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Vajrasattva, Green Tara, and Chenrezi Empowerments with Venerable Lama Tsang Tsing

July 10, 7:00 pm - July 12, 12:00 pm

Teacher: Lama Tsang Tsing

Empowerment Opportunities Abound!

We are pleased to announce that Venerable Lama Tsang Tsing has accepted our invitation to grant three empowerments at KCC as part of our yearlong celebration of our dharma center’s 50th anniversary. He will be bestowing the three initiations that are most essential to KCC’s programming: Vajrasattva, Green Tara, and Chenrezi.

Empowerment is a key feature of Vajrayana Buddhism and can be understood as a formal initiation for a particular yidam practice. A yidam is a manifestation of awakened mind—wisdom, compassion, and ability—in form. There is a practice for each yidam where we imagine that yidam (often regarding ourselves in that form) and recite a mantra. By imagining our being manifested as awakened body, speech, and mind, these types of meditation are said to hasten our awakening.

Vajrasattva is associated with purification and is part of the ngondro, or preliminary, practices, of the Mahamudra tradition. Green Tara is considered the embodiment of the activity of all the buddhas, and Chenrezi is seen as an emanation of the compassion of all the buddhas. Even if you do not plan to begin such practices right away, it is considered very positive to take such empowerments. By receiving empowerments, auspicious seeds are planted in our being and these rituals are said to have a “ripening effect” on our spiritual path to awakening. We are thus encouraged to take such empowerments again and again.

The only prerequisite is to first take the vow of refuge, which is a formal way to enter the Buddhist path. This will be offered before each initiation. There are no mandatory practice commitments for receiving any of these.

Lama Tsang Tsing is the resident lama of our sister center, Kagyu Dakshang Chuling in Eugene, Oregon, and is a highly respected monk and practitioner. Lama Tsang Tsing spent some of his youth at Tsurphu Monastery in Tibet and later did the second three-year retreat at Sonada under Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche and Bokar Rinpoche. He was later sent to America by Kalu Rinpoche to act as the retreat master for the three-year retreat attended by Lama Michael Conklin from 1986-1989.

Dates and times

Vajrasattva Empowerment: Friday, July 10th at 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Green Tara Empowerment: Saturday, July 11th at 10:00am – 12:00pm
Chenrezi Empowerment: Sunday, July 12th at 10:00am – 12:00pm

 

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