{"id":4199,"date":"2016-10-19T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2017-01-01T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T21:08:37","slug":"new-maitreiya-festival-with-blessing-on-november-5th-2016-at-tharpa-cho-ling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"COMPLETED &#8211; MAITREYA FESTIVAL with BLESSING of Maitreya Buddha-NOV 5TH, 2016 at Tharpa Cho Ling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There will be a Maitreya Festival in Upper Lake, California.\u00a0 Everyone is welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Maitreya festival<\/span> will begin at 10:00 am on Saturday, November 5th at <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tharpa Cho Ling<\/span>.\u00a0 First, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche<\/span> will kindly bestow a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Maitreya Empowerment blessing<\/span> for which a donation will be requested.\u00a0 After the empowerment there will be a circumambulation of the Tharpa Cho Ling land.\u00a0 The parade will consist of persons blowing conches, ringing bells, bearing incense, holding banners, umbrellas, statues and 12 volumes of the Prajnaparamita Sutra.\u00a0 After the circumambulations are completed,\u00a0 participants will sit down to a potluck feast.\u00a0 The focus of the festival is World peace, loving kindness and the prayer that Maitreya will come quickly to this ravaged planet. (information from Max Butler, Tharpa Cho Ling coordinator)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">THARPA CHO LING<\/span> is Ewam Choden&#8217;s retreat center in Upper Lake, California.\u00a0 It is described on the website home page. After it was created, a local sangha group formed around it. These members hold a weekly Saturday morning Chenrezig meditation in the beautiful shrine room.\u00a0 Periodically, Lama Kunga Rinpoche goes there to lead the meditation, and occasionally gives empowerments.\u00a0 This Maitreya Festival with an Empowerment is a rare opportunity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The location in Upper Lake is about 2 1\/2 hours by car from the Bay area.\u00a0 If you are interested in attending, please send an email to Ewam Choden for directions.\u00a0 (info@ewamchoden.org)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MAITREYA-BUDDHA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MAITREYA-BUDDHA-284x300.png\" alt=\"maitreya-buddha\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MAITREYA-BUDDHA-284x300.png 284w, https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MAITREYA-BUDDHA-971x1024.png 971w, https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MAITREYA-BUDDHA.png 1094w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a Maitreya Festival in Upper Lake, California.\u00a0 Everyone is welcome The Maitreya festival will begin at 10:00 am on Saturday, November 5th at Tharpa Cho Ling.\u00a0 First, Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will kindly bestow a Maitreya Empowerment blessing for which a donation will be requested.\u00a0 After the empowerment there will be a [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-completed-special-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","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=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4379,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions\/4379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}