SPIRITUAL: Holy Day

1:00 pm Saturday, May 25, 2013

The Golden Light Sutra is one of the practices that was requested to benefit our spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. If you cannot attend, reading it at home is also encouraged. The text is available online for free download at http://www.fpmt.org/education/teachings/sutras/golden-light-sutra/download.html. We will be reporting practices done for Rinpoche to FPMT every month, so please email program@kadampa-center.org when you complete recitations.

Location at Kadampa Center: 
Gompa
Monday, February 11, (All day) to Monday, February 25, (All day) 2013

A two-week period during which the Buddha performed various miracles. Rituals and celebrations are typically held on the final day, called “The Day of Miracles.”

For more information, go to: http://kadampa-center.org/monlam-chenmo-day-miracles

1:00 pm Saturday, December 8, 2012

Students are invited to come and hang electric string lights around the center on Lama Tsongkhapa day. At the end of the activity, everyone will do a short light offering prayer together to make the lights a meritorious offering.

   "In addition to other offerings, it is best to offer as many light offerings as you can. The center's students can hang up as many Christmas lights as possible… to create the causes of enlightenment by offering the lights to Lama Tsongkhapa, the merit fields, and so forth.  By offering lights we create the cause of enlightenment, of liberation from samsara, and the happiness of future lives. Also, happiness will happen in this life."

 - Lama Zopa Rinpoche

6:00 pm Saturday, December 8, 2012

Lama Tsongkhapa is the founder of our lineage, the Gelugpa tradition, in Tibetan Buddhism. He was a renowned scholar, practitioner, meditator, teacher and author.         

Among his major accomplishments is writing the Lamrim, or the Great Treatise on the Path to Enlightenment, a step-by-step guide to the spiritual practices that lead to enlightenment.

He also revitalized the monastic code in Tibet, established the annual Great Prayer Festival, established Ganden Monastery, the first of the great monasteries in the Gelugpa tradition, and wrote 18 volumes of teachings.

 

 

 

 

 

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