H.E. Ngor Thartse Khen Rinpoche visits and gives in person Empowerments on 5/9 and 5/10 2026 SEE the INFORMATION BELOW.
May 6, 2026 by bhockman
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HIS EMINENCE NGOR THARTSE KHEN RINPOCHE
Born in 1968 into a royal family in Mustang, Nepal, Rinpoche was ordained as a monk at the age of eight by His Eminence Chogye Trichen Rinpoche. At the age of thirteen, he was recognized as Ngor Thartse Shabdrung Rinpoche by His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin. Rinpoche then completed extensive studies of ritual and rites of the Ngor tradition, with close instruction from His Eminence Luding Khenchen Rinpoche, who ordained him as a bhiksu at the age of 19. After completing his formal monastic education and training, Rinpoche attended Sakya Institute to study Higher Buddhist Philosophical studies and Art. He later joined Sakya College to further study Tantra.Thartse Khen Rinpoche travels extensively in Asia where he founded and supervises numerous monasteries and Sakya centers.
His Eminence Thartse Khen Rinpoche will kindly give the empowerments of Vajrapani Bhutadamara and Green Tara. The location is the same for both empowerments.
There is no Zoom offered.
VAJRAPANI BHUTADAMARA only on Saturday, 5/9/26 at 3:00 pm
GREEN TARA only on Sunday, 5/10/26 at 10:00 am
LOCATION: The in-person location is the Pal Tsechen Ling Sakya Center. (not Ewam Choden). There is street parking.
ADDRESS: 3731 Bissell Ave, Richmond, CA 94805
Sponsored by Ewam Choden, these empowerments are open to everyone without any charge. Donations are welcome.
There is no registration. Just come. Please come a little earlier than the start time.
You may take them as blessings. Sadhana booklets will be available to people who intend to practice them.
SEND AN EMAIL TO EWAM CHODEN WITH ANY QUESTIONS. info@ewamchoden.org
Saturday, 5/9/2026 at 3:00 pm THE EMPOWERMENT OF VAJRAPANI BHUTADAMARA
Vajrapani is the wrathful-appearing Bodhisattva, representing the power of all Buddhas, who protects the Dharma and practitioners in various ways in his different forms. As caretaker and guardian of all the Tantras, he is special for removing the various types of obstacles that can arise during intensive practice as well as simply removing obstructions on the path of a practitioner.
This particular form, the Vajrapani Bhutadamara, is the“one who Subdues Demons.” He stops discordant conditions and obstacles, and the harms of all kinds of spirits and demons from above, below, and in the middle.
Sunday, 5/10/26 at 10:00 am. THE EMPOWERMENT OF THE GREEN TARA རྗེ་བརྩུན་སྒྲོལ་མ།།
The Green Tara has been called the “Mother of all Buddhas.”
Green Tara is a Bodhisattva of enlightened activity and purified energy. Her practice comforts, cures, and protects. She conquers fear and anxiety, and clears the way for the Dharma path to enlightenment to unfold.
Please keep a vegetarian diet on the day of Green Tara’s empowerment.
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EMPOWERMENT OF WHITE PRAJNAPARAMITA only on Zoom, April 19, 2026
February 19, 2026 by bhockman
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Elegantly COMPLETED LAMA KUNGA THARTSE RINPOCHE WILL KINDLY BESTOW THE EMPOWERMENT OF WHITE PRAJNAPARAMITA. (ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་མ་, प्रज्ञापारमिता)
DAY: SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2026 TIME: 2:00 PM PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (CALIFORNIA) REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE
Practice the WHITE PRAJNAPARAMITA to increase wisdom and mental clarity, to attain realization of emptiness and eliminate the suffering of all beings.
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. If not your actual name, then remember the name you are using.
A practice sadhana paper for White Prajnaparamita from Ewam Choden can be mailed to people anywhere.
You must have completed the empowerment to request the sadhana. AFTER completing the empowerment, 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.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION – PLEASE READ THIS.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. YOUR DONATION IS WELCOME.
REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY April 18, 2026 AT NOON, PACIFIC STANDARD TIME.
FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY. THEN CLICK ON SEND INFO AT THE BOTTOM OF THE REGISTRATION FORM.
SOON 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!
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
CANCELLED ON 5/10/16 Resume on 5/17/26 Lama Kunga Rinpoche kindly gives teaching & compassion meditation on Sunday at 10:00am Pacific daylight time. CLICK HERE for information.
January 1, 2026 by bhockman
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TEACHING and MEDITATION with LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE on SUNDAY, May 17, 2026. PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (one hour ahead)
ONLY IN A ZOOM ROOM. OPEN TO EVERYONE.
No registration. No prerequisite. Everyone is welcome to attend and listen quietly.
TIME: 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon Pacific Daylight 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 Daylight Time on most Sundays. The next session is on Sunday, May 17, 2026.
Everyone is invited to attend by following these instructions.
Please read everything.
DO NOT RECORD THE SESSION. DO NOT SEND THE SESSION TO YOUR OWN WEBSITE OR CHANNEL. This is a breach of your Samaya with the Lama.
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.
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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 or COPY THE FOLLOWING:
https://zoom.us/j/92773242520?pwd=bzFiSXk2K3NTSEUvNU5qNkFZSHdzUT09
Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520
A password is not needed
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འཕགས་པ།སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས
OM MANI PAD ME HUM
Completed—NEW YEAR’S EVE PRAYERS & BLESSINGS 12/31/25 at 11:30 pm Pacific Time only on Zoom
December 26, 2025 by bhockman
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Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will very kindly meet with us on New Year’s Eve for prayers, recitations, and meditation for peace in the world and for the benefit of all beings in the New Year.
ONLY ON ZOOM from December 31, 2025 from 11:30 pm to 12:00 pm, Pacific Standard time.
The Zoom link (shown below) is the same one as for the Sunday morning meditation sessions.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND. RECITATIONS WITH BE SHOWN ON THE SCREEN.
LOG IN WITH THE LINK only, OR WITH THE MEETING ID. No password is needed.
https://zoom.us/j/92773242520?pwd=bzFiSXk2K3NTSEUvNU5qNkFZSHdzUT09
Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520
COMING SOON—-THE YEAR OF THE FIRE HORSE
Wonderfully Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF THE BUDDHA NĀGA KING
December 9, 2025 by bhockman
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REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
VEN.LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has kindly agreed to bestow the Empowerment of the BUDDHA NĀGA KING, ཀླུདབང་གི་རྒྱལ་པོ (sangs rgyas klu dbang gi rgyal po) (Buddha Nāgeśvararāja) in a Zoom Room.
DATE: Sunday, January 11, 2026
TIME: 2:00 pm. Pacific Standard Time
Make sure that you know the day and time in your location.
REGISTRATION is required to enter the Zoom room and attend. THE REGISTRATION FORM IS ON THIS PAGE—-BELOW.
LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE
(Sacred Images of Tibet, V.A. Nabatchikov)
There are various benefits to the practice of the Buddha Nāga King, including bringing powerful protections, eliminating diseases and their karmic causes, increasing material and spiritual wealth, subduing malevolent influences, and aiding environmental balances.
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. If not your actual name, then remember the name you are using.
A practice sadhana paper for Buddha Nāga King from Ewam Choden can be mailed to people anywhere.
You must have completed the empowerment to request the sadhana. AFTER completing the empowerment, 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.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION – PLEASE READ BELOW
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. YOUR DONATION IS WELCOME.
REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY JANUARY 10, 2026 AT NOON, PACIFIC STANDARD TIME.
FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY. THEN CLICK ON SEND INFO AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.
SOON 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—NOW CLOSED
ANNUAL MEMORIAL PRAYERS on Zoom, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025 at 6:00 pm Pacific time
November 6, 2025 by bhockman
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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:
https://zoom.us/j/92773242520?pwd=bzFiSXk2K3NTSEUvNU5qNkFZSHdzUT09
Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520
There’s no password now.
One tap mobile
+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
Send an email to Ewam Choden info@ewamchoden.org with any questions.
Completed well– EMPOWERMENT OF BLACK DZAMBHALA
October 31, 2025 by bhockman
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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
Happily Completed—VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY PICNIC Saturday afternoon, 7/26/25
July 9, 2025 by bhockman
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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.
June 12, 2025 by bhockman
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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.
May 28, 2025 by bhockman
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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.
