Dear Sangha,
Tashi deleg!
In June 1987, about 50 of my students journeyed to Boulder, Colorado, to receive an empowerment from His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche.
When we arrived in Boulder last year I requested that His Holiness give a Guru Rinpoche empowerment from his own treasure. This request was made in recognition that H. H. Khyentse Rinpoche is the representative of Guru Rinpoche on the face of this planet, and that now is a time when the practice of the Khyentse treasures will create the most spiritual increase. I deeply desired that my student should have this great blessing.
When I made this request, His Holiness said he would give the empowerment to me alone because, unless the practice commitment could be kept, the empowerment would be of no benefit. I assured him that my students were very diligent and would not lose their commitment. I also promised that I would create a Drub Chen every year. His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche then empowered my students and me into his precious Guru Rinpoche treasure.
Drub Chen means "great accomplishment." Of the various levels of practice, it is the highest. All substances are gathered, with nothing missing, and the practice is done within the seal of strict, inviolate retreat. Those students who received empowerment from His Holiness should participate in at least one Drub Chen in their lifetime.
Other students who were not able to go to Boulder but who wish to do this practice and will keep the daily mantra commitment can receive the empowerment from me at the opening of the retreat at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 25th. The retreat seal will be established at the time, and from then until dawn Sunday, July 3rd, no one will come or go. From the time of the empowerment, day and night for a week, continuous practice will be done in eight shifts per day. Each shift will correspond to the blessing of the altar, the practitioners and the retreat ground.
The preparations have already begun with two persons working full time sewing victory banners and lama dancing costumes. Two of our younger sangha members will be trained as lama dancers, an elaborate sand mandala will be created as well as an altar that is a full and exquisite display of the gathered substances.
There will be a daily session of lama dancing. The retreatants as witnesses to this mudra of dance participate by prayer and mantra to liberate the obstacles to enlightenment. During the seven days there will be four different fire pujas and the retreat will conclude with a second empowerment.
Guru Rinpoche prophesied that the accomplishment of participating in one week of Drub Chen is equal to a year of solitary practice. If your mind is fully concentrated and does not move from its intention to realize full benefit from this method, and if you practice according to the lineage instructions of this profound treasure, the door to Copper Mountain, Guru Rinpoche's pureland, will be open to you at the time of death. Benefit accrues not only to you, but also throughout the world, by the purification of obscuration and the increase of peace.
I believe that this may be the first time that a Drub Chen has been created in the West. You who went to Boulder have already demonstrated your good karma by taking this empowerment from Khyentse Rinpoche. It is my prayer that this Drub Chen will vastly speed and increase your spiritual attainment into the full fruit of enlightenment.
In the dharma,
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
Tashi deleg!
In June 1987, about 50 of my students journeyed to Boulder, Colorado, to receive an empowerment from His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche.
When we arrived in Boulder last year I requested that His Holiness give a Guru Rinpoche empowerment from his own treasure. This request was made in recognition that H. H. Khyentse Rinpoche is the representative of Guru Rinpoche on the face of this planet, and that now is a time when the practice of the Khyentse treasures will create the most spiritual increase. I deeply desired that my student should have this great blessing.
When I made this request, His Holiness said he would give the empowerment to me alone because, unless the practice commitment could be kept, the empowerment would be of no benefit. I assured him that my students were very diligent and would not lose their commitment. I also promised that I would create a Drub Chen every year. His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche then empowered my students and me into his precious Guru Rinpoche treasure.
Drub Chen means "great accomplishment." Of the various levels of practice, it is the highest. All substances are gathered, with nothing missing, and the practice is done within the seal of strict, inviolate retreat. Those students who received empowerment from His Holiness should participate in at least one Drub Chen in their lifetime.
Other students who were not able to go to Boulder but who wish to do this practice and will keep the daily mantra commitment can receive the empowerment from me at the opening of the retreat at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 25th. The retreat seal will be established at the time, and from then until dawn Sunday, July 3rd, no one will come or go. From the time of the empowerment, day and night for a week, continuous practice will be done in eight shifts per day. Each shift will correspond to the blessing of the altar, the practitioners and the retreat ground.
The preparations have already begun with two persons working full time sewing victory banners and lama dancing costumes. Two of our younger sangha members will be trained as lama dancers, an elaborate sand mandala will be created as well as an altar that is a full and exquisite display of the gathered substances.
There will be a daily session of lama dancing. The retreatants as witnesses to this mudra of dance participate by prayer and mantra to liberate the obstacles to enlightenment. During the seven days there will be four different fire pujas and the retreat will conclude with a second empowerment.
Guru Rinpoche prophesied that the accomplishment of participating in one week of Drub Chen is equal to a year of solitary practice. If your mind is fully concentrated and does not move from its intention to realize full benefit from this method, and if you practice according to the lineage instructions of this profound treasure, the door to Copper Mountain, Guru Rinpoche's pureland, will be open to you at the time of death. Benefit accrues not only to you, but also throughout the world, by the purification of obscuration and the increase of peace.
I believe that this may be the first time that a Drub Chen has been created in the West. You who went to Boulder have already demonstrated your good karma by taking this empowerment from Khyentse Rinpoche. It is my prayer that this Drub Chen will vastly speed and increase your spiritual attainment into the full fruit of enlightenment.
In the dharma,
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
Tashi deleg!
In June 1987, about 50 of my students journeyed to Boulder, Colorado, to receive an empowerment from His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche.
When we arrived in Boulder last year I requested that His Holiness give a Guru Rinpoche empowerment from his own treasure. This request was made in recognition that H. H. Khyentse Rinpoche is the representative of Guru Rinpoche on the face of this planet, and that now is a time when the practice of the Khyentse treasures will create the most spiritual increase. I deeply desired that my student should have this great blessing.
When I made this request, His Holiness said he would give the empowerment to me alone because, unless the practice commitment could be kept, the empowerment would be of no benefit. I assured him that my students were very diligent and would not lose their commitment. I also promised that I would create a Drub Chen every year. His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche then empowered my students and me into his precious Guru Rinpoche treasure.
Drub Chen means "great accomplishment." Of the various levels of practice, it is the highest. All substances are gathered, with nothing missing, and the practice is done within the seal of strict, inviolate retreat. Those students who received empowerment from His Holiness should participate in at least one Drub Chen in their lifetime.
Other students who were not able to go to Boulder but who wish to do this practice and will keep the daily mantra commitment can receive the empowerment from me at the opening of the retreat at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 25th. The retreat seal will be established at the time, and from then until dawn Sunday, July 3rd, no one will come or go. From the time of the empowerment, day and night for a week, continuous practice will be done in eight shifts per day. Each shift will correspond to the blessing of the altar, the practitioners and the retreat ground.
The preparations have already begun with two persons working full time sewing victory banners and lama dancing costumes. Two of our younger sangha members will be trained as lama dancers, an elaborate sand mandala will be created as well as an altar that is a full and exquisite display of the gathered substances.
There will be a daily session of lama dancing. The retreatants as witnesses to this mudra of dance participate by prayer and mantra to liberate the obstacles to enlightenment. During the seven days there will be four different fire pujas and the retreat will conclude with a second empowerment.
Guru Rinpoche prophesied that the accomplishment of participating in one week of Drub Chen is equal to a year of solitary practice. If your mind is fully concentrated and does not move from its intention to realize full benefit from this method, and if you practice according to the lineage instructions of this profound treasure, the door to Copper Mountain, Guru Rinpoche's pureland, will be open to you at the time of death. Benefit accrues not only to you, but also throughout the world, by the purification of obscuration and the increase of peace.
I believe that this may be the first time that a Drub Chen has been created in the West. You who went to Boulder have already demonstrated your good karma by taking this empowerment from Khyentse Rinpoche. It is my prayer that this Drub Chen will vastly speed and increase your spiritual attainment into the full fruit of enlightenment.
In the dharma,
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
Tashi deleg!
In June 1987, about 50 of my students journeyed to Boulder, Colorado, to receive an empowerment from His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche.
When we arrived in Boulder last year I requested that His Holiness give a Guru Rinpoche empowerment from his own treasure. This request was made in recognition that H. H. Khyentse Rinpoche is the representative of Guru Rinpoche on the face of this planet, and that now is a time when the practice of the Khyentse treasures will create the most spiritual increase. I deeply desired that my student should have this great blessing.
When I made this request, His Holiness said he would give the empowerment to me alone because, unless the practice commitment could be kept, the empowerment would be of no benefit. I assured him that my students were very diligent and would not lose their commitment. I also promised that I would create a Drub Chen every year. His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche then empowered my students and me into his precious Guru Rinpoche treasure.
Drub Chen means "great accomplishment." Of the various levels of practice, it is the highest. All substances are gathered, with nothing missing, and the practice is done within the seal of strict, inviolate retreat. Those students who received empowerment from His Holiness should participate in at least one Drub Chen in their lifetime.
Other students who were not able to go to Boulder but who wish to do this practice and will keep the daily mantra commitment can receive the empowerment from me at the opening of the retreat at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 25th. The retreat seal will be established at the time, and from then until dawn Sunday, July 3rd, no one will come or go. From the time of the empowerment, day and night for a week, continuous practice will be done in eight shifts per day. Each shift will correspond to the blessing of the altar, the practitioners and the retreat ground.
The preparations have already begun with two persons working full time sewing victory banners and lama dancing costumes. Two of our younger sangha members will be trained as lama dancers, an elaborate sand mandala will be created as well as an altar that is a full and exquisite display of the gathered substances.
There will be a daily session of lama dancing. The retreatants as witnesses to this mudra of dance participate by prayer and mantra to liberate the obstacles to enlightenment. During the seven days there will be four different fire pujas and the retreat will conclude with a second empowerment.
Guru Rinpoche prophesied that the accomplishment of participating in one week of Drub Chen is equal to a year of solitary practice. If your mind is fully concentrated and does not move from its intention to realize full benefit from this method, and if you practice according to the lineage instructions of this profound treasure, the door to Copper Mountain, Guru Rinpoche's pureland, will be open to you at the time of death. Benefit accrues not only to you, but also throughout the world, by the purification of obscuration and the increase of peace.
I believe that this may be the first time that a Drub Chen has been created in the West. You who went to Boulder have already demonstrated your good karma by taking this empowerment from Khyentse Rinpoche. It is my prayer that this Drub Chen will vastly speed and increase your spiritual attainment into the full fruit of enlightenment.
In the dharma,
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
Tashi deleg!
In June 1987, about 50 of my students journeyed to Boulder, Colorado, to receive an empowerment from His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche.
When we arrived in Boulder last year I requested that His Holiness give a Guru Rinpoche empowerment from his own treasure. This request was made in recognition that H. H. Khyentse Rinpoche is the representative of Guru Rinpoche on the face of this planet, and that now is a time when the practice of the Khyentse treasures will create the most spiritual increase. I deeply desired that my student should have this great blessing.
When I made this request, His Holiness said he would give the empowerment to me alone because, unless the practice commitment could be kept, the empowerment would be of no benefit. I assured him that my students were very diligent and would not lose their commitment. I also promised that I would create a Drub Chen every year. His Holiness Khyentse Rinpoche then empowered my students and me into his precious Guru Rinpoche treasure.
Drub Chen means "great accomplishment." Of the various levels of practice, it is the highest. All substances are gathered, with nothing missing, and the practice is done within the seal of strict, inviolate retreat. Those students who received empowerment from His Holiness should participate in at least one Drub Chen in their lifetime.
Other students who were not able to go to Boulder but who wish to do this practice and will keep the daily mantra commitment can receive the empowerment from me at the opening of the retreat at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 25th. The retreat seal will be established at the time, and from then until dawn Sunday, July 3rd, no one will come or go. From the time of the empowerment, day and night for a week, continuous practice will be done in eight shifts per day. Each shift will correspond to the blessing of the altar, the practitioners and the retreat ground.
The preparations have already begun with two persons working full time sewing victory banners and lama dancing costumes. Two of our younger sangha members will be trained as lama dancers, an elaborate sand mandala will be created as well as an altar that is a full and exquisite display of the gathered substances.
There will be a daily session of lama dancing. The retreatants as witnesses to this mudra of dance participate by prayer and mantra to liberate the obstacles to enlightenment. During the seven days there will be four different fire pujas and the retreat will conclude with a second empowerment.
Guru Rinpoche prophesied that the accomplishment of participating in one week of Drub Chen is equal to a year of solitary practice. If your mind is fully concentrated and does not move from its intention to realize full benefit from this method, and if you practice according to the lineage instructions of this profound treasure, the door to Copper Mountain, Guru Rinpoche's pureland, will be open to you at the time of death. Benefit accrues not only to you, but also throughout the world, by the purification of obscuration and the increase of peace.
I believe that this may be the first time that a Drub Chen has been created in the West. You who went to Boulder have already demonstrated your good karma by taking this empowerment from Khyentse Rinpoche. It is my prayer that this Drub Chen will vastly speed and increase your spiritual attainment into the full fruit of enlightenment.
In the dharma,
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
