COMPLETED—EMPOWERMENT of WHITE UMBRELLA on Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 2:00pm Pacific Daylight time
March 6, 2025 by bhockman
Filed under Empowerments
DAY: Sunday, March 30th, 2025 TIME: 2:00 pm, Pacific Daylight time
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VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE WILL KINDLY BESTOW THE EMPOWERMENT OF WHITE UMBRELLA གདུགས་དཀར་མོ། (Dug kar mo) aka Uṣṇīṣa Sitātapatrā
She is known as an emanation of both Avalokiteshvara and of Tara and her 1000 heads and 1000 pairs of arms reflect the combined powers of all the Tathagata Buddhas. Her empowerment and practice give protection from negative emotions, harms, afflictions, diseases, and obstacles, and create auspiciousness. There is no prerequisite. Everyone is welcome. You may receive this as a blessing.
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REGISTER BELOW NOW ! REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, March 29, 2025, at noon, Pacific Daylight Time.
FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY. CLICK ON SEND INFO at the bottom of the page.
PAY ATTENTION !
AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email. Look in Spam if you don’t see it. Keep this LINK to yourself.
IMPORTANT: If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email right away. Do not wait for a long time.
THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE. Your donation brings benefit to yourself.

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Completed—EMPOWERMENT of WHITE MAHAKALA on Sunday, February 23, 2025
February 1, 2025 by bhockman
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Ven, Lama Kunga Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the Empowerment of the six-armed White Mahakala. དགོན་པོ་དཀར་པོ་ལ་ན་མོ་།།
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
DAY: Sunday, February 23, 2025 TIME: 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard time
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REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. YOUR DONATION IS VERY WELCOME.
REGISTER BELOW NOW ! REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025, at noon, PACIFIC TIME.
FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY. CLICK ON SEND INFO at the bottom of the page.
PAY ATTENTION !
AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email. Look in Spam if you don’t see it. Keep this LINK to yourself.
If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email right away. Do not wait for a long time.
THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE. Your donation brings benefit to yourself.


The wrathful and compassionate White Mahakala is a protector and a giver. His practice helps remove obstacles and offers all kinds of wealth and prosperity, material and spiritual.
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7.1 Earthquake in western Tibet
January 8, 2025 by bhockman
Filed under Special Events
ས་ཡོམ་ཁྲོད་རྐྱེན་ལམ་དུ་ཤོར་བའི་མི་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཆེད་དུ་སྨོན་ལམ་རྒྱོབ།





Please join LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE in praying for the well-being of the survivors and the deceased victims of this event.
Take a look at several news reports.
At least 126 killed in deadly Tibet earthquake, says Chinese state media | BBC News with report by Tibetan Sikyong Penpa Tsering(prime minister) He gives this report in English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_sm-dgdMpk
DW NEWS — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F4df3OefAU
Videos and photos Tibetans in India and Nepal, praying and demonstrating https://apnews.com/article/tibet-china-nepal-earthquake-59a9f2e80c4ccede1ffcd962eb3e4488
LADAKH STANDS WITH TIBET/ ལ་དྭགས་མི་མང་ནས་གདུང་སེམས་མཉམ་སྐྱེད་ཞུ། https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AloUXCR1DOE
Tibetans in India Pray for Earthquake Victims | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRYru6Ks91I
Tibetans in Nepal offer prayers for those killed in deadly quake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RkgIcEisEo

COMPLETED—EMPOWERMENT of GYALTSEN TSEMO PUNG GYEN on Sunday, January 26, 2025
January 2, 2025 by bhockman
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Ven. Lama Kunga Thartse Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the Empowerment of Gyalsten Tsemo Pung Gyen. རྒྱལ་མཚན་རྩེ་མོའི་དཔུང་རྒྱན Ornament on top of the Victory Banner ध्वजाग्रकेयूरा (Dhvajāgrakeyūrā)
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DAY: Sunday, January 26, 2025 TIME: 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard time
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REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. YOUR DONATION IS VERY WELCOME.
REGISTER BELOW NOW ! REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025, at noon, PACIFIC TIME.
FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY. CLICK ON SEND INFO at the bottom of the page.
PAY ATTENTION !
AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email. Look in Spam if you don’t see it. Keep this LINK to yourself.
If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email right away.
THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE. Your donation brings benefit to yourself.

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE

Gyalsten Tsemo Pung Gyen རྒྱལ་མཚན་རྩེ་མོའི་དཔུང་རྒྱན is a goddess associated with the Victory Banner (“gyaltsen”) as the ornament on the top. Her practice brings protections from fears and harms, and victories over all kinds of obstacles, demons, and enemies. She helps with many ordinary activities and with the spiritual path to enlightenment.

NOW CLOSED
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NEW YEAR’S EVE PRAYERS & BLESSINGS 12/31/24 at 11:00 pm on Zoom
December 25, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Uncategorized

Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will very kindly meet with us on New Year’s Eve for prayers, recitations, and meditation for peace and for the benefit of all beings in the new year. From December 31, 2024 to January 1, 2025.
ONLY ON ZOOM from December 31, 2024 from 11:00 pm to 12:00 pm, Pacific Standard time.
The Zoom link (shown below) is the same one as for the morning meditation session.
LOG IN WITH THE LINK only, OR WITH THE MEETING ID. No password is needed.
Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE SHOWN DURING THE SUNDAY MORNING MEDITATION ON ZOOM.
VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE offers teaching and meditation in a Zoom room on Sunday, March 30, 2025
November 20, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Special Events
TIME: 10:00 AM to 12:00 daylight savings Pacific Time (one hour forward: 9am–> 10am)
The ZOOM link is below.

VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE
We are happy and appreciative that Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche has very kindly agreed to conduct his traditional Sunday morning Chenrezig compassion meditation and offer us his precious dharma teaching in a live Zoom space from 10:00 am to 12 noon, Pacific Daylight Savings Time on most Sundays. The next session is on Sunday, March 30, 2025.
Everyone is invited to attend by following these instructions.
Please read everything.
DO NOT RECORD THE SESSION.
The ZOOM address and Meeting ID are here below No password is required.
If you have any questions about the session, you may send an email to Ewam Choden. (info@ewamchoden.org)
THE SESSION includes teachings that are different each week, meditation based on the compassion of Chenrezig, and recitations. Everything to recite is shown clearly on the screen.
GENERAL INFORMATION
PLEASE USE YOUR REAL NAME for the Zoom room.
You may log in shortly before the scheduled start and wait. Please don’t be late. The session begins on time.
Please mute yourselves (the moderator will control microphones for all). Although we enjoy reciting aloud together, this sound interferes with the Zoom transmission .
When Rinpoche arrives, he’d like to see everyone, so please keep your video on. Then, if you wish, you may close it until the dedication at the end.
At the end of the meditation, we will again turn on our videos for Rinpoche to see everyone again and we will remove the mute for recitation of the Dedication and Rinpoche’s Long Life prayers.
YOUR GENEROSITY COUNTS : EWAM CHODEN exists from the support of your donation. PLEASE DONATE TO OUR CENTER. SEE BELOW.
DONATIONS to Lama Kunga Rinpoche and to Ewam Choden may be sent through the “DONATE” button on the front page of this website to use PayPal or a credit card. You may also use PayPal with this email: admin@ewamchoden.org
Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center is a 501 (c) (3) status nonprofit organization. Your donations are tax-deductible.
HOW TO JOIN THE SUNDAY TEACHING AND MEDITATION:
If you don’t have Zoom, GET THE ZOOM application in order to be ready.
TO Join The Zoom MEDITATION Meeting: Use the link at the time of the meeting. The link doesn’t work until that time. The link is the same for this Zoom event every Sunday .
Click the link and follow the message that says to wait until the room opens and you are admitted.
Join Zoom Meeting here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5275829240?pwd=TDUrN0k4WnQyWG9aZ3ljVDhDK2Yrdz09
Join the Zoom Meeting by clicking the following URL.
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING:
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Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520
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OM MANI PAD ME HUM

Completed–ANNUAL MEMORIAL PRAYERS on Zoom, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024 at 6:00 pm Pacific time
November 20, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will conduct the annual Memorial Prayer service at Ewam Choden and we will participate through Zoom. Everyone is invited to attend.
Annually, Ewam Choden holds a gathering to offer prayers for the benefit of all of our friends, relatives and countless sentient beings who have passed on this year and in previous years.
You may set up or hold a photo of a special person or animal that you wish to include. You may light incense and tea lamps if you wish.
The recitations will be shown on the screen. The following prayers that we usually recite can be downloaded here.
http://www.ewamchoden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Happiness-Prayer.pdf
http://www.ewamchoden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Heart-Sutra-Prayer.pdf


Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche
HOW TO ATTEND
HERE IS THE URL LINK FOR THE ZOOM ROOM:
Topic: Annual Memorial Prayers
Time: Nov 23, 2024 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Completed—NEW YEAR’S EVE PRAYERS ON 12/31/24
November 6, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Special Events

JOIN LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE ON ZOOM for NEW YEAR’S EVE
Pray for compassion and peace, health and prosperity, as you ring in the solar NEW YEAR 2025..
On Tuesday, December 31st, starting at 11:00 p.m., Lama Kunga Rinpoche will lead some meditation and the recitation of auspicious prayers.
Everyone is welcome to this Zoom session from 11pm to midnight Pacific Time.
Join Zoom Meeting with this URL No password is needed.
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Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520
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Meeting ID: 927 7324 2520
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Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF YELLOW DZAMBHALA on Sunday, 11/24/24, 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time
November 3, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Empowerments
ONLY ON ZOOM with registration
VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has kindly agreed to bestow the Empowerment of YELLOW DZAMBHALA ཛམ་བྷ་ལ་ (Sanskrit, Jambhala, जम्भला)
Yellow Dzambhala is a popular Dzambhala whose practice teaches you generosity and enhances your well-being and wealth.
DAY: Sunday, November 24, 2024
TIME: 2:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Check CAREFULLY for the DAY AND TIME in your location.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. YOUR DONATION IS VERY WELCOME.
REGISTER BELOW NOW ! REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2024, at noon, PACIFIC TIME.
FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY. CLICK ON SEND INFO at the bottom of the page.
PAY ATTENTION !
AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email. Look in Spam if you don’t see it. Keep this LINK to yourself.
If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email right away.
THERE IS NO REQUIRED FEE, BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A DONATION BY USING THE DONATE BUTTON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE. Your donation brings more benefit to yourself.

Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche

YELLOW DZAMBHALA
The practice of the Yellow Dzambhala increases wealth, prosperity and abundance, removing the obstacle of poverty, and easing the circumstances of Dharma practitioners. Yellow Dzambhala practice also encourages generosity. which is very meritorious, and helps increase lifespan and wisdom. (And this is just the beginning…)
REGISTRATION IS now CLOSED for this event.
MANTRA CALLIGRAPHY
October 27, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Special Events
Hand painted
by Ven. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE
Lama Kunga Rinpoche is now writing more calligraphy and he will make one for you by request.
Although Rinpoche has favorites, you may request whatever mantra you want (if it is not too long).
The donation for one calligraphy painting, signed by Lama Kunga Rinpoche, is $108. You receive it unframed, but they look great in nice frames, hung on a wall. They’re mailed in tubes. There will be an extra mailing charge for addresses outside of the US. Use the DONATE button on the front page, right side.
These donations are for the support of the Ewam Choden Center.
They are tax-deductible. Email Ewam Choden if you’re interested. (info@ewamchoden.org)

This (above) is the mantra of Parnashavari.


