This is a paid event and available both Online and In-person.
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
East Coast USA, Toronto – SATURDAY September 14, 2024 / 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Melbourne, Australia – SUNDAY September 15, 2024 / 12:00 AM – 3:00 AM
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – SATURDAY September 14, 2024 / 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM (SUNDAY September 15, 2024)
Central Europe and South Africa – SATURDAY September 14, 2024 / 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
São Paulo, Brazil – SATURDAY September 14, 2024 / 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
West Coast USA – SATURDAY September 14, 2024 / 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
QUESTIONS?
Please email [email protected]
Welcome to the Vajrapani Empowerment and Retreat
VAJRAPANI: Tame Your Demons
Tap into the power of all the Buddhas to tame your internal and external obstacles to realization. Vajrapani, the embodiment of the power of all the Buddhas of the ten directions and the three times, is a fearless Bodhisattva of the tenth level and the guardian of the Buddhist tantras.
Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow an extraordinary empowerment of Vajrapani known as the Demon Destroyer, and the practice that Lama Lutrin may have used in the retreat where he cured himself of Leprosy. This empowerment and retreat will help practitioners embrace their fierce power within to tame the obstacles on their path.
KHENTRUL RINPOCHE PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH VAJRAPANI
“For me Vajrapani is personally special because my root lama, Lama Lobsang Trinley, was considered as the actual Vajrapani. When he practiced it, he could completely heal his leprosy during a long solitary retreat. At the end of his retreat, he achieved the same realization of the great Indian mahasiddhas.
My root Lama’s teachings on Vajrapani were incredibly special. As many high Lamas came to our monastery in order to receive the Vajrapani empowerment from him, I could receive it many times. All these Lamas who came had no doubt about his realization. They said that he himself was the actual Vaprapani, as they were witnessing my Lama taming incredibly powerful demons who wish to bring harm to our regions.”
This practice has a very special connection to our lineage through both Lama Lutrin and the Shambhala Dharma King Suchandra. Suchandra who was an emanation of Vajrapani, requested the Buddha in the form of Deity of Kalachakra, transmit the Kalachakra Tantra Teachings. Suchandra went on to establish these Kalachakra teachings in Shambhala where they flourished and came to us.
TANTRA EMOTIONS AND VAJRAPANI
In this retreat, Rinpoche will also explore further working with Vajrapani in your life as you work to engage on an authentic tantric path, harnessing, directing, and transforming the power of anger and other emotions on the path.
Course Information
This first section will provide you with general information about the course that you will need to participate. This includes:
- Overview: If you ever get lost, you can use this page to remember where everything is and how to access what you need.
- Online Checklist:To join the live practice sessions for this course, you will need to make sure you have all of the necessary technologies installed and ready to use. For this reason, we have compiled a short guidebook for setting up Zoom and how to prepare for the various sessions.
- Live Session Schedule: This page provides all of the links for the live webinar sessions. You can find the schedule in a variety of timezones so that you can be sure not to miss anything. ORAL TRANSMISSIONS AND EMPOWERMENTS ARE NEVER RECORDED.
- Gratitude and Generosity: We take a moment to thank those who have made this event possible and provide details for how to offer Dana or give support so that we can all benefit from future activities.
Schedule by Timezone
Melbourne, Australia
SATURDAY December 28, 2024
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Session 1: Online Empowerment Preparation
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Session 2: Vajrapani Empowerment & Oral Transmission
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Session 3: Vajrapani Practice
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Session 4: Vajrapani and the Kalachakra Lineage
SUNDAY December 29, 2024
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Session 5: Vajrapani Practice
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Session 6: Tantra and Working with Emotions and Anger
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Session 7: Vajrapani Practice
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Session 8: Final Session – Vajrapani Practice and Q&A with Rinpoche
Questions?
Please email [email protected]
This is a FREE event and is available both Online and In-person.
As we head towards the end of the year, Khentrul Rinpoche will guide us through a thought process to understand what type of Dharma we are practicing, for what reason, and how that reflects in our life priorities. If you ask most people, they will say they are practicing Dharma to benefit all sentient beings or to get out of Samsara. Maybe they will say they are practicing mindfulness and meditation to deal better with their life and reduce their anxiety. There are many reasons in why people choose to practice Dharma. These reasons may be based in wisdom and compassion or they may be based in Samsaric motivations. Rinpoche will help guide us in an end-of-the-year self-reflection so we can dig deeper into our own minds and uncover our blind spots in our intentions. By discovering our true intentions with our practice, we can create the opportunity in the new year to truly transition into a deeper level of practice, walking more fully on the path mindfully with discriminating awareness.
Schedule by Timezone
Melbourne, Australia – FRIDAY December 27, 2024 / 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – FRIDAY December 27, 2024 / 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Hanoi, Vietnam – FRIDAY December 27, 2024 / 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Central Europe and South Africa – FRIDAY December 27, 2024 / 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Sao Paulo, Brazil – FRIDAY December 27, 2024 / 5:30 AM – 7:00 AM
East Coast USA, Toronto – FRIDAY December 27, 2024 / 3:30 AM – 5:00 AM
West Coast USA – FRIDAY December 27, 2024 / 12:30 AM – 2:00 AM
Zoom Information
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86764827300?pwd=L21FRTl4dld2R1lCbHVaWmNIRHRQZz09
Webinar ID: 867 6482 7300 Passcode: 108108
Questions?
Please email [email protected]
This event is available both Online and In-person.
Join Kalachakra Master Khentrul Rinpoche at Tibet House US (or online) for an inspiring evening. During the evening, Khentrul Rinpoche, a Jonang Kalachakra master, who focuses on the teachings from the pure land of Shambhala, will plant blessings in our mindstream of White Manjushri and Chenrezig that we can activate through our own practice and reflection on the texts.
White Manjushri helps us cultivate wisdom, specifically through gentle methods that help us teach others through our speech. Chenrezig is the Tibetan name for Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion.
To overcome the darkness in our world and manifest the Golden Age on Earth, we must cultivate both wisdom and compassion with the altruistic mind set on enlightenment. Wisdom and compassion are like the two wings of a bird: in order to fly, we must exercise both wings in equal measure. We need to recognize that deep work must be done on ourselves, and we should do our best and work diligently to transform our own minds. The more our minds are rooted in deep wisdom and compassion with altruistic intention, the less we contribute to suffering in the world and the better-equipped we will be to help others. We can not get discouraged and overwhelmed by the temporary negative conditions in our world. We can start our path to manifest the golden age right here. We can become the peace we want to see in our world.
Schedule by Timezone:
East Coast USA, Toronto – WEDNESDAY September 04, 2024 / 6:30 PM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment
Melbourne, Australia –THURSDAY September 05, 2024 / 8:30 AM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – THURSDAY September 05, 2024 / 6:30 AM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment
Central Europe and South Africa – THURSDAY September 05, 2024 / 12:30 AM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment
Sao Paulo, Brazil – WEDNESDAY September 04, 2024 / 7:30 PM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment
West Coast USA – WEDNESDAY September 04, 2024 / 3:30 PM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment
QUESTIONS?
Email [email protected]
This event is available both Online and In-person.
Khentrul Rinpoche has agreed to bestow Karma Lingpa’s Zhitro Hearing Liberation empowerment and perform a Purification Puja at the request of the Chinese language group during the time of The Double Ninth Festival. The Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday observed in the Lunar calendar on the ninth day of the ninth month. Chinese people pay their respects to their ancestors. This is the second time a year that Chinese people have visited the graves of their ancestors.
This “hearing liberation” teaching cycle is part of the highest yoga tantra. Khentrul Rinpoche has a deep connection with this practice and has often received this empowerment. This cycle involves many liberation prayers and forms of practice. Due to its extensive preparation requirements, it is rarely performed publicly. However, it is highly beneficial for life, death, bardo, and rebirth processes and is especially good for repaying parents and ancestors. The Nyedren Purification and Liberation Puja helps sentient beings who have passed and are wandering in the bardo or any of the other six realms to liberate them to Samtrabhadrahood. This ceremony is effective for beings who have died, no matter how long ago. Through the prayer and the ritual performed, the consciousness of the deceased merges with the inseparable wisdom of the hundred deities. To conclude the ritual, we will burn all of the name tablets of the living and deceased.
Despite the need for Khentrul Rinpoche’s extensive preparation, he has prepared this for us out of his compassion. Do not miss this important opportunity to participate now; you never know when death will come or when you can help your loved ones again.
ABOUT ZHITRO
Zhitro, meaning “peaceful and wrathful,” denotes the assembly of forty-two peaceful and fifty-eight wrathful deities and was buried by Guru Padmasambhava in the eighth century. The teaching was revealed as terma in the 14th Century by the terton Karma Lingpa. These Buddhas are alternatively referred to as the bardo deities. The term ‘bardo’ signifies an ‘intermediate state,’ one of six such states, with the reference here being to the bardo of dying – the transitional phase between death and rebirth. During this phase, the one hundred Zhitro deities manifest themselves to the deceased to facilitate their liberation from the bardo. At some stages in the Bardo state, people need peaceful Deities; in other stages, people need wrathful ones to benefit their journey of awakening.
The teachings of Zhitro, as imparted by Guru Padmasambhava, establish a direct conduit for practitioners to engage with the bardo deities through dedicated practice and supplication. This empowerment is a blessing in our lives and prepares us for liberation in the bardo following our death. As per the Bardo Thodrol, a seminal text on the bardo in Vajrayana Buddhism (widely known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead), bardo deities present themselves to the deceased over a period of forty-nine days while the deceased is in the bardo. Initially, the peaceful deities appear, and if the deceased fails to recognize and attain liberation through these peaceful deities, the wrathful deities subsequently manifest. If the deceased cannot connect with the deities during this forty-nine-day period, their consciousness is drawn back into rebirth within one of the six realms.
Course Information
This first section will provide you with general information about the course that you will need to participate. This includes:
- Overview: If you ever get lost, this page will help you remember where everything is and how to access what you need.
- Online Checklist:To join the live practice sessions for this course, you must ensure that all necessary technologies are installed and ready to use. For this reason, we have compiled a short guidebook for setting up Zoom and preparing for the various sessions.
- Live Session Schedule: This page provides all of the links for the live webinar sessions. The schedule is available in a variety of time zones so that you can be sure not to miss anything.
- Gratitude and Generosity: Here we take a moment to thank those who have made this event possible and to provide details for how to offer Dana or give support so that we can all benefit from future activities.
Access the Teachings Later
The live teaching sessions will be recorded and made available in this course afterward. Please return the next week, and the teachings will be made available. We ask you to attend as many of the live courses as much as you can. This will allow you to participate in the question-and-answer sessions and practice with our community simultaneously. Oral Transmissions and Empowerment are not recorded. You must sign in at the broadcast time to receive the empowerment and oral transmission.
SPONSOR THE PUJA
Many people enjoy watching various Pujas online performed by Lamas believing they are receiving a huge benefit. It is also common in the West for people to ask a lama to pray for them without making any offering or having a personal connection. While, as one of all sentient beings, you are connected to the results of the Puja made for the benefit of all sentient beings, the karmic connection is incredibly weak, and therefore so is the result. Normally during certain times in one’s life when a Puja or prayers are required to clear various karmic debts, obstacles, or karmically-based illness, it is customary to make financial offerings to the Lama for prayers and Pujas. This creates a stronger Karmic connection to the Puja, which creates a stronger karmic result.
Zhitro Hearing Liberation Puja Tablet Sponsorship and Offer Candles for Loved Ones
Schedule by Timezone
West Coast USA
SATURDAY
October 12, 2024
5:00 PM – 8:30 PM – Zhitro Hearing Liberation Empowerment & Teaching
SUNDAY
October 13, 2024
3:00 PM – 6:30 PM – Zhitro Neydren Purification and Liberation Puja
QUESTIONS?
Please email [email protected]
