Guru Rinpoche Day falls on Saturday, August 22nd, and we will celebrate with the Tsokye Thuk Thik puja and Tsok at Pema Osel Ling at 8:00 AM, or you may join us via YouTube Live (link).
On the tenth day, we remember Guru Rinpoche—not simply as a great master of the past, but as the living presence of awakened wisdom.
H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje reminds us that the tenth days of the waxing moon mark the extraordinary deeds of Guru Padmasambhava’s liberating life story.
On this tenth day, Guru Rinpoche was thrown into the River Ganges by the tirthikas. Through his miraculous power, he reversed the flow of the river, rose into the sky, and performed a vajra dance. Inspiring devotion and establishing the kingdom in the Buddha’s teachings, he became known as Guru Khading Tsal — Guru Rinpoche soaring in the sky like the Garuda.
But the significance of the tenth day reaches beyond remembering these extraordinary events.
Dudjom Rinpoche quotes Guru Rinpoche’s own vajra promise:
“On the tenth day of every month
To you I will come in person, and this I swear.”
For practitioners of Guru Yoga, the tenth day is therefore a precious opportunity to remember the Guru, renew our devotion, gather merit, and make aspirations for the benefit of all beings.
Happy Guru Rinpoche Day. 🙏🏼
Based on The Concise Benefits of the Festival of the Tenth Day, by H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje.
