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Ceremony For the Deceased |
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 Our Holiness, the 9th Khalka Jetsun Dhampa, head of the Jonang Lineage; took parinirvana following his thugs dam on March7, A gdung mchod (ceremony for the deceased) will be performed together with lama chopa (Guru Puja)practice and tsog.(Feast ritual)
Everyone is encouraged and invited to attend. Khen Rinpoche Dorjee will be leading the ceremony.
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 Tsok ceremony with sang offering (smoke) with dorje sempa practice and bzang spyod smon lam.
please bring small tsok offerings.
This year we are not celebrating Losar due to recent struggles in TIbet and as stated by Kalon Tripa, so we will instead do prayers for Tibetan New Year (losar).
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 The Lamrim (Tibetan: "stages of the path") text represents the stages in the complete path to enlightenment as taught by Buddha Shakyamuni, originally composed by Indian pandita Atiśa's 11th Century root text A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment (Bodhipathapradīpa).
Jonang Taranatha, in his “Essence of Ambrosia”, also known as the Jonang Lamrim, composed a simple, pithy and easily accessible model; a “how-to” guide for meditators that represent all of Buddha’s pith instructions on the three main points of the path to enlightenment.
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Teachings on Other-Emptiness |
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 Teachings on Other-Emptiness based on Dolpopa’s Mountain Doctrine
For more than 650 years in Tibetan buddhism, the dominating force and founder behind the school of thought of other-emptiness is Dol bo ba shay rab gyel tsen (Dolpopa: 1292-1361).
Among the many schools of other-emptiness view, Dolpopa is the foremost authoritative source on the school of classical gzhan stong thinking, also known as “other-emptiness”.
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