Dolpopa’s Parinirvana Day Celebration

Dolpopa’s Parinirvana Day Celebration

This is a FREE event and will be available both In-person and Online.

Dolpopa is one of the greatest masters of Vajrayana Buddhism. Often referred to by all lineages as the Buddha from Dolpo or the second Buddha, he was the expounder of the Dzokden Dharma, the completion Dharma, that is our namesake. In celebration of this great master, Khentrul Rinpoche will teach various forms of tantra along with prayers of auspiciousness related to the great Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen. Join us online or in person at the Rime Institute. 

Schedule by Timezone

New South Wales, Australia – SATURDAY December 7, 2024 / 7:00 PM
Melbourne, Australia SATURDAY December 7, 2024 / 7:00 PM
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – SATURDAY December 7, 2024 / 4:00 PM
Central Europe and South Africa – SATURDAY December 7, 2024 / 9:00 AM
Sao Paulo, Brazil – SATURDAY December 7, 2024 / 5:00 AM
East Coast USA, Toronto – SATURDAY December 7, 2024 / 3:00 AM
West Coast USA – SATURDAY December 7, 2024 / 12:00 AM

Zoom Information

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87317118098?pwd=Z2lIcXVYVTY3QlJuK1BRYkcvZFRDQT09
Webinar ID: 873 1711 8098     Passcode: 108108

Learn about Dolpopa

Read Dolpopa’s Classic text

Mountain Dharma: The Ocean of Definitive Meaning by Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
https://store.dzokden.org/collections/books/products/the-mountain-doctrine

It is said that teaching the Buddhadharma that the sons are more skilled than the fathers and that even the Buddha got better with practice. The early teachings say very little about the realized experience, and the Buddha remained silent on many points. The subsequent Perfection of Wisdom teachings says a little more but shy from saying too much about nonconceptual wisdom for fear of polluting it. Later in life, the Buddha was ready to talk about such things, and students were ready to hear them. After a thousand years, tantric masters learned the trick of making such insights about the fruition of the heart of the path. Here, you can read how Dolpopa presents these final teachings in all their glory, without invalidating any of those that came before.

One of the most important texts in all of Jonang Dharma is Dolpopa Sherab Gylatsen Mountain Dharma, commonly known as the Mountain Doctrine. Rime Lodrö (Ives Waldo) translated the book from Tibetan to English to ensure that the Zhentong view was properly translated.

QUESTIONS?
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Saka Dawa Guru Puja for Lama Lutrin

Saka Dawa Guru Puja for Lama Lutrin

This event is FREE and available both Online and In-person.

In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Guru is the Buddha, the Guru is the Dharma, and the Guru is the Sangha. The whole path is contained in the practice of devotion to the Guru, who, while ultimately our enlightened nature, is also a human being who reflects that nature to us. The most powerful Guru is your root guru, the one who points out the nature of reality to you and you transform your mind. 

The light that shows the way on our Kalachakra path is Khentrul Rinpoche. And the one who had the most profound impact on his mind, is his root Guru, Lama Lobsang Trinle. Lama Lobsang Trinley (Lama Lutrin) is one of the most respected Jonang Kalachakra masters of our time. He was well known for his incredible healing powers as he had healed himself from Leprosy and then those around him with his spontaneous medicine wisdom. While showing no signs of sickness, he stated he would pass away and then did so in a meditative state on the precious day of Saka Dawa, the day that we celebrate the birth, enlightenment, and death of Shakyamuni Buddha. 

Join us in the profound practice of the Jonang Guru Puja in honor of the pari-nirvana of Lama Lobsang Trinley. All practices done at this time are incredibly powerful as the merit is multiplied by 100 million times.

Learn about the Greatness of Lama Lutrin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIMOS7vXFHg

Schedule by Timezone

Melbourne, Australia – TUESDAY May 21, 2024 / 7:00 PM
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – TUESDAY May 21, 2024 / 5:00 PM
Central Europe and South Africa – TUESDAY May 21, 2024 / 11:00 AM
Sao Paulo, Brazil – TUESDAY May 21, 2024 / 6:00 AM
East Coast USA, Toronto – TUESDAY May 21, 2024 / 5:00 AM
West Coast USA – TUESDAY May 21, 2024 / 2:00 AM

Zoom Information

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83491347744?pwd=c094VVFYSzAwWWpHVzZoYkZlUXJXdz09
Webinar ID: 834 9134 7744    Passcode: 108108

QUESTIONS?
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Vesak Celebration: 1000 Buddhas Puja & Praises of Shakyamuni

Vesak Celebration: 1000 Buddhas Puja & Praises of Shakyamuni

This event is FREE and available both Online and In-person.

In celebration of the Birth, Death, and Enlightenment of Shakyamuni Buddha, we recite praises recounting the accomplishments of his incredible life. Connecting and learning from his example, we, too, can take steps to learn and practice in stages to reveal our own enlightened nature. The first step to changing the world to a more peaceful, harmonious place is to change ourselves. It is with each of the karmas we make, each cause and condition, that we plant the seeds to change ourselves and then, through our transformation, the world around us.  Shakyamuni spent years of diligent practice and effort to understand the nature of reality and reveal his own nature before he was able to teach others. Once he transformed himself, his enlightened speech and activity had the power to transform our world and continue to through this day.

In addition to the praises to the Buddha of our time, we will chant the powerful 1000 Buddha Puja to connect with all the 1000 Buddhas of this fortunate eon. Connecting with 1000 Buddhas and sharing their names creates powerful conditions for all who hear this to be reborn in a higher realm and to come into contact with the Dharma. All practices done at this time are incredibly powerful as the merit is multiplied by 100 million times.

Schedule by Timezone

Melbourne, Australia – THURSDAY May 23, 2024 / 7:00 PM
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – THURSDAY May 23, 2024 / 5:00 PM
Central Europe and South Africa – THURSDAY May 23, 2024 / 11:00 AM
Sao Paulo, Brazil – THURSDAY May 23, 2024 / 6:00 AM
East Coast USA, Toronto – THURSDAY May 23, 2024 / 5:00 AM
West Coast USA – THURSDAY May 23, 2024 / 2:00 AM

Zoom Information

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84957144983?pwd=N1VJcVMzV1NwQUtHemI0aExmODY4dz09
Webinar ID: 849 5714 4983    Passcode: 108108

QUESTIONS?
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2024 Kstigarbha Segensermächtigung und Puja

2024 Kstigarbha Segensermächtigung und Puja

Diese Veranstaltung wird sowohl online als auch persönlich vor Ort abgehalten.

Khentrul Rinpoche hat sich auf Wunsch unserer chinesischen Gruppe bereit erklärt, die Ermächtigung Kstigarbha zu verleihen und eine Puja durchzuführen.Kṣitigarbha ist neben Samantabhadra, Manjusri und Avalokiteśvara einer der vier wichtigsten Bodhisattvas im ostasiatischen Mahayana-Buddhismus. Sein Name bedeutet übersetzt “Schatzkammer der Erde”.

Kṣitigarbha ist bekannt für sein Gelübde, alle Wesen in den sechs Welten zwischen Gautama Buddhas Tod und Maitreyas Auferstehung zu belehren. Er gelobte auch, die Buddhaschaft erst dann zu erlangen, wenn alle Höllen geleert sind. Daher wird er in der japanischen Kultur oft als Bodhisattva der Höllenwesen, als Beschützer der Kinder und als Schutzgottheit für verstorbene Kinder und abgetriebene Föten angesehen.

NUTZEN DER PRAXIS
Das Kṣitigarbha-Bodhisattva-Pūrvapraṇidhāna-Sūtra beschreibt die Verdienste der Praxis mit Kṣitigarbha. Das Sutra legt nahe, dass diejenigen, die seinen Lehren folgen, unvorstellbare Verdienste und Vorteile erlangen werden. Diese Praxis kann auch dabei helfen, unermessliches negatives Karma aufzulösen.

Von Naga-Königen beschützt.
Die Verdienste nehmen täglich zu.
Die Ursachen der Heiligen sammeln.
Bodhi degeneriert nicht.
Kleidung und Nahrung im Überfluss.
Krankheiten bleiben fern.
Abwenden von Wasser- und Feuerkatastrophen.
Keine Diebe und kein Unglück.
Respektiert und geachtet werden.
Unterstützung und Hilfe von Göttern und Geistern.
Wiedergeburt als Mann.
Mächtige und einflussreiche Prinzessin werden.
Aufrichtung und gutes Aussehen.
Oft im Himmel geboren.
Ein Kaiser werden.
Innewohnende Weisheit.
Alle Bitten werden erfüllt.
Fröhliche Verwandte und Familie.
Alle Hindernisse werden beseitigt.
Der karmischen Welt entkommen.
Alle Orte sind zugänglich.
Die nächtlichen Träume sind friedlich.
Die Verstorbenen sind frei von Leiden.
Segnungen in zukünftigen Leben erhalten.
Alle Heiligen werden lobpreisen.
Intelligenz und Scharfsinn.
Voller Mitgefühl und liebender Güte.
Letztendlich wird Buddhaschaft erlangt.

KSITIGARBHA-PUJA WÄHREND DES QIMING-FESTES
Kṣitigarbha ist bei den Chinesen eine hoch verehrte Manifestation des Buddha, da er ein bedeutendes Gelübde zum Schutz jener in unteren Bereichen abgelegt hat. Dies ist für die Chinesen besonders wichtig, da sie sich Sorgen um ihre Vorfahren machen, die möglicherweise in den unteren Bereichen wiedergeboren wurden. Während des Qingming-Festes, das auch als Grabfegertag bekannt ist (und manchmal auch als chinesischer Gedenktag oder Tag der Ahnen bezeichnet wird), einem traditionellen chinesischen Fest, das von ethnischen Chinesen in ganz Asien gefeiert wird, ist die Kṣitigarbha-Puja eine gängige Praxis und für chinesische Buddhisten von großer Bedeutung.

WER KANN TEILNEHMEN
Es gibt keine formalen Voraussetzungen.

FINANZIEREN SIE DIE PUJAS
Viele Menschen sehen sich gerne online verschiedene Pujas an, die von Lamas durchgeführt werden, weil sie glauben, dass sie dadurch einen großen Nutzen haben. Im Westen ist es auch üblich, dass Menschen einen Lama bitten, für sie zu beten, ohne eine Opfergabe darzubringen oder eine persönliche Verbindung zu haben. Als eines aller fühlenden Wesen sind Sie zwar mit den Ergebnissen der Puja verbunden, die zum Nutzen aller fühlenden Wesen gemacht wurde, aber die karmische Verbindung ist unglaublich schwach, und deshalb ist auch das Ergebnis schwach. Normalerweise ist es zu bestimmten Zeiten im Leben, wenn eine Puja oder Gebete erforderlich sind, um verschiedene karmische Schulden, Hindernisse oder karmisch bedingte Krankheiten zu beseitigen, üblich, dem Lama für Gebete und Pujas finanzielle Spenden anzubieten. Dies schafft eine stärkere karmische Verbindung mit der Puja, was ein stärkeres karmisches Ergebnis erzeugt.

Spenden für Ksitigarbha Segensermächtigung und Puja sowie Darbringen von Kerzen für geliebte Menschen

ZEITPLAN NACH ZEITZONE

Mitteleuropa und Südafrika
SAMSTAG, 6. April 2024
07:00 – Belehrung, Ermächtigung
10:00 – Puja und Belehrung

ABLAUF DER ONLINE ERMÄCHTIGUNG
1) Die Anmeldung der TeilnehmerInnen erfolgt pro Person. Sie werden ein Bestätigungsemail erhalten. Auf unserer Lernplattform learn.dzokden.org erhalten Sie dann Zugang zum entsprechenden Kurs. Wenn sie noch kein Konto auf der Lernplattform haben, werden Sie eingeladen, eines einzurichten.
2) Sie erhalten für jede der Sitzungen Zugang zu Zoom. Wir bieten keine voraufgezeichneten Ermächtigungen an. Khentrul Rinpoche bittet darum, dass Sie die Ermächtigung in Echtzeit erhalten. Wir stellen keine Videoaufzeichnungen von Jenang (Segen), Wang (Ermächtigung) oder mündlichen Übertragungen zur Verfügung. Alle Belehrungen oder Pujas werden aufgezeichnet und auf die Lernplattform hochgeladen.

DANA UND FINANZIERUNG DARBRINGEN
Es ist üblich, dass Schüler*innen dem Guru am Ende der Ermächtigung eine Dana-Gabe darbringen. Da es sich um eine Online-Veranstaltung handelt, können Sie Rinpoche hier Dana geben.

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2024 Tantric Purification: Fire Pujas Workshop

2024 Tantric Purification: Fire Pujas Workshop

This event is available both In-person and Online.

This is an incredible opportunity to learn how to practice pujas to generate vast amounts of merit and purification. In Vajrayana there are many types of burnt offering pujas that utilize fire. They can be sorted into 3 main categories, Sur (smell offering), Sang Chö (smoke offering), and Jinsek (fire offering). All of these practices have incredibly profound meaning at their core which creates the conditions for the accumulation of both merit and wisdom simultaneously. While each practice invites the Buddha, Bodhisattvas, dharma protectors, local deities, and beings of the 6 realms amongst all others to the practice, they have different focuses for the karma they are working with.

Khentrul Rinpoche has kindly agreed to teach us about these three types of fire offerings. He has composed and arranged compositions of these pujas that a student can do in an extensive and also a simple form at home after this workshop. On Sunday he will perform the king of Fire Pujas, the peaceful Kalachakra Fire puja written by Bamda Gelek Gyatso and Lama Lutrin. This one is larger and more extensive then what we he will teach us how to perform for ourselves.

The 3 Offering Practices


Sur Dotgu Kuntsol – The Gift of All Needs

The Sur is a smell offering that uses fire to burn a collection of offerings to create a sent offering. The main focus is all the bardo beings, hungry ghosts, whoever has incredible suffering, and whomever we have a karmic debt to. This is commonly used as an offering to purify our own and our ancestor’s karmic debt for the benefit of all sentient beings.

Sang Chodtrun Gyatso – The Ocean of Offerings

While this one invites all the buddha, bodhisattvas and deities the main emphasis is on the local deities and dharma protectors. The sang chö (smoke) offering helps to clear karmic obstacles in our samsaric life in to have a precious human birth to practice dharma.

Jinsek Dropan Gyatso – The Ocean of Benefits

There are many types of Jinsek but they all focus on purification. There is extensive offering with many different substances made into the fire that is each linked to creating different beneficial results. This creates the condition to purify anybody’s negative karma and their body.

Practical Workshop Includes:

-Teaching on the different types of fire Pujas Sur, Sang Chö and Jinsek
-Demonstration of how to do each type of Puja at home in a simple form
-Instructions and prayers so you can practice them yourself
-There will be an opportunity for questions and sharing throughout the two days
-Audios of the chanting of the 3 Fire Pujas
-List of Ingrediants and Supplies You will need to do the Pujas
-Instructions on How to set up a fire for the different types of pujas

Sponsor the Pujas
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.

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Schedule by Timezone

Central Europe and South Africa
SATURDAY May 18, 2024
1:00 AM – Sur Dotgu Kuntsol – The Gift of All Needs Puja
2:30 AM – Short Commentary on the Sur Dotgu Kuntsol – The Gift of All Needs

5:00 AM – Sang Chodtrun Gyatso – The Ocean of Offerings
6:30 AM – Short commentary on Sang Chodtrun Gyatso – The Ocean of Offerings

SUNDAY May 19, 2024
2:00 AM – Kalachakra King of Fire Pujas Jinsek (more extensive then the Jinsek Dropan Gyatso
5:30 AM – Commentary and instructions on how to do Jinsek Dropan Gyatso – The Ocean of Benefits

How does an Online Course Work?

Pre-recorded Course Materials
You will receive the link to the course in the Dzokden learning center. Before the course starts some videos and information will be there on how to practice in a simple way at home.

Live Course Materials
The course will be held through “Zoom“. In order to access the sessions, you need to download the Zoom App onto the device through which you want to join. We will provide you with the Zoom link (as well as Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) created by Dzokden. You will need this link (or alternatively Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) to access the online sessions.

Zoom Information
Zoom information will be provided at the latest two days before the online event in your email as well as in the Dzokden learning center.

Access to Video Materials Afterwards
The retreat access and all the prayers will be provided for you in Dzokden’s online learning center. We encourage everyone to connect to the live-streamed retreat in real-time but if that is not possible, you can still log in to the learning center after the retreat and access all of the retreat content. This retreat material will be put up in the learning center as soon as possible after each class. Oral transmissions need to be received in real-time. They are never recorded.

Questions?
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