Vajrakilaya Retreat Intensive and Drupchen Application
With Venerable Drupon Tsering
November 11 - December 16, 2022
We are delighted to offer an in-person Vajrakilaya Drupchen followed by an 25 day Vajrakilaya Practice Retreat Intensive led by Drupon Tsering Rinpoche.
On November 12, the Vajrakilaya Drupchen begins. Each day there will be teachings and practice sessions. The drupchen ends on November 20 and preparations for the retreat begins on November 21. For the Practice Retreat Intensive, participants will need to pay for their food orders, which staff will deliver during the retreat, and participants will prepare their own meals during the retreat. The practice retreat will begin on November 22.
This Vajrakilaya intensive retreat is a unique combination of solitary and group practice. The retreat is entirely silent except for the regular question and answer sessions with the retreat master.
The rare conditions of this retreat will help deepen your practice of Vajrakilaya under the guidance of such a precious teacher!
Please note, attendance of the drupchen is required in order to attend the Vajrakilaya Practice Retreat Intensive.
Accepting applications until October 20, 2022
SCHEDULE
November 11 – Arrival time between 1 – 5pm
November 12 – Vajrakilaya Drupchen begins
November 13-20 – Each day there will be teachings and practice sessions
November 21 – Retreat preparations
November 22-December 15 – Retreat Intensive
EMPOWERMENT
H.E. Garchen Rinpoche is instructing everyone to take the Vajrakilaya empowerment online before November 12. If you have not been able to start, please make sure to take the empowerment before proceeding.
CLICK ON THIS LINK for the first part of the empowerment and then
CLICK ON THIS LINK for the second part of the empowerment
We will send the links above in the confirming email a few days before the event.
Please note, the links start with “Part 3” in the description, but parts 3 & 4 are the empowerment portion from the 2020 event so nothing is missing.
COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS
For this event we are not requiring COVID vaccinations, however we highly encourage vaccinations for the benefit of all. We do have mask and testing requirements to prevent infection of COVID-19.
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Throughout time and space, Buddhas annd Bodhisattvas have been called to initiate the hearts and minds of their students. Come great ones and with your vajra thunderbolt of wisdom and your hinderance demolishing phurba to once and for all dispel the samsaric seeds of unknowing. Lord of Death, with your spear and trident pierce the veil of ignorance to free us from the path of karmic repetition.
Wrathful Vajrakilaya is the yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity of all the Buddhas. Vajrakilaya is a wrathful manifestation of Vajrasattva, the Buddha of Purification. This practice focuses on removing intense inner and outer obstacles to peace, happiness, and enlightenment within oneself, the environment and the world at large.
The samaya (sacred promise to your teacher) for taking this empowerment is to never to lose your love for others and ideally do a daily practice of Vajrakilaya or at mininmum recite the Vajrakilaya mantra daily.
This is a wonderful opportunity to practice in this amazingly powerful mandala, for the benefit of all beings.
About the Teacher
Venerable Drupon Tsering
Venerable Drupon Tsering is the resident Lama of the Drikung Garchen Institute of the Drikung Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism in Munich, Germany. At the age of eight, Ven. Drupon Tsering took refuge from His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche. Three years later, Ven. Drupon Tsering received his novice ordination, the Bodhisattva vow as well as Mahamudra […]
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