http://www.garchen.net Garchen Buddhist Institute - Teachings Schedule 2008 Garchen Buddhist Institute Tue, 06 May 2008 00:52:00 -0700 Tue, 06 May 2008 00:52:00 -0700 Buddhism Web Guru http://www.garchen.net http://www.garchen.net/schedule.html Around the clock practice and mantra recitation of Guru Rinpoche. With Venerable Traga Rinpoche* & Venerable Gape Lama (9:00 am May 23 to 5:00 pm May 27) Registration is required. Tue, 06 May 2008 00:52:00 -0700 http://www.garchen.net/schedule.html Venerable Gape Lama will lead the practice. The Nyungne practice of the eleven-faced, thousand-armed form of Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara), the Buddha of compassion, is deeply beneficial for purifying negative karma and accumulating merit and wisdom in a short but intensive retreat setting. This intensive practice requires maintaining the eight Mahayana precepts on the first day and on the second day adding vows of fasting and silence for twenty-four hours. Meditation sessions include prayers, offerings, and prostrations, and extensive mantra recitation, cultivating all three vehicles of Buddhism. Practicing nyungne with great devotion increases peace in oneself and the world, brings happiness and good fortune, and leads to rebirth in Buddha Amitabha’s Pureland of Dewachen. Tue, 06 May 2008 00:52:00 -0700 http://www.garchen.net/schedule.html#summer Summer Teachings July 21-August 7, Six Bardos of Guru Rinpoche, Faith, Devotion and the Meaning of Empowerments, Fivefold Mahamudra, Chakrasamvara Empowerment Tue, 06 May 2008 00:52:00 -0700 120