{"id":4395,"date":"2017-06-20T16:08:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T23:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2022-07-31T10:43:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:43:01","slug":"empowerment-of-avalokiteshivara-mahamudra-june-25-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=4395","title":{"rendered":"COMPLETED &#8211; EMPOWERMENT of AVALOKITESHIVARA MAHAMUDRA &#8211; June 25, 2017 1:00 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Venerable Lama Kunga Rinpoche<\/span> will kindly bestow the empowerment and practice teachings of <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara) practice with Mahamudra<\/span>.\u00a0 This is the practice of pure compassion in union with mahamudra, the great seal of bliss and emptiness.\u00a0 The Chenresig with Mahamudra initiation empowers\u00a0one to practice Mahamudra in the context of a Chenresig sadhana.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is no prerequisite to attend. Everyone is welcome.\u00a0 The requested donation is $30.\u00a0 Dana (offering) to the Lama and attending monastics is separate. The starting time is 1:00 pm. Please arrive early to register, and early enough to look for street parking.\u00a0 Be considerate of neighbors.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You will be given a printed sadhana for practice, but this empowerment may be received as a blessing.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A special session for the practice of Avalokiteshvara Mahamudra is held monthly at Ewam Choden after the regular meditation on Sunday. Information about this will be available after the empowerment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Chenresig with Mahamudra practice was composed by Ngorchen Khonchog Lhundrup (1497 \u2013 1557), who was the tenth abbot of Ngor Ewam Choden Monastery. This profound and inspiring text points us to our most compassionate and luminous potential. It has a special connection with Lama Kunga Rinpoche and the Ewam Choden Center since it originated with one of the great lamas of Ngor Monastery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0It is a rare opportunity and not to be missed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"dateleft\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"dateleft\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CHENRESIG-MAHAMUDRA.jpg\" alt=\"CHENRESIG MAHAMUDRA\" width=\"497\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CHENRESIG-MAHAMUDRA.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CHENRESIG-MAHAMUDRA-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"dateleft\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dateleft\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venerable Lama Kunga Rinpoche will kindly bestow the empowerment and practice teachings of Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara) practice with Mahamudra.\u00a0 This is the practice of pure compassion in union with mahamudra, the great seal of bliss and emptiness.\u00a0 The Chenresig with Mahamudra initiation empowers\u00a0one to practice Mahamudra in the context of a Chenresig sadhana.\u00a0 There is no [&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-4395","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\/4395","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=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}