3/5 6pm – Ngondro Study Discussion Group for Ngondro Program Participants
3/9 6 pm – Troma Ngondro accumulations with Stefan for Ngondro Program Participants
3/16 11 am – Concise Tersar Ngondro Accumulations with Matthew for Ngondro Program Participants
3/19 5 pm – Longchenpa’s Four -Themed Precious Garland with Tulku Thadral Rinpoche:
YouTube Live: https://youtube.com/live/QqbBALc6UKI
3/22 11am – Questions and Answers with Tulku Thadral Rinpoche for Ngondro Program Participants
“At the time of a great teacher’s parinirvana, it is an opportunity to connect with the lama’s wisdom mind, which is always present. This is the best time to do practice.”
~ Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche of the Vajrayana Foundation
On February 11th 2025, the Vajrayana Foundation will celebrate the 3rd Decho Parinirvana Anniversary of Kyabje (Lord of Refuge) Dudjom Rinpoche III Sangye Pema Shepa with the Dorsem Lama Chopa Puja and Tsok. The first Session will begin at 9am and continue after the lunch break at 2pm Pacific. Join us at Pema Osel Ling or by YouTube livestream.
If you are unable to join us in person or online, Lama Sonam Rinpoche recommends that, for your own accumulation of merit, “it would be very beneficial during this time to do the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche or the Vajra Guru Mantra, to sponsor Tsok and Butterlamps, and make any kinds of offerings, including water bowl offerings, prostrations and circumambulations.”
Supplication Prayer: Cloud Banks of Blessings, A Supplication Prayer for Calling the Guru from Afar, by Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa Rinpoche “Many years ago, Sangye Gyalmo requested me for such a supplication. I, however, felt it unnecessary at the time and left it. She persisted and so as not to refuse her earnest requests, I reflected on the teaching that the common and uncommon spiritual accomplishments result from supplicating the guru as inseparable from one’s own mind – the indivisible three kayas – and wrote this on New Year’s Day, the Year of the Metal Ox. (Feb 12, 2021). ~ Dudjom Tulku, Pema Shepa
Translation by Christina Monson with Venerable Sean Price.
“Wether our teachers present in person are ordinary beings or emanations of Buddhas or Bodhisattvas, if we are able to pray to them considering them as the Buddha, there is absolutely no difference between them and the Buddha or Bodhisattva or yidam deity in person, because the source of blessings is devotion. So whichever profound practice we are undertaking, whether the generation phase or the perfection phase, we should begin by making the teacher’s blessings the path. There is no more to it than that. But as long as we have not received the blessings, we will not be genuinely on the path. It is said that if disciples who keep the commitments give themselves wholeheartedly, with devotion, to an authentic diamond master, they will obtain the supreme and common accomplishments even if they have no other methods. But without devotion to the teacher, even if we complete the approach and accomplishment practices of the yidams of the six tantra sections, we will never obtain the supreme accomplishment. And we will be unlikely to accomplish many of the ordinary accomplishments either, such as those of long life, wealth, or bringing beings under one’s power. Even if we do manage to achieve a little, it will have necessitated a lot of hardship and will have nothing to do with the profound path. When unmistaken devotion takes birth in us, obstacles on the path will be dispelled and we will make progress, obtaining all the supreme and ordinary accomplishments without depending on anything else. This is what we mean by the profound path of Guru Yoga.”
~ Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom
Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices
Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
Shambhala Publications
Publication of Dudjom Rinpoche’s biography was
made possible through support of
Jnanasukha Foundation
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