ANNUAL MEMORIAL PRAYERS on Zoom, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025 at 6:00 pm Pacific time

Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will conduct the annual Memorial Prayer service at Ewam Choden and we will participate through Zoom. Everyone is invited to attend.

Ewam Choden holds a gathering each year to offer prayers for the benefit of all of our friends, relatives, and countless sentient beings of all kinds who have passed on this year, and in previous years. 
You may set up or hold a photo of a special person or animal that you wish to include.   You may light incense and candles or tea lamps if you wish.

The recitations will be shown on the screen.

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE RECITING MEMORIAL PRAYERS (previously)

HOW TO ATTEND THE ZOOM SESSION.

The Zoom Link is the same as the link used for the Sunday morning teaching-meditation session.

Join Zoom Meeting with this URL:

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Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520

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Passcode: Request by emailing EC
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Send an email to Ewam Choden info@ewamchoden.org with any questions.

Completed well– EMPOWERMENT OF BLACK DZAMBHALA

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE WILL KINDLY BESTOW THE EMPOWERMENT OF BLACK DZAMBHALA, ཛམྦྷ་ནག་པོ། ( Jambala, Kubera) in a Zoom Room.

DATE: Sunday, November 23, 2025

TIME: 2:00 PM, Pacific Standard time

MAKE SURE ABOUT THE DAY AND TIME IN YOUR LOCATION.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. REGISTER ON THIS PAGE – see BELOW

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE

The practice of Black Dzambhala attracts material wealth, prosperity, abundance to help alleviate poverty as well as to give one the opportunity to practice generosity. Dzambhala enhances spiritual wealth and personal growth towards ultimate enlightenment  He subdues ego and greed to purify the practitioner. You may receive this empowerment for practice or as a blessing.

This empowerment is free to everyone. However, your donation of any amount is appreciated.
You may donate by using the Donate button on the upper right side of this website page. Or you may send a check to Ewam Choden.

Please arrive on time. People won’t be admitted after the session has begun.
And please stay through to the end, including the dedication prayers and any advice from the lama.
If you leave early, you aren’t considered to have received the empowerment.
Please show your name in your Zoom window, If more than one person is attending, you can write all of your names. A practice sadhana for Red Tara from Ewam Choden can be mailed to people anywhere.
You must have completed the empowerment to request the sadhana. You may request the sadhana in an email to Ewam Choden (info@ewamchoden.org) and give your home mailing address (not email) to receive the paper sadhana. We do not send them digitally.
Your donation of any amount is welcome.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION – PLEASE READ BELOW

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. YOUR DONATION IS WELCOME.

REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22, 2025 AT NOON, PACIFIC STANDARD TIME.

FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY. THEN CLICK ON SEND INFO AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.

PAY ATTENTION AFTER YOU REGISTER—You will receive a confirmation email from Ewam Choden with the ZOOM LINK for this empowerment. Look for the email. Look in Spam/junk mail if you don’t see it. SAVE AND KEEP THIS LINK FOR YOURSELF !

IMPORTANT: If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email right away. Do not wait for a long time. Thank you!

REGISTER BELOW

LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE offers teaching and meditation in a Zoom room on Sunday, November 30, 2025, 10:00 am Pacific Time.

No registration. No prerequisite. Everyone is welcome to attend and listen quietly.

TIME: 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon Pacific Standard Time (California, USA)

The ZOOM link is below. It is always the same for the Sunday Meditation-Teaching.

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE (looking at us on the Zoom screen)

We are happy and appreciative that Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche has very kindly agreed to conduct his traditional Sunday morning Chenrezig compassion meditation and offer us his precious dharma teaching in a live Zoom space from 10:00 am to 12 noon, Pacific Standard Time on most Sundays. The next session is on Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025.

Everyone is invited to attend by following these instructions.
Please read everything.

DO NOT RECORD THE SESSION.

The ZOOM address and Meeting ID are here below No password is required.

If you have any questions about the session, you may send an email to Ewam Choden. (info@ewamchoden.org)

THE SESSION includes teachings that are different each week, meditation based on the compassion of Chenrezig, and recitations. Everything to recite is shown clearly on the screen.

GENERAL INFORMATION Read and scroll down for the LINK to the Zooom session.

PLEASE USE YOUR REAL NAME for the Zoom room.
You may log in shortly before the scheduled start and wait. Please don’t be late. The session begins on time.

Please mute yourselves (the moderator will control microphones for all). Although we enjoy reciting aloud together, this sound interferes with the Zoom transmission .

When Rinpoche arrives, he’d like to see everyone, so please keep your video on. Then, if you wish, you may close it until the dedication at the end.

At the end of the meditation, we will again turn on our videos for Rinpoche to see everyone again and we will remove the mute for recitation of the Dedication and Rinpoche’s Long Life prayers.

YOUR GENEROSITY COUNTS : EWAM CHODEN exists from the support of donations, including yours.

PLEASE DONATE TO OUR CENTER. SEE BELOW.

DONATIONS to Lama Kunga Rinpoche and to Ewam Choden may be sent through the “DONATE” button on the front page of this website to use PayPal or a credit card. You may also use PayPal with this email: admin@ewamchoden.org

Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center is a  501 (c) (3) status nonprofit organization. Your donations are tax-deductible.

HOW TO JOIN THE SUNDAY TEACHING AND MEDITATION:

If you don’t have Zoom, GET THE ZOOM application in order to be ready.

TO Join The Zoom MEDITATION Meeting: Use the link at the time of the meeting. The link is the same for this Zoom event every Sunday .

Click the link and follow the message that says to wait until the room opens and you are admitted.

Join Zoom Meeting here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5275829240?pwd=TDUrN0k4WnQyWG9aZ3ljVDhDK2Yrdz09

Join the Zoom Meeting by clicking the following URL.

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING:

https://zoom.us/j/92773242520?pwd=bzFiSXk2K3NTSEUvNU5qNkFZSHdzUT09

Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520
A password is not needed

One tap mobile  NEW
+16699009128,,92773242520#,,,,*251385# US (San Jose)
+12532158782,,92773242520#,,,,*251385# US (Tacoma)

Dial by your location
        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520
Passcode: Request by emailing EC
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adhzemTV2g

Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520

འཕགས་པ།སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས

OM MANI PAD ME HUM

Happily Completed—VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY PICNIC Saturday afternoon, 7/26/25

You are cordially invited to a special event ! IN PERSON ONLY

༄ །བླ་མ་ཀུན་དགའ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། འཁྲུངས་སྐར་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ་།།  Happy Birthday to Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche       

HERE is Lama Kunga Rinpoche at a previous Birthday Party Picnic.

COME TO HONOR AND CELEBRATE THE 90th BIRTHDAY OF OUR PRECIOUS INCOMPARABLE DHARMA TEACHER, and pray for his continuing long life in good health, and his wonderfully kind and generous activities for the benefit of all beings.

DATE: Saturday, JULY 26, 2025 TIME:  12:30 pm to about 4:30 pm
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!    BRING FOOD TO SHARE.  Remember that Lama Kunga Rinpoche doesn’t eat anything with sugar .
WEATHER-PERMITTING, THERE WILL BE A BARBECUE.We hope there will be local Tibetan entertainment and food, as well.
LOCATION:
TASSAJARA PARK, 2575 Tassajara Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530 (Cross Barrett Avenue.)
Rinpoche really enjoys seeing all of you !
Any questions?  Email Ewam Choden: info@ewamchoden.com

—CHANGE IN DATE— SAVE THE (new) DATE—-> SATURDAY, July 26, 2025, from 12:30 pm. In person only.

Lama Kunga Thartse Rinpoche’s 90th BIRTHDAY PARTY.

This event will be a picnic-party in a park, not far from the Ewam Choden Center.

༄ །བླ་མ་ཀུན་དགའ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། འཁྲུངས་སྐར་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ་།།  Happy Birthday to Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche       

COME TO HONOR AND CELEBRATE THE 90th BIRTHDAY OF OUR PRECIOUS DHARMA TEACHER.

—-Specific information to follow soon.—-

WE HOPE THAT PEOPLE FROM NEAR AND FAR WILL BE ABLE TO ATTEND.

You may always send a birthday card to Lama Kunga Rinpoche at Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center, 254 Cambridge Avenue, Kensington, California, 94708 USA

Completed—SAKA DAWA ས་ག་ཟླ་བ།—-A SACRED and CELEBRATORY MONTH starts May 29, 2025 – The special Day is June 11, full moon day.

SAKA DAWA  In Tibetan, Dawa is moon and Saka is a certain star that appears with the full moon at this time.  DURING SAKA DAWA, we commemorate the Birth, the Enlightenment, and the Parinirvana (death) of the Buddha. This is the fourth month of the Tibetan calendar, starting on May 29 in the year 2025.  The most holy day is the day of the full moon (15th Tibetan day), which is June 11th.  During the entire period, the merit of all good that you do or think is multiplied many times, from 100 to 100,000 times to as many as one hundred million times.  On the other hand,  your negative deeds and thoughts are also multiplied.  Therefore, this is a perfect time to be focused and dedicated to spiritually positive behavior.

WHAT IN PARTICULAR CAN WE DO?  Respectfully clean your shrine and make offerings to the Three Jewels and your shrine space. Practice generosity to all beings. This includes the generosity of forgiving the people and situations that upset and enrage you. Forgive yourself, too, in order to awaken your own Buddha-nature. Practice meditation, especially with compassion and without grasping.  Do any of your Buddhist practices with focus and sincerity.  Light incense and candles, place water bowls, and dedicate them.  Read biographies of the Mahasiddhas and of great Lamas.  Save and assist any animals and insects. Be kind and patient with all people.  You can also make mental offerings of all kinds.  Some people take the Eight Mahayana Precepts for a day or more, especially on the full moon day, June 11th.  Eat vegetarian or vegan.  Spend a couple of days eating like an ordained person–nothing to eat after 1 pm.  Recite food offering prayers before you take food, and visualize the offering to the Three Jewels. Participate in special pujas, meditations, and other activities at Dharma centers. Pray for peace to all beings in the world.

Completed well—KURUKULLE EMPOWERMENT May 25, 2025 with Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche

Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the EMPOWERMENT OF KURUKULLE ཀུ་རུ་ཀུ་ལླཱ; (Sanskrit) and རིག་བྱེད་མ་ (Tibetan)

SUNDAY. MAY 25, 2025, 2:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, only in a ZOOM room.

Kurukulle (Tibetan: rig che ma) is magnetizing power. Her practice is one of the 13 Golden Dharmas of the Sakyapa. She may be called upon for her powers of enchantment to subdue evil spirits, demon and humans working against the welfare of humanity and spiritual growth. Her practice may also be helpful for improving health, wealth, and spiritual energy. To the sincere practitioner, she brings a power of peacefulness, joy, and wisdom.

This empowerment is free to everyone. However, your donation of any amount is appreciated. You may donate by using the Donate button on the upper right side of the page. Or you may mail a check to Ewam Choden.

Please come on time. People won’t be admitted after the session has begun.

Please stay through the end, including dedication prayers and any advice from the lama. If you leave early, you aren’t considered to have received the empowerment.

Please show your full name in your Zoom window. If more than one person is attending, you can write all of your names.

A practice sadhana for Kurukulle from Ewam Choden can be mailed to people anywhere who have completed the empowerment and request it.
You have to send your request and home mailing address (not email) to Ewam Choden (info@ewamchoden.org) after you attend the complete Empowerment.
Your donation of any amount is welcome.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION – PLEASE READ THIS.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. YOUR DONATION IS VERY WELCOME.

REGISTER BELOW NOW !  REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2025, at noon, Pacific Daylight Time.

FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY. CLICK ON SEND INFO at the bottom of the page.

PAY ATTENTION !
AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email. Look in Spam if you don’t see it. Keep this LINK to yourself.

IMPORTANT: If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email right away. Do not wait for a long time. Thank you!

THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE. Your donation brings benefit to yourself. You can also donate directly with PayPal, address: admin@ewamchoden.org

COMPLETED—EMPOWERMENT of WHITE UMBRELLA on Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 2:00pm Pacific Daylight time

DAY: Sunday, March 30th, 2025 TIME: 2:00 pm, Pacific Daylight time

ONLY ON ZOOM. The LINK will be emailed to you automatically after you register below.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

Check CAREFULLY for the DAY AND TIME in your location.

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE WILL KINDLY BESTOW THE EMPOWERMENT OF WHITE UMBRELLA གདུགས་དཀར་མོ། (Dug kar mo) aka Uṣṇīṣa Sitātapatrā

She is known as an emanation of both Avalokiteshvara and of Tara and her 1000 heads and 1000 pairs of arms reflect the combined powers of all the Tathagata Buddhas. Her empowerment and practice give protection from negative emotions, harms,  afflictions, diseases, and obstacles, and create auspiciousness.  There is no prerequisite. Everyone is welcome. You may receive this as a blessing.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. YOUR DONATION IS VERY WELCOME.

REGISTER BELOW NOW ! REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, March 29, 2025, at noon, Pacific Daylight Time.

FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY. CLICK ON SEND INFO at the bottom of the page.

PAY ATTENTION !
AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email. Look in Spam if you don’t see it. Keep this LINK to yourself.

IMPORTANT: If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email right away. Do not wait for a long time.

THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE. Your donation brings benefit to yourself.

NOW CLOSED ——- REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. REGISTER BELOW COMPLETELY AND CLICK ON the SEND INFO.

Completed—EMPOWERMENT of WHITE MAHAKALA on Sunday, February 23, 2025

Ven, Lama Kunga Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the Empowerment of the six-armed White Mahakala. དགོན་པོ་དཀར་པོ་ལ་ན་མོ་།།

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

DAY: Sunday, February 23, 2025 TIME: 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard time

Check CAREFULLY for the DAY AND TIME in your location.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. YOUR DONATION IS VERY WELCOME.

REGISTER BELOW NOW ! REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025, at noon, PACIFIC TIME.

FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY. CLICK ON SEND INFO at the bottom of the page.

PAY ATTENTION !
AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email. Look in Spam if you don’t see it. Keep this LINK to yourself.

If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email right away. Do not wait for a long time.

THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE. Your donation brings benefit to yourself.

The wrathful and compassionate White Mahakala is a protector and a giver. His practice helps remove obstacles and offers all kinds of wealth and prosperity, material and spiritual.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. REGISTER BELOW COMPLETELY AND CLICK ON SEND INFO.

REGISTER HERE BELOW! CLOSED NOW

7.1 Earthquake in western Tibet

ས་ཡོམ་ཁྲོད་རྐྱེན་ལམ་དུ་ཤོར་བའི་མི་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཆེད་དུ་སྨོན་ལམ་རྒྱོབ།

Please join LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE in praying for the well-being of the survivors and the deceased victims of this event.

Take a look at several news reports.

At least 126 killed in deadly Tibet earthquake, says Chinese state media | BBC News with report by Tibetan Sikyong Penpa Tsering(prime minister) He gives this report in English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_sm-dgdMpk

DW NEWS — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F4df3OefAU

Videos and photos Tibetans in India and Nepal, praying and demonstrating https://apnews.com/article/tibet-china-nepal-earthquake-59a9f2e80c4ccede1ffcd962eb3e4488

LADAKH STANDS WITH TIBET/ ལ་དྭགས་མི་མང་ནས་གདུང་སེམས་མཉམ་སྐྱེད་ཞུ། https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AloUXCR1DOE

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