In-Person: White Tara Long Life Empowerment and Practice Retreat at Land of Shambhala
About the Practice of White Tara
Of the 21 Taras, the two most popular are Green Tara and White Tara. White Tara, a manifestation of the Buddha, also known as the Mother of Compassion, is regarded for her qualities of healing and activities to benefit others. She grants grants health, healing and longevity swiftly like a mother running to help her crying child. All powerful White Tara has 7 eyes — with an eye in her forehead, and one on each hand and foot — symbolizing her compassionate vigilance to see all the suffering of the world.
Almost everyone has obstacles in their life that could lead to an untimely death. This is because we have fixed karmas and unfixed karmas. If the obstacles are due to the exhaustion of your good karma and merit, then in order to prolong your life now, you need to practice powerful ways to collect a lot of merit, such as taking long life initiations, reciting the mantras of long life deities, saving the lives of animals and people, offering medicine to people and taking care of sick people, offering food, clothing and shelter to the poor people. This of course only matters if you yourself are making your life meaningful to live long and practice the Dharma.
If the obstacles in your life and untimely death are due to the accumulation of negative karma, the you must purify it. Tara will help with it as she is very quick to fulfill our wishes and to grant us happiness and a long life, as well as to help us develop wisdom.
About the Empowerment (Jenang blessing)
Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow the jenang Empowerment of White Tara. This is useful for those who want to connect to the transformative power of long life.Receiving this empowerment is considered to be a great blessing and supportive of a long and healthy life. She is part of a trilogy of 3 long life deities, Amitayus, Tara and Namgyalma.
Who can attend (online and in person)?
This retreat is open to all.
Who can attend (online and in person)?
This retreat is open to all.
Friday 30th December 2022 – Free Online Pre-Teaching If you want to learn more about the retreat and the teaching tune into this teaching from Khentrul Rinpoche.
7:30 PM – How to Live a Long and Meaningful Life
*** All teachings (except transmissions), will be recorded and available for viewing in the learning centre.
Saturday 31 December
White Tara Empowerment
How to Make Extensive Offerings
Mantra Recitation and Accumulation
7:00 AM – 8:30 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM White Tara Empowerment
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Free Time and Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Session
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Tea Break
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Session
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Dinner and Free Time
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM Session
Sunday January 1
7:00 AM – 8:30 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Session
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Free Time and Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Session
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Tea Break
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Session
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Dinner and Free Time
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM Session
Monday January 2
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Session 8
11:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Session
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Pack up
Teacher
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Khentrul RinpochéJonang Kalachakra & Rimé MasterClick on the arrow above to offer Dana to Khentrul Rinpoche
Khentrul Rinpoché Jamphel Lodrö is the founder and director of Dzokden. Rinpoche is the author of Unveiling Your Sacred Truth 1, 2, and 3, The Great Middle Way: Clarifying the Jonang View of Other-Emptiness, A Happier Life, and The Hidden Treasure of the Profound Path.
Rinpoche spent the first 20 years of his life herding yak and chanting mantras on the plateaus of Tibet. Inspired by the bodhisattvas, he left his family to study in a variety of monasteries under the guidance of over twenty-five masters in all the Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Due to his non-sectarian approach, he earned himself the title of Rimé (unbiased) Master and was identified as the reincarnation of the famous Kalachakra Master Ngawang Chözin Gyatso. While at the core of his teachings is the recognition that there is great value in the diversity of all spiritual traditions found in this world; he focuses on the Jonang-Shambhala tradition. Kalachakra (wheel of time) teachings contain profound methods to harmonize our external environment with the inner world of body and mind, ultimately bringing about the golden age of Peace and Harmony (Dzokden).
