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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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