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Our Event at Gyuto Vajrayana Center - Updated 3 January 2006GYUTO VAJRAYANA CENTERHappy New Year, 2006 Calendar for January 2006 Tara Puja for Long Life Saturday Jan. 7 7 pm - 8 pm Guru Puja (Tsog Offering) Monday Jan. 9 7 pm - 8 pm Nyung-Ne Retreat Instruction (see below for details) Friday Jan. 13 7 pm - 8 pm Nyung-Ne Fasting Retreat Saturday Jan. 14 5.30 am - 6 pm Nyung-Ne Fasting Retreat Sunday Jan. 15 5.30 am - 6 pm Nyung-Ne Fasting Retreat Monday Jan. 16 8 am -10 am Six-Armed Mahakala Puja Wednesday 18 9 am - 12 pm Guru Puja Ritual Practice (see below for details) Saturday Jan. 21 7 pm - 8 pm Guru Puja (Tsog Offering) Tuesday Jan. 24 7 pm - 8 pm Medicine Buddha Puja for Healing Friday Jan. 27 7 pm - 8 pm 35 Buddha's Confession Practice (See below for details) Saturday Jan. 28 7 pm 8 pm Nyung-Ne Fasting Retreat: All the participants must have had received a Chenrezig empowerment to take part in this fasting retreat. A Nyung-Ne retreat consists of taking the Eight Mahayana precepts, based on Chenrezig, the Buddha of compassion, and involves fasting and multiple daily sessions of prostration and recitation of his Sadhana. This is an intensive spiritual practice to purify obscurations and negativities and accumulate merits. The schedule for Saturday and Sunday begins with the Mahayana precepts (24-hour vows) at 5.30 a.m. and final session ends about 6 p.m. On Saturday participants abstain from eating and drinking and maintain silence. Only one pre-noon meal is to be taken. Sunday is a day of silence; no food or liquids are to be taken. In this way, the body is purified by abiding in the retreat, the speech is purified through the recitation of mantra and prayers, and the mind is purified by compassionate motivation. The schedule for Monday begins at 8 am with a breakfast and ends at 10 am with abbreviated session and dedication of merits. Each night all the participants will leave the Center and return in the morning. Registration There will be limited space for the Nyung-Ne Retreat at the Center and if you are interested or planning to do the retreat, please kindly register before Jan. 10th. Please register either by email: info@gyutocenter.org or call (408) 926-9430. There will be a $60 per person donation to cover the cost of hosting the retreat. Guru Puja Ritual Practice (See the attached file): In this special class we will receive instruction on different aspects of the precious Guru Puja. We will discuss some of the very useful prayers in Tibetan and learn some of the tune in the ritual we do in our daily practice. Execution of the hand mudras will also be explained. It is the Gyuto monks’ hope that with this instruction, members will be able to do the Guru Puja at home and to eventually even learn to lead this very important puja. If you have a bell, vajra or damaru, please bring them to the class. It is free and everyone is welcome. 35 Buddha's Confession Practice (See the attached file): This practice is a very powerful method to purify all our negativities through confessing to the 35 Buddhas. It is widely practiced in Tibetan Buddhism for purification of the negativities of body, speech and mind. The 35 Buddha practice is extremely important for clearing away past negativities, the cause for present and future suffering and for removing obstacles in both spiritual and worldly life. In this session we will be reciting the 35 Buddha's names while doing the full length of prostration. It is free and everyone is welcome. Thank you, Ven. Donyo, Director ********************************************************* May all sentient beings have happiness and its causes. May all sentient beings be free from suffering and its causes. May all sentient beings never be separated from sorrowless bliss. May all sentient beings abide in equanimity free of bias, attachment and anger. Gyuto Vajrayana Center 1439 Old Piedmont Rd. San Jose, CA 95132 Tel: (408) 926 9430 Fax: (408) 272 1275 Email: gyutovc@aol.com Website: http://www.gyutocenter.org For all past events, please Click Here to read them. ********************************************************* Note: All the above events are published are for information basis. It is not in any way related or affiliated with our website. If you are interested in attending or finding out more, please contact the above website or email to the above email address. |
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