Pilgrimage with Chokling Rinpoche And Phakchok Rinpoche Dec
15-25
The Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation is organizing our first ever
guided pilgrimage to
all the major sacred sites of Lord Buddha Shakyamuni. As Buddhists,
a pilgrimage
is an important act of devotion and faith. It enables us to
accumulate merit and
purify our defilements and obscurations of the body, speech and
mind by the
power of the blessings at each sacred site.
Lord Buddha said:
Monks, after my passing away, if all the sons and daughters of good
family
and the faithful, so long as they live, go to the four holy places,
they should
go and remember: here at Lumbini the enlightened one was born; here
at Bodhgaya
he attained enlightenment; here at Sarnath he turned twelve wheels
of Dharma;
and here at Kushinagar he entered parinirvana. Monks, after my
passing away
there will be activities such as circumambulation of these places
and
prostration to them.. a pilgrimage to them [the four places] will
help to
purify their previously accumulated negative karmas, even the five
heinous
actions...
This pilgrimage will be more unique as it will be led by His
Eminence Chokling
Rinpoche and Kyabgon Phakchok Rinpoche. During this
once-in-a-lifetime
pilgrimage, we will be tracing the Footsteps of Buddha Shakyamuni
more than 2500
years ago. We will be visiting : Lumbhini, where Buddha was born
Sravasti, where Buddha showed his supernatural abilities and
performed miracles Kushinagar, where Buddha entered parinirvana
Vaishali, where Buddha received an offering of honey from a monkey
and is the main place for the third turning of the Wheel of
Dharma.
Bodhgaya, where Buddha attained enlightened Rajgir, where Buddha
subdued Nalagiri, the angry elephant, through friendliness. Buddha
also turned the Wheel of Dharma for the second time in nearby
Vultures Peak Nalanda, where Buddha was a king in one of his former
lives, and was the site of one of the great Buddhist Universities
Sarnath, where Buddha turned the Wheel of Dharma for the first
time. At the major holy sites, both Rinpoches will give brief
teachings and lead all the pilgrimage participants in meditation
practice as well as accumulation of merit through feast offerings
and so forth.
Website : http://www.cglf.org/news-a-events/foundation-events.html