Online or In-Person: 8 Shambhala Dharma Kings Empowerment & Retreat with Khentrul Rinpoche

Online or In-Person: Vajrapani Empowerment and Retreat with Khentrul Rinpoche

To attend in person in Austria you must register on the Suchandra Website Here.

The Empowerment is on Saturday July 2nd. Translation is available for the weekend but is to be determined for the retreat.

• South Africa – Register here
• Bhutanese Register Here (English & Znongkha)
• 中文 (Traditional Chinese)
• 中文 (Simplified Chinese)
• Монгол
• Deutsche (Germany, Switzerland, Austria)
• Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
• Español (Puerto Rico, Spain and South America)
• Italiano (italy)
• Magyar (Hungary)
• Portuguese (Brasil & Portugal)
• Română (Romania)
• Francais

VAJRAPANI: Tame Your Demons
Tap into the power of all the Buddhas to tame your internal and external obstacles to realization. Vajrapani, the embodiment of the power of all the Buddhas of the ten directions and the three times is a fearless Bodhisattva of the tenth level and the guardian of the Buddhist tantras.

Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow a very special empowerment of Vajrapani known as the Demon Destroyer and the practice that Lama Lutrin used in the retreat in which he cured himself of Leprosy. This empowerment and retreat will help practitioners embrace their fierce power within to tame their obstacles on their path.

KHENTRUL RINPOCHE PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH VAJRAPANI
“For me Vajrapani is personally special because my root lama, Lama Lobsang Trinley, was considered as the actual Vajrapani. When he practiced it, he could completely heal his leprosy during a long solitary retreat. At the end of his retreat he achieved the same realization of the great Indian mahasiddhas.
My root Lama’s teachings on Vajrapani were incredibly special. As many high Lamas came to our monastery in order to receive the Vajrapani empowerment from him, I could receive it many times. All these Lamas who came had no doubt about his realization. They said that he himself was the actual Vaprapani, as they were witnessing my Lama taming incredibly powerful demons who wish to bring harm to our regions.”

This practice has a very special connection to our institute as the Shambhala King Suchandra, who requested the Buddha the Kalachakra Tantra Teachings and established these teachings in Shambhala, was an emanation of Vajrapani.

INCLUDED IN THE RETREAT
Vajrapani Empowerment (Jenang), Oral transmission of the practice, a preliminary teaching, practice sessions and a Q&A session. The practice sessions will be guided by his senior students.

VAJRAPANI FOR KALACHAKRA STUDENTS
Rinpoche says that we do not necessarily need to practice Vajrapani separately, we just need to build a connection. Then, recollecting him, you can integrate it within your own practice, for example within the Kalachakra Path. You can either practice Vajrapani as your main practice and see it as non-contradictory with the Kalachakra Path, or you can focus on the Kalachakra system without seeing the separation from Vajrapani, as he is even included in the Kalachakra mandala.

WHO IS THIS FOR or HOW TO PREPARE MYSELF?
There are no prerequisites at all. It is suitable for all levels of practitioners. Previous Buddhist study and practice are helpful but not mandatory. If you are new to the buddhist path, you may also like to study Khentrul Rinpoche’s “What’s Real?” course from our learning center and to read Rinpoche’s books “Unveiling Your Sacred Truth” — Books 1 and 2. For knowing more about Rinpoche’s root Lama’s biography and his connection with Vajrapani, you can find more information in the book “The Realm of Shambhala” where Rinpoche wrote about the whole Kalachakra lineage he holds.

HOW THE ONLINE EMPOWERMENT WILL WORK
1) Register for each attendee that will be receiving the empowerment. You will be added to the course on learn.dzokden.org
2) You must receive the empowerment online in real-time. We do not record the empowerments. Before the empowerment, you will receive information on some simple supplies you should get to help make the experience as authentic as possible. If you are not able to get them all don’t worry. They are symbolic and you can still receive the empowerment. More important you must understand what is happening. Just attending an empowerment does not mean you receive it. You must know what is going on. To ensure everyone will receive the empowerment, Rinpoche will kindly make his instruction booklet available to you as an eBook so you can follow along so you know exactly what is happening. You are not allowed to share this program book with anyone else or give them access to the empowerment. This is private for your personal use. Rinpoche typically gives the eBook out the night before but if this is a technical problem for you (you can’t read an eBook and be on zoom at the same time) please indicate on the registration form so we can work to accommodate you.
3) You will receive access to the zoom for each of the sessions.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? email [email protected]

Online: Vajra Vega Empowerment (Jenang) with Khentrul Rinpoche

This page is for registration in Australia, Western Europe, New Zealand, UK, Asia, America, and Canada. 

• South Africa – Register here
• Bhutanese Register Here (English & Znongkha)
• 中文 (Traditional Chinese)
• 中文 (Simplified Chinese)
• Монгол
• Deutsche (Germany, Switzerland, Austria)
• Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
• Español (Puerto Rico, Spain and South America)
• Italiano (italy)
• Magyar (Hungary)
• Portuguese (Brasil & Portugal)
• Română (Romania)
• Francais

This is a very rare and precious opportunity to receive the Vajra Vega Jenang (empowerment) in the stupa at Khamar Monastery, near Shambhala Land in the Gobi desert. This space is revered by the Mongolians as a portal to the Sublime Realm of Shambhala. It is a precious opportunity to have a Jonang master come to the land to bestow this empowerment. The monks of Khamar Khid Monastery have been reciting the short sadhana of Vajra Vega continuously since 1827.  The Kalachakra Initiation and teachings have not been taught in this location since 1937. This a rare and unique opportunity to help revive these precious teachings from the Shambhala dharma kings.

Vajra Vega, the wrathful form of Shri Kalachakra and the King of the Wrathful Deities, is the protector aspect in Kalachakra. There are many benefits to establishing a connection with Vajra Vega. The essence of Vajravega is that he represents the non-conceptual primordial wisdom which arises when the winds enter the central channel. This is the method by which the root ignorance of conceptuality is cut. It is also the basis or the container in which the precious six vajra yogas arise. When we establish a wheel of protection with Vajra Vega, we are symbolically stopping the arising of dualistic appearances, and abiding within the non-conceptual wisdom.

It is very important and special for us to connect with this aspect of Kalachakra in our lifetime so that we may be benefited from the connection in the Bardo state after death. While we must do our best to create karmic propensities to realize our own sacred truth during this life, if we do not then in the Bardo state after death, we may be able to recognise Vajra Vega in the sea of wrathful Deities and be liberated.

SCHEDULE
Melbourne, Australia – 9th August – 1.40 pm
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – August 9th at 11:40 AM
Hanoi, Vietnam – August 9th at 10:40 AM
Thimphu, Bhutan -August 9th at 9:40 AM
Romania – 9th August – 6.40 am
Central Europe – 9th August – 5.40 am
South Africa – 9th August – 6.40 am
Sao Paulo, Brazil – 9th August – 00.40 am
East Coast USA, Toronto – 8th August – 11.40 pm
West Coast USA – 8th August – 8.40 pm

OW THE ONLINE EMPOWERMENT WILL WORK
1) Register for each attendee that will be receiving the empowerment. You will be added to the course on learn.dzokden.org
2) You must receive the empowerment online in real-time. We do not record empowerment. Before the empowerment, you will receive information on some simple supplies you should get to help make the experience as authentic as possible. If you are not able to get them all don’t worry. We do not offer empowerment books for this event.
3) You will receive access to the zoom for each of the sessions the week of the empowerment.

VARIABLE PROGRAM COSTS
The Dharma is not for sale but we do have cost to put on global events. We have created 3 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 for the cost of living in various countries. Thank you for understanding so that 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.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? email [email protected] 

Online: Secret Dakini Treasure Commentary and Oral Transmission

Secret Dakini Treasure – Scroll down for Schedule by Timezone
one day course with Oral Transmission and Commentary by Khentrul Rinpoche
*restricted teaching, see infos below*

• South Africa – Register here
• Bhutanese Register Here (English & Znongkha)
• 中文 (Traditional Chinese)
• 中文 (Simplified Chinese)
• Монгол
• Deutsche (Germany, Switzerland, Austria)
• Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
• Español (Puerto Rico, Spain and South America)
• Italiano (italy)
• Magyar (Hungary)
• Portuguese (Brasil & Portugal)
• Română (Romania)
• Francais

In this teaching, Rinpoche will present for the first time his new concise Kalachakra Sadhana called “Secret Dakini Treasure”. He will give the oral transmission and oral commentary. He composed this sadhana under very auspicious secret conditions. In order to make sure that the English translation would be in accord with the meaning, Rinpoche himself sketched an own English translation which was later on carefully developed and edited by the Dzokden Sangha.

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 which 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 practising wensum (Three Isolations) and the First Vajra Yoga. For this reason Rinpoche wishes that practitioners planning to attend the longer wensum retreats attend this transmission beforehand.

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 the Higher Empowerments. 

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 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_7hOfNP5QU

If you do not have the requirements yet, Rinpoche encourages you to prepare yourself as much as you can along the year in order to be able to attend.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? email [email protected]