The fifth annual Chagdud Gonpa Drubchen will be held this summer at Rigdzin Ling. We are very fortunate that Rinpoche's invitation has been accepted by a number of Nyingma lamas, including Lama Tarchin Rinpoche,Bhakha Tulku Rinpoche, Jigmed Tromge Rinpoche, Lama Sonam Tsering, Gyatso Lama, Gyaltsray Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Tsering Gyaltsan. It will also be attended by sangha members from around the world. The Tibetan word Drubchen means "great accomplishment," and the ceremony includes an elaborate liturgy, continuous mantra recitation, extensive offerings of food, drink,flowers, incense and tormas and sacred dances and music. Great virtue and benefit are thereby accomplished for both the participants and all whom their minds touch upon during meditation, that is, all sentient beings without exception. Drubchen is an extremely swift and profound method for accumulating merit and wisdom, for purifying the emotional and conceptual afflictions of day-to-day life and for revealing mind's essential nature and its pure qualities of compassion and wisdom.
The tradition of Drubchen began when Guru Padmasambhava taught Vajrayana Buddhism in India and Tibet. His teachings have been sustained, teacher to student, through the generations and have come to be known as the Nyingma lineage, the first lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Guru Padmasambhava conducted Drubchens in India and Tibet and this form of religious practice has been maintained in an unbroken lineage to the present day. Chagdud Rinpoche conducted two Drubchen ceremonies for Tibetans during the loss of their country; these were so widely attended that the Chinese feared he was instigating subversive activity and sought to imprison or execute him. He was forced into hiding until he fled to India. The Drubchen ceremonies ceased in Tibet in 1959 and have only recently resumed.
It is considered particularly auspicious to conduct a Drubchen ceremony this year, which is Water Monkey Year by the Tibetan lunar calendar, because Guru Padmasambhava was born in a Monkey Year and, during his lifetime, promised that practitioners in drubchens held in the Monkey Year and invoking his name would certainly receive his direct blessing. This Drubchen will end on the anniversary of Guru Padmasambhava's birth, the tenth day of the Monkey Month of the Monkey Year. Guru Padmasambhava prophesied that for the practitioner bringing pure motivation and concentration to the practice, that one week of drubchen practice would be equal to a year of solitary practice and that the door to Copper Colored Mountain, Guru Padmasambhava 's pure land,would be open to the practitioner at the time of death.
This will be the fifth year Chagdud Gonpa has conducted this Padmasambhava Drubchen, a treasure of His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche entitled "Essence of Siddhi," a practice that combines the Three Roots. This year's drubchen is particularly meaningful for our sangha, who have benefited from the warmth of the blessings of His Holiness for many years, because it will take place within a year of his parinirvana.
The extensive drubchen preparations currently underway at Rigdzin Ling include the creation of many elaborate lama dancing robes, masks and shrine ornaments, which Rinpoche is making with the help of Lama Sonam of Dechhen Ling, Bhutanese artists Pema Tenzin and Karma Wangchuk and students Rinpoche is training in the Vajrayana ritual arts. Lama Sonam is teaching fourteen lama dances to students in the ritual arts program who will perform them on the last day of the drubchen. Attired in silk brocade robes, wearing masks with faces of peaceful and wrathful deities and accompanied by cymbals,horns and drums, the lama dancers will invoke the blessings of ultimate wisdom on behalf of sentient beings. The lama dancing is a celebration of the eight aspects of Guru Padmasambhava. The dances impart a sense of awe in the beholders and liberate their minds from mundane perception.
Among the drubchen preparations are efforts to finish the first floor of Tara House, where the ceremony will take place. To finish theTara shrine, commercial kitchen and dining room in time, Rigdzin Ling strongly requests the help of the greater sangha. We are in great need of skilled carpenters, cooks, artists and financial donations. Please help in whatever way you can-no offering of time or money is too small.
Date: Begins July 31 at 1:00 p.m. Ends August 8 at noonCost: $450. Discounts for CGF members: associate- 10%; Individual/family- 25%; Work exchange opportunities available
Reg: Pre-registration required by July 15th with 50% deposit
Call: Contact Laeh at Rigdzin Ling, (916) 623-2714 for further information
The fifth annual Chagdud Gonpa Drubchen will be held this summer at Rigdzin Ling. We are very fortunate that Rinpoche's invitation has been accepted by a number of Nyingma lamas, including Lama Tarchin Rinpoche,Bhakha Tulku Rinpoche, Jigmed Tromge Rinpoche, Lama Sonam Tsering, Gyatso Lama, Gyaltsray Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Tsering Gyaltsan. It will also be attended by sangha members from around the world. The Tibetan word Drubchen means "great accomplishment," and the ceremony includes an elaborate liturgy, continuous mantra recitation, extensive offerings of food, drink,flowers, incense and tormas and sacred dances and music. Great virtue and benefit are thereby accomplished for both the participants and all whom their minds touch upon during meditation, that is, all sentient beings without exception. Drubchen is an extremely swift and profound method for accumulating merit and wisdom, for purifying the emotional and conceptual afflictions of day-to-day life and for revealing mind's essential nature and its pure qualities of compassion and wisdom.
The tradition of Drubchen began when Guru Padmasambhava taught Vajrayana Buddhism in India and Tibet. His teachings have been sustained, teacher to student, through the generations and have come to be known as the Nyingma lineage, the first lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Guru Padmasambhava conducted Drubchens in India and Tibet and this form of religious practice has been maintained in an unbroken lineage to the present day. Chagdud Rinpoche conducted two Drubchen ceremonies for Tibetans during the loss of their country; these were so widely attended that the Chinese feared he was instigating subversive activity and sought to imprison or execute him. He was forced into hiding until he fled to India. The Drubchen ceremonies ceased in Tibet in 1959 and have only recently resumed.
It is considered particularly auspicious to conduct a Drubchen ceremony this year, which is Water Monkey Year by the Tibetan lunar calendar, because Guru Padmasambhava was born in a Monkey Year and, during his lifetime, promised that practitioners in drubchens held in the Monkey Year and invoking his name would certainly receive his direct blessing. This Drubchen will end on the anniversary of Guru Padmasambhava's birth, the tenth day of the Monkey Month of the Monkey Year. Guru Padmasambhava prophesied that for the practitioner bringing pure motivation and concentration to the practice, that one week of drubchen practice would be equal to a year of solitary practice and that the door to Copper Colored Mountain, Guru Padmasambhava 's pure land,would be open to the practitioner at the time of death.
This will be the fifth year Chagdud Gonpa has conducted this Padmasambhava Drubchen, a treasure of His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche entitled "Essence of Siddhi," a practice that combines the Three Roots. This year's drubchen is particularly meaningful for our sangha, who have benefited from the warmth of the blessings of His Holiness for many years, because it will take place within a year of his parinirvana.
The extensive drubchen preparations currently underway at Rigdzin Ling include the creation of many elaborate lama dancing robes, masks and shrine ornaments, which Rinpoche is making with the help of Lama Sonam of Dechhen Ling, Bhutanese artists Pema Tenzin and Karma Wangchuk and students Rinpoche is training in the Vajrayana ritual arts. Lama Sonam is teaching fourteen lama dances to students in the ritual arts program who will perform them on the last day of the drubchen. Attired in silk brocade robes, wearing masks with faces of peaceful and wrathful deities and accompanied by cymbals,horns and drums, the lama dancers will invoke the blessings of ultimate wisdom on behalf of sentient beings. The lama dancing is a celebration of the eight aspects of Guru Padmasambhava. The dances impart a sense of awe in the beholders and liberate their minds from mundane perception.
Among the drubchen preparations are efforts to finish the first floor of Tara House, where the ceremony will take place. To finish theTara shrine, commercial kitchen and dining room in time, Rigdzin Ling strongly requests the help of the greater sangha. We are in great need of skilled carpenters, cooks, artists and financial donations. Please help in whatever way you can-no offering of time or money is too small.
Date: Begins July 31 at 1:00 p.m. Ends August 8 at noonCost: $450. Discounts for CGF members: associate- 10%; Individual/family- 25%; Work exchange opportunities available
Reg: Pre-registration required by July 15th with 50% deposit
Call: Contact Laeh at Rigdzin Ling, (916) 623-2714 for further information
The fifth annual Chagdud Gonpa Drubchen will be held this summer at Rigdzin Ling. We are very fortunate that Rinpoche's invitation has been accepted by a number of Nyingma lamas, including Lama Tarchin Rinpoche,Bhakha Tulku Rinpoche, Jigmed Tromge Rinpoche, Lama Sonam Tsering, Gyatso Lama, Gyaltsray Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Tsering Gyaltsan. It will also be attended by sangha members from around the world. The Tibetan word Drubchen means "great accomplishment," and the ceremony includes an elaborate liturgy, continuous mantra recitation, extensive offerings of food, drink,flowers, incense and tormas and sacred dances and music. Great virtue and benefit are thereby accomplished for both the participants and all whom their minds touch upon during meditation, that is, all sentient beings without exception. Drubchen is an extremely swift and profound method for accumulating merit and wisdom, for purifying the emotional and conceptual afflictions of day-to-day life and for revealing mind's essential nature and its pure qualities of compassion and wisdom.
The tradition of Drubchen began when Guru Padmasambhava taught Vajrayana Buddhism in India and Tibet. His teachings have been sustained, teacher to student, through the generations and have come to be known as the Nyingma lineage, the first lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Guru Padmasambhava conducted Drubchens in India and Tibet and this form of religious practice has been maintained in an unbroken lineage to the present day. Chagdud Rinpoche conducted two Drubchen ceremonies for Tibetans during the loss of their country; these were so widely attended that the Chinese feared he was instigating subversive activity and sought to imprison or execute him. He was forced into hiding until he fled to India. The Drubchen ceremonies ceased in Tibet in 1959 and have only recently resumed.
It is considered particularly auspicious to conduct a Drubchen ceremony this year, which is Water Monkey Year by the Tibetan lunar calendar, because Guru Padmasambhava was born in a Monkey Year and, during his lifetime, promised that practitioners in drubchens held in the Monkey Year and invoking his name would certainly receive his direct blessing. This Drubchen will end on the anniversary of Guru Padmasambhava's birth, the tenth day of the Monkey Month of the Monkey Year. Guru Padmasambhava prophesied that for the practitioner bringing pure motivation and concentration to the practice, that one week of drubchen practice would be equal to a year of solitary practice and that the door to Copper Colored Mountain, Guru Padmasambhava 's pure land,would be open to the practitioner at the time of death.
This will be the fifth year Chagdud Gonpa has conducted this Padmasambhava Drubchen, a treasure of His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche entitled "Essence of Siddhi," a practice that combines the Three Roots. This year's drubchen is particularly meaningful for our sangha, who have benefited from the warmth of the blessings of His Holiness for many years, because it will take place within a year of his parinirvana.
The extensive drubchen preparations currently underway at Rigdzin Ling include the creation of many elaborate lama dancing robes, masks and shrine ornaments, which Rinpoche is making with the help of Lama Sonam of Dechhen Ling, Bhutanese artists Pema Tenzin and Karma Wangchuk and students Rinpoche is training in the Vajrayana ritual arts. Lama Sonam is teaching fourteen lama dances to students in the ritual arts program who will perform them on the last day of the drubchen. Attired in silk brocade robes, wearing masks with faces of peaceful and wrathful deities and accompanied by cymbals,horns and drums, the lama dancers will invoke the blessings of ultimate wisdom on behalf of sentient beings. The lama dancing is a celebration of the eight aspects of Guru Padmasambhava. The dances impart a sense of awe in the beholders and liberate their minds from mundane perception.
Among the drubchen preparations are efforts to finish the first floor of Tara House, where the ceremony will take place. To finish theTara shrine, commercial kitchen and dining room in time, Rigdzin Ling strongly requests the help of the greater sangha. We are in great need of skilled carpenters, cooks, artists and financial donations. Please help in whatever way you can-no offering of time or money is too small.
Date: Begins July 31 at 1:00 p.m. Ends August 8 at noonCost: $450. Discounts for CGF members: associate- 10%; Individual/family- 25%; Work exchange opportunities available
Reg: Pre-registration required by July 15th with 50% deposit
Call: Contact Laeh at Rigdzin Ling, (916) 623-2714 for further information
The fifth annual Chagdud Gonpa Drubchen will be held this summer at Rigdzin Ling. We are very fortunate that Rinpoche's invitation has been accepted by a number of Nyingma lamas, including Lama Tarchin Rinpoche,Bhakha Tulku Rinpoche, Jigmed Tromge Rinpoche, Lama Sonam Tsering, Gyatso Lama, Gyaltsray Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Tsering Gyaltsan. It will also be attended by sangha members from around the world. The Tibetan word Drubchen means "great accomplishment," and the ceremony includes an elaborate liturgy, continuous mantra recitation, extensive offerings of food, drink,flowers, incense and tormas and sacred dances and music. Great virtue and benefit are thereby accomplished for both the participants and all whom their minds touch upon during meditation, that is, all sentient beings without exception. Drubchen is an extremely swift and profound method for accumulating merit and wisdom, for purifying the emotional and conceptual afflictions of day-to-day life and for revealing mind's essential nature and its pure qualities of compassion and wisdom.
The tradition of Drubchen began when Guru Padmasambhava taught Vajrayana Buddhism in India and Tibet. His teachings have been sustained, teacher to student, through the generations and have come to be known as the Nyingma lineage, the first lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Guru Padmasambhava conducted Drubchens in India and Tibet and this form of religious practice has been maintained in an unbroken lineage to the present day. Chagdud Rinpoche conducted two Drubchen ceremonies for Tibetans during the loss of their country; these were so widely attended that the Chinese feared he was instigating subversive activity and sought to imprison or execute him. He was forced into hiding until he fled to India. The Drubchen ceremonies ceased in Tibet in 1959 and have only recently resumed.
It is considered particularly auspicious to conduct a Drubchen ceremony this year, which is Water Monkey Year by the Tibetan lunar calendar, because Guru Padmasambhava was born in a Monkey Year and, during his lifetime, promised that practitioners in drubchens held in the Monkey Year and invoking his name would certainly receive his direct blessing. This Drubchen will end on the anniversary of Guru Padmasambhava's birth, the tenth day of the Monkey Month of the Monkey Year. Guru Padmasambhava prophesied that for the practitioner bringing pure motivation and concentration to the practice, that one week of drubchen practice would be equal to a year of solitary practice and that the door to Copper Colored Mountain, Guru Padmasambhava 's pure land,would be open to the practitioner at the time of death.
This will be the fifth year Chagdud Gonpa has conducted this Padmasambhava Drubchen, a treasure of His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche entitled "Essence of Siddhi," a practice that combines the Three Roots. This year's drubchen is particularly meaningful for our sangha, who have benefited from the warmth of the blessings of His Holiness for many years, because it will take place within a year of his parinirvana.
The extensive drubchen preparations currently underway at Rigdzin Ling include the creation of many elaborate lama dancing robes, masks and shrine ornaments, which Rinpoche is making with the help of Lama Sonam of Dechhen Ling, Bhutanese artists Pema Tenzin and Karma Wangchuk and students Rinpoche is training in the Vajrayana ritual arts. Lama Sonam is teaching fourteen lama dances to students in the ritual arts program who will perform them on the last day of the drubchen. Attired in silk brocade robes, wearing masks with faces of peaceful and wrathful deities and accompanied by cymbals,horns and drums, the lama dancers will invoke the blessings of ultimate wisdom on behalf of sentient beings. The lama dancing is a celebration of the eight aspects of Guru Padmasambhava. The dances impart a sense of awe in the beholders and liberate their minds from mundane perception.
Among the drubchen preparations are efforts to finish the first floor of Tara House, where the ceremony will take place. To finish theTara shrine, commercial kitchen and dining room in time, Rigdzin Ling strongly requests the help of the greater sangha. We are in great need of skilled carpenters, cooks, artists and financial donations. Please help in whatever way you can-no offering of time or money is too small.
Date: Begins July 31 at 1:00 p.m. Ends August 8 at noonCost: $450. Discounts for CGF members: associate- 10%; Individual/family- 25%; Work exchange opportunities available
Reg: Pre-registration required by July 15th with 50% deposit
Call: Contact Laeh at Rigdzin Ling, (916) 623-2714 for further information
The fifth annual Chagdud Gonpa Drubchen will be held this summer at Rigdzin Ling. We are very fortunate that Rinpoche's invitation has been accepted by a number of Nyingma lamas, including Lama Tarchin Rinpoche,Bhakha Tulku Rinpoche, Jigmed Tromge Rinpoche, Lama Sonam Tsering, Gyatso Lama, Gyaltsray Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Tsering Gyaltsan. It will also be attended by sangha members from around the world. The Tibetan word Drubchen means "great accomplishment," and the ceremony includes an elaborate liturgy, continuous mantra recitation, extensive offerings of food, drink,flowers, incense and tormas and sacred dances and music. Great virtue and benefit are thereby accomplished for both the participants and all whom their minds touch upon during meditation, that is, all sentient beings without exception. Drubchen is an extremely swift and profound method for accumulating merit and wisdom, for purifying the emotional and conceptual afflictions of day-to-day life and for revealing mind's essential nature and its pure qualities of compassion and wisdom.
The tradition of Drubchen began when Guru Padmasambhava taught Vajrayana Buddhism in India and Tibet. His teachings have been sustained, teacher to student, through the generations and have come to be known as the Nyingma lineage, the first lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Guru Padmasambhava conducted Drubchens in India and Tibet and this form of religious practice has been maintained in an unbroken lineage to the present day. Chagdud Rinpoche conducted two Drubchen ceremonies for Tibetans during the loss of their country; these were so widely attended that the Chinese feared he was instigating subversive activity and sought to imprison or execute him. He was forced into hiding until he fled to India. The Drubchen ceremonies ceased in Tibet in 1959 and have only recently resumed.
It is considered particularly auspicious to conduct a Drubchen ceremony this year, which is Water Monkey Year by the Tibetan lunar calendar, because Guru Padmasambhava was born in a Monkey Year and, during his lifetime, promised that practitioners in drubchens held in the Monkey Year and invoking his name would certainly receive his direct blessing. This Drubchen will end on the anniversary of Guru Padmasambhava's birth, the tenth day of the Monkey Month of the Monkey Year. Guru Padmasambhava prophesied that for the practitioner bringing pure motivation and concentration to the practice, that one week of drubchen practice would be equal to a year of solitary practice and that the door to Copper Colored Mountain, Guru Padmasambhava 's pure land,would be open to the practitioner at the time of death.
This will be the fifth year Chagdud Gonpa has conducted this Padmasambhava Drubchen, a treasure of His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche entitled "Essence of Siddhi," a practice that combines the Three Roots. This year's drubchen is particularly meaningful for our sangha, who have benefited from the warmth of the blessings of His Holiness for many years, because it will take place within a year of his parinirvana.
The extensive drubchen preparations currently underway at Rigdzin Ling include the creation of many elaborate lama dancing robes, masks and shrine ornaments, which Rinpoche is making with the help of Lama Sonam of Dechhen Ling, Bhutanese artists Pema Tenzin and Karma Wangchuk and students Rinpoche is training in the Vajrayana ritual arts. Lama Sonam is teaching fourteen lama dances to students in the ritual arts program who will perform them on the last day of the drubchen. Attired in silk brocade robes, wearing masks with faces of peaceful and wrathful deities and accompanied by cymbals,horns and drums, the lama dancers will invoke the blessings of ultimate wisdom on behalf of sentient beings. The lama dancing is a celebration of the eight aspects of Guru Padmasambhava. The dances impart a sense of awe in the beholders and liberate their minds from mundane perception.
Among the drubchen preparations are efforts to finish the first floor of Tara House, where the ceremony will take place. To finish theTara shrine, commercial kitchen and dining room in time, Rigdzin Ling strongly requests the help of the greater sangha. We are in great need of skilled carpenters, cooks, artists and financial donations. Please help in whatever way you can-no offering of time or money is too small.
Date: Begins July 31 at 1:00 p.m. Ends August 8 at noonCost: $450. Discounts for CGF members: associate- 10%; Individual/family- 25%; Work exchange opportunities available
Reg: Pre-registration required by July 15th with 50% deposit
Call: Contact Laeh at Rigdzin Ling, (916) 623-2714 for further information
