Event : Nine Yanas Retreat with Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche &
Phakchok Rinpoche
Date : January 2-8 2011
Venue : Asura Cave, Pharping, Nepal
Website :
http://cglf.org/news-a-events/foundation-events.html
We are pleased to announce that as our first event for 2011, H.E.
Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche and Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche will begin a
series of teachings on the Nine Yanas in Nepal. This retreat will
begin with the Shravakayana, the vehicle of listeners and
hearers.
Why practice the nine yanas? Phakchok Rinpoche explains:
“By practicing the nine yanas, one will have a better understanding
and knowledge of how to practice the different teachings the Buddha
taught. One will learn how to study, reflect, and meditate in
stages like the levels of a staircase. The Buddha said that the
meaning of all vehicles agrees at one point and that all the
different paths arrive at the same point. In actuality there is one
vehicle, and all the vehicles are one, so if you are not able to
understand all the different paths then how will you understand the
one point that they all arrive at? Each of the nine yanas has their
own different view, conduct, meditation, and fruition, but they are
not completely divorced from each other; each one is able to
clarify the meaning of the previous one, and also the next.”
Phakchok Rinpoche’s teachings on the Shravakayana will follow a
book containing a collection of texts he has compiled specifically
for this purpose. This collection includes texts by Indian
panditas, texts by Tibetan mahasiddhas, and words of the Buddha
himself. The retreat will open with an empowerment by H.E. Chokling
Rinpoche. The schedule of the retreat will be a combination of
teachings, discussion groups, and meditation sessions with the
Rinpoches and other students.
What is also unique about this particular series of 9 Yana retreats
is that there will be a specific sadhana for each yana with a
specific mantra, a specific tangka, and so on. These sadhanas are
called the Rigsum Nyingtik in Tibetan (the Heart Essence of the
Three Enlightened Families), and are a branch teaching of the Three
Sections of the Great Perfection, a very famous text revealed by
the supreme treasure revealer Chokgyur Lingpa. The three
protectors—all of the buddhas’ compassion manifest in the form of
Avalokiteshvara, all of the buddhas’ wisdom manifest in the form of
Manjushri, and all of the buddhas’ enlightened power manifest in
the form of Vajrapani—are the main deities in these nine yanas
sadhanas and their form changes in each of the yanas. For example,
in the shravakayana, the three protectors are in the form of
arhats.
The cost of this week-long retreat will be USD 550, which will
include all accommodation, meals, the necessary practice texts and
materials (i.e. the Shravakayana book, practice text, tangka photo,
and statue, stupa, and shrine text as specified in the Rigsum
Nyingtik itself). For more information and to register, please
email [email protected]
Event : Phowa Retreat
Venue : Puteri Pacific Hotel, Jalan Abdullah Ibrahim, 80000 Johor
Bahru, Malaysia
Website :
http://cglf.org/news-a-events/foundation-events.html
Poster :
http://cglf.org/images/pdf/2011phowaenglish_latest.pdf
We are extremely pleased and honoured to announce that H.E. 4th
Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, the second son of the late Great
Perfection teacher, Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, will transmit a
special practice for the Transference of Consciousness to Amitabha
Buddha’s Pure Land, renowned in Tibetan as Phowa. This is only the
second time that Chokling Rinpoche will be giving this teaching in
a large gathering. In the first ever large-scale Phowa retreat in
December 2009, due to the blessings of Guru Rinpoche, Chenrezig,
Amitayus and all the compassionate lineage masters, all 148
participants from 7 countries displayed the external sign of
accomplishment of this profound practice.