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Bumgyur Dawa: Month of Miracles and Merit
Feb 24, 2020
Bumgyur Dawa: Opportunity to Accumulate Vast Merit Bumgyur Dawa is the Tibetan term for a month where karmic actions are multiplied by 100,000. The first fifteen days of the first month of...
Read MoreLosar: Tibetan New Year
Feb 21, 2020
Losar literally means 'New Year' in Tibetan. Tibetans celebrated a New Year harvest festival prior to the introduction of Buddhism into Tibet. Many elements of the ancient harvest festival remain, however Buddhist rituals easily incorporated these ancient...
Read MoreTulku Urgyen Rinpoche – Parinirvāṇa Anniversary
Feb 17, 2020
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and the Ngakso Pūjā 2020 Commemoration February 17 Each year, practitioners at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery in Boudha, Nepal, commemorate the parinirvāṇa of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Therefore they...
Read MoreSidok Raksha Tötreng puja, Ka-Nying monastery, 2020
Feb 4, 2020
I had been waiting with anticipation and finally the day came for this amazing annual puja to dispel obstacles! This specific practice, in which Guru Rinpoche takes the wrathful form of Raksha...
Read MoreNekhor Pilgrimage: Circling the Sacred
Jan 29, 2020
For over half a decade, a small group of Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoché’s students have been researching the sacred sites of Guru Padmsambhava. Our goal has been to fulfill a single overarching mission:...
Read MoreRadically Happy in Vienna and Everywhere
Jan 16, 2020
Last year in September 2018, at Gomde Germany-Austria located in the beautiful Austrian Alps I met Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon for the first time. They introduced the newly- released book “Radically...
Read MoreSitatapatra, the White Umbrella puja
Jan 14, 2020
Chapagaun 2019 The Sitatapatra puja that took place the past December 23 to 25th, marked the end of the cycle of pujas in 2019 in the Do-ngak Nyida Zungdrel Sherab Raltri Ling...
Read MoreAnnual 3-day Sidok Raksha Tötreng Puja Event Roundup
Dec 22, 2019
January 21st, 2020—January 23rd, 2020 Raksha Tötreng is a wrathful manifestation of Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava. When Guru Rinpoche left Tibet, he manifested as the king of the cannibals (sri) called Raksha Tötreng....
Read MoreLearning to Practice: Sampa Lhundrub Sadhana Ritual Course 2019
Dec 21, 2019
Sadhana Ritual Course: The Perfect Setting This year’s Sampa Lhundrub Sadhana Ritual Course is taking place in a beautiful new monastery above Narayanthan Kathmandu, on a hill just far and high enough...
Read MoreNyungné Fasting Practice
Nov 26, 2019
Nyungné is a fasting ritual of the 1000-armed Avalokiteshvara belonging to the Kriya Tantra tradition. Its purpose is to purify negative karma in a short time and to develop great compassion. For...
Read MoreNew Book Launch
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