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3 November 2004 Event at Gyuto Vajrayana CenterDear Friends,This November Program email is in 3 parts i) Schedule of events ii) Description of events iii) Special events We welcome everyone to join us . Please call us if you have any questions. NOVEMBER 2004 Thursday 4 Buddha’s Decent from the Tushita Heaven (Lhabdub Duchen) Medicine Buddha Puja 10 am-12 pm Sunday 7 Guru Puja 5:30 pm-6.30 pm Twelve Links of Dependent Origination (part 1) 6.30 pm-8.30 pm Thursday 11 Six Preliminary Practices (part 1) 6.30 pm-8.30 pm Saturday 13 Vajrayogini Initiation 1 pm-4 pm ***Please see the program notes for prerequisites and commitments Location: RAMADA INN 1217 Wildwood Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Sunday 14 Purification Ceremony (CHAB TRUL) 3 pm-5 pm Location: RAMADA INN Long Life Puja for Dhakpa Tulku Rinpoche 5:30 pm-7.30 pm Location: RAMADA INN Friday 19 Tara Puja 7 pm-8 pm Saturday 20 Pilgrimage to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas A full day event Sunday 21 Guru Puja 5.30-6.30 pm Twelve Links of Dependent Origination (part 2) 6.30-8.30 pm Thursday 25 Six Preliminary Practices (part 2) 6.30-8.30 pm Saturday 27 Bodhicitta and Dedication Ceremony 10 am - 12 pm After the ceremony, we'll have a potluck lunch with Rinpoche and the resident monks. Sunday 28 9:00 pm Dhakpa Tulku Rinpoche leaves for India PROGRAM EVENTS Lhabub Duchen Lord Buddha’s Descent from Tushita Heaven Buddhists everywhere pray and make offerings to all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas on this auspicious day. It is the day when Buddha Shakyamuni himself descended from the Tushita Heaven and prayed to liberate all sentient beings from the sufferings of the six realms. It is said that if we pray and practice on this auspicious day with the right motivation, the benefit of our actions will be far greater than on almost any other day. Medicine Buddha Puja The Medicine Buddha practice is extremely powerful and beneficial for the sick and dying as well as for those who have already passed away. It will also help bring deep and profound benefits to those in the healing profession. If you wish to dedicate this puja to your loved ones, please send us the names and photos of your family and friends by email or by mail so that we can include them. We invite all our members to join the puja for the benefit of all beings. Guru Puja with Tsog Offering Twice monthly, on the 10th and 25th of the lunar calendar, the practice of Tsog offering is done. It is a commitment for those practicing Highest Yoga Tantra to restore and reaffirm their vows and pledges. Everyone is welcome to attend this ritual of making offerings to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Those participating can bring offerings such as fruits, cookies, flowers and candles. Tara Puja Tara embodies all the Buddhas’ enlightened actions of body, speech and mind. She is said to be the liberator, the one who releases us from samsara and the causes of samsara. One special attribute that makes Tara particularly popular is the swiftness with which she responds to those who invoke her. By depending on Tara, we can clear away hindrances to all mundane and spiritual success. Everyone is welcome. Twelve Links of Dependent Origination The Twelve Steps of Dependent Origination is the process by which sentient beings cycle in samsara. This teaching is directly related to the teachings His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave in Toronto at the Kalachakra in his detailed commentaries on texts by Nagarjuna and Lama Tsongkhapa. These teachings not only explain how our karma and afflictions drive us into endless cycles within samsara but also how the process can be reversed, enabling us to achieve renunciation and gain liberation from samsara. Six Preliminary Practices As listed by Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche, the six preliminary practices to a meditation session include: cleaning your mediation room, arranging beautiful offerings, assuming the seven-featured Vairochana sitting position, taking refuge and developing Bodhicitta, petitioning the merit field, offering the seven-limbed prayer and petitioning the Gurus. Vajrayogini Empowerment Ven. Dhakpa Tulku Rinpoche has kindly agreed to give the Vajrayogini Empowerment. Vajrayogini (Tibetan: Dorje Naljorma) is a meditation deity of the Anuttarayoga tantra wisdom (Mother) classification. She is the dakini of wisdom and the consort of Chakrasambhara. Vajrayogini is joyful, open and an embodiment of the most profound wisdom at the Dharmakaya level. She carries a knife and a skull cup in her hands and a bone khatwanga on her shoulder. Prerequisite: A previous Highest Yoga Tantra initiation is required to take this empowerment. These would include Yamantaka, Heruka, Kalachakra and Guhyasamaja. Commitment: The minimum commitment is the recitation of the Vajrayogini mantra and strong devotion to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. As we expect many of you will wish to attend, we will not be holding this event at the Gyuto Center but have booked a room at the Ramada Hotel in Sunnyvale. We would greatly appreciate you registering for this event so we can plan to accommodate attendees as comfortably as possible. The Gyuto Center never charges for teachings but relies on individual generosity to make all its teachings available to everyone. If anyone wishes to sponsor the cost of the Ramada, it is $275 for 1 day and $550 for 2 days. Offerings of lunch for Rinpoche and the monks on Saturday and additional flowers and fruit for the altars are also welcome. RAMADA INN 1217 Wildwood Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94089 (408) 245-5330 (At the intersection of the 101 Fwy. and Lawrence Expy.) Purification Ceremony We are very fortunate to have Dhakpa Rinpoche perform a special purification ceremony this year. This will be the first time that Rinpoche has performed these purification ceremonies in public. These prayers are designed especially for those who are not well physically. There are no commitments. Everyone is welcome. Please invite your friends and family. Long Life Puja After the purification ceremonies we will offer a Long Life puja for Rinpoche. Dhakpa Tulku Rinpoche will be 78 this year and the students will make a heartfelt request that he have a long and healthy life. At this time we will also formally thank Rinpoche, a great master and practitioner of the Dharma, and ask that he return to the Gyuto Center in San Jose next year. We hope you will all come and wish Rinpoche a long life! This will be a potluck party. Pilgrimage to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas Organized by the Gyuto Vajrayana Center, San Jose Buddha has said that: “Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha if they completely purify their minds of all faults and limitations.” We can be inspired to accomplish this goal by visiting holy places and meditating on the teachings of the Buddha. The Gyuto Center is sponsoring a pilgrimage to the Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah. Established by the great Chinese master, Hsuan Hua in 1976, the City’s goal is to bring the Dharma to all people from every corner of the world. Master Hua also set up the Dharma Realm Buddhist University from which many monks and nuns have graduated and have left to teach the Dharma throughout the world. Dhakpa Tulku Rinpoche will lead prayers to the Ten Thousand Buddhas and dedicate the merit accumulated for the benefit of all sentient beings. Everyone is invited to join this pilgrimage. This is an extraordinary opportunity to visit a unique place of pilgrimage with Rinpoche before he leaves for India. We will be picking up people by bus at locations to be announced closer to the event. The fee for the bus trip is $35.00 per person. In order to reserve buses for the trip your seat will not be confirmed until we receive your payment. The final date for reservation is November 16. For more information about the City of Ten Thousand Buddha please visit: www.drba.org If you would like to join the pilgrimage with Ven. Dhakpa Rinpoche please call Ven. Donyo at (408) 926-9430. Please send your check to: Gyuto Vajrayana Center Bodhicitta and Dedication Ceremony In every tradition, at the end of a program of teachings, the lamas and the students dedicate all of the merit received from the teachings. If we don’t dedicate our merit and then commit negative actions, our merit is diminished or lost. However this does not happen if we have dedicated it to the welfare of all beings. On this day everyone should bring one small item that is symbolic of their merit such as a flower, candle, khata (scarf), mala (rosary), etc. to hold in their hands during the ceremony and then to offer to our Guru, Dhakpa Tulku Rinpoche. Rinpoche will then dedicate all of our merit to the Buddha Maitreya (the Buddha of the future) on behalf of all of the students. This is our last program with Rinpoche and is a very important event. Farewell lunch for Dhakpa Tulku Rinpoche After the ceremony students are invited to join a potluck lunch with Rinpoche. Dhakpa Tulku Rinpoche leaves for India Rinpoche will leave for India on the 9:00 PM flight from SFO. Everyone is invited to come to the SFO Airport and wish Rinpoche a safe flight. Rinpoche will leave the Center at 8.00 pm Message from Ven. Lobsang Dorjee Rinpoche Ven. Lobsang Dorjee Rinpoche, former abbot of Gyuto Monastery visited the Center, between December and June this year. We were very fortunate to have such lama in residence at the Gyuto Center. During his visit he gave many precious teachings both of sutra and tantra. Rinpoche mentioned before he left that he wished that the members would put whatever they learned during his stay into sincere practice. He encouraged students to do their very best to keep their commitments even in the midst of their busy daily lives. Rinpoche said he would see everyone again in the next few years. Rinpoche is currently teaching at Drepung Monastery in South India. GYUTO MONASTERY NEWS FROM DHARAMSALA INDIA Inauguration/Teaching News We are delighted to announce that on March 11 – 13 2005, HH Dalai Lama will inaugurate the new Gyuto Tantric Monastic University in Dharamsala and give teachings on a commentary of the Guhyasamaja tantra. In addition, for the first time in history there will be tantric Geshe examinations in exile. This is a highly significant event where a great number of high-level Lharampa Geshes will participate in a bid to attain tantric Geshe degrees. HH Dalai Lama will be present for the examinations, as well as the abbots and former abbots from the great monasteries of Sera, Drepung, Ganden, Gyuto and Gyurme. More details will follow on the website. Pilgrimage News A special Gyuto Center pilgrimage to India is currently being organized. We plan to visit all the major Buddhist holy sites in India and Nepal. It will be timed to begin soon after the Losar teachings of HH Dalai Lama in Dharamsala and after the inauguration and teachings at Gyuto University. If anyone would like to go on this pilgrimage, please contact Ven. Donyo. More information to come on the website Thank you Ven. Thupten Donyo ********************************************************* 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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