Completed–ANNUAL MEMORIAL PRAYERS on Zoom, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024 at 6:00 pm Pacific time
November 20, 2024 by bhockman
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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– Special Event: H. E. NGOR KHANGSAR SHABDRUNG RINPOCHE visits and kindly offers
July 22, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events, Uncategorized
AN EMPOWERMENT OF VAJRAPANI BHUTADAMARA (Chagna Dorje)
DAY: FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2024
TIME: 7:00 PM DONATION at the door: $30.
LOCATION: BAY AREA PAL TSECHEN LING, 3731 Bissell Ave, Richmond, CA 94805
H. E. Khangsar Shabdrung Rinpoche
Rinpoche was born in Kalamentown, Dehradun, India, in 1990. At the age of seven, he was formally recognized as the reincarnation of H.E Ngor Khangsar 72nd Ngawang Khyentse Thupten Nyingpo Rinpoche by His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche (41st Sakya Trizin) and he became the holder of the seat of Khangsar Labrang, which is one of Sakya Ngor’s four traditional schools (Luding, Thartse, Phende, and Khangsar).
VAJRAPANI BHUTADAMARA, Subduer of Demons
Completed Happily–VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY PICNIC Sunday afternoon, 7/28/24
July 18, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
You are cordially invited to a special event ! IN PERSON ONLY
༄ །བླ་མ་ཀུན་དགའ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། འཁྲུངས་སྐར་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ་།། Happy Birthday to Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche
HERE is Lama Kunga Rinpoche at a previous Birthday Party Picnic.
COME TO HONOR AND CELEBRATE THE 89th BIRTHDAY OF OUR PRECIOUS DHARMA TEACHER.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME! BRING FOOD TO SHARE. Remember that Lama Kunga Rinpoche doesn’t eat anything with sugar or any artificial sugar-type sweetener.
WEATHER-PERMITTING, THERE WILL BE A BARBEQUE.
DATE: Sunday, JULY 28, 2024
TIME: 1:00 pm to about 4:00 pm
LOCATION: The Arlington Park at 1120 Arlington Blvd. in El Cerrito.
Drive northward on Arlington Blvd. after Kensington. The park is on the right with plenty of street parking. Site #1. Past the tennis courts.
Rinpoche really enjoys seeing all of you !
NOTE: If you aren’t feeling well or test positive for Covid (or any other currently circulating illness), please stay home and recover.
Any questions? Email Ewam Choden: info@ewamchoden.org
DATE: Sunday, JULY 28, 2024
TIME: 1:00 pm to about 4:00 pm
LOCATION: The Arlington Park at 1120 Arlington Blvd. in El Cerrito.
Drive northward on Arlington Blvd. after Kensington. The park is on the right with plenty of street parking. Site #1. Past the tennis courts.
Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF GREEN TARA
July 15, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events, Empowerments, Uncategorized
རྗེ་བརྩུན་སྒྲོལ་མ།། तारा
on SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2024
VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE has very kindly agreed to bestow
the EMPOWERMENT OF GREEN TARA ONLY ON ZOOM
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THERE IS NO CHARGE. DONATIONS ARE WELCOME
REGISTER BELOW NOW ! REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024 (PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME
DAY—SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2024
TIME—2:00 PM, PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME
Check CAREFULLY for the DAY AND TIME in your location.
FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW COMPLETELY AND CLICK ON SEND INFO at the bottom of the page.
AFTER YOU REGISTER, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for this empowerment. Look for the email. Keep this LINK to yourself. If you don’t receive the confirmation email with the Zoom link after a day, contact us by email.
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.
After you receive the complete empowerment, you may request a practice sadhana by emailing Ewam Choden with your home address. We do not offer digital copies.
There is no prerequisite for the Green Tara Empowerment. However, a vegetarian diet for the entire day is necessary.
Green Tara is a Bodhisattva of enlightened activity and purified energy. This practice comforts, cures, and protects. Tara conquers fear and anxiety, and clears the way for the Dharma path to enlightenment to unfold.
Completed—Empowerment of CAKRASAMVARA ( འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག་)(Khorlo Demchok) and VAJRAYOGINI (རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ) of Naropa July 5th, 6th, and 7th 2024
June 8, 2024 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events, Empowerments
We are most grateful to H.E. Thartse Khen Rinpoche for offering us these two profound empowerments.
Lama Kunga Rinpoche and the members of Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center are looking forward to welcoming His Eminence Thartse Khen Rinpoche on his third visit to our Center on June and July 2024.
Ngor Thartse Khen Rinpoche is the 77th abbot of Ngor, a main branch of the Sakyapa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in 1968 into a royal family in Mustang, Nepal, Rinpoche was ordained as a monk at the age of eight by His Eminence Chogye Trichen Rinpoche. At the age of thirteen, he was recognized as Ngor Thartse Shabdrung Rinpoche by His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin.
H.E. Thartse Khen Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the following empowerments over three days.
The Empowerment of CAKRASAMVARA ( འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག་)(Khorlo Demchok) in the tradition of Krishnacharya ( ནག་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་) (Nagpopa) – TWO DAYS
The Empowerment of VAJRAYOGINI (རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ) of Naropa (ན་རོ་མཁའ་སྤྱོད་) – ONE DAY
These empowerments are in person only, and there are some prerequisites, as follows.
In order to receive the Cakrasamvara Empowerment, you must have taken refuge with a lama.
This empowerment takes two days, and you must attend on both days.
In order to receive the Vajrayogini Empowerment, you must have already received a Cakrasamvara Empowerment in person only, from a lama (of any of the four Tibetan traditions). This empowerment takes one day.
Pre-Registration with Payment is required for both empowerments.
REGISTRATION IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. PAYMENT IS REQUIRED.
NOTE: REGISTRATION ON THIS PAGE IS FOR THE “COMBO” (2) OF CAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAYOGINI. GO TO THE OTHER PAGE IF YOU WANT TO REGISTER FOR ONLY CAKRASAMVARA..
See information below about the registration.
REQUIRED PAYMENT
Cakrasamvara only (two days) — $108.00
Cakrasamvara and Vajrayogini — $183.00
The Vajrayogini Empowerment is limited to 40 people.
Vajrayogini — waiting list
If there are fewer than 40 people registered for the “combo” above, then you may be able to register for the Vajrayogini Empowerment (as long as you have already received the Cakrasamvara as stated above in Prerequisites.) The cost will be $80.
DATES and TIMES
CAKRASAMVARA EMPOWERMENT— Friday, July 5 from 3pm to 5pm AND Saturday, July 6, from 2pm to 5pm
Arrive at least 30 minutes EARLIER TO CHECK IN AND GET SETTLED.
YOU MUST ATTEND BOTH DAYS of the Cakrasamvara Empowerment.
VAJRAYOGINI EMPOWERMENT — Sunday, July 7 from 2pm to 5pm
Arrive at least 30 minutes EARLIER TO CHECK IN AND GET SETTLED.
LOCATION
Cakrasamvara Empowerment —
— To be held at BAY AREA PAL TSECHEN LING, 3731 Bissell Ave, Richmond, CA 94805
Please don’t contact this organization for any information. We simply use their space.
Vajrayogini Empowerment —
— To be held at the BAY AREA PAL TSECHEN LING, 3731 Bissell Ave, RICHMOND, CA 94805
Please email Ewam Choden at info@ewamchoden.org with any questions.
Completed – RIG SUM GONPO EMPOWERMENT w/ H.E. Thartse Khen Rinpoche
June 12, 2023 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events, Empowerments
H.E. Ngor Thartse Khen Rinpoche has kindly agreed to give the following empowerment.
THE THREE BODHISATTVAS རིགས་གསུམ་མགོན་པོ། (Rig Sum Gonpo) in a combined empowerment.
Empowerment of Avalokiteshvara སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་
Empowerment of Manjushri འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས་
Empowerment of Vajrapani ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་.
DATE: June 18, 2023
TIME: 10:00 AM California Pacific Time
DO NOT leave before the lama is completely finished, and dedication and long-life prayers have been recited. If you leave early, you cannot re-enter and you will not have received the entire empowerment.
REGISTER BELOW, scroll down this page.
PLEASE DONATE TO SUPPORT EWAM CHODEN in bringing H.E. Thartse Khen Rinpoche to you.
The DONATE button is on the right side of the website page.
H.E. Ngor Thartse Khen Rinpoche is the 77th abbot of Ngor, a main branch of the Sakyapa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The visit fulfills Lama Kunga Rinpoche’s wish to establish a lasting connectionwith the Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center, which derives from the Ngor Thartse tradition.
Born in 1968 into a royal family in Mustang, Nepal, Rinpoche was ordained as a monk at the age of eight by His Eminence Chogye Trichen Rinpoche. At the age of thirteen, he was recognized as Ngor Thartse Shabdrung Rinpoche by His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin.
Rinpoche then completed extensive studies of ritual and rites of the Ngor tradition, with close instruction from His Eminence Luding Khenchen Rinpoche, who ordained him as a bhiksu at the age of 19. After completing his formal monastic education and training, Rinpoche attended Sakya Institute to study Higher Buddhist Philosophical studies and Art. He later joined Sakya College to further study Tantra.
Thartse Khen Rinpoche travels extensively in Asia where he founded and supervises numerous monasteries and Sakya centers.
Happily Completed–BIRTHDAY PARTY PICNIC FOR VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE on SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2022 in the Arlington Park, El Cerrito, CA
August 17, 2022 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
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A BIRTHDAY PARTY PICNIC for VEN. LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE IS GOING TO BE HELD in person this Sunday after the Compassion Meditation that is on Zoom.
We will honor and celebrate Ven. Lama Kunga Thartse Rinpoche with a picnic and prayers and wishes for his continued long healthy life of dharma activities for the benefit of all beings.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME! BRING FOOD TO SHARE.
Reminder: Lama Kunga Rinpoche doesn’t eat anything with sugar or any sugar-type sweetener.
WHEN: Sunday, August 21, 2022
TIME: from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
WHERE: Arlington Park, 1120 Arlington Blvd., El Cerrito, CA
HOW: Drive northward on Arlington Blvd. (past where you turn for Ewam Choden). The park is on the right with plenty of street parking.
See a map Here. At the park, we’ll be at Site 1, past the tennis courts.
LAMA KUNGA RINPOCHE LOOKS FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE.
NOTE: If you aren’t feeling well or test positive for Covid (or any other currently circulating illness), please stay home and recover.
Completed—PUBLIC DHARMA TALK by H.E. THARTSE KEHN RINPOCHE – TODAY, SUNDAY 6PM
July 31, 2022 by admin
Filed under Completed Special Events
DHARMA TEACHING ON ZOOM:
His Eminence will speak on:
“THE PURPOSE OF BUDDHA’s TURNING THE WHEEL OF DHARMA IN THIS UNIVERSE, AND WHAT WE CAN EXPECT BY PRACTICING HIS TEACHING.”
ZOOM LINK: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87622434839?pwd=Z0kvV3lmNVVXK0JUcFFpQ1NYbS94dz09
CLICK HERE more info on His Eminence Thartse Then Rinpoche
Successfully completed–HEVAJRA Empowerment with Thartse Khen Rinpoche July 19-20, 2022
July 16, 2022 by admin
Filed under Completed Empowerments, Completed Special Events, Empowerments
HEVAJRA (ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་) is the main deity of the Sakya tradition and its practice is the focus of the Lamdre teachings. This empowerment may be taken either as a practice or as a blessing.
This Empowerment will be In-person and will not be Livestreamed.
Preparation Day / Tuesday, July 19 2pm – 4pm
Main Initiation / Wednesday, July 20 2pm – 6pm
Note: All times refer to California, USA, Pacific Daylight Time
Please arrive no later than 30 minutes before each session
No one can be admitted after the start of the Preparation Day or the Empowerment day.
IMPORTANT: YOU MUST ATTEND BOTH DAYS OF THIS EMPOWERMENT
LOCATION:
Gyuto Foundation
15 minutes north of Ewam Choden
6401 Bernhard Ave, Richmond, CA.
COVID ACCOMMODATIONS:
Large shrine room with adequate spacing and ventilation.
Nonetheless, Masks are required.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED TO 100 PERSONS
25 PLACES are allocated to people who have not received this empowerment from a Sakya lama.
The remaining 75 PLACES are available to people who have already received this empowerment from a Sakya lama.
THIS WILL NOT BE LIVESTREAMED and WILL BE IN-PERSON ONLY
EVERYONE MUST PRE-REGISTER USING THE FORM BELOW.
On the form, please indicate if you’ve already received Hevajra from a Sakya lama, or if this empowerment is new to you.
$108 PER PERSON
Payment will be processed by PayPal Account or by Credit Card via PayPal (PayPal account not needed). Please continue to Pay after completing the Registration Form. If necessary, please arrange directly with Ewam Choden for other means of payment.
COMPLETED-SAKYA NORTH AMERICAN MONLAM JULY 15-17, 2022
June 30, 2022 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
NOTICE of the Fifth Annual Sakya North American Monlam for World Peace with H.H. Sakya Trichen (41) and H.H. Sakya Trizin (42) .
The term Monlam means the path of aspiration and is a form of prayer. During a Monlam, the participants recite prayers with the aspiration to liberate all sentient beings from suffering and for all to achieve enlightenment.
PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES FOR INFORMATION.
https://www.facebook.com/NorthAmericanSakyaMonlam/
