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
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
East Coast USA, Toronto
SUNDAY September 15, 2024 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM – White Dzambhala Empowerment and Practice Teaching
Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia MONDAY September 16, 2024 12:00 AM – 2:00 AM – White Dzambhala Empowerment and Practice Teaching
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan SUNDAY September 15, 2024 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM (MONDAY September 16, 2024) – White Dzambhala Empowerment and Practice Teaching
Central Europe and South Africa
Central Europe and South Africa SUNDAY September 15, 2024 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM – White Dzambhala Empowerment and Practice Teaching
São Paulo, Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil SUNDAY September 15, 2024 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM – White Dzambhala Empowerment and Practice Teaching
West Coast USA
West Coast USA SUNDAY September 15, 2024 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM – 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
