The long life offering is an incredibly moving devotional offering of praises, symbolic items and prayers to our beloved spiritual guide, our Guru, Khentrul Rinpoche. In order to help Khentrul Rinpoche achieve his vision of the Golden Age, we offer this puja to help increase his health and life and to remove our obstacles that may prevent that.
Long life offerings purify mistakes and disharmonies between the students and teacher (broken samayas) and creates the conditions to continue to receive teachings from our teacher for a long time. The Gurus stay and teach students that have the merit for them to teach them. When there is not enough merit amongst the students, the Dakinis call the Guru away to another realm to teach. This offering practice helps the students accumulate vast amounts of merit and create the karmic conditions for the teacher to remain and teach them .
People are often confused in modern times wishing to die when it is convenient or feels good before they lose any of their abilities and become weak and dependent on others. This completely forgets the rarity and value of this precious human birth. They also ask why the Guru would want to live long thinking it may be also nice to die when it is most comfortable, mistaking this for compassion.
In order to practice and live a long and healthy life as students, we need our teacher to remain and teach for the benefit of beings. The Guru is the Buddha. The Guru is the Dharma. The Guru is the Sangha. Our efforts to increase the health and lifespan of the Guru also affect the longevity of our Sangha. As we are not yet enlightened, we need all the opportunity to accumulate merit in this life.
As part of the offering 1000s of offerings are set up to accumulate merit, usually water, incense, tormas etc. Precious objects are gathered representing the victory of the Dharma and Guru in various ways and a heartfelt request is made to the Dakini to let our teacher remain and stay.
Accumulate and Dedicate White Tara Mantras to Khentrul Rinpoche
For Rinpoche’s long life we are accumulating the White Tara Mantras, you can offer them here
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Sponsor the Long Life Offering
There are a lot of items involved that need to be offered and costs related to putting on this long life puja. Traditionally thousands of offerings are made along with all of the traditional item such a monks, robes, statues, items representing the Dharma, medicines etc. We appreciate your donation to help sponsor this.
https://dzokden.org/donations/long-life-offering-fund-to-khentrul-rinpoche/
Zoom Information
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Bhutan – Thursday July 21 am
Melbourne – Thursday July 21th – 11 am
Central Europe – Thursday 21 July. 3.00-4.30 am
New York – Wednesday July 20 – 9.00pm -10.30 pm
San Francisco – 6.00 pm-7.30 pm
At Land of Shambhala we have been working to construct Sudarshana, the city where the Medicine Buddha first taught the Medicine. The herb garden is in the shape of the Medicine Buddha Mandala surrounded on all sides by magical trees including a Bodhi tree. Inside the Mandala are 4 gates with 16 prayer wheels filled with the mantras of the Medicine Buddha guarded by 16 dragons. In the outer ring of the Mandala will be the 6 additional Medicine Buddha’s according to Dolpopa’s text and 2 Taras linked to healing. In the center, is a precious Medicine Fountain filled with the healing water of Lama Lobsang Trinlé a manifestation of Vajrapani and the Medicine Buddha. The Vietnamese community have donated a Medicine Buddha sculpture made of Blue marble.
Consecration is an incredible important step for any holy object. It is when the Gurus embodied as the Buddha invite the essence of the Buddha to come forth in the object for the benefit of beings.
Khentrul Rinpoche Jamphel Lodrö has invited one of his favorite and highly respect masters, H.E. Kathog Rigzin Chenpo to consecrate the statues and the space.
H.E. Kathog Rigzin Chenpo learned Tibetan medicine and about the healing qualities of herbs from Khamtsang Rinpoche who was also a Tibetan Doctor. Rinpoche spent many years in his youth searching the mountains for medicinal herbs. He taught him the Medicine Buddha Tantra text and how to understand Coded text and prophecies. He also studied Geography, Feng Shui, Medicine and Astrology from Thubten Norbu Rinpoche
Language
Tibetan. Khentrul Rinpoche Jamphel Lodrö will translate to English.
Additional translations to be determined.
Donate to the Medicine Buddha Mandala Project
This event is a public talk that will be live streamed on Facebook on Dzokden.
Zoom Access
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There are 4 days of events with Kathog Rigzen Chenpo.”
Land of Shambhala
Wednesday – Consecration of the Land of Shambhala
Thursday – Medicine Buddha Mandala Consecration
Tibetan Rime Buddhist Institute
Saturday – Guru Rinpoche And Red Vaisravana Empowerments
Sunday – Samaya Tara Empowerment
Sunday – Teachings on Astrology and Medicine
To attend in person in Austria you must register on the Suchandra Website Here.
The Empowerment is on Saturday May 28. Translation is available for the weekend but is to be determined for the retreat.
Marichi is the life-long personal protector from Khentrul Rinpoche. She is also considered the proteress of the Sublime Realm of Shambhala. Our center situated in Kalapa is the center of Shambhala. Rinpoche will bestow her Empowerment and transmit a Marichi sadhana written by him which is based on his own visionary experience with this buddhist goddess.
THE BUDDHIST PROTECTRESS MARICHI
In some lineages of the Vajrayana Buddhism, Marichi is considered to be one manifestation of Tara, appearing for example as the 21st Tara. There are other forms from her found also in other spiritual systems. She is the colour of the sunset, a wondrous, glowing orange. She comes with the sun and, as the sun, her blessings pervade everywhere.
This sadhana is also extremely helpful for those working with the Drolmi Kazug Puja. Beyond the empowerment and oral transmission of the Marichi Sadhana, Rinpoche will also give an introductory teaching on her and will join us in a Q&A session during the retreat. The practice sessions on the weekend will be transmitted online as well.
RINPOCHE’S PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH MARICHI
Marichi (also known as Marīcī and Özer Chenma) came to Rinpoche’s life when he was a young boy herding yak cattles in Tibet. Without fences, it was quite difficult to take care of them. Some yaks hide themselves from the boy Rinpoche under rocks, and so used to spend the night in danger of being attacked by wolves. To help protect them, his family shared with him the Marichi mantra and the faith in her when he was still very young.
“I do not know exactly why, perhaps because of having no doubt when doing this or because of a special connection, when I recited her mantra and did the ritual according to the traditional manner of protecting the yaks, I have 100% guarantee that the yaks would be safe during the night. I never had problems with yaks being killed by the wolves since then, really never. So I kept that in mind and I recited innumerable mantras, many times, when I took care of them. So, afterwards, anytime when we had an obstacle I always relied on her.”
“So this is why Tibetan says that praying for Marichi helps. But, of course, it does not help everyone individually, as it depends for example on the individual connection and on the level of faith. You must have no doubt at all. I have indestructible faith in Marichi since my childhood, so this helped me to develop many connections with her during my life.”
WHO IS THIS FOR or HOW TO PREPARE MYSELF?
There are no prerequisites at all. It is suitable for all levels of practitioners.
Tenative Schedule
27th Friday afternoon: arrival after 2pm. Relax and enjoy the mountain woods.
27th Friday – Public Teaching:
Marici and the Realm of Shambhala
28th Saturday : Marichi EMPOWERMENT and ORAL TRANSMISSION of the Marichi Sadhana
28th-30th: Marichi Practice Retreat, Q&A with Rinpoche
June 1 Wednesday morning, breakfast and departure
HOW THE ONLINE EMPOWERMENT WILL WORK
1) Register for each attendee that will be receiving the empowerment. You will be added to the course on learn.dzokden.org
2) You must receive the empowerment online in real-time. We do not record the empowerments. Before the empowerment, you will receive information on some simple supplies you should get to help make the experience as authentic as possible. If you are not able to get them all don’t worry. They are symbolic and you can still receive the empowerment. More important you must understand what is happening. Just attending an empowerment does not mean you receive it. You must know what is going on. To ensure everyone will receive the empowerment, Rinpoche will kindly make his instruction booklet available to you as an eBook so you can follow along so you know exactly what is happening. You are not allowed to share this program book with anyone else or give them access to the empowerment. This is private for your personal use. Rinpoche typically gives the eBook out the night before but if this is a technical problem for you (you can’t read an eBook and be on zoom at the same time) please indicate on the registration form so we can work to accommodate you.
3) You will receive access to the zoom for each of the sessions.
OFFERING DANA TO RINPOCHE
It’s customary at the end of empowerment for students to make an offering of Dana to the guru. As this is an online event, you can make the offering of Dana to Rinpoche here.
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? email [email protected]
7:30 PM Vienna, Austria Timezone
The Kalachakra Tantra predicts and upcoming Golden Age, a period of peace and harmony on our earth. There is a special Karmic link between our earth and the Pureland of Shambhala. Khentrul Rinpoche will give a talk to help us understand this very special link. The Shambhala Dharma Kings transformed their realm into a space of peace and harmony giving us a blueprint of what we can do for our own world. Following in their footsteps, Khentrul Rinpoche will help us see how we can take an active role as compassionate warriors to bring about the Golden Age of Peace for our world.
Translations to be determined. Teaching is in English.
Free public teaching available on FB live and Zoom.
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If you would like information on the following day’s 8 Shambhala Dharma King Empowerment and Retreat, click here.
Talk is at 7:30 PM in Vienna, Austria timezone
In preparation for the upcoming empowerment and retreat, Khentrul Rinpoche will share the power of Vajrapani and his link to his root Guru Lama Lobsang Trinley and the Shambhala Dharma Kings.
Translations to be determined.
Free Livestream available on zoom and facebook.
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Webinar ID: 814 8264 2080
For information on the Vajrapani Empowerment and retreat, click here.
