{"id":3124,"date":"2015-01-19T20:02:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T04:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2015-05-25T11:51:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T18:51:56","slug":"upcoming-empowerment-of-blue-jacket-vajrapani-sunday-may-24-2015-at-ewam-choden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=3124","title":{"rendered":"Completed &#8211; EMPOWERMENT OF BLUE JACKET VAJRAPANI, Sunday May 24, 2015 at Ewam Choden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche<\/em> will kindly bestow the empowerment of the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Blue Jacket Vajrapani<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 <strong>Vajrapani<\/strong> (Tibetan:\u00a0<em>chag na dor je<\/em>.\u00a0English: the Vajra Holder) is the wrathful\u00a0<em>yidam<\/em>, representing the power of all Buddhas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Blue-jacketed Vajrapani is an uncommon practice in the Sakya tradition said to reverse negative forces and obstacles that are beyond the control of the practitioner, such as bad spells, curses, and ill wishes. This practice also helps to stop\u00a0<em>naga<\/em> diseases, such as infectious blood diseases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The empowerment begins at 1:00 pm and has a requested donation of $30. (Offering to the Lama is separate.)<br \/>\nA practice sadhana will be given, but the empowerment can be taken as a blessing.<br \/>\nThere is no requirement or pre-registration.\u00a0 Please arrive early to register at the door.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Vajrapani-Blue-Coat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Vajrapani-Blue-Coat-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vajrapani-Blue Coat\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Vajrapani-Blue-Coat-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Vajrapani-Blue-Coat.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will kindly bestow the empowerment of the Blue Jacket Vajrapani.\u00a0 Vajrapani (Tibetan:\u00a0chag na dor je.\u00a0English: the Vajra Holder) is the wrathful\u00a0yidam, representing the power of all Buddhas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Blue-jacketed Vajrapani is an uncommon practice in the Sakya tradition said to reverse negative forces and obstacles that are beyond the control of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-completed-empowerments"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}