No Monday Night Chanted Prayers
2021-01-18 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | online event, CA, United States

Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers Online-Red Avalokiteshvara
2021-01-27 17:00 - 18:30
འཁོར་བ་དོང་སྤྲུག་བོད་ཡིག་གི་ཆོ་ག་རིང་དྲྭ་ཐོག་འཇོག་རྒྱུ་མ་བྱུང་བས་ཚང་མས་དེ་ལུགས་ངང་ཀུན་སློང་བསམ་པ་བཟང་པོའི་ངང་ནས་ཡིག་དྲུག་གི་བསྒོམ་བཟླས་ལ་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་རོགས་ཞུ།

Wednesday, 1/27, at 5:00PM PST (Pacific Standard Time), we will hold Red Avalokiteshvara, Khorwa Dongtruk, “shaker of samsara from its depths” supplication prayers on Facebook Live.

This is a terma (hidden spiritual treasure) revealed by the great Dharma king Chogyur Dechen Lingpa. This deity is the supreme embodiment of love and compassion and is very powerful. This was practiced by Patrul Rinpoche and is also my daily practice; we will pray for those who have died, especially those who have passed away from coronavirus.

If anyone would like to join please sit and recite the mantra “OM MANI PADME HUM”. The text is The Essential Sadhana from the Guru’s Heart Practice, Shaker of Samsara from its Depths. The prayers will be recited in Tibetan, but please participate. You can see me and recite the mantra at the same time so we can practice together for those who have recently died. Additionally, you can read this English version of the text for the meaning:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wk8W6fDzv-RYJTl1sbn6Zzl1i8Yn549q/view?usp=sharing

Thank you and Tashi Delek

Via Facebook Live: Manjushri Dharma Center Facebook

Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online--Medicine Buddha
2021-02-01 18:30 - 20:00, 2021-04-12 18:30 - 20:00
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.
Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Monday Night Prayer Practice
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Or join by phone (your normal phone charges may apply):
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Meeting ID: 970 1801 1835 (there is no participant number, so press # to bypass)
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International numbers available: https://middlebury.zoom.us/u/abeH9hRvO3
Image by MDC Sangha member Miles McBreen

Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online–Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche
2021-02-08 18:30 - 20:00
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
Abbreviated text: Awakening to the Guru’s Pure Vision

Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Monday Night Prayer Practice
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Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers Online-Vajrakilaya
2021-02-10 17:00 - 18:30
This Wednesday, February 10, at 5:00PM PST, we will hold the Vajrakilaya Practice on Facebook Live. Before Losar, the Tibetan New Year on February 12, all monasteries hold wrathful deities practices, such as Mahakala, Vajrakilaya, etc. These rituals, or GUTOR, are six days of extensive practices performed towards the end of the Tibetan year. Gutor is a purification and vast offerings to the protectors to clear away obstacles in the year to come.

Actually, Vajrakilaya is Rinpoche’s special yidam; the wrathful heruka Vajrakilaya is the yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity of all the buddhas and whose practice is famous for being the most powerful for removing obstacles, destroying the forces hostile to compassion and purifying the spiritual pollution so prevalent in this age.

Please do join us in this practice to prepare for the New Year!

Via Facebook Live: Manjushri Dharma Center Facebook

Friday Evening Prayers and Fun-Virtual Losar Party!
2021-02-12 18:30 - 19:30
Happy Year of the Wood Iron Ox 2148! The Manjushri Dharma Center sangha and Rinpoche will celebrate Losar (Tibetan lunar new year) with prayers for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Words of Truth, a prayer written by His Holiness on Friday, February 12th at 6:30pm to 7:30pm (Pacific time), to celebrate the first day of the lunar new year. The celebration will be on Zoom,link below. Want to learn more about how Tibetans celebrate Losar? Check out this webpage: How-to Guide for Losar.
Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom:
Losar Party 2021
Password required: WorldPeace
Photo credit: wikimedia commons

No Monday Night Chanted Prayers
2021-02-15 18:30 - 20:00
On Monday, February 15th, we will not hold our usual Monday night chanted prayer practice, but it will resume again on Monday, 2/22/2021.
Photo credit: Miles McBreen, MDC Volunteer Board Member, serving as Secretary 2021

Saturday Morning Special Event: Oral Transmissions
2021-02-20 09:00 - 10:30
Khenpo Karten Rinpoche
to Bestow the Reading Transmissions
of his Dharma Lineage
Saturday, February 20
Saturday, March 6
Saturday, March 13
Saturday, March 20
9:00-10:30 AM
Manushri Dharma Center is very pleased to announce that over select weekends in February and March, our precious teacher Khenpo Karten Rinpoche will begin the process of offering the reading transmissions of all the main practices that he holds from his own Root Guru, Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche, and his other primary teachers.

On February 20th, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche bestowed the following transmissions:
1. From the Thukdrup Barched Kunsel, “Trinley Dringpo” (medium length Guru sadhana)
2. Trinley Nyingpo (“Essence of Enlightened Activity”) from the Thukdrup Barched Kunsel cycle
3. Gyungyi Kholjang (concise daily sadhana for the Lamei Thukdrup Barched Kunsel) a joint treasure revelation by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Chokgyur Lingpa
4. Lamei Thukdrup Barched Lamsel (Prayer that Removes Obstacles from the Path)
5. From Lamei Thukdrup Yidzhin Norbu, Sampa Lhundrupma ( Prayer for the Spontaneous Fulfillment of Wishes)
6. Du Sum Sangye (a very concise six line Barched Lamsel)
On March 6th, 2021, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche bestowed the following transmissions of the two-volumes of the cycle of practices related to the wrathful wisdom deity Vajrakilaya: Sangthik Phurba Single-Mudra Vajrakumara, from the Seven Profound Cycles revelations of Chokguyr Dechen Lingpa. Among the Three Roots (Lama, Yidam, and Khandro), Vajrakilaya, is the primary yidam (meditational deity) for the Chokling Tersar and most other Nyingma lineages. As a wrathful manifestation of Vajrasattva, Vajrakilaya is an extremely powerful deity for dispelling obstacles and purifying negative karma.

On March 13, Rinpoche bestowed the following transmissions:

The Medicine Buddha Sadhana (“River of Lapis Lazuli”) of Namchoe Mingyur Dorje (from the “Sky Dharma” treasures).
The Medicine Buddha Sadhana of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, from the Lamei Thukdrup Barched Kunsel

On March 20th, Rinpoche bestowed the following transmissions:
1. Amitabha sadhana of Namcho Mingyur Dorje
2. Amitabha sadhana of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
3. Green Tara sadhana of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
4. Longchen Nyingthig Chod Practice: “The Sound of Dakini Laughter” of Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa
5. Dzogchen Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra (“Kunzang Monlam”) of Rigdzin Godemchen
6. Guru Practice “Rain of Blessings” of Khenpo Karten Rinpoche
7. Namcho Amitabha Lineage Prayer
8. Kagyu Lineage Prayer of 8th Karmapa

Please read on for some important information about the Reading Transmission for Tibetan Buddhist practitioners.
Wang, Lung, and Tri in Tantric Buddhism
Generally, the scriptures of the Buddhadharma can be divided into the two categories of Sutra and Tantra. As students of Buddhist Tantra (alternatively called Secret Mantra, Vajrayana, Mantrayana, or Tantrayana), it is essential that we engage in the study and practice of these very special and profound teachings only after having connected with the lineage through a genuine and qualified teacher. There are many wonderful texts, such as Words of My Perfect Teacher, which explain the qualifications of a genuine Tantric teacher, and it is important that we familiarize ourselves with them.
Once we have met a qualified teacher, as we have in Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, we can enter through the doors of faith and devotion into the Vajrayana path, which can lead us to complete and perfect Buddhahood in as little as a single lifetime. Having connected to the blessings of the lineage by receiving from the master what is known in Tibetan as Wang, Lung and Tri (Empowerment, Transmission, and Oral Instructions), we become qualified to study and practice a given Vajrayana method. All three of these must be received in order for the teachings to truly take hold in, ripen, and liberate our mind stream.
In the past, Rinpoche has bestowed empowerment and oral instructions for various practices, and will continue to do so. Through the Wang, the “Vajra Master” initiates the student into the mandala of a particular yidam or meditational deity, such as Amitabha, Chenrezig, Tara, or Vajrayogini. With Tri, the Vajra Master provides specific commentary, in accordance with his or her own lineage, on how to properly perform each stage of the practice. This may involve ritual, visualization, mudras and mantras, which are sometimes very concise, but often highly elaborate. Importantly, Tri also explains the profound and layered meaning of each particular aspect of the practice.
Now, we are extremely fortunate to be able to receive the crucial Reading Transmissions for some of the core practices that we have been doing as Rinpoche’s sanghas, as well as for many he intends to introduce us to in the future. This will include some of the main practices of the Treasure Revelations (terma) of the Tertons Namchoe Mingyur Dorje and Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa. It was the terma cycle of the latter treasurer revealer that formed the core practice curriculum for Khenpo Karten’s Three Year, Three Month, Three Day retreat in Tibet.
Why we receive the Reading Transmission
In receiving the Reading Transmission, we simply listen to the words read aloud in Tibetan by our teacher, with as much faith and devotion, and as little mind-wandering, as possible. In this way, the powerful blessings of all the realization of the yogis and yoginis who have held and passed on this unbroken lineage fall upon our ears. Without the Reading Transmission, we will fully connect with the lineage, and over time, the potency and integrity of the teachings will become diluted and begin to degrade. But, baving been connected to this lineage and the liberating words of the Dharma through receiving the Transmission, the seed of realization is planted in our own heart, the lineage remains intact, and its longevity is ensured.
A Very Special Method of Receiving the Reading Transmission
Khenpo Karten has shared with us a very special way to receive the Reading Transmission. It is, in Rinpoche’s words, a “secret” or “sacred” instruction, which he received from his late uncle and one of his most important teachers, a terton and senior khenpo of Shechen Monastery, Lama Gephel.
Visualize that your ears transform into fully bloomed lotus blossoms, and that the stems are luminous transparent wisdom channels. These stem-like channels”descend down inside your body and connect to your heart chakra. As Rinpoche gives the Reading Transmission, visualize that the sounds of the words float out of his mouth in the form of the “Ali Kali” — the Tibetan or Sanskrit vowels and consonants (if you do not know what these syllables look like, you can visualize the words in English, or at least, generate the conviction that this is occurring). The syllables, made of golden light, float to the pollen heart of the lotus blossoms that are your ears. As the sounds/syllables fall upon your lotus ears, they transform into drops of wisdom nectar in the form of golden liquid light. The drops of luminous nectar drip and flow down through the stem channels into your heart chakra, blessing your heart-mind with the wisdom of the Buddhadharma.

Link to Join Oral Transmission special event via Zoom:
Oral Transmission
Password required: WorldPeace
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US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799
Meeting ID: 970 1801 1835
International numbers available: https://middlebury.zoom.us/u/abeH9hRvO3
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Photo credit: Khenpo Karten Rinpoche

Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online–Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche + Tsog Offering
2021-02-22 18:30 - 20:00
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. The practice on Feb. 22nd will include a Tsog Offering. Attendees can place tsog offerings like flowers, fruits, biscuits, cheese/crackers, nuts, and include a small amount of meat and alcohol on their alter. We partake in the offerings to honor the divine within. It is a beautiful practice to accumulate merit and purify obscurations.
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
Abbreviated text: Awakening to the Guru’s Pure Vision

Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Monday Night Prayer Practice
Password required: WorldPeace
Or join by phone (your normal phone charges may apply):
US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799
Meeting ID: 970 1801 1835
International numbers available: https://middlebury.zoom.us/u/abeH9hRvO3
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Friday Evening Special Chanted Prayers-Milarepa Ladrup
2021-02-26 17:00 - 18:30
༅༅། གནང་ཉིན་མོ་སྟེ་བོད་ལུགས་རྟ་ཟླ་བའི་ཚེས་པ་བཅུ་བཞིའི་ཉིན་མོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པའི་འདས་མཆོད་ཉིན་མོ་དང་བསྟུན་མི་ལའི་བླ་སྒྲུབ་ངོ་དེབ་ནང་དུ་ཉམས་ལེན་བྱེད་འཆར་ཡོད་པས་དད་ལྡན་ཆོས་གྲོགས་རྣམ་པ་དགོང་མོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ལྔ་པའི་སྐབས་སུ་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་རོགས།

This Friday, 2/26, at 5:00PM PST (California Time) we will celebrate the Parinirvana of Jetsun Milarepa on Facebook Live. We will practice the Milarepa Ladrup, Guru Yoga Sadhana. Lord Mila was a Tibetan siddha yogi and major figure in the Kagyu-pa lineage and Tibetan Buddhism. Please join us on this auspicious occasion!

https://1drv.ms/w/s!AjwAt5Zl42NggXFFdITa8pPuMiaN

Via Facebook Live: Manjushri Dharma Center Facebook

Saturday Evening--Chötrul Düchen Full Moon Celebration
2021-02-27 18:30 - 20:00
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. On this auspicious day, we will gather online via Zoom to read The Treasury of Blessings: A Practice of Buddha Śākyamuni, by Mipham Rinpoche, and the Praise of the Twelve Great Deeds. The texts will be shown on screen. Participants may arrange an altar that can be seen on camera with flowers, candles, and images of Buddha. We hope to “see” you there!
Learn More: The Story of the 15 Days of Miracles, Rigpa Wiki-Brief Explanation of Chotrul Duchen
Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Chötrul Düchen 2021
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Or join by phone (your normal phone charges may apply):
US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799
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International numbers available: https://middlebury.zoom.us/u/abeH9hRvO3

Sunday Afternoon-Rinpoche Part of Weekend Metta Sutra Retreat
2021-02-28 13:00 - 14:00
This Sunday, February 28 at 1:00pm, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche will give a Dharma talk as part of a three-day, weekend retreat at the Mount Adams Buddhist Temple at Trout Lake Abbey. The retreat begins Friday, Feb. 26 and runs through Sunday, Feb.28, 2021. You can see all the details of the weekend retreat, entitled “3-Day Buddhist Mahayana Retreat on Metta and Practice,” hosted by the Venerable Thich Minh Tinh (Thay Kozen).
Attendees at the January weekend retreat hosted by Manjushri Dharma Center will recall that Thay Kozen taught on the Metta Sutra during our retreat, and taught these beautiful verses and practice:
***
Eight sentences that
can change the world:May I be Well
May I be Happy
May I know Love
May I know PeaceMay you be Well
May you be Happy
May you know Love
May you know Peace
Start out by holding your right hand over the center of your chest, then place your left hand over your right one and gently hug your chest.
Then say the above sentences. Think of yourself as you say the “May I …” Think first of a loved one as you say the “May you…” Then to cleanse your heart, think of someone who has caused you pain or distress and repeat the “May you…”
The Buddha tells us – What we think we become.

No Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers
2021-03-03 17:00 - 18:30
No regular chanted prayer practice this week or next week, will resume on Wednesday, March 17 with Red Chenrezig practice.

Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online-Green Tara Practice
2021-03-08 18:30 - 20:00
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. (Prayer text will be shown on screen, but we don’t have permission yet to add to our website)
Written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, adapted for the Monday night session.

Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Monday Night Prayer Practice
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Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online--Amitabha Practice
2021-03-15 18:30 - 20:00
Our main Monday night prayer practice has always been Buddha Amitabha (the Buddha of Infinite Light). Since the Covid shelter-in-place, we have included the Amitabha mantra in every session, but this evening we will once again return to our 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.
Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Monday Night Prayer Practice
Password required: WorldPeace

Or join by phone (your normal phone charges may apply):
US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799
Meeting ID: 970 1801 1835
International numbers available: https://middlebury.zoom.us/u/abeH9hRvO3
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Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online--Avalokiteshvara
2021-03-22 18:30 - 20:00
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.

Please do join us for this profound practice. Tashi Delek

Short text: Amitabha Prayer Practice.
Long text: The Recitation for Accomplishment of Sukhavati from the Sky Dharma Mind Terma.

Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Monday Night Prayer Practice
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US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799
Meeting ID: 970 1801 1835
International numbers available: https://middlebury.zoom.us/u/abeH9hRvO3
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No Wednesday Chanted Prayers
2021-03-24 17:00 - 18:30
No chanted prayer practice on Weds. , March 24th. We will resume next week, March 31, with Medicine Buddha practice.

Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers Online--Medicine Buddha
2021-03-31 17:00 - 18:30
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.
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.

Via Facebook Live: Manjushri Dharma Center Facebook

Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online--Amitabha Practice
2021-04-05 18:30 - 20:00
Buddha Amitabha is the Buddha of Infinite Light. Our 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.
Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Monday Night Prayer Practice
Password required: WorldPeace

Or join by phone (your normal phone charges may apply):
US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799
Meeting ID: 970 1801 1835
International numbers available: https://middlebury.zoom.us/u/abeH9hRvO3
Phone Password: [REDACTED] (phone password only, no participant ID, press # to bypass)

An Invitation from Thay Kozen
2021-04-10 08:30 - 10:00
The Venerable Thich Minh Tinh (Thay Kozen) co-founder of the Mount Adams Buddhist Temple at Trout Lake Abbey has invited the Manjushri Dharma Center Sangha to participate in a special event on Saturday, April 10th, 2021.
APRIL 10th Taking Refuge & The Precepts
Novice Ordination for Sister Minh Bao (a novice nun)
9:00 AM to 10 AM – part of Saturday Service
Following 8:30 AM Check-In
Zoom link and more information:

Here is the Zoom link. The ordination will be part of a regular practice on Saturdays to which all are invited on a standing basis:
https://www.mtadamsbuddhisttemple.com/event/saturday-morning-service-sitting-meditation-dharma-talk-2021-04-10/
For a further description of the ordination, refuge practice and precept practice, use this link:
https://www.mtadamsbuddhisttemple.com/event/taking-refuge-the-precepts-and-novice-ordination-for-sister-minh-bao/

We rejoice that Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and Thay Kozen have the karma to cross paths, and share traditions across the two Sanghas!

Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers Online-Green Tara Practice
2021-04-14 17:00 - 18:30
On Wednesday, September 30th, at 6:00pm PT, Rinpoche will practice Green Tara prayers via Facebook Live.
Green Tara supplication prayers. 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. If anyone would like to join please sit and recite the mantra “OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA “. The prayers will be recited in Tibetan, but please participate. 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.
Via Facebook Live: Manjushri Dharma Center Facebook

Saturday Morning Lojong Teaching--Online via Zoom
2021-04-17 09:00 - 10:30
On Saturday Mornings, April 3rd, April 17th, and April 24th from 9:00am to 10:30am each day over Zoom, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche will offer teachings on the Eight Verses in Training the Mind, or Lojong, composed by Geshe Langri Tangpa, who lived in the 11th century.
Although the teachings will be in Tibetan, all are welcome to join and share the good energy and rejoice in the teaching for our Tibetan sangha. Contact Pema Tsomo to receive Zoom link at the phone number listed in the flyer.

འཛུམ་གྱི་དྲ་ཚིག་འདི་ཡིན།
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86208736682?pwd=[REDACTED]

For the English speaking Sangha: His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a series of teaching on Lojong in 1998, and that can be found here: https://www.rfa.org/tibetan/society/dharma-center-and-tibetan-cause-03312021130121.html

Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online--Chenrezig Practice
2021-04-19 18:30 - 20:00
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.

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

Text: We are using the version of the text as posted by the Odiyana Institute: Chenrezig Sadhana

Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Monday Night Prayer Practice
Password required: WorldPeace

Or join by phone (your normal phone charges may apply):
US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799
Meeting ID: 970 1801 1835
International numbers available: https://middlebury.zoom.us/u/abeH9hRvO3
Phone Password: [REDACTED]

No Wednesday Night Practice-04/21/2021
2021-04-21 17:00 - 18:30
No prayer practice on Facebook on Wednesday, April 21st. The practice resumes on 04/28 with the practice of Guru Yoga.

Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers Online--Padmasambhava Guru Yoga
2021-04-28 17:00 - 18:30
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.
Via Facebook Live: Manjushri Dharma Center Facebook
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
Abbreviated text: Awakening to the Guru’s Pure Vision

Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online–Padmasambhava Guru Yoga with Guest Anam Thubten
2021-05-03 18:30 - 20:00
This week, we will have a special guest Anam Thubten, lay teacher at the Dharmata Foundation in Richmond, California.
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
Abbreviated text: Awakening to the Guru’s Pure Vision

Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Monday Night Prayer Practice
Password required: WorldPeace
Or join by phone (your normal phone charges may apply):
US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799
Meeting ID: 970 1801 1835
International numbers available: https://middlebury.zoom.us/u/abeH9hRvO3
Phone Password: [REDACTED]

Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers Online--Medicine Buddha
2021-05-05 17:00 - 18:30
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.

Via Facebook Live: Manjushri Dharma Center Facebook

Monday Night Chanted Prayers Online-Green Tara Practice with Guest Lama Leshe Zangpo
2021-05-10 18:30 - 20:00
This week, we will have special guest Lama Leshe Zangpo joining us.
Venerable Lama Leshe Zangpo
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. (Prayer text will be shown on screen, but we don’t have permission yet to add to our website)
Written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, adapted for the Monday night session.

Link to Join Prayer Practice via Zoom: Monday Night Prayer Practice
Password required: WorldPeace

Or join by phone (your normal phone charges may apply):
US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799
Meeting ID: 970 1801 1835
International numbers available: https://middlebury.zoom.us/u/abeH9hRvO3
Phone Password: [REDACTED] (phone password only, no participant ID, press # to bypass)

No Wednesday Night Chanted Prayers Online
2021-05-12 17:00 - 18:30
No practice on Wednesday, May 12th, 2021. The practice will resume on Facebook live next week, May 19th with Guru Yoga.
