KURUKULLE EMPOWERMENT May 25, 2025 with Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche
April 24, 2025 by bhockman
Filed under Empowerments

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
March 6, 2025 by bhockman
Filed under Empowerments
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
February 1, 2025 by bhockman
Filed under Empowerments
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
COMPLETED—EMPOWERMENT of GYALTSEN TSEMO PUNG GYEN on Sunday, January 26, 2025
January 2, 2025 by bhockman
Filed under Empowerments
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
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, JANUARY 25, 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.
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.
Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF YELLOW DZAMBHALA on Sunday, 11/24/24, 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time
November 3, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Empowerments
ONLY ON ZOOM with registration
VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has kindly agreed to bestow the Empowerment of YELLOW DZAMBHALA ཛམ་བྷ་ལ་ (Sanskrit, Jambhala, जम्भला)
Yellow Dzambhala is a popular Dzambhala whose practice teaches you generosity and enhances your well-being and wealth.
DAY: Sunday, November 24, 2024
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, NOVEMBER 23, 2024, 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.
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 more benefit to yourself.

Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche

YELLOW DZAMBHALA
The practice of the Yellow Dzambhala increases wealth, prosperity and abundance, removing the obstacle of poverty, and easing the circumstances of Dharma practitioners. Yellow Dzambhala practice also encourages generosity. which is very meritorious, and helps increase lifespan and wisdom. (And this is just the beginning…)
REGISTRATION IS now CLOSED for this event.
Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF GREEN TARA
July 15, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events, Empowerments, Uncategorized
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
June 8, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events, Empowerments
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
June 8, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under 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 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་ )
May 8, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Empowerments
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.
REGISTER BELOW NOW ! REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2024 (PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME)
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
March 28, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Empowerments
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.