(source: Drikung Dharma Surya Center website)
In order to benefit all sentient beings, Drikung Dharma Surya Center (DDSC) is organizing a 100-Million Amidewa Recitation Retreat to be led by His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche near the National Capital of U.S.A., a country blessed with many attributes. The aspiration of this Special Event is to also promote innate human quality of love, compassion, wisdom, understanding, harmony and peace for our world.
Date: Dec 1 and Dec 2, 2012
Location: Jewish Community Center, 8900 Little River Turnpike, Fairfax, Virginia 22031, U.S.A.
Events: Amitabha Mantra Recitation, Amitabha Empowerment, Amitabha Chang Chok, Great Drikung Phowa transmission or “Drikung Phowa Chenmo”
Garchen Rinpoche has said: ”Everyone who has contributed to the 100-Million Amidewa Mantra Accumulation, whether by actually attending the retreat, or by offering mantras from all over the world, or by offering financial support to the retreat, or even by merely rejoicing in the virtue of this practice, has obtained the merit of 100-million mantra recitations.”
Garchen Rinpoche encourages everyone around the world to start reciting Amitabha’s mantra now.
For more information about the retreat and the mantra count, please visit the sponsoring Center’s website
http://www.drikungdharmasurya.org/100MillionAmidewaRecitationRetreat.html
Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa: Completion Stage Practices Retreat Nov 5 – 12 2012
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This week-long retreat with Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa will focus on the completion stage practices of highest yoga tantra. A particular focus for the retreat this year will be on the subtle energies and channels of the body as described in Buddhist tantra. These teachings will cover the remarkable, skillful methods of the Vajrayana which allow a practitioner to achieve full enlightenment in one brief lifetime! The unique methods and qualities of illusory body and clear light will be discussed, which is an extremely rare opportunity. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has noted that studying the illusory body and clear light as presented in such teachings allows one to much more deeply and clearly understand the nature of enlightenment itself and how it is achieved.
Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche is a former abbot of Gyumed Tantric College and is also a senior teacher from Sera Monastic University. In India he often taught on tantra to other Lamas and Geshes. During this retreat, Rinpoche will give those same teachings to Western students!
During this week-long, residential retreat, Rinpoche will teach on the essential points for practicing the completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. His teachings will be based on a text that has been translated into English and will be available to participants entitled The Condensed Meaning of the Path of the Vajrayana. Rinpoche will focus on the sections of the text that address the practices of the completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. This text covers the stages and paths of tantric practice and contains the essence of all the teachings in Lama Tsongkhapa’s Great Path of Secret Mantra. The important points of deity yoga and the generation stage sadhanas are covered as are the secret instructions related to the completion stage which allow one to progress in realizing the Illusory Body, Clear Light, and their union. Rinpoche will also cover the topic of the 9 mixings, which is an essential element also taught in the Six Yogas of Naropa.
The retreat will be held November 5 – 12, 2012 at the Am Kolel Sanctuary, Beallsville, MD. The sanctuary is about a 30 – 45 minute drive from Washington, DC.
For more information and to register, please visit the Guhyasamaja Center website. Registration closes on October 15th.
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