Garchen Rinpoche Vajrakilaya November

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Garchen Rinpoche Vajrakilaya November

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VAJRAKILAYA
Empowerment, Teachings and Retreat
ONLINE with
H.E. Garchen Rinpoche
and the Garchen Institute Lamas
November 14 -18
9am – 12am and 2pm – 5pm PDT (GMT-7)
The 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.
H.E. Garchen Rinpoche, Venerable Khenpo Tenzin, Venerable Lama Thubten Nima, Venerable Lama Bunima and Venerable Lama Abao.
SCHEDULE
November 14
Teachings: 9:00 – 12:00pm Venerable Khenpo Tenzin
Break: 10:00 – 10:30am
Empowerment: 2:00 – 5:00pm H.E. Garchen Rinpoche
November 15 -18
Sadhana Practice in English – 9am – 12pm
Sadhana Practice in Tibetan – 2pm -5pm
“Whoever wants to find the wisdom beyond intellect without praying to his guru is like someone waiting for the sun to shine in a cave facing the north. He will never realize appearances and his mind to be one.”
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Re: Garchen Rinpoche Vajrakilaya November

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Taken from FB group, with details and resources concerning the empowerment.

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On November 14th (Sat.) – 18th (Wed.) Vajrakilaya Retreat with Empowerment (Nov. 14) bestowed by H.E.Garchen Rinpoche, everyday Rinpoche’s Teachings on first sessions, daily sadhana practices in English and Tibetan (Nov.15-18). Live-stream on Youtube https://cutt.ly/gbi_youtube . Please find the details including schedule below.

Vajrakilaya is a wrathful form of Vajrasattva and among bodhisattvas he appears as Vajrapani. Padmasambhava brought this practice from India to Tibet. The compassion of the buddhas is expressed forcefully, in order to destroy ignorance and mental afflictions that create all of our obstacles and prevent realization.

According to Garchen Rinpoche receiving Vajrakilaya empowerment is very beneficial and doesn’t mean that we have to practice it instead of another deity to whom we are more habituated, because “if we always change and practice one deity today and another one tomorrow the results will not be so great”. The root samaya of the Vajrakilaya empowerment according to Rinpoche is to cultivate and sustain loving kindness and compassion, and to practice mindfulness and patience in our daily lives.

Video of the Vajrakilaya empowerment (which belongs to the highest tantra and includes taking bodhisattva and tantric vows) is here: https://cutt.ly/HERG_Vajrakilaya_emp .

How to receive the Vajrakilaya empowerment?
Sakya Pandita, great master, often cited by Garchen Rinpoche, has said very clearly, “Without taking vows, there is no empowerment, there is no initiation.” And to take the vows, we need to know them and consciously accept them; otherwise if we haven’t taken the vows and we haven’t received the empowerment. Details at the first page of the publication: https://cutt.ly/Bodhichitta_actions . Useful links on vows: (1) Garchen Rinpoche summarizing Bodhisattva and Refuge vows https://cutt.ly/Garchen_vows , (2) 18 root Bodhisattva Vows: https://cutt.ly/18_vows , (3) 46 secondary Bodhisattva Vows https://cutt.ly/46_vows , (4) 14 tantric vows https://cutt.ly/tantric_vows

Garchen Rinpoche always says that participating in empowerments, teachings and mantra recitation via live-stream, if combined with devotion and bodhicitta, can be as beneficial as one’s physical presence.

Updated practice texts and links for translation in Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian and Spanish will be soon published at https://garchen.net/

Other useful links:
1) Everything about Vajrakilaya from e-library of GBI: https://garchen.net/library-bydeity-vajrakilaya/
2) Garchen Rinpoche chanting the Vajrakilaya mantra https://cutt.ly/HERG_Vajrakilaya_mantra
3) Text of Garchen Rinpoche’s Q&A on Vajrakilaya (2019) published in Taiwan (GDI): https://cutt.ly/Vajrakilaya_QnA
4) Images of Vajrakilaya: https://garchen.net/library-images-deity-vajrakilaya/

Schedule in Arizona time (GMT-7):
November, 14 (Sat.)
9:00 – 12:00 pm Teachings by Venerable Khenpo Tenzin
10:00 – 10:30 am Break
2:00 – 5:00 pm Vajrakilaya Empowerment by H.E. Garchen Rinpoche
November 15 (Sun.) – 18 (Wed.)
9am – 12pm Sadhana Practice in English. Teachings by H.E. Garchen Rinpoche during the morning session.
2pm – 5pm Sadhana Practice in Tibetan
Donation: https://garchen.net/donations-x/
“Observing samaya involves to remain inseparable from the union of wisdom and compassion at all times, to sustain mindfulness, and to put into practice the guru’s instructions”. Garchen Rinpoche

For those who do virtuous actions,
goodness is what comes to pass.
For those who do non-virtuous actions,
that becomes suffering indeed.

- Arya Sanghata Sutra
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