Vajra Vega: Wheel of Protection Empowerment and Retreat

This event is available both Online and In-person.

Vajra Vega Wheel of Protection: Wrathful Kalachakra Empowerment & Protection Retreat with Khentrul Rinpoche
Friday to Sunday

Learn the Most Powerful Spiritual Protection Practice Done before the Kalachakra Empowerment

By special request from our Asian students, Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow the rare VajraVega Jenang and Wheel of Protection in the Asia time zone.

This extraordinary, seldom-given practice creates a powerful vajra-protective sphere of Vajra Vega and 60 protectors, traditionally performed at the start of Kalachakra empowerments to secure the space—and included in select extensive Kalachakra sadhanas.

Vajra Vega, the wrathful form of Shri Kalachakra and the King of the Wrathful Deities, is the protector aspect in Kalachakra. There are many benefits to establishing a connection with Vajra Vega. The essence of Vajravega is that he represents the non-conceptual primordial wisdom that arises when the winds enter the central channel. This is the method by which the root ignorance of conceptuality is cut. It is also the basis or container where the precious six vajra yogas arise. When we establish a wheel of protection with Vajra Vega, we are symbolically stopping the arising of dualistic appearances and abiding within the non-conceptual wisdom. Vajra Vega is considered the King of Spiritual Protection, and his 60 retinues are incredibly powerful.

Who is Vajra Vega?

Mudra and ritual instruction classes will be led by Senior Students of Rinpoche.
For those joining in person, if you wish to help set up and be part of creating the Tormas for this empowerment contact [email protected] We are looking for volunteers in Australia to make merit and help create the 60 tormas for this empowerment and help set it up.

Included in the Retreat both Online and In-Person
-Kalki Obstacle Removing Prayer
-Vajra Vega Jenang (wrathful Kalachakra) Blessing Empowerment
-Oral Transmission and practice text of Praises of Vajra Vega
-Oral Transmission and practice text of Short Practice of Vajra Vega
-Oral Transmission and practice text of Vajra Vega’s Wheel of Protection Sadhana
-Lesson in how to make the torma and tea offering to Dharma Protectors
-12 Kalachakra Offering Mudras 

WHO CAN COME
Online participants must have already taken the Kalachakra Wang before.

In-Person students must have already taken the Kalachakra Empowerment (wang) or plan to take it in the future. The participant must already believe that the Kalachakra tantra is an important practice they wish to continue with in this life. Khentrul Rinpoche is being generous in offering the in-person attendees the opportunity to attend this retreat even just with the intention to take it in the future, rather than insisting on prior initiation as is customary.

OPTIONAL SUPPLIES TO BRING
-Damaru
-Bell and Dorje
-Serkyem (Golden Tea Offering Set)

HYBRID FORMAT
This workshop will be online and in person. Oral transmissions and empowerment must be received in real-time (i.e. not via video replay). Recordings will be added to learn.dzokden.org after the retreat. Everyone enrolled in person or online will be able to access the course. 

For financial aid for online attendance
Email [email protected] to request further financial aid. You must clearly state your financial reasons for needing the scholarship and your qualifications, as this is a supplementary practice as well as very unusual if not unheard of to be offered.

Schedule by Timezone

Central Europe

FRIDAY, January 1, 2027
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM – SESSION 1 – Public Teaching

SATURDAY, January 2, 2027
12:00 AM – 2:00 AM – SESSION 2 – Vajra Vega Empowerment
3:00 AM – 5:00 AM – SESSION 3 – Praises of Vajra Vega and Short Practice
5:30 AM – 7:30 AM – SESSION 4 – Oral Transmission and Teaching/Q&A

SUNDAY, January 3, 2027
12:00 AM – 2:00 AM – SESSION 5 – Wheel of Protection Practice and Q&A
3:00 AM – 5:00 AM – SESSION 6 – Mudra Lesson
5:30 AM – 7:30 AM – SESSION 7 – Short Teaching and Tsok