Event : Zambhala Puja and Empowerment (财神共修法会)
Date : 16 July 2010 to 17 July 2010
Time : 10am - 5pm
Venue : Marpa Kagyu Dharma Society at 31 Kranji Crescent
Map :
http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_47274/travel_site_144523/
Website :
http://www.marpakagyu.com/Marpa%20Kagyud%20-%20Events.htm
Zambhala or 'Wealth Deity' Puja would help to increase our worldly
and spiritual wealth
and the practice will gradually lead us towards liberation.
Event : Amitabha Buddha Puja & Amitabha Jangchog Puja
(阿弥陀佛法会/超度法会)
Date : 18 July 2010
Time : 10am - 5pm
Through Amitabha Jangchog puja, we can dedicate blessings of
awakening to our ancestors and loved ones so that they can take
rebirth in the pureland, or even if they might have already been
reborn into another life, they could still be benefited through the
dedications.
Event : Vajrasattva Retreat (金刚萨多闭关共修)
Date : 24 July 2010 to 25 July 2010
Time : 6am - 8pm
Vajrasattva is the Buddha of purification. This retreat give us the
opportunity to purify our negativity by engaging in the
purification practices of Buddha Vajrasattva. Through this practice
we can remove both the causes of our future suffering and obstacles
to our spiritual practice.Through purifying our negativity, our
mind will gradually become happier and happier, our good qualities
will increase, and all our mental and physical problems will
gradually disappear.
All of the above activities will
Lead by: Lodro Rinpoche
Registration: Before 16 July 2010
Venue : Marpa Kagyu Dharma Society at 31 Kranji
Crescent
Contact : +65 9858 6372 or +65 9370 1209
Lodro Rinpoche was born in Gha county of Dhokham, Tibet. At a
very young age, he had both great faith in, and a clear vision of,
Dharma. It was as though the instincts of many earlier existences
had possessed him with equality consciousness as well as
incomparable love and compassion for all sentient beings,
irrespective of their status, both great and small.
Early in life, he respectfully bowed at the feet of many
spiritually advanced Lamas and, in this way, was given the
opportunity to grow quickly in his study of Buddha Dharma. Through
these holy Lamas he received initiation, deep spiritual
transmission through reading and scriptural explanation, as well as
the most quintessential of the teachings of the Buddha. He had
abandoned worldly life at an early age.
Lodroe Rinpoche undertook pilgrimages to numerous holy places
and practiced intense meditation in places that, for ages, had been
blessed by many great Tibetan saints. It was during this time that
he discovered that the monastery of the great saints Marpa,
Milarepa and Thakpo had fallen into ruin due to some unfortunate
occurrences in Tibet. When he saw how the beautiful teachings of
Marpa, Milarepa and Thakpo had deteriorated into mere vestiges in
print, he felt broken-hearted.
It was then that he made a strong personal commitment to
restore, to their full glory, the teachings of this incomparable
lineage. Highly motivated to see his vision succeed, Lodroe
Rinpoche began contributing wholeheartedly to the restoration of
Buddha's teaching in the area. The seed of Dharma, once again, was
planted in the minds and hearts of the local people.
Lodro Rinpoche then left Tibet and traveled into Nepal and
India. He sat at the feet of many great Lamas and Khenpos from both
old and new traditions alike. He fused some strong spiritual
relationships with them and furthered, under them, his studies of
the Great Philosophical Treatises. Filled with a natural
enthusiasm, he also traveled to the home countries of many
disciples from both East and West. He visited their wonderful
Dharma Centers in order toteach and propagate Buddha Dharma.
One of the mission of Lodroe Rinpoche today is to input entire
Marpa Kagyud Buddhist text into CD-ROM format in order to both
restore the text that has deteriorated in its original parchment
format and to re-encode it digitally so that it cannot be lost. It
will then be simple to print legible copies for all who wish to
study. By dedicating his life to this form of Buddha Dharma, it is
Lodroe Rinpoche's prayer that existence of these great scriptures
will continue to benefit all sentient beings.