{"id":5378,"date":"2017-11-01T14:25:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T21:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2022-07-31T10:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:39:24","slug":"empowerment-of-vajrapani-bhutadamara-on-sunday-september-23-2018-at-ewam-choden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?p=5378","title":{"rendered":"Completed&#8212;EMPOWERMENT OF VAJRAPANI BHUTADAMARA ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2018 at EWAM CHODEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche<\/em> will kindly bestow the empowerment of the <em>Vajrapani Bhutadamara<\/em>.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Vajrapani (Tibetan:\u00a0<em>chag na dor je<\/em>.\u00a0English: the Vajra Holder) is the wrathful-appearing Bodhisattva, representing the power of all Buddhas, who protects the Dharma and practitioners in various ways in his different forms. As caretaker and guardian of all the Tantras, he is special for removing the various types of obstacles that can arise during intensive practice as well as simply removing obstructions on the path of a practitioner.\u00a0 This particular form, the Vajrapani Bhutadamara, is the &#8220;one who Subdues Demons.&#8221;\u00a0 He stops discordant conditions and obstacles,\u00a0 and the harms of all kinds of spirits and demons from above,\u00a0 below, and in the middle.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">DATE:<\/span>\u00a0 Sunday, September 23, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">TIME:<\/span> 1:00 pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Please arrive early to register at the door.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">REQUESTED DONATION:<\/span> $30.\u00a0 Offering to the Lama is separate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>A practice sadhana will be given, but the empowerment may be taken as a blessing.<br \/>\n<em>Everyone is welcome.<\/em>\u00a0 There is no requirement or pre-registration.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/VAJRAPANI-BHUTADAMARA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/VAJRAPANI-BHUTADAMARA-293x300.png\" alt=\"VAJRAPANI BHUTADAMARA\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/VAJRAPANI-BHUTADAMARA-293x300.png 293w, https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/VAJRAPANI-BHUTADAMARA.png 894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will kindly bestow the empowerment of the Vajrapani Bhutadamara.\u00a0 Vajrapani (Tibetan:\u00a0chag na dor je.\u00a0English: the Vajra Holder) is the wrathful-appearing Bodhisattva, representing the power of all Buddhas, who protects the Dharma and practitioners in various ways in his different forms. As caretaker and guardian of all the Tantras, he is special [&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-5378","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\/5378","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=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}