On Sunday, June 4 from 9-10am (Arizona time), please join us at the center or via zoom for one of the most auspicious Buddhist holy days, Saka Dawa. Saka Dawa is one of the most important Tibetan Buddhist days, paying homage to historical Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana.
It is said that the positive actions done on this day are multiplied innumerable times. On this essential holy day, we’ll celebrate remembering the life story of historical Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha, by offering prayers of praises and performing the traditional bathing ceremony.
Together, in-person or together on Zoom we’ll recite Praises to Buddha, we'll chant Buddha’s mantra and join in silent meditation focusing on our excellent fortune to have come into contact with the precious teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, our kind and generous teacher, ZaChoeje Rinpoche and Emaho's esteemed geshes. And, if you have time, please stay and join us for cheesecake, coffee, tea afterward.
Zoom Webinar Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84704894773?pwd=Um44VUxrdTBSWFZZU3hSY1pudlM3dz09
Passcode: Dharma / Webinar ID: 847 0489 4773
Emaho's Geshes will lead us in reciting the prayers and mantra. Here are the links to the practices on Emaho's website --
Homage and Praises to Shakyamuni Buddha
Buddha’s Mantra
ཐབས་མཁས་ཐུགས་རེ་ཤཱཀྱའི་རིགས་འཁྲུངས་ཤིང་།།
THABKHE THUKJE SHAKYA’I RIG SU THRUNG
With skilful means and compassion, you were born in the Śākya clan,
གཞན་གིས་མི་ཐུབ་བདུད་ཀྱི་དཔུང་འཇོམས་པ། །
ZHEN GYI MITHUB DÜ KYI PUNG JOMPA
Unconquerable by others, you vanquished Māra's hordes,
གསེར་གི་ལྷུན་པོ་ལྟ་བུར་བརིད་པའི་སྐུ། །
SER GYI LHÜNPO TABUR JIPA’I KU
Your physical form resplendent, like a mountain of gold.
ཤཱཀྱའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཁོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
SHAKYA’I GYALPO KHYÖ LA CHAKTSHAL LO
To you, the King of the Śākyas, I pay homage!
ཨོཾ་མུ་ནེ་མུ་ནེ་མ་ཧཱ་མུ་ནེ་ཡེ་སྭཱ ཧཱ
OM MUNE MUNE MAHA MUNE YE SOHA
Long Life Prayer to ZaChoeje Rinpoche /
His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama