Event : Gongkar Choede Monastery Programme
Date : Dec 19 2010 to Jan 1 2011
Venue : Sakya Tenphel Ling
Website : http://www.sakyatenphelling.org/
Address : 5, Pasir Ris Drive 4
Map : http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_7526/travel_site_82910/
Dec 19 Sunday
2:00pm Before Oral Transmission
2:30pm Common Mahayana Manjushri Oral Transmission for all,
especially for the young ones. Praise to Manjushri (Gangloma) and
Arapachanadi mantra
8:00pm Uncommon Manjushri Namasangiti Transmission for
practitioners (with short explanation) *Pre-requisite: Must have
taken any of the Wang Chen
8:00pm The Initiation of Manjushri Riding a Lion
Dec 20 Monday
8:00pm Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen Anniversary Day
In accordance to Dzongpa Tradition; Guru Puja with
circumambulation
Dec 22 Wednesday
2:00-8:00pm Preliminary Kangso : Torma Offering to all Protectors
(including greater and lesser Mahakala, Ekajati Mahakali, Citapati,
Putra and the Wrathful Retinue, Vaishravana and Red Ganapati,
Dec 23 Thursday
2:00-8:00pm Protector Puja with special emphasis on Brahmanrupa 1
(within which shield the very wrathful 4-faced Mahakala) * Note:
Participants must be on vegetarian from sunrise on 31-Dec-2010 till
end of day session on 1-Jan-2011
Dec 24 Friday
2:00-8:00pm Protector Puja with special emphasis on Brahmanrupa 2
(within which shield the very wrathful 4-faced Mahakala)
Dec 25 Saturday
1:00-6:00pm Mahakala Doechok 1: Preparation of Thread Frame/Loom
and Puja (bring a piece of old cloth) Doechok is a special form of
purification of the Dzongpa
tradition
Dec 26 Sunday
1:00-6:00pm Mahakala Doechok 2 with burning of the loom and
Ganacakra [Tshok] offering
8:00-10:00pm RED JAMBALA EMPOWERMENT (Jehnang)
Dzongpa Tradition for Wealth and increase life span Pre-requisite:
Must have taken any Annuttarayoga tantra Wang Chen
Dec 27 Monday
8:00-9:15pm Drogon Chogyal Phagpa Anniversary Day
Dec 29 Wednesday
8:00-10:00pm Teaching on Sonam Tsemo’s CHOELA JUGPAI GO
Dec 31 Friday
8:00-10:00pm Teaching on Sonam Tsemo’s CHOELA JUGPAI GO
31 Dec 10 Fri
10:00–10:30 pm Loong ‘Praises to the 21 Taras’
31 Dec 10 Friday – 01 Jan 11 Saturday
10:30 pm – 6:00 am Chanting – ‘Praises to the 21Taras’
His Eminence Gongkar Dorje Dhenpa Rinpoche (Tenzin Jampel
Lungtok Namgyal), the current throne-holder of the Dzongpa
tradition of Sakya was born in 1977 in India. Recognized as the
reincarnation of Dorje Dhenpa Kunga Namgya in 1988 and graduated
from Sakya College in 1999, he holds the Kachupa degree (equivalent
of B.A.) and Acharya degree (equivalent of M.A.). He had undergone
yearly retreats after graduation.
He was enthroned in 2003 by His Holiness the Sakya Trizin at the
newly build Gongkar Choede Monastery which is the seat for Dzongpa
in India.
Since then, His Eminence Dorje Dhenpa Rinpoche has taken full
responsibility for the running of the monastery and the revival of
his lineage, supported by the monastery’s abbot, Khenpo Jampal
Chodzin, and the sixty-one resident monks. All the monks have
personally taken part in building the monastery, which sits deep in
a forest in the district of Dehradun. The winding forest road that
leads to the monastery and the small Tibetan community of Khera
Goan was also made by them, and they cultivate their own organic
fruits and vegetables, as well as put out the occasional
unfortunate forest fire!
The main focus of the Monastery is the study and practice of the
rituals, philosophy and meditation that form the backbone of
Buddhist monastic life. Now the time has come to fully revive the
actual practice by senior qualified monks at the new temple to
consolidate the Dzongpa as a flourishing facet of the jewel that is
Tibetan Buddhism. The main monastery will then be able to focus
wholeheartedly on the education and training of younger monks, and
His Eminence’s long term vision is to extend the capacity of
Gongkar Choede, both physically, in terms of infrastructural as
well as academically, to have a school for the higher study of
Tibetan Buddhism.
The Head of the Ngorpa Branch of the Glorious Sakya Tradition, His
Eminence Luding Khenchen Rinpoche, once commented, “Like a small
candle that burns very brightly, so this small monastery has
developed so well”. In that same spirit, His Eminence has slowly
begun to accept invitations to bring the blessings of the lineage
abroad. In recent years His Eminence had travelled widely to these
regions visiting Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau Malaysia and Singapore.
This will be His Eminence second Visit to Singapore.