Join Kalachakra Master Khentrul Rinpoche at Tibet House US (or online) for an inspiring evening. During the evening, Khentrul Rinpoche, a Jonang Kalachakra master, who focuses on the teachings from the pure land of Shambhala, will plant blessings in our mindstream of White Manjushri and Chenrezig that we can activate through our own practice and reflection on the texts.
White Manjushri helps us cultivate wisdom, specifically through gentle methods that help us teach others through our speech. Chenrezig is the Tibetan name for Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion.
To overcome the darkness in our world and manifest the Golden Age on Earth, we must cultivate both wisdom and compassion with the altruistic mind set on enlightenment. Wisdom and compassion are like the two wings of a bird: in order to fly, we must exercise both wings in equal measure. We need to recognize that deep work must be done on ourselves, and we should do our best and work diligently to transform our own minds. The more our minds are rooted in deep wisdom and compassion with altruistic intention, the less we contribute to suffering in the world and the better-equipped we will be to help others. We can not get discouraged and overwhelmed by the temporary negative conditions in our world. We can start our path to manifest the golden age right here. We can become the peace we want to see in our world.
Schedule by Timezone:
East Coast USA, Toronto – WEDNESDAY September 04, 2024 / 6:30 PM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment Melbourne, Australia –THURSDAY September 05, 2024 / 8:30 AM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – THURSDAY September 05, 2024 / 6:30 AM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment Central Europe and South Africa – THURSDAY September 05, 2024 / 12:30 AM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment Sao Paulo, Brazil – WEDNESDAY September 04, 2024 / 7:30 PM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment West Coast USA – WEDNESDAY September 04, 2024 / 3:30 PM: White Manjushri and Chenrezig Empowerment
This event is available both Online and In-person. This event will be in English with live Hungarian translation, other languages will be available on Zoom only.
At the request of the Hungarian group, Khentrul Rinpoche will speak on the divine female wisdom and how to use it on the tantric path. He will bestow the Wang (full empowerment) of the Goddess Red Saraswati who is the consort of Manjusrhi and the female embodiment of wisdom. The empowerment comes from the Jonang tradition, based on Jetsun Taranatha. Most of the tantras that are popular in other traditions come from him because Taranatha is the treasury of the tantra. His teaching will be on using feminine wisdom on the path of desire to work with our emotions. We do not have to abandon the challenges of our modern world. In fact, we can learn to face them directly and transform them into our path to liberation.
About Red Sarasvati Both Buddhists and non-Buddhists worship her equally. In the vedic tradition, Brahma created the world, and for a long time after, they didn’t have any sounds or sentient beings. Many gods came to him and said, “you made the world, but there are no beings and no sounds.” Then Brahma spilled water from his vase, and there became this incredible sound, this sound is known as the goddess Sarasvati. So that is why she is known as Brahma’s daughter. This is, in general, a story based on Hindu teachings, but the Tibetans have many, many different versions of her. Some of her forms are white with two arms. This form is a tantric 4-armed version and is powerful and magnetizing in nature. Saraswati is a wisdom deity but a female version, just like Manjushri. Many great practitioners consider her to be Manjushri’s secret consort. There are so many other lamas worshipping, especially scholars worshipping her instead of Manjushri.
Includes -Red Saraswati Empowerment Wang -Oral transmission of the practice text -Teaching on the Divine Female Nature -Teachings on the Tantric Path of Desire -Book signing for in-person attendees
How to Prepare? These teachings do not require prerequisites. You can buy a copy of the Tantric Path of Desire book at the book launch in Hungary or order it online here.
Schedule by Timezone
Central Europe and South Africa
Central Europe and South Africa
SATURDAY June 29, 2024
10:00 AM – Red Sarasvati Empowerment
2:00 PM – Oral Transmission and Teaching
Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia SATURDAY June 29, 2024
6:00 PM – Red Sarasvati Empowerment
10:00 PM – Oral Transmission and Teaching
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan SATURDAY June 29, 2024
4:00 PM – Red Sarasvati Empowerment
8:00 PM – Oral Transmission and Teaching
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil SATURDAY June 29, 2024
5:00 AM – Red Sarasvati Empowerment
9:00 AM – Oral Transmission and Teaching
East Coast USA, Toronto
East Coast USA, Toronto SATURDAY June 29, 2024
4:00 AM – Red Sarasvati Empowerment
8:00 AM – Oral Transmission and Teaching
West Coast USA
West Coast USA SATURDAY June 29, 2024
1:00 AM – Red Sarasvati Empowerment
5:00 AM – Oral Transmission and 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.
Tap into the power of all the Buddhas to open your heart to liberate all sentient beings. The infinite ultimate Bodhicitta needed to realize enlightenment and liberate beings as limitless as space, may be simple to understand but difficult to cultivate. In our world, it can be hard enough to develop worldly compassion and sympathy for friends and family; never mind those with opposing political views or who you perceived to have wronged you. To develop the heart of enlightenment big enough to genuinely care for the whole world selflessly like the great bodhisattvas of Shambhala takes a huge, continuous effort. Peace is possible for the world, but we need strong motivation and huge strength and dedication to create a Golden Age of Peace. Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow the Bodhisattva vow and a prayer on Shambhala to help connect us with the power of love and the warrior nature that never gives up like all the Shambhala Kalki Kings such as Pundarika an emanation of Chenrezig. Through this unique connection, we can with sustained effort, open our hearts to truly cultivate the capacity of unconditional love and compassion to create a Golden Age of time on earth. Khentrul Rinpoche will guide us in teaching how the Shambhala Kings are the ultimate compassionate warriors that we can become as well.
INCLUDED IN THIS EVENT -Bodhisattva vow and booklet, -Shambhala Prayer Oral transmission -A preliminary teaching and practice session with a Q&A session.
WHO IS THIS FOR? There are no prerequisites. It is suitable for all levels of practitioners. Previous Buddhist study and practice are helpful but not mandatory. If you wish for the enlightenment of all sentient beings, want people to know what unconditional love is, and are willing to work for the rest of your lives for this vision, then this vow is for you.
SUGGESTED OFFERINGS We have created three offering levels to help make this affordable to a range of attendees, as we must raise funds to cover the cost. The cost has been adjusted to cover the cost of living in various countries. Thank you for understanding so we can make this accessible to our global family. If your ability to pay makes it difficult to attend this program, we will make every effort to make attendance possible. Please email [email protected].
SCHEDULE BY TIMEZONE
Central Europe and South Africa
Central Europe and South Africa
SUNDAY
June 30, 2024
10:00 AM – Teaching on the Compassionate Shambhala Warrior with Bodhisattva Vows
2:00 PM – Be a Golden Age Changemaker and Shambhala Prayer Oral Transmissions
Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
SUNDAY
June 30, 2024
6:00 PM – Teaching on the Compassionate Shambhala Warrior with Bodhisattva Vows
10:00 PM – Be a Golden Age Changemaker and Shambhala Prayer Oral Transmissions
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan
SUNDAY
June 30, 2024
4:00 PM – Teaching on the Compassionate Shambhala Warrior with Bodhisattva Vows
8:00 PM – Be a Golden Age Changemaker and Shambhala Prayer Oral Transmissions
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil
SUNDAY June 30, 2024
5:00 AM – Teaching on the Compassionate Shambhala Warrior with Bodhisattva Vows
9:00 AM – Be a Golden Age Changemaker and Shambhala Prayer Oral Transmissions
East Coast USA, Toronto
East Coast USA, Toronto
SUNDAY
June 30, 2024
4:00 AM – Teaching on the Compassionate Shambhala Warrior with Bodhisattva Vows
8:00 AM – Be a Golden Age Changemaker and Shambhala Prayer Oral Transmissions
West Coast USA
West Coast USA
SUNDAY June 30, 2024
1:00 AM – Teaching on the Compassionate Shambhala Warrior with Bodhisattva Vows
5:00 AM – Be a Golden Age Changemaker and Shambhala Prayer Oral Transmissions
OFFERING DANA TO RINPOCHE As this is an online event, you can offer Dana to Rinpoche here.
While the Buddha taught that life is suffering, he also taught that there is a way to become free from suffering. In this evening’s talk, Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoche will teach powerful mind-training techniques from the Sutrayana path of Buddhism to help us learn to cope with life and transform it. While we can’t prevent life’s challenges, we can become skillful in dealing with them. Suffering can appear in our lives in so many forms, such as the easy-to-do identify suffering of illness, job loss, divorce, or other adverse life circumstances. Or suffering can be subtle and sneaky in the form of passing radiantly joyful emotions that are so wonderful we wish they would never leave. Even the best ice cream will melt in the hot sun if not eaten.
While our feelings and emotions can change momentarily, it does not mean we must be thrown into turmoil by sadness, jealousy, anger, hatred, or frustration. Nor does that mean we must reject our emotions and experiences, hide them, or shame them away. The Buddha taught many precise antidotes that can be learned and used for each emotion to help us work through them as they arise. When this happens we can better achieve all of our life priorities in work, family, or spiritual realization. These sutra antidotes can help practitioners at all levels. Even a tantric student wishing to work directly with emotion’s energy may find themselves in a moment when reducing the emotion’s intensity is necessary before transforming it.
Schedule by Timezone
Central Europe and South Africa – FRIDAY June 28, 2024 / 6:00 PM Melbourne, Australia – SATURDAY June 29, 2024 / 2:00 AM Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – SATURDAY June 29, 2024 / 12:00 AM Sao Paulo, Brazil – FRIDAY June 28, 2024 / 1:00 PM East Coast USA, Toronto – FRIDAY June 28, 2024 / 12:00 PM West Coast USA – FRIDAY June 28, 2024 / 9:00 AM
Offer Dana to Rinpoche
If you would like to offer Dana to Rinpoche virtually, you can do so here on Dzokden’s website. All donations to Dzokden are unrestricted contributions that allow us to direct the funds to Rinpoche’s projects based on their priority.
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.
SPONSOR THE PUJA
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.
West Coast USA SATURDAY
October 12, 2024
5:00 PM – 8:30 PM – Zhitro Hearing Liberation Empowerment & Teaching
SUNDAY
October 13, 2024
3:00 PM – 6:30 PM – Zhitro Neydren Purification and Liberation Puja
Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
SUNDAY
October 13, 2024
11:00 AM – 2:30 PM – Zhitro Hearing Liberation Empowerment & Teaching
MONDAY
October 14, 2024
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Zhitro Neydren Purification and Liberation Puja
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan
SUNDAY
October 13, 2024
8:00 AM – 11:30 AM – Zhitro Hearing Liberation Empowerment & Teaching
MONDAY
October 14, 2024
6:00 AM – 9:30 AM – Zhitro Neydren Purification and Liberation Puja
Central Europe and South Africa
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
São Paulo, Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil
SATURDAY
October 12, 2024
9:00 PM – 12:30 AM (SUNDAY October 13, 2024) – Zhitro Hearing Liberation Empowerment & Teaching
SUNDAY
October 13, 2024
7:00 PM – 10:30 PM – Zhitro Neydren Purification and Liberation Puja
East Coast USA, Toronto
East Coast USA, Toronto SATURDAY
October 12, 2024
8:00 PM – 11:30 PM – Zhitro Hearing Liberation Empowerment & Teaching
SUNDAY
October 13, 2024
6:00 PM – 9:30 PM – Zhitro Neydren Purification and Liberation Puja
