Event : Nyung Nay Retreat
Date : May 31 - June 16, 2011
Venue : Tushita Meditation Centre, McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala,Kangra
District
Himachal Pradesh, 176219, India
Website :
http://www.tushita.info/program/group-retreats/nyung-nay
Check In Day
1.00 – 3.00pm Check in at Tushita Reception
Office
(except check in for first Nyung Nay: 9.30-11pm)
6.00pm Dinner
Day 1
3.30am 1st Session take precepts to eat only
lunch (drinks and talking permitted)
8.30am 2nd Session
11.00am Lunch
3.30pm 3rd Session
Day 2
4.00am 4th Session take precepts to not eat,
drink, or speak for 24 hours
8.30am 5th Session
3.30pm 6th Session
Check Out Day
4.00am 7th Session your final session (join the
session after precepts ceremony)
7.30am Breakfast
9.30 – 11.30am Check out in the Tushita
Reception Office
Nyung Nay (or "Fasting Retreat" in English) is a Vajrayana practice
from the Kriya ("Action") class of Tantra. It is a powerful, quick
and effective method to purify a lot of negativities and at the
same time collect a vast amount of merit. Meditators of the past
have been known to purify such diseases as leprosy through this
practice. However, the principal purpose of the practice is the
attainment of supreme Enlightenment for the benefit of all living
beings.
Annually before Saka Dawa (the anniversary of Shakyamuni Buddha's
birth, enlightenment and paranirvana - for exact date of Saka Dawa
please see Calendar of Events) Tushita offers a series of eight
Nyung Nays. Participants may join one or more Nyung Nays.
A Nyung Nay retreat consists of 7 sessions spread over 3 days. In
each session we practice the sadhana ("method of accomplishment")
of Chenrezig, the Buddha symbolizing compassion. The sadhana
involves meditating on bodhicitta (the aspiration to attain
enlightenment in order to help all beings), visualizing Chenrezig,
reciting prayers and mantras, and performing prostrations. Each
session lasts approximately 3 hours.
Nyungne is the most effective course of practices to purify both
environmental pollution and our own faults. The practice was
revealed by Bhikshuni Phalmo, a practitioner who suffered from
leprosy. She performed this practice for 12 years in conjunction
with Chenresig (Avalokitesvara) practice and become a great siddhi,
attaining the Celestial Body. The retreat course involves powerful
practices of purification such as periods of fasting, prostrations,
and silence. Practitioners will also recite the six syllable Mani
Mantra (Om Mani Peme Hung). This mantra purifies the six seeds of
the six realms within oneself and, furthermore, has the effect of
pacifying the suffering of all beings. In this way, the practice
brings peace to the entire world and can be a cause for World
Peace, very appropriate to these degenerate times. The purification
practices increase positive energies and so in and of themselves
are causes for happiness and harmony.
