Dear Sangha Members & Dharma Friends,

Our beloved Thrangu Rinpoche has been with us for more than two weeks now since his return to the Monastery at the beginning of the month. We are so grateful and happy to be blessed with his presence.  A lot of you have enquired about and sent your best regards to Rinpoche, and understandably many of you are keen to see him and have requested individual appointments with him.  So we would like to give you a brief update here on Rinpoche’s schedules in the next few months.

Rinpoche is in retreat at present and he will be in retreat until July 19th.  From July 20th to 27th, there will be Long Life Prayers for Rinpoche at the Monastery.  This is a public event and everyone is welcome to participate.  After the Long Life Prayers, Rinpoche will be available to receive visitors and individual appointments can be made.

Thank you all for your regards and care for Rinpoche.  Let’s continue to pray for his good health and longevity!

Dear Dharma Friends,

Tashi Delek! We would like to request you all to join us for the Guru Rinpoche feast offering prayers on the “Guru Rinpoche or Padmasambhava Day” which is on May 19 at 7:30 pm (Sunday)
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The coming fourth Tibetan month or Vaisakha is an important time in the Buddhist calendar: it is a time when the anniversaries of the our Teacher the Buddha entering his mother’s womb, awakening to buddhahood, and passing to nirvana all coincide. During this month, it has become a tradition to follow the example of those who are vegetarian for their entire lives, and thus this month of Vaisakha is called the “vegetarian month” or “the month to not eat meat.”

What would it be like if we were to consider all the helpless animals bereft of any protection even though they treasure their own lives as much as we treasure ours and were vegetarian? What would it be like if we were Buddhists whose acts matched our thoughts and words? What would it be like if we were bodhisattvas who meditated on compassion?

Friends, if you like happiness, harmony, equality, honesty, compassion, and so forth, please encourage the people you love to do this. Thank you very much.

5 • 24 ~ 26 • 2013

An extensive commentary by Thrangu Rinpoche on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen: the Direct Instructions of the Great Compassionate One by Karma Chagmey. Whatever your lifestyle may be and whatever form your practice may take, if it includes the practice of Mahamudra it will be successful. Mahamudra is essential or necessary practice even if you do other practices as well.

Mahakala Practice
February 3 ~ 9

Mahakala is known as the “Dharma protector.” The emanation of Avalokiteshvara, Mahakala eliminates obstacles in one’s practice of dharma, keeping away deception and delusion. Having fierce and powerful energy, Mahakala takes on different forms and colors. When chanting the Mahakala mantra or reciting his sadhana, practitioners are protected from negative forces. One’s Dharma practice is supported by the purifying of negative thoughts and actions.

Celebration of Yogi Milerapa’s Anniversary
February 24

Using the text “Blazing Wisdom-The Guru Yoga and Feast Offering to the Great Jetsun Milarepa” composed by Jamgom Kongtrol Lodro Thaye, please join us in celebrating the parinirvana of The Great Yogi Milarepa. The practice of Guru Yoga is praised again and again by the victors of all Tantras. When called, Milarepa surely looks upon us with compassion, and showers us with blessings.
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