tamara
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Post by tamara on Jun 29, 2014 1:01:16 GMT 1
A very special event takes place in Ladakh soon: www.ladakhkalachakra2014.com Kalachakra in Leh, Ladakh, J&K, India from July 3 to 13: His Holiness Dalai Lama will be giving the Kalachakra at the request of the two main organizers, the Ladakh Buddhist Association and the Ladakh Gonpa Association. The Tibetan Kongpo Association and the Tibetan Jonang Association are co-sponsors. During the first three days of the Kalachakra, from July 3 to 5, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, along with the monks of Namgyal Monastery and senior lamas, will conduct rituals which prepare and consecrate the venue. These include chanting of prayers, creation of the sand mandala and other rituals. From July 6 to 8, His Holiness will give preliminary teachings on Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (shetring). On July 9, the Kalachakra Ritual Dance will be performed by the monks of Namgyal Monastery. His Holiness will confer the Kalachakra Initiation from July 10 to 12. On July 13, a long life empowerment (tsewang) and a ceremony offering prayers for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be performed. T. |
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Post by matt on Jul 15, 2014 19:40:18 GMT 1
Thanks for the notice, Tamara, I have been reading about it and looking at the pictures on The Dalai Lama's website every day. I found this interesting: July 11th 2014 Leh, Ladakh, J&K, India, 11 July 2014 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama has two seats in the Kalachakra Pavilion. One is the grand throne in the middle facing the audience from which he has been teaching for the last several days. The other is a lower seat from which he looks in the opposite direction facing the Kalachakra sand mandala. It was in this latter seat that he sat for four and a half hours this morning going through the various rituals and self-empowerments preparatory to the empowerment he was to give in the afternoon. After a brief lunch he was ready. Once again he came out to the front of the pavilion, walking from one side to the other smiling and waving to the eager crowd in greeting. His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking at the 33rd Kalachakra Empowerment in Leh, Ladakh, J&K, India on July 11, 2014. Photo/Manuel Bauer After he had taken his seat on the teaching throne and various verses of homage had been recited, His Holiness drew attention to the deities and demigods who would also have come to listen to the teachings. He recalled that in Tibet in the last century Serkong Dorje Chang gave a Kalachakra Empowerment, at the end of which he declared that everyone within the boundary of Ganden Monastery had received it. “I have visualized that all those who wish to be here but have been unable to come will receive this empowerment,” His Holiness said. “There are people in Tibet and China who wanted to attend these ceremonies, but due to various obstacles have been unable to come. I’d like them all to know that I have them in mind as we go through the empowerment. “Today, we’ll go through procedures for the disciples’ entry into the mandala, the basis for which is cultivating the awakening mind of bodhichitta and an understanding of emptiness. Of course, a Lama with great attainments could give far-reaching blessings that would benefit not only sentient beings but even the rocks and so forth, but the foundation of the empowerment as far as we are concerned is having some understanding of emptiness and a sense of bodhichitta. On the basis of these we’ll be able to accomplish a transformation within ourselves.” read more @ www.dalailama.com/news/post/1152-disciples-entry-into-the-mandala-during-33rd-kalachakra-empowerment |
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tamara
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Post by tamara on Jul 20, 2014 3:08:22 GMT 1
Actually, I do not know much about the details of Kalachakra, it is probably one of the most elaborate ceremonies in Tib. Buddhism. What I enjoy is the gathering that takes place and I share the participants` motivation. Nowadays one can be pretty well connected through all kinds of media, very helpful.  Tamara |
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