{"id":3690,"date":"2016-09-17T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2019-04-02T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T02:22:07","slug":"empowerments-of-21-taras-at-ewam-choden-on-june-24-thru-26-2016-at-ewam-choden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=3690","title":{"rendered":"Completed successfully!  VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE WILL GIVE EMPOWERMENTS OF 21 TARAS in the Atisha tradition on DEC. 2-4, 2016 at Ewam Choden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche<\/span> will kindly bestow the entire <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">21 Tara series of Empowerments<\/span><\/em> in the Atisha tradition on Friday, Dec. 2nd in the evening, and during the day, on Saturday the 3rd and on Sunday the 4th. \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Everyone is welcome.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">These empowerments may be received as a blessing.\u00a0 For people interested in practice, there will be sadhanas (practice booklets) available for each of the 21 Taras.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>It is necessary to register and pay for the entire series.\u00a0 The donation amount is $375.00.\u00a0 The Dana (offering) to the Lama and monastic at the end is separate.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PARTICIPANTS SHOULD FOLLOW A VEGETARIAN DIET WITHOUT GARLIC OR ONION ON THE DAYS OF THE EMPOWERMENTS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME FOR THE START TIMES.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Completed<\/span> Friday, DEC 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This teaching will begin with opening prayers and empowerments on two aspects of Tara.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday, DEC\u00a03 \u00a0\u00a0 9:00 am Start to 6:30 pm (estimate)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This day will include Ten empowerments. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There will be a break for lunch, so attendees may bring something to eat.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><u><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday, DEC 4\u00a0 \u00a0 9:00 am to 5 pm\u00a0 Followed by a small Tsok<\/span><br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This day will\u00a0include\u00a0Nine empowerments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There will be a break for lunch, so attendees may bring something to eat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;REGISTER BELOW&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?page_id=4223\">CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE\u00a0REGISTRATION with PayPal or Credit Card<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?page_id=4225\">CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION BY CHECK<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> TARA IS A (female) BODHISATTVA\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> (<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Sanskrit language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanskrit_language\">Sanskrit<\/a>: <span lang=\"sa\" xml:lang=\"sa\">\u0924\u093e\u0930\u093e<\/span>, <span class=\"Unicode\" title=\"International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration\">t\u0101r\u0101<\/span>; <a title=\"Standard Tibetan\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Standard_Tibetan\">Tibetan<\/a> \u0f66\u0f92\u0fb2\u0f7c\u0f63\u0f0b\u0f58 = Drolma) also known as <b>\u0100rya T\u0101r\u0101<\/b>, or <b>Jetsun Dolma.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Each of her 21 emanations has her own mantra and enlightened quality including protection, pacification, purification, rescue, healing, and varieties of assistance to practitioners on many levels.\u00a0 Tara is sometimes called the mother of the Buddhas. She is associated with Chenrezig and with Amitabha Buddha. There is a 21 verse prayer of praises to each Tara emanation, describing her qualities, which is recited in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/21TARAS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/21TARAS-720x1024.png\" alt=\"21TARAS\" width=\"555\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/21TARAS-720x1024.png 720w, https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/21TARAS-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/21TARAS.png 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will kindly bestow the entire 21 Tara series of Empowerments in the Atisha tradition on Friday, Dec. 2nd in the evening, and during the day, on Saturday the 3rd and on Sunday the 4th. \u00a0 Everyone is welcome.\u00a0 These empowerments may be received as a blessing.\u00a0 For people interested in practice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-3690","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\/3690","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4375,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}