Friday, November 14th - Sunday, November 16th New York City
Orgyan Kalden Drendze
Empowerment (Friday)
Orgyan Kalden Drendze Teaching and Practice (Saturday)
Mahayana Mind Training (Sunday)
Shambhala Meditation Center of New York
118 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor,
New York City
(Subways: 23rd Street on the 1, 9, and F trains)
Suggested Donation:
$25 a session, $50 a day
or $100 for the entire teachings
THE TEACHINGS
Guru Rinpoche Empowerment, Teaching and Practice
Friday, November 14th, 7pm & Saturday, November 15th, 10am-1pm and 3-6pm
Orgyan Kalden Drendze Empowerment: Initiation into the Activity Ritual of Guru Rinpoche, Guide to the Fortunate This is the first time this empowerment is being given in the United States. The Nuden Dorje Guru Rinpoche Empowerment is a special terma of Guru Rinpoche Guru Yoga. The practice of Guru Yoga brings forth the blessings of the Guru for the successful completion of the Vajrayana Path. This empowerment and practice was revealed by the great Drikung treasure revealer Lho Jedrung Orgyen Nuden Dorje. This treasure was revealed to be an effective practice for times of disease, sickness, famine, poverty and war, when the teachings of the Dharma would be in danger of destruction. In this practice, one is empowered by the Guru Rinpoche manifestations of the ten directions, and then engages in the healing, increasing, and wrathful activities of the Guru Rinpoche. This practice helps alleviate temporal obstacles to spiritual practice, and creates the conditions whereby ultimate realization can be obtained. In his previous incarnation Ontul Rinpoche was the older brother and primary disciple of Nuden Dorje. To receive this empowerment from Ontul Rinpoche is a great blessing. The sadhana for this practice has been translated by the DDTP.
Mahayana Mind Training
Sunday, November 16th, 10am-1pm and 3-6pm
Lojong or mind training is a really practical Mahayana system that works to transform the joys and pains, the pleasures and difficulties, all of life’s everyday situations and even death into steps of the bodhisattva’s path towards total enlightenment. Through focusing on and changing motivation each detail of existence is transformed into compassion and understanding. Unlike other systems, the application of Lojong is immediately possible for any sincere human being with normal capacities towards opening a door to change difficult emotions and different life happenings.
THE TEACHER
Venerable Drikung Ontul Rinpoche is a master of both the Drikung Kagyu and Nyingma lineages. He was born in Eastern Tibet in 1950 into a familial lineage of one of the four ancient Tulkus of the Bön religion, originating before Padmasambhava’s time. The 5th Drikung Kyabgon H. H. Chetsang Rinpoche and H.H. Gyalwa Karmapa recognized Ontul Rinpoche to be the emanation of Drog Ban Khiu Chung Lotsawa, one of the twenty-five main disciples of Guru Padmasambhava. In a previous incarnation, Rinpoche was the older brother and primary disciple of the great Drikung terton Orgyen Nuden Dorje, thus receiving the name "Ontul", meaning "older brother". In 1959 Rinpoche fled the Chinese Communist occupation of Tibet to India. In India the Drikung Khandro Nini Rinpoche cared for and taught Ontul Rinpoche as well as introducing Rinpoche to his root lama, Venerable Khenpo Thubten, a great Nyingmapa teacher, from whom Rinpoche received extensive instruction on the Longchen Nyingthig. Rinpoche also received Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings from H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen, H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, 3rd Kalu Rinpoche, Yogi Khyunga Rinpoche and others. Ontul Rinpoche received the Yangzab treasure teachings from H.E. Chvje Togden Rinpoche, the 8th Garchen Rinpoche, and Khenpo Konchog Ngedon. With the blessing of H.H. Drigung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, Ontul Rinpoche travels the world transmitting the Drikung Dzogchen treasure teachings. Rinpoche is known for his warm humor, wisdom, and vast bodhicitta. Ontul Rinpoche is also the founder of the Drikung Dzogchen Community (DDC), and at present there are DDC's in Asia, Europe, and North America. The first North American DDC was founded in November 2001, in Lincoln, Vermont. At that time, Ontul Rinpoche also founded the Drikung Dzogchen Translation Project (DDTP), which is currently translating the treasure teachings of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage.
For more information on Venerable Ontul Rinpoche’s biography;
http://www.kagyu-medialab.org/wogmin/introduction.html - biography
For more information or to volunteer during the teaching,
please contact Jennifer Fleming at jwelshf@mac.com or (718) 852-9538.
Guru Rinpoche Empowerment, Teaching and Practice
Friday, November 14th, 7pm & Saturday, November 15th, 10am-1pm and 3-6pm
Orgyan Kalden Drendze Empowerment: Initiation into the Activity Ritual of Guru Rinpoche, Guide to the Fortunate This is the first time this empowerment is being given in the United States. The Nuden Dorje Guru Rinpoche Empowerment is a special terma of Guru Rinpoche Guru Yoga. The practice of Guru Yoga brings forth the blessings of the Guru for the successful completion of the Vajrayana Path. This empowerment and practice was revealed by the great Drikung treasure revealer Lho Jedrung Orgyen Nuden Dorje. This treasure was revealed to be an effective practice for times of disease, sickness, famine, poverty and war, when the teachings of the Dharma would be in danger of destruction. In this practice, one is empowered by the Guru Rinpoche manifestations of the ten directions, and then engages in the healing, increasing, and wrathful activities of the Guru Rinpoche. This practice helps alleviate temporal obstacles to spiritual practice, and creates the conditions whereby ultimate realization can be obtained. In his previous incarnation Ontul Rinpoche was the older brother and primary disciple of Nuden Dorje. To receive this empowerment from Ontul Rinpoche is a great blessing. The sadhana for this practice has been translated by the DDTP.
Mahayana Mind Training
Sunday, November 16th, 10am-1pm and 3-6pm
Lojong or mind training is a really practical Mahayana system that works to transform the joys and pains, the pleasures and difficulties, all of life’s everyday situations and even death into steps of the bodhisattva’s path towards total enlightenment. Through focusing on and changing motivation each detail of existence is transformed into compassion and understanding. Unlike other systems, the application of Lojong is immediately possible for any sincere human being with normal capacities towards opening a door to change difficult emotions and different life happenings.
THE TEACHER
Venerable Drikung Ontul Rinpoche is a master of both the Drikung Kagyu and Nyingma lineages. He was born in Eastern Tibet in 1950 into a familial lineage of one of the four ancient Tulkus of the Bön religion, originating before Padmasambhava’s time. The 5th Drikung Kyabgon H. H. Chetsang Rinpoche and H.H. Gyalwa Karmapa recognized Ontul Rinpoche to be the emanation of Drog Ban Khiu Chung Lotsawa, one of the twenty-five main disciples of Guru Padmasambhava. In a previous incarnation, Rinpoche was the older brother and primary disciple of the great Drikung terton Orgyen Nuden Dorje, thus receiving the name "Ontul", meaning "older brother". In 1959 Rinpoche fled the Chinese Communist occupation of Tibet to India. In India the Drikung Khandro Nini Rinpoche cared for and taught Ontul Rinpoche as well as introducing Rinpoche to his root lama, Venerable Khenpo Thubten, a great Nyingmapa teacher, from whom Rinpoche received extensive instruction on the Longchen Nyingthig. Rinpoche also received Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings from H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen, H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, 3rd Kalu Rinpoche, Yogi Khyunga Rinpoche and others. Ontul Rinpoche received the Yangzab treasure teachings from H.E. Chvje Togden Rinpoche, the 8th Garchen Rinpoche, and Khenpo Konchog Ngedon. With the blessing of H.H. Drigung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, Ontul Rinpoche travels the world transmitting the Drikung Dzogchen treasure teachings. Rinpoche is known for his warm humor, wisdom, and vast bodhicitta. Ontul Rinpoche is also the founder of the Drikung Dzogchen Community (DDC), and at present there are DDC's in Asia, Europe, and North America. The first North American DDC was founded in November 2001, in Lincoln, Vermont. At that time, Ontul Rinpoche also founded the Drikung Dzogchen Translation Project (DDTP), which is currently translating the treasure teachings of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage.
For more information on Venerable Ontul Rinpoche’s biography;
http://www.kagyu-medialab.org/wogmin/introduction.html - biography
For more information or to volunteer during the teaching,
please contact Jennifer Fleming at jwelshf@mac.com or (718) 852-9538.