Singapore, Hong Kong, China: 9PM SUNDAY Central Europe: 3PM SUNDAY Brazil: 10AM SUNDAY West Coast, USA: 6AM SUNDAY East Coast, USA: 9AM SUNDAY Toronto, CA: 9AM SUNDAY
Prayers for Jonang Leader HH Jigme Dorje Rinpoche Entering into Parinirvana with Khentrul Rinpoche
The most excellent leader of the Jonang Lineage, the Abbott of Dzamthang Monastery, His Holiness Jigme Dorje Rinpoche chose to pass into parinirvana on the auspicious day of Kalachakra New Year. Khentrul Rinpoche will lead us in prayers for this most precious teacher and holy being this weekend. May we have the merit for his swift return and to fulfill his aspirations.
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Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85156994655 Passcode: 636636 Webinar ID: 851 5699 4655
Schedule by Timezone Melbourne, Australia: APRIL 16 – 11:00 PM
Hong Kong: APRIL 16 – 9:00 PM
Vienna, Austria: APRIL 16– 3:00 PM
New York, New York USA: APRIL 16 – 9:00 AM
San Francisco, CA USA: APRIL 16 – 6:00 AM
In celebration of Khentrul Rinpoche’s 60th birthday, a special year that brings the completion of all the signs and elements in a zodiac cycle, Rinpoche will give a teaching on birthdays and how to approach them. This is one of the most important birthdays in our zodiac cycle because it is when we revisit the sign and element from when we were born. Often times people associate this revisit to the natal sign as an obstacle year. In order to help prevent that we have already
1) made a long-life offering to Khentrul Rinpoche
2) Medicine Buddha and Marichi Mantra Accumulation
3) Built a Medicine Buddha Mandala and had 9 statues (7 Medicine Buddhas and 2 Taras) made for the Garden which will arrive in time for his birthday
Normally people become self-focused on their birthday. Rinpoche will give a teaching on how we can instead approach this day from a Buddhist perspective. In addition to this, he will bestow prosperity and long-life blessing on everyone.
In honor of Rinpoche’s 60th birthday, the community will recite long-life prayers to him and make offerings prepared by the different sanghas.
Often the end of this cycle is considered to be an obstacle year for the person. In order to prevent that our community has been reciting mantras. https://airtable.com/shrAUUDwqauIsiE5J
Join us for a transformative empowerment. During this extraordinary week-long retreat, participants will connect with the essence of Shakyamuni Buddha through the study and practice of the 1000 Buddha empowerment (wang), puja, and sadhana. This is a rare opportunity, as it marks the first time Khentrul Rinpoche has offered this empowerment in such an auspicious location.
The Thousand Buddha Empowerment is rooted in the Nyingma Lineage, tracing back to King Songtsen Gampo, an emanation of Avalokiteshvara. Khentrul Rinpoche received this empowerment as a young child and recently renewed it through a personal transmission from H.E. Kathok Rigzin Chenpo. The main deity of this empowerment is Avalokiteshvara, representing the compassion, names, and mantras of 2200 Buddhas.
Connecting to the power of each of the 1000 Buddhas enhances your spiritual practice by linking you to all the Buddhas of this fortunate eon. Through this connection, we work towards realizing a Golden Age of Peace and Harmony.
Rinpoche has requested monks in different traditions bestow oral transmissions but as we are in India and everything is unreliable here please note the sessions that say “Potential” on the schedule
EMPOWERMENT GUIDE BOOK
DETAILED SCHEDULE BY TIMEZONE
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan SATURDAY October 21, 2023
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM – Session 1: Chanting 1000 Buddha Puja Sadhana (recorded and optional attendance)
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM – Session 2: Possible Oral Transmissions
9:30 PM – 11:30 PM – Session 3: 1000 Buddha Puja with Monks. Rime Prayer together. Possibly monks chanting unique prayers of their tradition. (recorded and optional attendance)
SUNDAY October 22, 2023
7:30 AM – 11:30 AM – Session 4: 1000 Buddha Empowerment (required attendance)
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM – Session 5: Potential Oral Transmissions to be determined day of the event if it’s happening
9:30 PM – 11:30 PM – Session 6: Chanting 1000 Buddha Puja potentially with monks Rime Prayer together with discussion. (recorded and optional attendance)
MONDAY October 23, 2023
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM – Session 7: Chanting 1000 Buddha Puja Sadhana (recorded and optional attendance)
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM – Session 8: Potential Oral Transmissions to be determined day of the event from various monks in various traditions.
9:30 PM – 11:30 PM – Session 9: Potential Rime discussions with Rime and unique practices & oral transmissions. Rime Prayer together. Discussions are recorded. Oral Transmissions are not.
TUESDAY October 24, 2023
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM – Session 10: Chanting 1000 Buddha Puja Sadhana (recorded and optional attendance) or Potential oral transmission or Chanting of other traditions. 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM – We are dedicating the merit at the Maha-bodhi stupa for the donors and everyone with prayers of Shambhala, Dzokden and the Golden Age. This will not be a live streamed session.
HOW THE ONLINE EMPOWERMENT WILL WORK
1) Register each attendee that will be receiving the empowerment. Choose your preferred language. You will receive a confirmation email. After that, you will be added to our online learning center at learn.dzokden.org.
2) 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 empowerment does not mean you receive it. You must know what is going on. To ensure everyone will receive 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 zoom for each of the sessions. While Khentrul Rinpoche wants the attendees there for every session, we have indicated the absolute required sessions so as not to have to a lot of emails about special circumstances. That said, he would prefer you are there for all of them
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.
SCHEDULE BY TIMEZONE
Melbourne, Australia: MAY 17 – 11:00 PM Hong Kong: MAY 17 – 9:00 PM
Vienna, Austria: MAY 17 – 3:00 PM
New York, New York USA: MAY 17 – 9:00 AM
San Francisco, CA UA: MAY 17 – 6:00 AM
ABOUT
In celebration of the great Pandita Tarnatha, excellent in all the wisdom traditions, we will recite prayers. Rinpoche will give an oral transmission and short teaching on his newer prayer ༄༅།།ཕྱིན་ཕེབ་རྐྱེན་སེལ་དངོས་གྲུབ་མྱུར་སྩོལ།། Immediate Blessing for Accomplishments and Dispelling of Obstacles. Jetsun Taranatha is very important for our lineage as well as many others in Tibetan Buddhism. We are launching and dedicating the release of our new unrestricted practice text area on this precious day.
SCHEDULE BY TIMEZONE
Melbourne, Australia: MAY 5 – 11:00 PM
Hong Kong: MAY 5 – 9:00 PM
Vienna, Austria: MAY 5 – 3:00 PM
New York, New York USA: MAY 5 – 9:00 AM
San Francisco, CA USA: MAY 5 – 6:00 AM
ABOUT
In celebration of the anniversary of when the Buddha Shakyamuni taught the Kalachakra in the form of the Deity at Amaravati Stupa in India, we will have teachings and recite Dolpopa’s prayers on Kalachakra.
In our modern times, many people prefer to be spiritual but not religious. Part of this is the desire to connect with the essence of our true nature that is beyond the limitations of any religion. This is exactly what the Kalachakra tantra teaches. Rinpoche will give teachings about why the Kalachakra tantra is a Rimé practice that is inclusive of all the world’s spiritual traditions. Even in the realm of Shambhala when the great Bodhisattvas realized the teachings of the Kalachakra tantra, they did so from backgrounds based on various wisdom traditions. Understanding the true deeper nature of the Kalachakra can help move us out of the limited thinking of lineage or religion and closer to our own sacred truth.
