NEW Special Event: H. E. NGOR KHANGSAR SHABDRUNG RINPOCHE visits and kindly offers

AN EMPOWERMENT OF VAJRAPANI BHUTADAMARA (Chagna Dorje)

DAY: FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2024

TIME: 7:00 PM DONATION at the door: $30.

LOCATION: BAY AREA PAL TSECHEN LING, 3731 Bissell Ave, Richmond, CA 94805

H. E. Khangsar Shabdrung Rinpoche

Rinpoche was born in Kalamentown, Dehradun, India, in 1990. At the age of seven, he was formally recognized as the reincarnation of H.E Ngor Khangsar 72nd Ngawang Khyentse Thupten Nyingpo Rinpoche by His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche (41st Sakya Trizin) and he became the holder of the seat of Khangsar Labrang, which is one of Sakya Ngor’s four traditional schools (Luding, Thartse, Phende, and Khangsar).

VAJRAPANI BHUTADAMARA, Subduer of Demons

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY PICNIC Sunday afternoon, 7/28/24

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 89th BIRTHDAY OF OUR PRECIOUS DHARMA TEACHER.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!    BRING FOOD TO SHARE.  Remember that Lama Kunga Rinpoche doesn’t eat anything with sugar or any artificial sugar-type sweetener.
WEATHER-PERMITTING, THERE WILL BE A BARBEQUE.

DATE: Sunday, JULY 28, 2024
TIME:  1:00 pm to about 4:00 pm

LOCATION: The Arlington Park at 1120 Arlington Blvd. in El Cerrito.
Drive northward on Arlington Blvd. after Kensington. The park is on the right with plenty of street parking. Site #1. Past the tennis courts.

Rinpoche really enjoys seeing all of you !

NOTE:  If you aren’t feeling well or test positive for Covid (or any other currently circulating illness), please stay home and recover.

Any questions?  Email Ewam Choden: info@ewamchoden.org

DATE:  Sunday, JULY 28, 2024
TIME: 1:00 pm to about 4:00 pm

LOCATION: The Arlington Park at 1120 Arlington Blvd. in El Cerrito.
Drive northward on Arlington Blvd. after Kensington. The park is on the right with plenty of street parking. Site #1. Past the tennis courts.
 

Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF GREEN TARA

རྗེ་བརྩུན་སྒྲོལ་མ།། तारा

on SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2024

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has very kindly agreed to bestow
the EMPOWERMENT OF GREEN TARA ONLY ON ZOOM

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. DONATIONS ARE WELCOME

REGISTER BELOW NOW ! REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024 (PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME

DAY—SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2024


TIME—2:00 PM, PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME

Check CAREFULLY for the DAY AND TIME in your location.

FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY AND CLICK ON SEND INFO at the bottom of the page.
AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email. Keep this LINK to yourself. If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email.

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.

After you receive the complete empowerment, you may request a practice sadhana by emailing Ewam Choden with your home address. We do not offer digital copies.

There is no prerequisite for the Green Tara Empowerment. However,  a vegetarian diet for the entire day is necessary.

Green Tara is a Bodhisattva of enlightened activity and purified energy. This practice comforts, cures, and protects. Tara conquers fear and anxiety, and clears the way for the Dharma path to enlightenment to unfold.

Completed—Empowerment of CAKRASAMVARA ( འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག་)(Khorlo Demchok) and VAJRAYOGINI (རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ) of Naropa July 5th, 6th, and 7th 2024

We are most grateful to H.E. Thartse Khen Rinpoche for offering us these two profound empowerments.

Lama Kunga Rinpoche and the members of Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center are looking forward to welcoming  His Eminence Thartse Khen Rinpoche on his third visit to our Center on June and July 2024. 


Ngor Thartse Khen Rinpoche is the 77th abbot  of Ngor, a main branch of the Sakyapa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 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.  



H.E. Thartse Khen Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the following empowerments over three days.

The Empowerment of CAKRASAMVARA ( འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག་)(Khorlo Demchok) in the tradition of Krishnacharya ( ནག་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་) (Nagpopa)  – TWO DAYS

 The Empowerment of VAJRAYOGINI (རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ) of Naropa (ན་རོ་མཁའ་སྤྱོད་) – ONE DAY

These empowerments are in person only, and there are some prerequisites, as follows.

In order to receive the Cakrasamvara Empowerment, you must have taken refuge with a lama.
This empowerment takes two days, and you must attend on both days.

In order to receive the Vajrayogini Empowerment, you must have already received a Cakrasamvara Empowerment in person only,  from a lama (of any of the four Tibetan traditions). This empowerment takes one day.

Pre-Registration with Payment is required for both empowerments.
REGISTRATION IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. PAYMENT IS REQUIRED.

NOTE: REGISTRATION ON THIS PAGE IS FOR THE “COMBO” (2) OF CAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAYOGINI. GO TO THE OTHER PAGE IF YOU WANT TO REGISTER FOR ONLY CAKRASAMVARA..

See information below about the registration.

REQUIRED PAYMENT

Cakrasamvara only (two days) — $108.00 

Cakrasamvara and Vajrayogini —  $183.00
The Vajrayogini Empowerment is limited to 40 people.

Vajrayogini — waiting list 
If there are fewer than 40 people registered for the “combo” above, then you may be able to register for the Vajrayogini Empowerment (as long as you have already received the Cakrasamvara as stated above in Prerequisites.)  The cost will be $80.

DATES and TIMES

CAKRASAMVARA EMPOWERMENT— Friday, July 5 from 3pm to 5pm AND Saturday, July 6, from 2pm to 5pm

Arrive at least 30 minutes EARLIER TO CHECK IN AND GET SETTLED.

YOU MUST ATTEND BOTH DAYS of the Cakrasamvara Empowerment.

VAJRAYOGINI EMPOWERMENT — Sunday, July 7 from 2pm to 5pm

Arrive at least 30 minutes EARLIER TO CHECK IN AND GET SETTLED.

LOCATION

Cakrasamvara Empowerment —
— To be held at BAY AREA PAL TSECHEN LING, 3731 Bissell Ave, Richmond, CA 94805
Please don’t contact this organization for any information. We simply use their space.

Vajrayogini Empowerment —
— To be held at the BAY AREA PAL TSECHEN LING, 3731 Bissell Ave, RICHMOND, CA 94805

Please email Ewam Choden at info@ewamchoden.org with any questions.


Completed—Empowerment of CAKRASAMVARA ( འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག་)(Khorlo Demchok) July 5th and 6th, 2024

Lama Kunga Rinpoche and the members of Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center are looking forward to welcoming  His Eminence Thartse Khen Rinpoche on his third visit to our Center on June and July 2024. 


Ngor Thartse Khen Rinpoche is the 77th abbot  of Ngor, a main branch of the Sakyapa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 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.  


H.E. Thartse Khen Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the following empowerments over three days.

The Empowerment of CAKRASAMVARA ( འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག་)(Khorlo Demchok) in the tradition of Krishnacharya ( ནག་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་) (Nagpopa)  – TWO DAYS

 The Empowerment of VAJRAYOGINI (རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ) of Naropa (ན་རོ་མཁའ་སྤྱོད་) – ONE DAY

These empowerments are in person only, and there are some prerequisites, as follows.

In order to receive the Cakrasamvara Empowerment, you must have taken refuge with a lama.
This empowerment takes two days, and you must attend on both days.

In order to receive the Vajrayogini Empowerment, you must have aleady received a Cakrasamvara Empowerment in person only,  from a lama (of any of the four Tibetan traditions). This empowerment takes one day.

Pre-Registration with Payment is required for both empowerments.

REGISTRATION IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. PAYMENT IS REQUIRED.

NOTE: REGISTRATION ON THIS PAGE IS FOR CAKRASAMVARA ONLY (1) below. GO TO THE OTHER PAGE FOR THE “COMBO” REGISTRATION.

DATES AND TIMES

Cakrasamvara Empowerment — Friday, July 5, 3pm to 5pm

and Saturday, July 6, 2024, 2pm to 5pm

ARRIVE AT LEAST 30 MINUTES EARLIER TO SIGN IN AND GET SETTLED.

YOU MUST ATTEND BOTH DAYS.

LOCATION

Cakrasamvara Empowerment —
To be held at BAY AREA PAL TSECHEN LING, 3731 Bissell Ave, Richmond, CA 94805
Please don’t contact this organization for any information. We simply use their space.

Please email Ewam Choden at info@ewamchoden.org with any questions.


Completed——-EMPOWERMENT OF MITUKPA (མི་འཁྲུགས་པ་ )

BUDDHA AKSHOBHYA (अक्षोभ्य)

ON SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2024

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has very kindly agreed to bestow
the EMPOWERMENT OF Mitukpa (Akshobhya).

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. DONATIONS ARE WELCOME.

DAY SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2024
TIME 2:00 PM, PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (Check for the time in your location)

FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY AND CLICK ON SEND IT.
AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email. . Keep this LINK to yourself. If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email.

THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE WEBSITE.

After you receive the complete empowerment, you may request a practice sadhana by emailing Ewam Choden with your home address. We do not offer digital copies.

Blue Akshobhya (Tibetan, Mitukpa) is the unshakeable and immutable Buddha with mirror-like wisdom.

This empowerment from the system of Atisha purifies obscurations and defilements.
The MANTRA is said especially prior to eating meat for purification and it is in our food offering prayer.
Read and write down the mantra. It can even be written on walls, and on stones. To memorize it is very useful. (from Lama Kunga Rinpoche)

Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF MIYOWA མི་གཡོ་བ་ (Achala अचल) SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2024

REGISTER NOW!

REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2024 (PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME)

DAY SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2024

TIME 2:00 PM, PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (Check for the time in your location)

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has very kindly agreed to bestow

the EMPOWERMENT OF MIYOWA མི་གཡོ་བ་ (Achala अचल)

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. DONATIONS ARE WELCOME.

You may receive this empowerment as a blessing or for personal practice. There is no required commitment.

REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2024 AT NOON, Pacific Daylight Time.

FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY AND CLICK ON SEND IT.

AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email after a while. Keep this LINK to yourself. If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email.

THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE WEBSITE.

After you receive the complete empowerment, you may request a practice sadhana by emailing Ewam Choden with your home address. We do not offer digital copies.

Miyowa, the Immovable One, is a wrathful protector who helps the practitioner remove all types of outer and inner obstacles, including diseases.

Completed–EMPOWERMENT OF MEWA TSEKMA མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་སྨེ་བ་བརྩེགས་མ་ on SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2024, ONLY ON ZOOM

DAY SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2024

TIME 2:00 PM, PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (Check for the time in your location)

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has kindly agreed to bestow the empowerment of

Mewa Tsekma མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་སྨེ་བ་བརྩེགས་མ་ Skt. Ucchuṣma

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE.

REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON SATURDAY, March 23, AT NOON, Pacific Daylight Time.

FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW AND SEND IT.

After you submit the registration form, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for MARCH 24, 2024.

Keep this LINK to yourself.

If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link, contact us.

THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE WEBSITE.
You may receive this empowerment as a blessing or for personal practice. There is no required commitment.

After you receive the complete empowerment, you may request a practice sadhana by emailing Ewam Choden with your home address. We do not offer digital copies.

MEWA TSEKPA, in various forms, is a powerful purification practice. This one is a standing female whose practice helps purify defilements, obscurations and breaks in samaya and vows.

Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF RED 2-ARMED HAYAGRIVA ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024, ONLY ON ZOOM

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS CLOSED NOW.

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has kindly agreed to bestow the empowerment of the Red 2-Armed Hayagriva རྟ་མགྲིན། ནང་ལྷ།

Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 2 pm, Pacific Standard Time

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. REGISTER BELOW: Fill out the Form completely and SUBMIT it.

After you submit the registration form, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for February 25, 2024. Keep this to yourself.

THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE WEBSITE.

You may receive this empowerment as a blessing or for personal practice. There is no required commitment.

After you receive the complete empowerment, you may request a practice sadhana by emailing Ewam Choden with your home address. We do not offer digital copies.

The practice of Hayagriva can eliminate our external and internal obstacles and problems, particularly those caused by our own negativity as demons and spirits. His special ability is to cure diseases, especially skin diseases even as serious as leprosy, which is said to be caused by Nagas. His compassion is related to Avalokiteshvara and Amitabha Buddha.

This session is cancelled on July 28 and on August 4. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE WILL OFFER SUNDAY MEDITATION and TEACHING on Aug. 11, 2024 at 10:00 am-noon, Pacific daylight time.

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.

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

The ZOOM address and Meeting ID are here below, but if you are new, you need to request a password. Get the password by emailing Ewam Choden, and requesting it in advance. <info@ewamchoden.org> The Chenrezig meditation sadhana used for our practice will be sent to you in the (same) email with the password if you don’t have it. PLEASE NOTE: If you’re new to the Center, you may be asked for some information about yourself.

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 as an aspect of the practice, this sound interferes with the Zoom transmission . So we need to limit the audio to only Rinpoche’s speaking, while we recite by ourselves.

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 unmute for recitation of the Dedication and Long Life prayers.

YOUR GENEROSITY COUNTS : EWAM CHODEN exists from the support of your donation. 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.

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.

Log in 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:

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Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520
Password: (Get it by emailing EC in advance.)

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