Event :Phowa Retreat by HE Choeze Kuchen Rinpoche
Date: October 23-24
Time : 9.30am – 6.00pm
Venue : 24 Lorong 29 Geylang #03-00 Leow Sih Building S388073
Map :
http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_36642/travel_site_48880/
Poster : http://www.choezerinpoche.org/CKRinpocheOct2010EventPoster.pdf
Website : http://www.choezerinpoche.org/default.htm
Full Day Phowa Retreat Oct 23 - 24
Oct 23 (Sat)
9.30 am to 12.00 pm Phowa practice
(long)
12.00 pm to 2.00 pm Lunch Break
2.00 pm to 4.00 pm Green Tara practice/
Discussion, Q&A
4.00 pm to 4.30 pm Tea Break
4.30 pm to 6.00 pm Short Phowa practice +
lamp offering
Oct 24 (Sun)
9.30 am to 12.00 pm Long Phowa
practice
12.00 pm to 2.00 pm Lunch Break
2.00 pm to 3.30 pm Short Phowa
practice
3.30 pm to 4.00 pm Tea Break
4.00 pm to 6.00 pm Amitabha Tsog offering
+ Lamp offering + Blessing
The Biography of Choeze Kuchen Rinpoche
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.
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