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
Central Europe and South Africa SATURDAY October 21, 2023
2:30 AM – 5:30 AM – Session 1: Chanting 1000 Buddha Puja Sadhana (recorded and optional attendance)
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM – Session 2: Possible Oral Transmissions
3:30 PM – 5:30 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
1:30 AM – 5:30 AM – Session 4: 1000 Buddha Empowerment (required attendance)
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM – Session 5: Potential Oral Transmissions to be determined day of the event if it’s happening
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Session 6: Chanting 1000 Buddha Puja potentially with monks Rime Prayer together with discussion. (recorded and optional attendance)
MONDAY October 23, 2023
2:30 AM – 5:30 AM – Session 7: Chanting 1000 Buddha Puja Sadhana (recorded and optional attendance)
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM – Session 8: Potential Oral Transmissions to be determined day of the event from various monks in various traditions.
3:30 PM – 5:30 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
2:30 AM – 5:30 AM – Session 10: Chanting 1000 Buddha Puja Sadhana (recorded and optional attendance) or Potential oral transmission or Chanting of other traditions. 10:30 AM – 12:30 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 USA: 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.
HORARIO POR ZONA HORARIA Melbourne, Australia: 4 DE JUNIO – 11:00 PM
Hong Kong: 4 DE JUNIO – 9:00 PM
Viena, Austria: 4 DE JUNIO – 3:00 PM
Nueva York, Nueva York Estados Unidos: 4 DE JUNIO – 9:00 AM
San Francisco, CA UA: 4 DE JUNIO – 6:00 AM
ACERCA DE En el día más auspicioso de Saka Dawa, el Gurú Raíz de Khentrul Rinpoche entró en el Parinirvana. Como comunidad global, haremos una Puja de Gurú en línea para Lama Lutrin en Zoom.
Esta es una oportunidad increíble para honrar a los maestros del linaje. Todas las actividades meritorias realizadas en este día se multiplican por 100.000 millones de veces. Saka Dawa es una celebración del nacimiento del Buda, la iluminación y el Maha parinirvana. El Guru Puja es una práctica muy profunda y podemos pensar en todos los maestros a través de Lama Lobsang Trinley y Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoche que han hecho que estas enseñanzas estén disponibles para nosotros conocidas. La práctica de Guru Puja abarca todo el sendero del Dharma hacia la iluminación. Contiene completo, el suelo, el sendero y el resultado. Es la más elevada de las prácticas de Guru Yoga y por eso somos muy afortunados de tener la oportunidad de practicarla.
Que esta ofrenda cree las condiciones para que el Dharma Jonang florezca en todo el espacio y el tiempo.
Para aquellos que no están familiarizados con esta práctica, tenemos un curso completo sobre ella que puede encontrar aquí. Proporcionaremos el enlace al texto para que todos puedan participar.
SCHEDULE BY TIMEZONE
Melbourne, Australia: JUNE 4 – 7:00 PM
Hong Kong: JUNE 4 – 4:00 PM
Vienna, Austria: JUNE 4 – 9:00 AM
New York, New York USA: JUNE 4 – 4:00 AM
San Francisco, CA UA: JUNE 4 – 1:00 AM
ABOUT
On the most auspicious day of Saka Dawa, Khentrul Rinpoche’s Root Guru entered into Parinirvana. As a global community, we will do an online Guru Puja for Lama Lutrin in Zoom.
This is an incredible opportunity to honour the lineage masters. All meritorious activities done on this day are multiplied by 100,000 million times. Saka Dawa is a celebration of the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and Maha parinirvana. The Guru Puja is a most profound practice and we can think of all the masters up through Lama Lobsang Trinley and Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoche that have made these teachings available to us know. The Guru Puja practice encompasses all of the Dharma path to enlightenment. It contains the complete, ground, path and result. It is the highest of the Guru Yoga practices and so we are very fortunate to have a chance to practice it.
May this offering create the conditions for the Jonang Dharma to Flourish throughout all space and time.
ZOOM INFO
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88566828104?pwd=eWw3R2dxMzl6NzRjdjUyRlRDQm9BQT09
Passcode: 048685
Webinar ID: 885 6682 8104
SADHANA
Guru Puja: https://read.dzokden.org/5f253b5e419c3639c4f0a404.html
For those unfamiliar with this practice we have an entire course on it which you can find here. We will provide the link to the text so everyone can participate.
