Dear sangha,
URGENT: This Tuesday 11 November we will hold Vajrasattva practice at 7.30 pm in the gompa for Labab Duchen (a major Buddhist festival commemorating the Buddha’s descent from Tushita heaven. ) It will also be on Zoom.
This is also the date on which we will start doing the prayer supplicating for the swift rebirth of our most precious Tsawe Lama Choeje Ayang Rinpoche. Details are in the attached letter from HE Palchen Galo Rinpoche. We are still awaiting the English and Chinese transliteration (phonetic translation) of the Tibetan. Then we can sing it using the same melody as we used for the Long Life Prayer. Transliteration is already available in Vietnamese. In the meantime we can chant or speak in our own language. As these are very large files, I can only attach the English version. If you require the Vietnamese or Chinese please download from the Facebook page. Otherwise let me know and I will try to help.
This prayer can be done in the place of the Long Life practice at the end of the dedication prayers. And it can be done at any time you feel inspired to request the speedy return of our precious Rinpoche to aid all suffering beings, with heartfelt devotion.
Then Sunday 23 November is a very special day: the 1st anniversary on the lunar calendar of Rinpoche’s Parinirvana. We will do 3 practice sessions of Buddha Amitabha on that day at 9am, 2.30pm and 7.30pm in the gompa and by Zoom.( Guru Drakpo is cancelled.) Rinpoche’s Wisdom Mind is vividly available to us at that time, especially in group practice, and I encourage you most warmly to join us, ideally in person in the gompa if you can.