Kalachakra Empowerment

The 7 Empowerments of a Growing Child

Understanding Empowerments

Many people are not clear on the different types of empowerment, what they mean and who is qualified to give and receive them. Rinpoche helps us think through this topic.

7 Empowerments of a Growing Child

This is the first set of Kalachakra Empowerments. It is open to everyone and often give in the public to anyone who registers.

English Language Book Cover of Authentic Guide to Meditation Book by Khentrul Rinpoche

Seven Empowerments of a Growing Child

By Khentrul Rinpoche 

All first-time Kalachakra empowerment participants will receive an empowerment booklet at the ceremony for personal use and should not be shared. This booklet acts as a guide for participants, including prayers and visualisations, so that participants are able to understand and follow the ceremony.

PRIVATE BOOK AVAILABLE AT THE EMPOWERMENT ONLY

Vows are Not a Burden

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Perfect Conduct: Understanding Vows and Samaya

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There are hundreds of vows in Buddhism between all the vehicles.  When we understand the essence then it is easier to keep the full array. Rinpoche explains the non-contradictory nature of maintaining the vows of the 3 vehicles. 

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What does it mean to receive an empowerment?

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is qualified to give this Empowerment?
An authentic lineage master who has actualised these teachings in their own mindstream and has gained actual attainments through generation and complete stage practice to confer the Kalachakra initiation to others. Only such a teacher has the capacity to transmit the blessings of an unbroken lineage, connecting us back to the original source. These are the blessings which create the conditions for realizations to arise in our own mind. Kalachakra Yidam should be their primary practice and they should have done retreat with this Yidam.
Which lineage does Khentrul Rinpoche hold and give the empowerment within?

Khentrul Rinpoche holds both the Drö and Ra lineage of the complete Kalachakra tantra. He focuses on the Jonang-Shambhala tradition.

How many times do I take this empowerment?

Taking this empowerment once means you can start practicing one of the sadhanas. However, Khentrul Rinpoche encourages everyone to take this empowerment as many times as they can to strengthen their connection to the precious qualities of this unbroken lineage. Each time you take the empowerment you believe that you received it fully. That doesn’t mean that each time you actually had the karmic capacity to get the same benefit. As you practice and gain more merit, you may become aware of the empowerments on a different level.

“Like our body requires food to sustain us daily, unless we are perfect, we need to repeatedly empower ourselves and our qualities through this long and incredible unbroken lineage. We have to do it again, because unless we are perfect, we are likely to break it all the time” Khentrul Rinpoche

What is the difference between the Innate Kalachakra Jenang and the Kalachakra Empowerment (Wang)?
The Kalachakra empowerment ceremony is the ‘Wang’ while the ‘Jenang’ is the subsequent permission. While both are generally referred to as initiations, they have different purposes. While the Wang empowers participants to perform specific deity yogas and visualise oneself as the deity, the Jenang is the blessing of the deity to enter within the mind stream of the body, speech and mind of the participant. If one receives the Jenang initiation, but has not received the Wang, then they cannot self-generate as the deity in their practice, but would still have the blessings of the deity for their mantra recitation and can visualise the deity at their front or top of their head.
What is the Wrathful Kalachakra Empowerment (Vajra Vega Jenang)?

Vajra Vega, the wrathful form of Shri Kalachakra and the King of the Wrathful Deities, is the protector aspect in Kalachakra. The essence of Vajr Vega is that he represents the non-conceptual primordial wisdom which arises when the winds enter into the central channel. This is the method by which the root ignorance of conceptuality is cut.

Receiving the Vajra Vega Jenang provides the blessings of Vagra Vega to connect with this aspect of Kalachakra.

I have received this from another teacher, do I have to take it from Khentrul Rinpoche to practice with Dzokden?

If you have received a Kalachakra empowerment from a different lineage to Jonang, you do not need a kalachakra empowerment to start the Ngondro or the Diety Yoga. You do need to receive an empowerment from Khentrul Rinpoche in order to participate in the Dzokden higher empowerments, some restricted practices and retreats.

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