Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF YELLOW DZAMBHALA on Sunday, 11/24/24, 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time

November 3, 2024 by  
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ONLY ON ZOOM with registration

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.

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

རྗེ་བརྩུན་སྒྲོལ་མ།། तारा

on SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2024

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.

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

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  
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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.

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

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


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

May 8, 2024 by  
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BUDDHA AKSHOBHYA (अक्षोभ्य)

ON SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2024

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)

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  
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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.

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

February 29, 2024 by  
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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.

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

February 2, 2024 by  
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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.

Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF BLACK MANJUSHRI ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2024 ONLY ON ZOOM

December 16, 2023 by  
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VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has kindly agreed to bestow the empowerment of

Black Manjushri འཇམ་དབྱངས་ནག་པོ་ jamyang nakpo

SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2024

2:00 PM, PACIFIC STANDARD TIME

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON SATURDAY, 1/27/24.

After you submit the registration form, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for January 28, 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.

Manjushri is the Bodhisattva of transcendental wisdom.  In general, the practice of Manjushri cuts ignorance and delusion, and opens the mind of wisdom.  Additionally, the Black Manjushri, a more wrathful form,  is a powerful force against serious illnesses, obstacles, fears, obscurations, all kinds of negative forces, and a protector of traveling.
 

Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF DUTSI KILWA on Sunday, December 17, 2023 – only on Zoom

November 22, 2023 by  
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VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has kindly agreed to bestow the empowerment of DUTSI KILWA བདུད་རྩི་འཁྱིལ་བ, Amrita-Kundalin (अमृतकुण्डलिन्)

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2023

2:00 PM PACIFIC TIME (California)

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED NOW.

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.

IN ORDER TO ATTEND, YOU HAVE TO REGISTER.

GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE.

Dutsi Kilwa helps to dissolve and eliminate all kinds of inner and outer negativities and negative influences. This includes inner obstacles from ignorance and effects of karma.
Dutsi (Amrita in Sanskrit) means nectar. You will learn how to create and use the nectar for purification with this practice.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED NOW.

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