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SUMMARY:His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 90th Birthday Celebration in the MDC Backyard
DESCRIPTION:The MDC will celebrate the momentous occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday in the MDC backyard! The event will take place after meditation on Saturday\, July 5th\, at 11:00AM. (Actually\, His Holiness’s birthday is July 6th but we will celebrate a day early when we are all together).  This is a luckypot (potluck) so bring whatever food you like!  The spiritual leader\, father\, and protector of the Tibetan people\, manifestation of Avalokiteshvara\, the Bodhisattva of Compassion; please do join us to celebrate the life of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama\, Tenzin Gyatso La\, a Buddha appearing in human form. \n\nཁྱེད་ས་སྟེང་འདིར་བཞུགས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས། ང་ཚོ་ལ་སྤོབས་པ་ཡོད།\nཁྱེད་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདིར་ཕེབས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས། ང་ཚོའི་བསོད་ནམས་ཡིན།\nཁྱེད་ཀྱི་གསུངས་ཐོས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས། ང་ཚོའི་སེམས་ལ་བདེ་སྐྱིད་སྟེར།\nཁྱེད་ཀྱི་ཞལ་མཇལ་བ་ཙམ་གྱིས། ང་ཚོའི་སེམས་ཀྱི་ཟུག་རྔུ་སེལ།\n“Your mere presence on this earth gives us encouragement\,\nYour mere arrival on this soil is our meritorious good fortune.\nThe mere sound of your voice is a symphony which hearing brings us great happiness\,\nAnd with the mere sight of your face\, all our sorrows disappear and joyfulness dawns.” \n~Khenpo Karten Rinpoche
URL:https://manjushridharmacenter.org/event/his-holiness-the-dalai-lama-birthday-celebration/
LOCATION:Manjushri Dharma Center\, 724 Forest Ave\, Pacific Grove\, CA\, 93950\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Dzam Ling Chi Sang: Universal Prayer Day Smoke Puja
DESCRIPTION:Universal Prayer Day\, or Dzam Ling Chi Sang\, is celebrated on the full moon of the 15th day of the 5th month of the Tibetan Lunar calendar\, which is July 10\, 2025 of the Gregorian calendar. It is a time for spiritual cleansing. Tibetans hang prayer flags and burn juniper twigs.  Rinpoche will lead us in a smoke puja in the backyard of the Manjushri Dharma Center\, and the ceremony will go for one hour from (approximately) 10:00AM to 11:00AM.  Participants are invited to wear all white clothing to symbolize purification. After the Dzam Ling Chi Sang ceremony\, all are invited to stay for tea. \n“Here is a brief history of Dzam Ling Chi Sang . During the time of Trisong Detsen \, the first emperor of Tibet \, there were many evil mountain deities in Tubo Kingdom. Guru Rinpoche was invited to Tibet to subdue these evil deities and turned them into Dharma protectors instead. Also after Samye Monastery was built\, Guru Rinpoche held a ceremony to give thanks to all the deities\, nagas\, yakshas\, devas and so on. During the day\, humans built Samye Monastery but at night\, all the devas and spirits continue to construct the temple. That is why at the completion of Samye Monastery\, Guru Rinpoche held a smoke offering ceremony to commemorate this and to honor the deities. This is the beginning of Dzam Ling Chi Sang since the time of Guru Rinpoche till the present day. Also Sang is Tibetan for incense powder which is also used to purify our body\, speech and mind.” \nFrom Rinpoche’s 2023 Facebook post \nQuestions?  Contact Rachel (MDC volunteer/president) at rachel.i.christo@gmail.com.
URL:https://manjushridharmacenter.org/event/dzam-ling-chi-sang-universal-prayer-day-smoke-offering-lucky-pot/
LOCATION:Manjushri Dharma Center\, 724 Forest Ave\, Pacific Grove\, CA\, 93950\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chökhor Düchen - First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma
DESCRIPTION:Please join Rinpoche and the MDC to celebrate Chökhor Düchen – ‘The First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma’ with a Buddha Shakyamuni Puja. This is an important holiday in which we honor the day that the Buddha Shakyamuni first taught after attaining enlightenment. For seven weeks after his enlightenment\, Buddha did not teach. Finally\, encouraged by Indra and Brahma\, he turned the Wheel of Dharma for the first time\, at Sarnath\, by teaching the ‘Four Noble Truths’. Before the event\, please read Rinpoche’s in-depth Teaching and blog Essence of Buddhism As Related to the Four Noble Truths (http://www.khenpokarten.org/2019/10/normal.html) \nText for evening: Treasury-of-Blessings-Shakyamuni-Practice-byMiphamRinpoche\nAbout Chökhor Düchen\nChökhor Düchen  is one of the four great occassions (Losar\, Saga Dawa\, Choekhor Duchen and Lhabab Duchen) celebrated by all Tibetan Buddhists. During those times\, it is believed that the effects of positive or negative actions are multiplied ten million times.  It falls in the Tibetan Lunar calendar in the 6th month\, 4th day.  Choekhor means “Prayer Wheel” or “Dharma Wheel”\, the common religious objects in Tibet\, and Duchen means “great occasion” in Tibetan. Hand held wheels are hollow wooden or metal cylinders attached to a handle which are printed with mantras and when turned spread spiritual blessing. Mantras invoke the attention and blessings of the Buddhas\, for example —Om Mani Padme Hum–the mantra of Chenrezig also known as Avalokiteshvara who is the Buddha of Compassion\, invokes great love\, compassion\, and wisdom.  Tradition has it that Buddha was not convinced that teaching what he had discovered through his meditations could be communicated in a way that would be of any benefit to others. It took the intercession of the great gods\, Brahma and Indra\, to persuade him to do so for the benefit of all sentient beings. The Buddha then addressed the five people who had been his companions during the time spent with the forest yogins\, and taught this first teaching–the Four Noble Truths.\n\n\n\n\nZoom Link to Join: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86274306749?pwd=MHhxUmtQZlVmWDJKUklSS3QvV05rdz09\nMeeting ID: 862 7430 6749\nPasscode: Love=Peace\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,86274306749#\,\,\,\,*4723131265# US (San Jose)\n+16694449171\,\,86274306749#\,\,\,\,*4723131265# US\n\n\nDial by your location\n        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n        +1 669 444 9171 US\n        +1 719 359 4580 US\n        +1 253 205 0468 US\n        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n        +1 564 217 2000 US\n        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n        +1 646 931 3860 US\n        +1 689 278 1000 US\n        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n        +1 305 224 1968 US\n        +1 309 205 3325 US\n        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n        +1 360 209 5623 US\n        +1 386 347 5053 US\n        +1 507 473 4847 US\nMeeting ID: 862 7430 6749\nPasscode: 4723131265\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdVGgCWTHU
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LOCATION:Manjushri Dharma Center\, 724 Forest Ave\, Pacific Grove\, CA\, 93950\, United States
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