SAVE THE DATE—-> SUNDAY, July 27, 2025 in the afternoon

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.

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

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE offers teaching and meditation in a Zoom room on Sunday, June 22, 2025

TIME: 10:00 AM to 12:00 daylight savings Pacific Time

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

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE

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 Savings Time on most Sundays. The next session is on Sunday, June 22, 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

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 doesn’t work until that time. 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.

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Join the Zoom Meeting by clicking the following URL.

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འཕགས་པ།སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས

OM MANI PAD ME HUM

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

COMPLETED—EMPOWERMENT of GYALTSEN TSEMO PUNG GYEN on Sunday, January 26, 2025

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

Ven. Lama Kunga Thartse Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the Empowerment of Gyalsten Tsemo Pung Gyen.  རྒྱལ་མཚན་རྩེ་མོའི་དཔུང་རྒྱན  Ornament on top of the Victory Banner ध्वजाग्रकेयूरा (Dhvajāgrakeyūrā)

ONLY ON ZOOM with prior registration REGISTER BELOW

DAY: Sunday, January 26, 2025 TIME: 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard 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.

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE

Gyalsten Tsemo Pung Gyen རྒྱལ་མཚན་རྩེ་མོའི་དཔུང་རྒྱན  is a goddess associated with the Victory Banner (“gyaltsen”) as the ornament on the top. Her practice brings protections from fears and harms, and victories over all kinds of obstacles, demons, and enemies. She helps with many ordinary activities and with the spiritual path to enlightenment.

NOW CLOSED

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

NEW YEAR’S EVE PRAYERS & BLESSINGS 12/31/24 at 11:00 pm on Zoom

Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will very kindly meet with us on New Year’s Eve for prayers, recitations, and meditation for peace and for the benefit of all beings in the new year. From December 31, 2024 to January 1, 2025.

ONLY ON ZOOM from December 31, 2024 from 11:00 pm to 12:00 pm, Pacific Standard time.

The Zoom link (shown below) is the same one as for the morning meditation session.

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

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE SHOWN DURING THE SUNDAY MORNING MEDITATION ON ZOOM.

Completed–ANNUAL MEMORIAL PRAYERS on Zoom, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024 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.

Annually, Ewam Choden holds a gathering to offer prayers for the benefit of all of our friends, relatives and countless sentient beings 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 tea lamps if you wish.

The recitations will be shown on the screen. The following prayers that we usually recite can be downloaded here.

http://www.ewamchoden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Happiness-Prayer.pdf

http://www.ewamchoden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Heart-Sutra-Prayer.pdf

Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche

HOW TO ATTEND

HERE IS THE URL LINK FOR THE ZOOM ROOM:

Topic: Annual Memorial Prayers
Time: Nov 23, 2024 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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