Manjushri Dharma Center

Monday Night Chanted Prayers - Amitabha Puja
2022-03-21 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-04-25 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers
2022-03-23 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-03-30 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-04-06 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-04-13 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-04-20 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-04-27 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-05-04 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-05-11 17:00 - 18:30 | online event, CA, United States
Please note that there will be no chanted prayers this Wednesday.
Photograph courtesy of Michael Klimov.

Saturday Morning Meditation
2022-03-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-04-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-04-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-04-16 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-04-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-04-30 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-05-07 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-05-14 10:00 - 11:00 | 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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Japa Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche Parinirvana Day -- Online Guru Yoga Practice
2022-03-28 18:30 - 20:00 | online event, CA, United States
March 27th, 2023, marks the 22nd anniversary of the Parinirvana of Kyabje Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche, the kind hearted Root Guru of our own Khenpo Karten Rinpoche.
On Monday, April 3rd, at 6:30pm PST on ZOOM, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche will remember the great kindness of his Guru Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche with the profound practice of Guru Yoga composed by Khenpo Karten and His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje. The Sadhana text can be downloaded here: The Guru Practice, Rain of Blessings.
Sangye Tenzin spent 21 years in Chinese prison, yet he transformed the experience into pure spiritual food, and left the prison with only good wishes for his captors. He was truly a Buddha appearing in this world. To learn more about Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche: “Medicine for the Mind: On Using Suffering and Obstacles for Mental Development.” or read about how Sangye Tenzin came to Khenpo Karten Rinpoche in his dreams by reading “An Amazing Dream Of My Root Guru.’
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“Master, though you have passed to the sphere of reality, Without thinking that I lack a Guru, May I realize the whole of existence As the Guru’s mandala and so be Liberated.
Master, You equal all Buddhas in realization, Yet, for this disciple, you surpass them all. Father, unrivaled Guru, may all be auspicious For your presence in all places and times!”

Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online-Chöd Practice
2022-04-04 18:30 - 20:00 | online event, CA, United States
Please join us on Monday at 6:30PM PST on Zoom for the practice of Chöd.

Here is the text for the practice: The Longchen Nyingthig CHÖD PRACTICE, “The Loud Laugh of the Dakini.”

Chöd, which means “to cut,” is a profound path of severing dualistic fixation and ego-clinging. For the chod practitioner, the body is regarded as the primary object of clinging. Through visualizing one’s consciousness as the female Buddha T’hroma Nagmo (The “Wrathful Black Mother”) the yogi or yogini offers the ordinary body to the assembled guests: enlightened beings, gods and demons (personifications of the five poisons), and those owed karmic debts, purifying negative karma and accumulating merit on a vast scale. Combining the view of the Prajnaparamita Sutra with the highest view of Dzogchen, Chöd is known for its haunting melodies and ritual instrumentation. When performed for others, it is a powerful healing ritual.

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།ལམ་གྱི་གཙོ་བོ་རྣམ་གསུམ་གྱི་རྩ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། / Three Principal Aspects of the Path - Je Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa
2022-04-07 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-04-14 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-04-21 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-04-28 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-05-05 18:00 - 19:30 | online event, CA, United States
In conjunction with the Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association (NWTCA) of Portland, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche will give a precious teaching on the Three Principal Aspects of the Path by Je Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa. This teaching will be given in Tibetan, and will be held every Thursday at 6:00PM PST on Zoom starting on April 7, 2022, and will continue each Thursday night. Rinpoche previously gave a teaching on this text in English in the 2015 annual Manjushri Dharma Center retreat.

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For a link to the text:
Three Principal Aspects of the Path (Tibetan) – Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa

Monday Night Chanted Prayers - Medicine Buddha
2022-04-11 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.
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Monday Night Chanted Prayers - Green Tara Practice
2022-04-18 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-05-02 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.
The feminine embodiment of enlightened activity, Green Tara is the swift liberator, a compassionate and loving protector in times of distress and great danger. Through meditating on the form and mantra Arya Tara, and chanting the Praises to her 21 different manifestations, we receive the blessings to become inseparable from Tara herself, actualizing the potential to liberate all motherly sentient beings from the suffering ocean of samsara.
She is known as the Mother of all Buddhas, born from Chenrezig’s tear of compassion. She will swiftly come to comfort and protect those who supplicate her. Especially from emotional, and physical sufferings. In her hands she holds utpala flowers which symbolize power and purity.
This is also my daily practice; we will pray for overcoming fear and clearing of obstacles. Also pray for those who have passed away from coronavirus. We will recite the mantra “OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA “. You can see me and recite the mantra at the same time so we can practice together for those who have recently died. Thank you and Tashi Delek.
Prayers will be recited in both Tibetan and English.
Text:

Main prayer text, courtesy of KTD Publications in Woodstock NY (for students only, please do not make or distribute printed copies): Green Tara Sadhana of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
Supplemental texts:

Concise Tara Prayer by Lama Gephel
GreenTara-Sevenfold Supplication by Drikung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgon

Description of the Tara practice above was written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche. Image courtesy of Miles McBreen.

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Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers Online--Medicine Buddha
2022-04-20 17:00 - 18:30 | online event, CA, United States
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.
Please join us as we wish for all beings to have health and peace of mind.
Wednesday night prayers tend to be in Tibetan, but Rinpoche always gives some guidance and teaching in English as well. All practitioners can follow along in the spirit and intention of peace and healing.

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Monday Night Prayers Online--Guru Rinpoche
2022-05-09 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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