Tso Pema Retreat with HE Choeze Kuchen Rinpoche March 3-13

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Event : Tso Pema Retreat with HE Choeze Kuchen Rinpoche
Date : March 3-13
Website : http://choezerinpoche.org/events.htm
Poster : http://choezerinpoche.org/TsoPemaPoster.pdf
Programme :

03/03/2011 (Thu)
Jet Airways 9W17 SIN-DEL DEP 23.10 ARR 2.20AM MEAL ON PLANE
04/03/2011 (Fri)
2.20 am Jeep (12 hours est.) ARR DEL AIRPORT – PALPUNG SHERABLING MONASTERY ALL MEALS (VEG-B/L/D)
04/03/2011 - 06/03/2011 (Fri to Sun) -
ARR 3PM (EST) CHECK STAY IN PALPUNG MONASTERY
05/03/2011 (Sat) -
LOSAR CELEBRATION AT 7AM IN PALPUNG SHERABLING
07/03/2011 (Mon) 7 am (EST) Jeep
DEP TO DHARAMSALA TO VISIT HH DALAI LAMA & MONASTERY
07/03/2011 (Tues) 2 pm (EST)
DEP DHARAMSALA TO TSO PEMA –CHECK IN GUEST HSE
08/03/2011 (Tues)
8 am to 5 pm
VISIT GURU RINPOCHE CAVE AND MEDITATION THERE
09/03/2011 to 11/03/2011 (Wed to Fri)
8 am to 5 pm -
3 DAYS VAJRASATTVA RETREAT
12/03/2011 (Sat)
8 am to 12 pm -
CLOSING SPEECH/ BLESSING
12/03/2011 (Sat)
5 pm board bus Jeep (12 hours est.)
TSO PEMA – DELHI AIRPORT
13/03/2011 (Sun)
Arrive 6 am -
CHECK IN JETAIRWAY 9W18 TO SIN DEP 8.55AM -
13/03/2011 (Sun)
Jet Airways 9W18 DEL-SIN ARR 17.15

Choeze Kuchen Rinpoche will be leading devotees in a 10 days Tso Pema Retreat, where devotees will have a chance to meet with HH Dalai Lama.
Tso Pema 'Lotus Lake' in Rewalsar, India, is where Guru Rinpoche performed the miracle of transforming the funeral pyre into a lake, after the King of Zahor attempted to burn him and Princess Mandarava alive.

Kunchok Thrinley Lhundup Namgyal was born in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1984 as the eldest son of Lama Jorjel, brother of H.E. Ayang Rinpoche. At the age of two, HH. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and H.H. Drikung Kyabgon Chungtsang Rinpoche recognized him as the 11th incarnation of Choeze Kuchen Rinpoche.

Choeze Kuchen Rinpoche is one of the high lamas of Choeze Thupten Dhargyeling monastery in Kham, Tibet. He is regarded as the manifestation of Yamantaka (a wrathful aspect of Manjushri).

In one of his previous lives, he was born as a bright Brahmin named Salwa (Prabha) during the times of Buddha Dipankara. In the 7th century, during the time of Dharma King Songtsen Gampo, he took rebirth as Thonmi Sambhota who went to India and studied under the great scholar Lekchin Kara and introduced Tibetan script and Buddhism into Tibet. He has also reincarnated before as Nged-Phupa, a great master of Mahamudra during the time of Kyobpa Jigten Sumgon.

The present incarnation of Choeze Kuchen Rinpoche has achieved immense knowledge and wisdom at a very young age. He has undergone seven years of study of Buddhist philosophy and Drikung Kagyudpa teachings at the Thupten Shedup Jangchupling in south India. He has also received many precepts, oral transmissions and initiations from H.H. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and Phowa Teachings from H.E. Ayang Rinpoche.

Rinpoche has spent two years in retreat and meditation, especially on Yamantaka, Padmasambhawa, White Tara and Aachi, at Pharping, one of the holy pilgrim place of Guru Padma Sambhawa.

At a very young age of 20, Rinpoche has established a retreat center at Pharping, Nepal. It is called "Aa Chi Namkha Thinksang" and he has built another retreat center in Kham, Tibet in recent years.