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SUMMARY:Happy Chötrul Düchen Full Moon Celebration of Miracles & Lunar Eclipse
DESCRIPTION:Chötrul Düchen is one of four major Tibetan Buddhist holy days\, celebrated on the first full moon after lunar new year.   It is known as the Butter Lamp Festival\, Festival of Lights\, or Great Day of Miraculous Manifestations.  It commemorates the day that Buddha Shakyamuni settled the question of his enlightenment with naysayers by performing many miracles.  This full moon day is considered a “merit multiplier” day\, with the effects of both positive and negative actions multiplied ten million times. \nThis year\, in addition to Chötrul Düchen falling on Tuesday\, March 3\, 2026\, there is a total lunar eclipse\, often called a “Blood Moon.”   The eclipse will be visible across North and Central America\, the Pacific\, East Asia\, and Australia.  (Totality is at 3:04am Pacific Time).  This is the only total lunar eclipse of 2026 and the last one visible from North America until 2028\, making it a rare event. \nLearn More: The Story of the 15 Days of Miracles\, Rigpa Wiki-Brief Explanation of Chotrul Duchen \nLearn More:  Total Lunar Eclipse March 3\, 2026 \n\nAlthough we will not host a celebration at MDC\, practitioners are encouraged to celebrate their good fortune in encountering Dharma\, to practice virtue and positive thinking on this day.  There are miracles in every moment of being alive.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260310T160000
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SUMMARY:Tibetan Uprising Day 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 10th\, 2026 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm PST in-person at Windows on the Bay\, the corner of Del Monte and El Estero (703 Del Monte Ave\, Monterey\, CA 93940) as we join a day of international protests known as Tibetan Uprising Day. \n\nPlease note: Protesters cannot step into the street or hand out leaflets to cars\, as per a city safety mandate. Signs will be provided\, or you may bring your own. We will be there rain or shine.\n\nThe annual protest on Tibetan Uprising Day is very special to Rinpoche\, an event that he has organized with the MDC annually for many years. 2026 marks 67 years of oppression and resistance. Rinpoche\, his students and supporters in Monterey will continue to make our community aware of the ongoing human rights abuses in Tibet\, in solidarity with such protests around the world. \nSince the Chinese occupation in 1959\, more than one million Tibetans have been killed. To fly a Tibetan flag\, even mention His Holiness the Dalai Lama\, send an email abroad\, or say the phrase “human rights\,” is cause for imprisonment and torture. 99% of all Tibetan monasteries have been closed. These horrors and atrocities continue today throughout Tibet. The situation is desperate and worsening; the Tibetan people and their culture are being systematically attacked. \nAround one million Tibetan children are forced to attend government boarding schools. Children as young as four are educated with CCP-approved lesson plans and taught almost entirely in Chinese. In some parts of Tibet\, parents must attend language classes to make sure that Chinese is spoken at home.  Buddhist monasteries are told to shut down their free language classes. Tibetan educators are threatened or detained for offering language instruction to children. Even the name “Tibet” is under threat. \n Xizang Tibet\nIn an act of colonial violence\, the CCP is pushing for English-language references around Tibet to be changed to “Xizang”\, the Chinese name for Tibet imposed by the Chinese government. \nYet\, Tibetans continue to stand up against this repression in a non-violent way\, as they have each year for over 66 years. We cannot let the world forget. Please lend your voice to peace\, justice\, and freedom:  Support Tibet! \nTibet is the least free country on earth. Tibet must be free\nLearn the latest and how you can help: \n\nUK-based Free-Tibet\nUS-based Students For A Free Tibet.  \n\nLearn about the historical context and current views with the resources below: \n\nMarch 10 Commemoration:  Rinpoche and his friend Pema wrote about why we commemorate March 10th–when more than 100\,000 Tibetans surrounded the Norbulinka palace in Lhasa\, putting their lives between the Chinese army and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.\n\n\nPBS Frontline:  Battle for Tibet\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPBS Frontline:  Battle for Tibet Aired on Tuesday\, February 18\, 2025 \nCan be viewed on PBS app for free \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpinion | Dalai Lama:\nMy hope for the Tibetan people –\nThe Washington Post\n\n\nTibetans have spent nearly 75 years fighting for freedom. Their struggle should continue beyond my lifetime. \nPublished in the Washington Post on March 6\, 2025.  Shared by email from Khenpo Karten Rinpoche on March 10\, 2025. \nLink to read article in Washington Post (requires subscription\, which can be canceled anytime)  Need help accessing?   Contact manjushridharmacenter831.org. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRinpoche shared this video\, which is on Facebook\, posted by Lobsang Tsering Taying Tsang on March 10\, 2025.   \n\n\n\nགསུམ་བཅུའི་དུས་དྲན་ཐེངས་༦༦ པ།\nཁྱེད་ཚོའི་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ཅི་འདྲ་རླབས་ཆེ་ལ། མིས་ལྟས་ན་ཡིད་དུ་འོང་བ་འདུག ད་དུང་སོག་པོ་དང་ཐེ་ཝན་གྱི་དར་ཆ་མཉམ་དུ་ཡོད་ན་ཅི་མ་རུང་། མི་རབས་གསར་པ་ཁྱེད་ཚོས་རྣམ་དཔྱོད་དང་བློ་གྲོས་ཀྱིས་དེ་རིང་འཛམ་གླིང་ཚན་རྩལ་གྱི་ཁྲོད་དུ་གོམ་པ་མཉམ་དུ་སྤོ་ཐུབ་པའི་ངེས་པ་རྙེད་སོང་། ད་ལྟའི་ང་ཚོས་ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་ལང་ཕྱོགས་ནི་ཁྱིས་ཆུ་བཅད་པ་ལྟ་བུའམ། མདོར་ན་དགྲ་གཉེན་གོ་ལྡོག་པའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་སུ་གྱུར་ཟིན། ང་ཚོའི་མ་འོངས་པའི་ལས་དབང་དེ་མགོ་འབུལ་ལས་འབུལ་གྱི་མི་རིགས་ཆེན་པོ་ནང་དུ་བྲན་གཡོག་མི་བྱེད་པར་རང་དབང་སླར་གསོ་ཐུབ་པའི་རེ་བ་ཁྱེད་ཅག་ལ་བསྐྱང་ཡོད། བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ། བོད་རྒྱལ་ལོ།\n\n\n\n\n  \nMay all cultures and peoples live together in harmony and peace.\n 
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LOCATION:Windows on the Bay\, Corner of Del Monte and Camino El Estero\, Monterey\, 93940\, United States
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SUMMARY:UPDATE: 2026 ONLINE Amitabha Pureland Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Update on Rinpoche’s Visit to Taiwan\n\n“To all of my dear students in Taiwan\, \nDue to unforeseen circumstances related to travel documentation issues\, I was unfortunately refused entry and unable to board my flight last night. As of last year\, visa requirements changed in Taiwan\, which was something that we overlooked when booking the flight. Therefore\, I will not be able to travel to Taipei this year for our Amitabha retreat. I sincerely regret this situation and any disappointment it may cause. \nHowever\, we will still be holding our Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup online via Zoom on Friday\, Saturday\, and Sunday\, March 20th to 22nd. I warmly encourage all of you to join so that we may still practice together and maintain our connection in the Dharma. \nKhenpo Karten Rinpoche” \n  \nTherefore\, Rinpoche will be conducting the Amitabha Retreat from the Manjushri Dharma Center on ZOOM\, with remote participants able to join together. It is scheduled for March 20th\, 21st\, and 22nd (Friday\, Saturday\, and Sunday) in Taipei\, or March 19th – March 21st ( Thursday\, Friday\, Saturday) in California\, and will be held over three days. You are warmly requested to participate accordingly. The daily schedule is as follows (Please take note of the time difference): \nTaiwan time: 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM (3/20-3/22)\nCalifornia time: 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM (3/19-3/21) \nEven though the proceedings will be in Tibetan and translated into Chinese\, Rinpoche’s English speaking students can still benefit by soaking in the good energy of the practice. \nZoom Link for All Services\nMeeting ID: 862 7430 6749\nPasscode: Love=Peace\nText:  Here is the Amitabha Retreat Text in Chinese and Tibetan (sorry\, no English).  Participants will recognize and can use the familiar Amitabha sadhana\, which is in Tibetan\, English\, and Chinese:       The Recitation for Accomplishment of Sukhavati from the Sky Dharma Mind Terma. \n 
URL:https://manjushridharmacenter.org/event/2026-amitabha-pureland-retreat-in-taiwan-retreat-session-2/
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