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.
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?
Please email [email protected]
Это БЕСПЛАТНОЕ мероприятие и доступно только ОНЛАЙН.
В честь паринирваны Джецуна Таранатхи Кхентрул Ринпоче начнет давать комментарий к одному из самых драгоценных текстов Таранатхи — «Жентонг ньингпо» («Сущность жентонга»). Комментарий будет продолжаться в течение следующих нескольких выходных и будет доступен в открытом доступе в учебном центре для тех, кто подпишется на бесплатный доступ.
Джецун Таранатха — один из самых значимых мастеров линии Джонанг. Он почитается не только в этой традиции, но и многими другими линиями, поскольку он глубоко изучал их наряду с индийскими тантрическими системами. Он был особенно известен тем, что понимал воззрения каждой системы в неискаженном виде с философской точки зрения этой системы. Большинство людей, изучая аспекты различных философий, примешивают свои предубеждения или взгляды к пониманию той системы, в которую они больше всего верят или с которой лучше всего знакомы. Он этого не делал и мог рассуждать с точки зрения того взгляда, которого придерживался.
Жентонг ньингпо — это особый текст, который объясняет взгляд жентонг (пустота-от-другого) на великий срединный путь во взаимосвязи с другими духовными системами. Это возможность изучить и узнать, чем воззрение жентонг похоже и отличается от других воззрений. Конечно, для тех, кто понимает и верит в буддийскую подход, в этом тексте приводятся аргументы в пользу превосходства философской системы жентонг по отношению к рангтонгу (пустота-от-себя), а также к другим духовным системам. Это утверждает жентонг как конечное воззрение.
Вам не обязательно верить в превосходство жентонга, чтобы слушать и получать пользу от понимания этого текста. Вы можете рассматривать этот текст как возможность научиться понимать сильные и слабые стороны, различия и суть различных систем. Это позволит вам создать философскую карту того, как духовные системы соотносятся друг с другом.
Это огромная тема, которую Джецун Таранатха рассмотрел и сопоставил в таком небольшом тексте. Поэтому этот текст считается сущностью (тиб. ньингпо).
Перевод наставлений Ринпоче будет доступен на русском языке.
Расписание по часовым поясам и ссылки на трансляции:
Москва, Россия
6 мая (понедельник)
12:00 — комментарий Кхентрула Ринпоче к «Сущности жентонга» Джецуна Таранатхи
Ссылка на Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87085894366?pwd=SEtKTE5XaytUNmxrVU90ZitDOFdOdz09
ID: 870 8589 4366
Пароль: 108108
11 мая (суббота)
12:00 — комментарий Кхентрула Ринпоче к «Сущности жентонга» Джецуна Таранатхи
Ссылка на Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82275590234?pwd=ckpjRXc5eVhlYzlITTk4bTF6YTEyQT09
ID: 822 7559 0234
Пароль: 108108
25 мая (суббота)
12:00 — комментарий Кхентрула Ринпоче к «Сущности жентонга» Джецуна Таранатхи
Ссылка на Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81269461887?pwd=N2ZvdXJGb1dJa2g1eWljdzdhSnN0dz09
ID: 812 6946 1887
Пароль: 108108
1 июня (суббота)
12:00 — комментарий Кхентрула Ринпоче к «Сущности жентонга» Джецуна Таранатхи
Ссылка на Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87083844445?pwd=ODR6dzFDR3ZwSmVZS1JWTHB6RWdjUT09
ID: 870 8384 4445
Пароль: 108108
Join our global community in the recitation of Green Tara and Marichi mantra to remove all obstacles for Khentrul Rinpoche and the Global community. Jetsun Tara is the swiftest to respond to prayers for help.
Please submit your mantras on our mantra accumulation page here:
https://dzokden.org/ru/mantra-accumulation-ru/
We have schedule this event in advance of Khentrul Rinpoche’s birthday.
This practice will take place on the full moon and a lunar eclipse in March. During the time of the Lunar eclipse in your location, the merit of the offering is multiplied by 700,000 times. Please join us in our accumulation until then but especially anytime in our special 24 hour community organized practice. Members of our different communities in different countries will lead the mantras at different hours. All the mantras that are submitted to Green Tara and to Marichi will be dedicated on April 18th. May this lead to the flourishing of Dzokden and Rinpoche’s activities.
Schedule by Timezone
Central Europe and South Africa – MONDAY March 25, 2024 / 12:00 AM — 12:00 AM (TUESDAY March 26, 2024)
Melbourne, Australia – MONDAY March 25, 2024 / 10:00 AM — 09:59 AM (TUESDAY March 26, 2024)
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – MONDAY March 25, 2024 / 7:00 AM — 7:00 AM (TUESDAY March 26, 2024)
São Paulo, Brazil – SUNDAY March 24, 2024 / 8:00 PM — 8:00 PM (MONDAY March 25, 2024)
East Coast USA, Toronto – SUNDAY March 24, 2024 / 7:00 PM — 7:00 PM (MONDAY March 25, 2024)
West Coast USA – SUNDAY March 24, 2024 / 4:00 PM — 4:00 PM (MONDAY March 25, 2024)
Zoom Information
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84041168224?pwd=eng5RDlFT1pxSEdEWkNaK2VPYmk5UT09
Meeting ID: 840 4116 8224
Passcode: 616652
Questions?
Please email [email protected]
This event is available ONLINE only + Pre-recorded course in English.
Two times are available for the Oral Transmission to accommodate more timezones.
The Commentary has been pre-recorded by Khentrul Rinpoche
*Restricted teaching, please see info below*
Important note:
If you are already enrolled in the Secret Dakini Commentary in the Dzokden Learning Center, you will gain automatic access to oral transmissions. The information has been added to your course.
Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow the oral transmission to the Secret Dakini Nogndro. This incredibly poetic practice text presents all the path until Enlightenment concisely. It focuses on the ultimate meaning of the different preliminary practices. Some sections that are extensive in the other Kalachakra Sadhanas are presented here very concisely, whereas others appear in a more comprehensive, non-traditional way.
The “Secret Dakini Treasure” is especially recommended for those practicing wensum (Three Isolations) and the First Vajra Yoga. For this reason, Rinpoche wishes that practitioners planning to attend the longer wensum or 1st Yoga retreat attend this transmission beforehand.
Schedule by Timezone
Two online sessions will be offered to accommodate more timezones. You may join either of the 2 online sessions available.
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan
SUNDAY March 10, 2024
8:00 AM – USA Optimized Timezone Oral Transmission Secret Dakini Ngondro
4:00 PM – Asia / Vienna (Central Europe) Timezone Oral Transmission of Secret Dakini
Who can attend?
1) All who have received the Four Higher Empowerments with Rinpoche or, if not:
2) Any stable Dharma practitioner who has done the Ngöndro extensively in any tradition and has the aspiration to receive Higher Empowerment.
In both cases, they should know quite well the Kalachakra sadhanas “The Divine Ladder” and “Enlightening the Heart”. To get to know Rinpoche’s flexible approach to the Ngöndro, look at the chapter 14 of “Unveiling Your Sacred Truth — Book 2”. For online resources, visit: https://dzokden.org/getting-started
If you do not have the requirements yet, Rinpoche encourages you to prepare yourself as much as you can during the year in order to be able to attend.
Questions?
Please email [email protected]
Online and in-person in Austria at Dzokden Kalapa. In English with the potential of live translation in other languages (TBA).
This page is for Online registration only. If you would like to register to attend for the In-person event, please click here.
“Most followers of the Tibetan tantric Buddhist teachings are merely wearing an outer costume of tantra.” (Khentrul Rinpoché)
We are delighted to announce that Rinpoché accepted our request to present his exciting new tantra book, “The Tantric Path of Desire” in Europe. He will give related teachings, a blessing ceremony of the 6 Buddha Families, and address crucial questions of both new and veteran practitioners.
What is tantric practice really about? How to use our day-to-day ‘negative’ emotions as positive potential? How do the different levels of Buddhist paths relate to each other? How to use sexuality as part of the spiritual path according to the Buddha’s tantric teachings? Why does one need an authentic Guru to learn Tantra genuinely?
Preconceptions and misunderstandings about tantra have spread everywhere. Both in Western countries, as well as Asian countries where these teachings originated. Lost amidst extreme views and with a lack of proper clarification, it is difficult for practitioners to reach the essence of the tantric teachings. Rinpoché will teach about how the different levels of Buddhist teachings and their respective conduct of ethics support each other without contradiction. He will explain the varying degrees of tantric practice and what one should do to truly focus on tantra.
For Rinpoché, there is no doubt that different types of persons, including lay devotees, monastics, and non-religious ones, have the potential to learn the essence of tantric practice. This is because the tantric approach is closely aligned with our existing nature.
“In the tantric path, nothing that is naturally present in our mind needs to be eliminated. Instead, we learn means for putting these mental phenomena to work for us. When all these phenomena are subjugated by the brilliance of pure and true reality, they become our friends.” (Khentrul Rinpoché)
In the view of tantra, the pure aspects of our afflictive emotions are connected to specific Buddha Families. To strengthen this awareness and for the continued support of participants’ practice after the event, Rinpoché will bestow a Blessing Ceremony of the Six Buddha Families.
For the Q&A session, we thoroughly encourage you to gather all your questions that will clarify your understanding of tantra. Do not miss this precious opportunity.
Schedule by Timezone
This is a weekend of teachings with Khentrul Rinpoché, although he may decide to direct senior students to teach one of the sessions or lead group discussions in support of the participants’ learning process.
Vienna Time (CEST)
FRIDAY July 26, 2024
7:00 PM — 8:30 PM – Session 1: Free Public Teaching: Tantric Path of Desire — An Introduction
SATURDAY July 27, 2024
7:00 AM — 8:30 AM – Session 2
11:00 AM — 12:30 PM – Session 3
3:00 PM — 4:30 PM – Session 4
7:00 PM — 8:30 PM – Session 5
How to Prepare?
There are no prerequisites for these teachings. They are open to all, regardless of your background. Reading Rinpoché´s book, “The Tantric Path of Desire,” is suggested but not mandatory for participation. (It is currently available in English and can be purchased here).
Offer Dana for Khentrul Rinpoche
If you additionally wish to show your generosity to Rinpoché’s precious teachings and to his immense efforts, you can do it in-person at the end of the retreat or, if you are attending online you can offer Dana for Rinpoche here. This is completely voluntary.
Questions?
Please email [email protected] or [email protected]
