Registration open! (see below)
Let’s join together to conclude the final days of the Wood Dragon Year with power and auspiciousness at our group ritual ceremonies. These meditation practices include prayers and mantra recitations, teachings and daily feast offerings (tsok). Then, we will gather together to welcome the Wood Snake year, Wednesday Feb 28, to take the bodhichitta vow and recite the King of Aspiration Prayers.
It will be permissible to attend any of the practices for any amount of days, but you must have the specific empowerment for each.
Lama Padma will bestow the Red Vajrasattva and Padmakilaya empowerments on the first morning of their respective practice days, ie., Feb. 19th and 22rd. The empowerments will not be livestreamed. Vajrakilaya empowerment will not be given.
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Vajrasattva practice purifies the subtle mental and emotional habits that obscure our free, compassionate and open nature. Meditating with the skillful means of the Vajrayana tradition, it is swift and powerful. This lotus family Red Vajrasattva practice is drawn from the great teaching cycle known as “The Union of Enlightened Intent of the Three Kayas” revealed by Terton Padgyal Lingpa. Red Vajrasattva group retreats have been an annual event at Rigdzin Ling since 1993.
Padmakilaya was directly transmitted to Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche by Padgyal Lingpa himself and it became the wrathful guru practice that Rinpoche practiced for decades. It was then passed on to Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche who, in turn, bestowed it several times at Rigdzin Ling. He authorized Lama Padma Gyatso to bestow the empowerment and propagate this powerful antidote to strong harmful influences and emotions.
Vajrakilaya brings the practitioner into direct contact with the display of compassionate wrath, the intense energy of enlightened activity that subdues the forces of negativity. Guru Rinpoche transmitted this method of accomplishing Vajrakilaya to his heart disciple, Yeshe Tsogyal, who made it her main practice and was the source of her extraordinary spiritual attainment. The specific practice we will use is The Razor that Destroys at a Touch, from Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche’s Treasure Cycle.
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Wednesday
Date:2/19/25
Red Vajrasattva Drubchod
9AM-12:30 PM and 2:00PM- 7PM(PST)
In-person or livestream (Empowerment required)
Lama Padma will bestow the necessary empowerment in-person only.
Thursday
Date:2/20/25
Red Vajrasattva Drubchod
9AM-12:30 PM and 2:00PM- 7PM(PST)
In-person or livestream (Empowerment required)
Friday
Date: 2/21/25
Red Vajrasattva Drubchod
9AM-12:30PM and 2:00PM- 7PM(PST)
In-person or livestream (Empowerment required)
Saturday
Date:2/22/25
Padmakilaya Drubchod
9AM-12:30 PM and 2:00PM- 7PM(PST)
In-person or livestream (Empowerment required)
Lama Padma will bestow the necessary empowerment in-person only.
Sunday
Date: 2/23/25
Padmakilaya Drubchod
9AM-12:30PM and 2:00PM- 7PM(PST)
In-person or livestream (Empowerment required)
Monday
Date: 2/24/25
Padmakilaya Drubchod
9AM-12:30PM and 2:00PM- 7PM(PST)
In-person or livestream (Empowerment required)
Tuesday
Date:2/25/25
Vajrakilaya Drubchod
9AM-12:30PM and 2:00PM- 7PM(PST)
In-person or livestream (Empowerment required)
Vajrakilaya empowerment will not be given.
Wednesday
Date:2/26/25
Vajrakilaya Drubchod
9AM-12:30PM and 2:00PM- 7PM(PST)
In-person or livestream (Empowerment required)
Thursday
Date:2/27/25
Vajrakilaya Drubchod
9AM-12:30PM and 2:00PM- 7PM(PST)
In-person or livestream (Empowerment required)
Friday
Date:2/28/25
Losar- Bodhichitta Vow Ceremony
7-10AM(PST)
In-person only
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Making an offering for this 10 Day Losar retreat:
Whether you are able to participate in the retreat or not, you can still make a meaningful connection to these powerful practices by making an offering for the daily tsoks, butterlamps or for the general expenses of the retreat at https://www.chagdudgonpa.org/make-an-offering
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For more information about this 10 Day Losar Event at Rigdzin Ling, please send an email to: events@chagdudgonpa.org
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Send LIVESTREAM to 833-410-0363 to receive a text message reminder prior to every livestream teaching or practice that you wish to attend. You will immediately receive a reply that will enable you to select which event you want to be reminded about. This secure number is only used for these reminders.
15 minutes prior to every Precious Echoes Practice and The Way of the Bodhisattva Teachings you will receive a text message reminder with the login and password.
One day prior to every livestream Tsok Feast Practice, you will receive a reminder with the login and password.
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If you’re unable to afford an event, volunteering is a great way to attend. Volunteers help support retreats and events by cleaning, helping in the kitchen and fulfilling various tasks when necessary. Their contributions are invaluble to the Dharma activities of Rigdzin Ling.
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Making an offering to the event scholarship creates the conditions for those with limited financial resources to be able to attend retreats and teachings.
Just as light dispels darkness, the lamp represents the removal of ignorance so that you and all beings can attain the wisdom of enlightened mind.
Tsogs are hosted on relevant lunar days at several centers. Sangha members may make offerings to tsog as a way of dedicating merit and participating from afar.
Your generous offering supports the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of Rigdzin Ling's facilities, infrastructure and sacred structures.
