No Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers
2022-05-18 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-05-25 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-06-01 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-06-08 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-06-15 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-06-22 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-06-29 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-07-20 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) and 2 more dates | online event, CA, United States
Please note that there will be no chanted prayers this Wednesday.
Photograph courtesy of Michael Klimov.

Saturday Morning Meditation
2022-05-21 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-05-28 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-06-04 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-06-11 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-06-18 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-06-25 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-07-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-07-16 10:00 - 11:00 and 2 more dates | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
All are welcome to join Saturday Morning Meditation Practice either in-person at Manjushri Dharma Center or online via Zoom. This will continue—with a high-tech twist—the long tradition of local sangha members gathering weekly on Saturday mornings to hear a dharma talk from Rinpoche and sit in silent meditation together.
Special Notice* Members of the Sangha are kindly asked to wear masks when attending Saturday morning meditation at the Center due to an upsurge in COVID cases and given the small size and limited ventilation of the Manjushri Dharma Center facilities and our precious Rinpoche’s pre-existing health conditions. There will be a box of masks at the front door for those who may happen to forget theirs. There is, of course, always the option to join virtually on Zoom:
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Monday Night Chanted Prayers - Medicine Buddha
2022-05-23 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-07-18 18:30 - 20:00 | online event, CA, United States
Note* Monday night prayers are held both in-person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom.
On Monday we will practice the prayers of Medicine Buddha (Buddha of Infinite Healing), creating the causes for a world that is healed from illness and disease. You can find a link to the prayer text here: MedicineBuddhaPuja_༄༅།-།སྨན་བླའི་སྒྲུབས་ཐབས་བཞུགས་སོ།-།.pdf
Additionally, Rinpoche wrote a very short but beautiful teaching on the practice of Medicine Buddha, which includes the visualization: Medicine Buddha Practice for Corona Virus from Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, posted on the Teachings page originally in March 2020.
Also, our main Monday night prayer practice has always been Buddha Amitabha (the Buddha of Infinite Light), so we typically also recite the Amitabha mantra. Here are two versions of that text–first a short version: Amitabha Prayer Practice. And here is the long text (this is our main text for practice): The Recitation for Accomplishment of Sukhavati from the Sky Dharma Mind Terma.
Please join us as we wish for all beings to have health and peace of mind.

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Monday Night Chanted Prayers - Chenrezig Practice
2022-05-30 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-07-25 18:30 - 20:00 | online event, CA, United States
Note* Monday night prayers are held both in-person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom.

Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig in Tibetan, is the Bodhisattva who embodies the love and compassion of all Buddhas. Chenrezig is an important deity in Tibet and considered the patron Bodhisattva of the Tibetan people. Chenrezig is also believed by Tibetans to be the actual progenitor of the Tibetan people, and HH Dalai Lama and the Karmapa, who are considered living Buddhas, are also believed to be emanations of Chenrezig. It is said that even babies upon birth know the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM.

Text: https://manjushridharmacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ChenrezigPracticeText.pdf

Please do join us for this profound practice. Tashi Delek

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Monday Night Prayers Online--Guru Rinpoche
2022-06-20 18:30 - 20:00 | online event, CA, United States
Guru Rinpoche, also known as Padmasambhava or the Precious Master, is the founder of Tibetan Buddhism. He established the Buddhadharma in Tibet, and then developed the practice so that all the teachings of Buddha were preserved as a living tradition that has continued down to the present day.
Trinley Nyingpo, the “Essence of Enlightened Activity,” is the concise Guru Rinpoche sadhana practice from the Tugdrub Barche Kunsel, a hidden treasure teaching discovered by the King of Treasure Revealers, Chogyur Dechen Lingpa in the mid-19th century.
The central visualization for this practice is a triad of deities of the Three Kayas (“Enlightened Bodies”): the Dharmakaya Buddha Amitayus, the Samboghakaya Buddha Avalokitesvara, and the Nirmanakaya Buddha Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche). It also includes twelve additional manifestations of Guru Rinpoche.
Outwardly, Guru Rinpoche was a fully enlightened being who was invited from India by the Tibetan King Trisong Deutsen in the 8th century to establish the Vajrayana Buddhist teachings in Tibet. He personally blessed every square foot of Tibet and concealed innumerable “treasure teachings” (Terma) for future generations to receive and practice when the time was especially right. Trinley Nyingpo is one such terma.
Inwardly, Guru Rinpoche is the embodiment of all the Wisdom Gurus of the past, present, and future, and the essence of our own enlightened mind.
Prayers will be recited in both Tibetan and English.
Main text: Trinley Nyingpo, the “Essence of Enlightened Activity,” is the concise Guru Rinpoche sadhana practice from the Tugdrub Barche Kunsel
Lineage text: Thugdrup Barched Kunsel Lineage Prayer
Additional texts: Awakening to the Guru’s Pure Vision
Yeshe Tsogyal’s Prayer to Guru Rinpoche as He Left Tibet

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Summer Solstice Blessing of the Waters
2022-06-21 18:30 - 2022-06-22 19:30 | Lover’s Point Beach, 17th St and Ocean View Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Wednesday, June 21st 2023 is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. For many years now, at both summer and winter solstices, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche offers a Blessing of the Waters, by reciting two prayers that he composed, Propitiating the Devas of the Four Elements and the Prayer for World Peace. This year, we will meet again in person. We will gather in community and send our good energy to the ocean, to all the waters of the world, and to all of nature and humanity. Attendees are asked to bring flower petals/flowers for the offering.
Because this practice is on the beach, there is no opportunity for us to also broadcast online (as far as known).
This practice may also be done by any person in they place they live. Practitioners may download these prayers to recite at the beach, by a river, or wherever you choose outside in nature. Bring some flowers to offer and send your good energy and wishes for healing to the waters of the world, all the elements of nature, and all sentient beings.
Additionally, here is an “instruction on how to practice” the Blessing of the Waters, composed by Rinpoche and Pema/Aaron with more information on how to conduct a “do-it-yourself” Blessing of the Waters ceremony.
Instructions on Blessing the Waters
Tashi Delek!
Prayer for World Peace
Through roots of goodness of us all on this vast earth,
May all living creatures become full of
love and compassion,
So that all enjoy peace on earth!
Stop bad intentions, thoughts and deeds
of all those who terrorize others,
That all living beings on this earth
come together like one family!
May all be well, have long life and health
with bliss of mind, free of illusion.
May all mothers have oceans of bliss
of body, for now, and ultimately of mind.
May this lamp of wisdom love, oneness,
highest remedy to clear darkness,
Enter the hearts of all living beings,
so their perfect path be illumined!
Footnote: In the name of all religions on earth, as I see and hear of increasingly many unwarranted harmful actions being enacted, thinking, with a joyful, universal aspiration, how wonderful it would be if all such activities ceased entirely. Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, on 2-4-2015, on Wednesday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s auspicious day, wrote this dedication prayer to be recited at the conclusion of other prayers, meditation, or practices.

Monday Night Chanted Prayers - Amitabha Puja
2022-06-27 18:30 - 20:00 | online event, CA, United States
Monday night prayers are held both in person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom. Our main Monday night prayer practice has always been Buddha Amitabha (the Buddha of Infinite Light). Here is a link to the main text: The Recitation for Accomplishment of Sukhavati from the Sky Dharma Mind Terma.
We also have a shorter text for reference: Amitabha Prayer Practice.
Please join us as we wish for all beings to have health and peace of mind.

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NO Saturday Morning Meditation (7/2)
2022-07-02 | online event, CA, United States
This upcoming Saturday, 7/2, there is no Saturday morning meditation. Rinpoche will be in the SF Bay Area celebrating HH the Dalai Lama’s birthday with family and the Tibetan community. Saturday morning meditation will resume the following week, July 9. If you’re interested in attending the celebration over the weekend, please check out the TANC website

NO Monday Night Chanted Prayers (7/4)
2022-07-04 | online event, CA, United States
This upcoming Monday, 7/4, is Independence Day and our Monday night practice will be cancelled. Monday night chanted prayers will resume the following week, July 11. Happy Independence Day!
For a list of upcoming events, please see the MDC Website class & event schedule

Wednesday Night Prayers Online-Chenrezig Practice
2022-07-13 17:00 - 18:30 | online event, CA, United States
Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig in Tibetan, is the Bodhisattva who embodies the love and compassion of all Buddhas.

Chenrezig is an important deity in Tibet and considered the patron Bodhisattva of the Tibetan people. Chenrezig is also believed by Tibetans to be the actual progenitor of the Tibetan people, and HH Dalai Lama and the Karmapa, who are considered living Buddhas, are also believed to be emanations of Chenrezig. It is said that even babies upon birth know the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM.

Text: https://manjushridharmacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ChenrezigPracticeText.pdf

Please do join us next week for this profound practice. Tashi Delek

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Written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, posted to the Manjushri Dharma Center Facebook page. Photo credit Miles McBreen.
