(Fri Evening, Saturday and Sunday morning)
Monterey, Tennessee
(in person only)
Renowned for enriching and increasing life force and merit,
Bestowing upon beings all excellent abundance and accomplishment without exception,
Lady Norjunma, to you I pay homage and offer praise.”
Miracle Month Teachings & Meditations in Tennessee!
Join Lama Laia & the PBC Sangha for Special Practices in Nashville and Monterey!
March 3 – 7, 2023
Yeshe Tsogyal Temple • 419 E. Iris Drive in Nashville
Padma Gochen Ling • Monterey, TN
Register here:
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Noble Lady Tara Meditation Retreat in Nashville
Friday, March 3
Yeshe Tsogyal Temple in Nashville
6:30-8:30pm
Introduction & Meditation on Noble Lady Tara
Saturday, March 4
Yeshe Tsogyal Temple
10:00am-Noon
Tara Practice
Noon-2:00pm
Sangha Potluck
2:00-4:00pm
Tara Practice w/ Tsok Food Offering Ceremony
Join us for special practices on Noble Lady Tara! The Swift Liberator of our times, Tara is a female buddha of compassion and wisdom, and the perfect embodiment of the enlightened activity of all the buddhas. Meditating on Tara helps us realize our true nature of love and compassion by releasing all ego-clinging, anger, and attachment, and radiating benefit and happiness to all beings. During this weekend’s practice led by Lama Laia, we will perform a Green Tara practice revealed by H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, and recite the renowned Praises to the Twenty-One Taras.
Saturday afternoon’s practice will include a tsok food offering ceremony.
People of all levels of interest and meditation practice are warmly welcome to attend all or part of this retreat. We hope to see you soon!
SUGGESTED DONATIONS: Full Weekend: $50 • Fri. ($15), Sat. ($35),
Sun. (service day), Tues. (open donation) • Student Discount: Full Weekend $25
Sangha Service Day & Smoke Offering Ceremony
Pema Gochen Ling Retreat Center
in Monterey, Tennessee
Sunday, March 5
9:00am-4:30pm
Sunday, March 5
9:00am-Noon
Sangha Service Day to Rejuvenate the Dharma Land!
Noon-1:00pm
Sangha Potluck
1:00-3:00pm
Sangha Cleaning
3:00-4:30pm
Mountain of Burnt Offerings Ceremony & Dharma Protector Offerings
Join Lama Laia and the PBC Tennessee Sangha in glorifying the precious jewel that is Pema Gochen Ling Retreat Center in Monterey, TN.
The day’s activities will include sprucing up the Temple, Sangha House, and grounds. We’ll also enjoy a relaxing Sangha potluck lunch and conclude the day’s meritorious activities with a Riwo Sang Chod fire puja practice.
Riwo Sang Chod is one the most famous practices of smoke offering in Tibetan Buddhism. It is a terma treasure teaching bestowed and hidden by Guru Padmasambhava and revealed in the 17th century by the great master Lhatsun Namkha Jigmed. Riwo Sang Chod is a powerful skillful means practice for generating merit and wisdom. It is particularly beneficial in prolonging life and removing obstacles, particularly those associated with unpaid karmic debts.
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Full Moon Buddha Meditation w/ Food Offering Ceremony
Yeshe Tsogyal Temple in Nashville
Tuesday, March 7
6:30- 8:30pm
Let’s celebrate the Buddha’s miraculous activities at the conclusion of the Miracle Month with a Buddha sadhana practice by the Great Mipham Rinpoche, when karmic effects are multiplied millions of times.
During the first two weeks of the Tibetan New Year, it is celebrated that the Buddha displayed a miracle each day to increase the merit and devotion of us his future disciples. During this time, the benefit of one’s actions is multiplied 100,000 fold. The Miracle Month culminates on Chotrul Duchen, the Day of Miracles. On this full moon day, the effect of one’s actions is multiplied 10 million fold. This is truly a most auspicious day for practice!
Lama Laia will lead Sangha practice at Yeshe Tsogyal Temple in Nashville. We hope you can join!
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Lama Laia Pema Tsultrim was ordained as a monk in 2003 by the Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen masters Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. Lama Laia has been a resident Dharma teacher at Padma Samye Ling in upstate New York since 1999. He is a senior editor of Dharma Samudra Publishing, leads daily meditations at PSL, and regularly helps with the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center (PBC) monastery and nunnery in India.
Learn More: pbc-tn.org • (615) 585-9709 • info@pbc-tn.org
Yeshe Tsogyal Temple
419 E. Iris Drive
Nashville, TN
Saturday, September 24
10:00am-3:00pm
with 1 hour lunch break
The Prayer of Kuntuzangpo is a Nyingma Dzogchen teaching from the Great Master and Terton, Rigzin Gomdenchen, born in 1337. Rigzin Gomdenchen was from Tsang, Tibet, northeast of the 12,950 ft tall Mt. Trazang, one of the most sacred sites of Tibet. This prayer is beneficial at solstices, solar and lunar eclipses, times of earthquakes, special lunar days, and the changing of the year. It reminds us as practitioners to be mindful of avoiding separation from others and from things because of the creation in our minds of duality. The great expansion of clarity that comes from this practice helps us maintain a realization of nirvana, and creates a peacefulness in us when things get messy in samsara.
Umdze Chant Leader: Janet McIntyre took refuge with Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche in 1993. A dedicated practitioner, she completed her Ngondro accumulations and continues with her practice of the Dark Red Amulet. She often assisted at retreats by cooking yummy meals and is a retired nurse, grandmother, and great grandmother.
We hope you can join us for this opportunity to meditate and practice together!
People of all levels of interest and meditation are warmly welcome!
As Buddha Shakyamuni told in the Sutra teachings, if you build a temple or stupa that represents the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, it will bring tremendous merit. Even when it is gone, the dust of this place will continue to generate merit and benefit to all those connected to this project. According to that, we dedicate this merit.
By this merit may all obtain omniscience.
May it defeat the enemy, wrong-doing.
From the stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness, and death,
From the ocean of samsara, may I free all beings.
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Padma Samye Ling
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche is live streaming a week of teachings and practices from his Padma Samye Ling monastery and retreat center from Saturday, March 28 – April 4, 2020 from 3:30-5:30pm EST!
To join the live Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/724793529
Ven. Khenpo Rinpoche will be offering heart advice on sacred Dzogchen pith instructions by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, as well as leading silent Dzogchen meditations and additional practices on Orgyen Menla, Medicine Buddha, Vajra Armor, White Tara, Noble Lady Tara Ritod Loma Jonma, and Dharma protector prayers.
Click here for downloadable pdfs of many of the practice sadhanas:
https://t.e2ma.net/message/hbw5xc/xb7qbc
Please note: In addition to the afternoon sessions with Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, you can also join morning and evening practices with the lamas from Padma Samye Ling:
8:00 – 9:00am: Buddha Shakyamuni Practice
7:30 – 8:15pm: Heart Sutra Practice
This is Part 1 of a series of teachings that Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will be kindly live streaming to the members and friends of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center around the world. You’ll even be able to write in with questions, and Ven. Khenpo Rinpoche will answer some of them the following day.
Daily Schedule
• 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT Buddha Shakyamuni Practice (begins Sunday, March 29)
• 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will lead meditation practice and give pith Dzogchen instructions
• 7:30 pm – 8:15 pm EDT Heart Sutra Practice (begins Sunday, March 29)
Please spread the word about this special opportunity to practice live with Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche from your home!
Receive fresh, direct guidance on integrating the Dharma with everything you experience!
These precious teachings and meditations are being offered as a free event for anyone who wishes to join!
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Dearest PBC Sangha Members and Friends,
I hope that this message finds you safe and secure, and filled with courage and confidence.
During this difficult time, it is important to support each other and to remember the Dharma, seeing this as an opportunity to practice compassion and loving-kindness for ourselves and others.
The Padmasambhava Buddhist Centers are taking several steps to help us all do this.
Firstly, as my heartfelt offering to deepen your meditation and retreat with day-to-day study and practice, below please find general guidance and resources for doing retreat at home. This includes relevant videos and lineage heart essence instructions. If you have any questions, email us at: jowozegyal@catskill.net
Secondly, to help us stay in touch, we’re creating a private message board for each PBC Center’s website where we can leave notes, encouragement, and offer help to other Sangha members.
Thirdly, next week we will inform you of livestream practices from Padma Samye Ling monastery and retreat center beginning sometime in April, so that we can all practice and meditate together with myself and the lamas online.
In addition, here are special prayers we published last week in response to requests from our Sangha, including White Tara practice and others, which I have asked everyone to participate in if possible.
Recommended prayers and mantras
Requested White Tara practice and mantras
For the safety and heath of all PBC Sangha Members and Friends, all PBC Centers are temporarily closed until further notice.
I ask that you pray for the well-being of all sentient beings, and follow the advice of your health professionals.
Please be careful to monitor yourselves for symptoms of the Covid-19 virus, and contact your health care providers if you start to show any symptoms. This is a practice of loving-kindness, taking care of both yourself and those who you come in contact with.
May we all emerge from this difficult time more courageous, stronger in our commitment to the Dharma, and filled with even more bodhichitta.
Yours in the Dharma,
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
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Useful sites for further information:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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If you’re at home and would like to do additional Dharma study and meditation practice, here are some general suggestions for organizing a week retreat.
Each day includes some PBC YouTube videos, reading selections, and meditations to supplement your usual daily practice schedule.
This week of study and practice could easily be extended, repeated, or supplemented.
Thanks for taking advantage of this special opportunity!!!
Day 1: Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind from Samsara
Videos:
Benefits of Reflecting on the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind Towards the Dharma
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ywocWN8r2Q&feature=youtu.be
Renunciation, Bodhichitta, and Pure Perception
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q369C5DM7hw&feature=youtu.be
Thoroughly Investigating Impermanence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6q641qA7Ww&feature=youtu.be
Karma
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQaJOxoSV4&feature=youtu.be
Don’t Be Too Attached to Worldly Things: Understand Suffering and Its Cause
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz9HG2mJ3wc&t=57s
How to Keep Your Practice Fresh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugRZOvnsaAw
Readings:
“The Preparation—The Four Thoughts That Reverse the Mind”
Illuminating The Path: Ngondro Instructions According to the Nyingma School of Vajrayana Buddhism (pgs 65-76)
“Chapter 4: The Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind Towards the Dharma”
Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha: The Path to Freedom (pgs 29-50)
“How to Meditate”
“Framing Your Practice with the Three Noble Ones”
“A Simple Meditation Practice”
Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha: The Path to Freedom (pgs 115-135)
Practices:
20-minute Shamatha Calm Abiding Meditation (multiple sessions)
Ngondro Foundational Practice
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Day 2: Refuge
Videos:
The Essence of Refuge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=StxuTeO3sMU&feature=youtu.be
Essential Meaning of Taking Refuge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbpwAA9wec&feature=youtu.be
Serving the Three Jewels in Post-Meditation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXiDMcs8hEA
Readings:
“Taking Refuge”
The Buddhist Path: A Practical Guide from the Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (pgs 23-25)
Chapter 3: Discovering a Reliable Refuge
Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha: The Path to Freedom (pgs 17-25)
“Going for Refuge”
Illuminating The Path: Ngondro Instructions According to the Nyingma School of Vajrayana Buddhism (pgs 77-92)
Practices:
20-minute Shamatha Calm Abiding Meditation (multiple sessions)
Ngondro Practice
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Day 3: Bodhichitta
Videos:
The Key Point of Motivation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2jQNCj9LNk&feature=youtu.be
Immense Heart of Wisdom and Compassion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6h9mLbrBc
The Essence of Bodhichitta
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s04g4F6MxQo&feature=youtu.be
Readings:
“Four Thoughts the Turn the Mind Towards the Dharma”
Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha: The Path to Freedom (pgs 29-50)
“The Power of Compassion”
and “The Inseparability of Compassion and Emptiness”
The Buddhist Path: A Practical Guide from the Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (pgs 41-48)
“The Generation of Bodhichitta”
Illuminating The Path: Ngondro Instructions According to the Nyingma School of Vajrayana Buddhism (pgs 93-102)
Practices:
Four Boundless Meditations
Tonglen
Ngondro Practice
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Day 4: The Heart Sutra
Videos:
How to Practice Shamatha Concentration Meditation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGo5BU234c&t=4s
How to Practice Vipashyana Supreme Seeing Meditation According to
Mahamudra and Dzogchen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OESFl7Hq0OY&t=3s
How to Develop Your Meditation by the Great Master Kamalashila
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqgX3NWghUM
Readings:
“Prajñāpāramitā and the Heart Sūtra”
and “The Two Truths” and “Ground, Path, and Fruition”
Ceaseless Echoes of the Great Silence:
A Commentary on the Heart Sutra Prajnaparamita (pgs 13-17 and 40-52)
Practices:
Heart Sutra Prajnaparamita Practice
Ngondro Practice
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Day 5: Foundational Ngondro Practice
Videos:
Waking Up from the Deep Slumber of Ignorance
Day 1: Morning Session
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkcKAwqCY0&feature=youtu.be
Essence of the Three Samadhis of Tibetan Buddhist Visualization
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwLYntT-Ons
Readings:
“Ngondro Practice According to the Dzogchen View”
Illuminating The Path: Ngondro Instructions According to the Nyingma School of Vajrayana Buddhism (pgs 19-26)
Practices:
Ngondro Practice with Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAL9TPI2eo0&feature=youtu.be
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Day 6: Supplication to Guru Padmasambhava
Videos:
Guru Padmasambhava Embodies All the Buddhas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECuOBOuPf30&t=24s
How to Practice Dzogchen and Guru Yoga
www.youtube.com/watch?v=90sIIa__1q0&feature=youtu.be
Connecting to the Lamas of the Lineage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQfcxKCSoMY&feature=youtu.be
Readings:
“Guru Yoga Practice”
The Buddhist Path: A Practical Guide from the Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (pgs 93-96)
“Introduction”
Liberating Duality with Wisdom Display:
The Eight Emanations of Guru Padmasambhava (pgs 7-20)
Practices:
Seven Line Prayer of Guru Padmasambhava
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxialRhyXl4
Guru Yoga of Padmasambhava
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Day 7: Supplication to Noble Lady Tara
Videos:
You Are Tara
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIElcPYODc0&feature=youtu.be
Introduction to Tara Empowerment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NStIPb2df2o&feature=youtu.be
Readings:
“Understanding Tara at the Relative Level”
and “Understanding Tara at the Ultimate Level”
Tara’s Enlightened Activity: An Oral Commentary on the Twenty-one Praises to Tara (pgs 17-32)
Practices:
How to Practice Any Tibetan Buddhist Meditation (Kurukulle Sadhana)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKdHw2NmJc&feature=youtu.be
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Daily Supplemental Practices
- Dharmapala Protectors
- Great Cloud of Blessings
- White Umbrella
- Lion-Faced Dakini
- Tara Mantra Accumulation
- Vajra Armor Mantra
- Additional Mantra Recitations from the PBC Daily Prayers Sadhana
Yeshe Tsogyal Temple in Nashville, Tennessee
February 20-24, 2020 (Thursday-Monday)
Join Lama Pema Dragpa & the PBC Sangha for Special Teachings & Meditation Practices in Nashville
Thursday, Feb 20
Three Essentials: Accumulating Merit, Purifying Negativities, & Receiving Blessings
7:00 – 8:30pm
Friday, Feb 21
Vajrakilaya Meditation and Gutor Purification Practice with Tsok Ceremony
7:00 – 8:30pm
Saturday, Feb 22
The Life and Teachings of the Buddha
10:00am – noon
Sangha Potluck
12:00 – 1:30pm
Applying the Teachings of the Buddha, with Q & A
1:30 – 3:30pm
Vajrakilaya Meditation and Gutor Purification Practice with Tsok Ceremony
7:00 – 9:00pm
Sunday, Feb 23
Meditation & Teaching: Uniting Buddhist Study and Meditation, with Q & A
9:30am – 1:00pm
Potluck & Open House Party
Everyone’s Invited! Bring Friends & Family to Explore Our New Temple & Make New Friends
1:00 – 3:00pm
Monday, Feb 24
Losar: Celebrating Tibetan New Year! Group Meditation and Food Offering Ceremony
7:00 – 8:30pm
Full Weekend: $60
Daily Donations: Thurs. ($20), Fri. (free), Sat. ($20), Sun. ($20), Mon. (free)
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Lama Pema Dragpa has been a resident Dharma teacher at Padma Samye Ling since 2004. PSL is the main monastery & retreat center of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center founded by the Nyingma Dzogchen masters Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche & Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. Ordained as a lama by Rinpoches, Dragpa graduated with honors in philosophy & religious studies from NYU in 2002, is a senior editor of over 20 books on Buddhist philosophy & meditation, and is a certified Hospice volunteer.
Vajrapani Empowerment
with Heart Essence Dzogchen Pith Instructions
on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen
by Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
January 18-25, 2020
Buddha Vajrapani is one of the eight great bodhisattvas and lords of the three families. He represents the power of the buddhas and is especially responsible for transmitting the Tantras to the human realm as the “Lord of Secrets.” Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will bestow the empowerment according to the lineage of the great master Mipham Rinpoche.
The “Condensed Heart Instructions of the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen for Practitioners” are simple but powerful instructions that penetrate the heart essence the Buddha and Guru Padmasambhava’s teachings. This profound advice by the great master Raga Asye perfectly includes every level of the Buddha’s 84,000 teachings, and can be easily applied by every kind of Buddhist practitioner to achieve complete enlightenment this very life for the benefit of all beings.
The great master and terton Raga Asye (1613-1678), who was also known as Karma Chagme, was a most highly realized and accomplished scholar-yogis of Tibet. He was renowned as a reincarnation of Chokro Lui Gyaltsen and Prince Mutig Tsenpo—a Dharma heart son of Guru Rinpoche and Vimalamitra—as well as an activity reincarnation of the Karmapa. In addition, he was the teacher and student of terton Namcho Mingyur Dorje.
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche is a holder of the complete Buddhist Nyingma lineage of study and practice from the basic teachings of mindfulness to the most advanced meditation techniques of Dzogchen. Rinpoche has been a spiritual friend and resident of the Palm Beach community for over 30 years. Together with his brother, Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, he founded Padmasambhava Buddhist Center in the late 1980’s and is the principle director and teacher of Padmasambhava Buddhist Center International Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche has an amazing ability to communicate profound topics in simple words, touching people’s hearts and opening their minds to their innate potential of wisdom and compassion. Khenpo Rinpoche has co-authored over 35 Dharma books in English. He travels extensively worldwide giving empowerments, teachings, and personal instructions at PBC Dharma centers.
Sat. Jan. 18th Opening of Retreat and Sun. Jan. 19th Empowerment & Teachings at:
Pema Ling Retreat Center, 18190 131st Trail N., Jupiter Farms, FL. 33478
Mon. Jan. 20st – Thurs. Jan. 23rd
Teachings at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 635 Prosperity Farms Rd. N. Palm Beach
Fri. Jan. 24th and Sat. Jan 25th
Teachings and conclusion of Retreat at The Palm Beach Dharma Center 1205 N. Federal Hwy. Lake Worth, 33460
Suggested donation:
Members $380 – $58/day
Non-Members $495 – $71/day
Early registration with $30 discount available up to Dec. 31, 2018. PayPal accepted
www.pbdc.net (561) 547-4711 info@pbdc.net
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We’re now in the process of finalizing permits and beginning construction of the main meditation temple. The horse barns are being converted into a temple, meditation sanctuary, and fellowship hall, and the land will be preserved as a park-like setting for contemplative walks, meditation, or simply sitting in quiet reflection.
Palden Sherab Pema Ling is located on ten-acres of land that includes a pond, numerous trees, fields, and wetlands that are enjoyed by abundant local wildlife.
The Palm Beach Dharma Center—a local branch of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center—is looking for funding to create this beautiful sanctuary. It will be a place for spiritual rejuvenation to promote natural beauty where outer peace and harmony, foster inner healing and tranquility. Its namesake is Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, one of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters and scholars of the 20th century. He and his brother, Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, long dreamed of creating a Buddhist retreat center in South Florida.
With the help of your kindness and generosity, this dream could now become a reality.
Please visit the Palm Beach Dharma Center website for more details:
