This event is available both Online and In-person.
Khentrul Rinpoche has agreed to bestow Karma Lingpa’s Zhitro Hearing Liberation empowerment and perform a Purification Puja at the request of the Chinese language group during the time of The Double Ninth Festival. The Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday observed in the Lunar calendar on the ninth day of the ninth month. Chinese people pay their respects to their ancestors. This is the second time a year that Chinese people have visited the graves of their ancestors.
This “hearing liberation” teaching cycle is part of the highest yoga tantra. Khentrul Rinpoche has a deep connection with this practice and has often received this empowerment. This cycle involves many liberation prayers and forms of practice. Due to its extensive preparation requirements, it is rarely performed publicly. However, it is highly beneficial for life, death, bardo, and rebirth processes and is especially good for repaying parents and ancestors. The Nyedren Purification and Liberation Puja helps sentient beings who have passed and are wandering in the bardo or any of the other six realms to liberate them to Samtrabhadrahood. This ceremony is effective for beings who have died, no matter how long ago. Through the prayer and the ritual performed, the consciousness of the deceased merges with the inseparable wisdom of the hundred deities. To conclude the ritual, we will burn all of the name tablets of the living and deceased. Despite the need for Khentrul Rinpoche’s extensive preparation, he has prepared this for us out of his compassion. Do not miss this important opportunity to participate now; you never know when death will come or when you can help your loved ones again.
ABOUT ZHITRO Zhitro, meaning “peaceful and wrathful,” denotes the assembly of forty-two peaceful and fifty-eight wrathful deities and was buried by Guru Padmasambhava in the eighth century. The teaching was revealed as terma in the 14th Century by the terton Karma Lingpa. These Buddhas are alternatively referred to as the bardo deities. The term ‘bardo’ signifies an ‘intermediate state,’ one of six such states, with the reference here being to the bardo of dying — the transitional phase between death and rebirth. During this phase, the one hundred Zhitro deities manifest themselves to the deceased to facilitate their liberation from the bardo. At some stages in the Bardo state, people need peaceful Deities; in other stages, people need wrathful ones to benefit their journey of awakening.
The teachings of Zhitro, as imparted by Guru Padmasambhava, establish a direct conduit for practitioners to engage with the bardo deities through dedicated practice and supplication. This empowerment is a blessing in our lives and prepares us for liberation in the bardo following our death. As per the Bardo Thodrol, a seminal text on the bardo in Vajrayana Buddhism (widely known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead), bardo deities present themselves to the deceased over a period of forty-nine days while the deceased is in the bardo. Initially, the peaceful deities appear, and if the deceased fails to recognize and attain liberation through these peaceful deities, the wrathful deities subsequently manifest. If the deceased cannot connect with the deities during this forty-nine-day period, their consciousness is drawn back into rebirth within one of the six realms.
Course Information This first section will provide you with general information about the course that you will need to participate. This includes:
Overview: If you ever get lost, this page will help you remember where everything is and how to access what you need.
Online Checklist:To join the live practice sessions for this course, you must ensure that all necessary technologies are installed and ready to use. For this reason, we have compiled a short guidebook for setting up Zoom and preparing for the various sessions.
Live Session Schedule: This page provides all of the links for the live webinar sessions. The schedule is available in a variety of time zones so that you can be sure not to miss anything.
Gratitude and Generosity: Here we take a moment to thank those who have made this event possible and to provide details for how to offer Dana or give support so that we can all benefit from future activities.
Access the Teachings Later The live teaching sessions will be recorded and made available in this course afterward. Please return the next week, and the teachings will be made available. We ask you to attend as many of the live courses as much as you can. This will allow you to participate in the question-and-answer sessions and practice with our community simultaneously. Oral Transmissions and Empowerment are not recorded. You must sign in at the broadcast time to receive the empowerment and oral transmission.
Schedule by Timezone
Central Europe and South Africa SUNDAY
October 13, 2024
2:00 AM — 5:30 AM – Zhitro Hearing Liberation Empowerment & Teaching
MONDAY
October 14, 2024 12:00 AM — 3:30 AM – Zhitro Neydren Purification and Liberation Puja QUESTIONS?
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This event is available both Online and In-person.
Khentrul Rinpoche has agreed to bestow the Jenang of the White Dzambhala. While in general, the Wealth Yaksha Dzambhala is connected with generosity and Ratnasambhava, each form or color of the deity has a slightly different focus. White Dzambhala is seen as a manifestation of the Bodhisattva Chenrezig. He can eradicate poverty through cleansing negative karma and karmic obstacles while advancing our Bodhicitta aspiration. White Dzambhala brings us the knowledge of ethical discipline and purity. When there is mental clarity, ethics, and wisdom, financial resources can be put to their most effective use. To have financial stability we need purity in our understanding and view of financial resources. We have been working over the years as a community to cultivate a connection with all aspects of Dzambhala and in doing so, refine our ability to magnetize the true wealth, the Dharma to create a Golden Age.
This includes both the empowerment and a practice for White Dzambhala.
How to Prepare? There are no prerequisites for these teachings.
Schedule by Timezone
East Coast USA, Toronto SUNDAY September 15, 2024 10:00 AM — 12:00 PM – White Dzambhala Empowerment and Practice Teaching
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.
This is a FREE event and available both Online and In-person.
The Thousand Buddha Puja is rooted in the Nyingma Lineage, tracing back to King Songtsen Gampo, an emanation of Avalokiteshvara. 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.
Connecting and learning from the aspirations of the Buddhas, 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. 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.
Joins us in Toronto and online to recite these names with Khentrul Rinpoche.
Schedule by Timezone
East Coast USA, Toronto – SATURDAY September 14, 2024 / 3:00 PM Melbourne, Australia – SUNDAY September 15, 2024 / 5:00 AM Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – SUNDAY September 15, 2024 / 3:00 AM Central Europe and South Africa – SATURDAY September 14, 2024 / 9:00 PM São Paulo, Brazil – SATURDAY September 14, 2024 / 4:00 PM West Coast USA – SATURDAY September 14, 2024 / 12:00 PM
This event is available both Online and In-person.
Open to All Students who wish to Practice Deity Yoga
This year Khentrul Rinpoche did not offer the Kalachakra Empowerment Wang online. Due to the request of many students who wish to prepare to be eligible for the Vajra Yoga Kalachakra completion stage practice, Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the Innate Kalachakra Jenang.
In this weekend retreat, Rinpoche will introduce the Innate Kalachakra Deity to students who are completely new to the practice and offer more extensive information on the Kalachakra mandala for those continuing to deepen their practice. While the Jonang lineage emphasizes the completion stage practice and does not focus on the extensive generation stage practices, they do have them.
This teaching cycle will gradually introduce you to the Kalachakra mandala and the more extensive Sadhanas for the Sahaja Kalachakra.
By receiving the Innate Kalachakra Jenang Empowerment, you will have Khentrul Rinpoche’s blessing and permission to engage in the preliminary practices of the Highest Yoga Tantra, Kalachakra, including self-visualization as the Deity. This concise empowerment helps us connect with the essence of the Kalachakra deity.
Innate Kalachakra (Sahaja Kalachakra) is the main deity practice emphasized by the Jonang Lineage and the gateway to the completion stage. This lineage emphasizes the completion stage practice of the profound 6 Vajra yogas. As such, they choose to keep this deity practice simple and accessible in order to guide people towards their non-conceptual state as swiftly as possible.
This indestructible Vajra yoga Path can lead practitioners to achieve enlightenment in a single lifetime or to attain a rebirth in the Bodhisattva pure realm of Shambhala. Just connecting with this empowerment plants the seed for your future enlightenment whether you choose to activate them in this life or the next.
Included: -Overview of the Kalachakra Mandala -Meaning of the Mandala -Deities in the Mandala -Extensive Innate Kalachakra Sadhana
How does an Online Course Work? You will receive the link to the course in the Dzokden Learning Center.
Live Course Materials The course will be held through “Zoom“. 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 need this link (or Zoom Meeting ID and Password) to access the online sessions.
The Zoom link (as well as the Zoom Meeting ID and Password) will be provided in your email and in the Dzokden learning center at the latest two days before the online event.
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. Empowerments and Oral transmissions need to be received in real-time. They are never recorded.
Schedule by Timezone
Central Europe and South Africa FRIDAY December 13, 2024 11:00 PM — 12:30 AM (SATURDAY December 14, 2024) – Session 1: Innate Kalachakra Jenang
SATURDAY December 14, 2024 1:00 AM — 2:30 AM – Session 2 3:30 AM — 5:00 AM – Session 3 5:30 AM — 7:00 AM – Session 4 11:00 PM — 12:30 AM (SUNDAY December 15, 2024) – Session 5
SUNDAY December 15, 2024 1:00 AM — 2:30 AM – Session 6 3:30 AM — 5:00 AM – Session 7 5:30 AM — 7:00 AM – Session 8
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
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.
