empowerment and Teaching 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Session 2: Puja, Oral Transmission and Teaching
In honor of Jetsun Taranatha’s Parinrivana, Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow the oral transmission of the Zhentong Nyingpo. In a previous year he gave a commentary on the text which you can find in Learn.dzokden.org. Jetsun Taranatha was a renowned Tibetan Buddhist scholar, teacher, and master of the Jonang school. He is considered one of the most important figures in the development of Tibetan Buddhism in the 16th and 17th centuries and is best known for his profound contributions to the teachings of emptiness (shunyata) and the nature of mind based on Dolpopa’s Zhentong emptiness. He was a master who had familiarity with all traditions and could write from their doctrinal point of view perfectly. If he wrote a commentary on a Jonang text it reflected no hint of the Nyngma and vice versa. While a prolific tantric master who wrote many commentaries, empowerments and Sadhanas, he was also known for his poetry. Khentrul Rinpoche will share some of his Dharma poetry in honor of this day.
Melbourne, Australia – SUNDAY May 25, 2025 / 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – SUNDAY May 25, 2025 / 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Hanoi, Vietnam – SUNDAY May 25, 2025 / 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Central Europe and South Africa – SUNDAY May 25, 2025 / 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Sao Paulo, Brazil – SUNDAY May 25, 2025 / 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM East Coast USA, Toronto – SUNDAY May 25, 2025 / 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM West Coast USA – SUNDAY May 25, 2025 / 4:00 AM – 6:00 AM
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5-Day Practice Retreat w/ Khentrul Rinpoche February 7-12, 2025 in Thailand
The Jonang lineage is the only school of Buddhism that teaches the complete path of Kalachakra, the highest yoga Tantra, known as the King of Tantra, from start to enlightenment. Khentrul Rinpoche is the only master currently bestowing the whole path from the Ngondro to completion stage upon qualified non-monastic practitioners globally.. Khentrul Rinpoche has made it his life’s mission to spread the teachings of Shambhala as it is prophesied that they will bring a Golden age of peace to our earth.
By the request of a sponsor in Singapore, Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow a Kalachakra Ngondro practice retreat in Thailand, a location that is very easy to visit for everyone across Asia. This 5-day retreat will help students who are in process or are just beginning to practice the very precious Jonang Kalachakra preliminary practices. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to practice the Ngondro along with the precious Guru and Kalachaka Tsok pujas that tantrikas practice monthly. This is the perfect retreat to clarify your practice and if you wish to further prepare yourself to move towards the Higher Empowerments and the 6 Vajra Yogas of the completion stage that Rinpoche is currently bestowing through 2029.
Extraordinary Rare Vishvamata Empowerment, the Feminine Aspect of Kalachakra
Part of this path of transformation to enlightenment requires the harmonization and unification of female and male energies within ourselves. The Yab-Yum deity of the Kalachakra mandala is often referred to as Kalachakra but is actually the inseparable union of the ultimate masculine Kalachakra, in union with the ultimate feminine, Vishvamata. Their combined qualities represent the ultimate love, wisdom and compassion fused into immutable bliss and empty form. The empowerment of the feminine form, Vishvamata Empowerment (Jenang) is almost never bestowed. Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow this rare Jonang practice along with a practice text as part of the retreat. We can embrace the true energies of the female and male aspect within ourselves to transform our world. Khentrul Rinpoche will give teachings to clarify what these aspects are and various ways to work with them.
The retreat will be held at the Manjushri Center of the Karma Kagyu around 40 minutes of the International Airport Don Mueang. RETREAT PROGRAM FEES COVER
-5 Night Stay at the Manjushri Center of the Karma Kagyu in Thailand (for In-person attendees only) -Vishvamata Jenang and access to the Dzokden Learning Center -Ngondro practice text in digital form is included -Sadhana in digital form is included -Daily guided teachings, practice sessions, and or pujas by Shar Khentrul Rinpoche Jamphel Lodrö, monks and Julie O’Donnell -Authentic traditional accommodations, all meals included (for In-person attendees only) -Transportation is not included (for In-person attendees only)
Who can come?
Prerequisite While Khentrul Rinpoche welcomes everyone to join who wishes to practice Kalachakra. This practice retreat will dive into the preliminary practice of the Jonang Kalachakra Ngondro. This teachings is open to anyone who genuinely wants to practice Kalachakra but it is best suited to students who have some basic understanding of the Vajrayana buddhist path, experience with Guru and Deity yoga as well as a flexible mind. This is a great way to get to know Khentrul Rinpoche better in person in a small intimate environment. It’s important as a student of Vajrayana to develop an actual relationship with the Guru so that he can help you the most on your path. What languages will be offered? The event is in English but Chinese translation will be available if you bring a phone with a data plan and a headset to listen.
Schedule by Timezone
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan
FRIDAY February 7, 2025 8:00 PM— Session 1: Welcome Teaching
SATURDAY February 8, 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM— Session 2: Vishvamata Jenang and Teaching 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM— Session 3: Oral Transmission and Vishvamata Practice 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM— Session 4: Intro to the Jonan Kalachakra Ngondro with a short Tea break 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM— Session 5: Evening Teaching
SUNDAY February 9, 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM— Session 6: Ngondro Teaching Session 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM— Session 7: Practice Session 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM— Session 8: Ngondro Teaching with short Tea break 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM— Session 9: Ngondro Teaching
MONDAY February 10, 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM— Session 10: Teachings on Guru Yoga and Guru Puja 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM— Session 11: Ngondro Practice Session 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM— Session 12: Ngondro Teaching with a short Tea break 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM— Session 13: Guru Puja
TUESDAY February 11, 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM— Session 14: Teaching on the Kalachakra Tsok 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM— Session 15: Ngondro Practice Session 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM— Session 16: Ngondro with a short Tea break 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM— Session 17: Kalachakra Tsok
WEDNESDAY February 12, 2025 10:00 AM— Session 18: King of Tantra and the Golden Age – What to do Now to Transform our World + Closing Prayers
Suggested Reading
There is no required preparation. If you want to familiarize your mind with any of the material related to the trip we have selected a few of the texts.
The Kalachakra Path offers a profound method for actualizing your greatest potential and contributing to greater peace and harmony within this world. For the first time ever, this extraordinary path is revealed in a step-by-step manner, allowing students to gradually approach this uniquely comprehensive system in a structured and methodical way.
Please bring the Profound Path of Vajra Yoga Prayer Book or the Ngondro prayers with you. Available at store.dzokden.org Please access the learning center in advance for the Vishvamata texts.
OFFERING DANA TO RINPOCHE As this is an online event, you can make the offering of Dana to Rinpoche here.
