Emaho Foundation - Saka Dawa Celebration with ZaChoeje Rinpoche May 23 7:00pm

Saka Dawa23 May 23, Thursday,

7:00pm-8:00pmPhoenix time, At Emaho Center and also available on Zoom.

Celebration of Sakadawa Full Moon ceremony.

ZaChoeje Rinpoche and Geshe will lead the ceremony of celebrating the full moon of Saka Dawa. This is one of the most important Tibetan Buddhist days paying homage to Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana. It is said that positive actions done on this day are multiplied numerous times.

We will pray and conduct the traditional Buddha bathing ceremony. This ceremony is done by pouring fragrant water over the statue of infant Buddha. It symbolizes cleansing of our body, speech and mind to purify the afflictions and negativities.

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

Seven Limbed Prayer

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

Dedication

Long Life Prayer to ZaChoeje Rinpoche /
His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama

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New Year message from Rinpoche.

Tashi Delek Dear Dharma students and friends. I read a beautiful message recently by the author T.S.Eliot.

‘For last year’s words belong to last year’s language.

And next year’s words await another voice.’

I want to send my heartfelt thoughts and blessings as we come to the end of 2020, a worrisome pandemic year. I wish you and your loved ones happy and healthy. Please take extra steps to stay safe.

In April of this year, I started “Wednesday’s with Rinpoche”, sharing with the global Facebook community tools and techniques to develop and sustain inner strength. Each Wednesday, I’ve focused on aspects of how we can build inner strength to live happier more peacefully in the face of great difficulty. Each week many of you have asked questions generating good dharma discussions.

As we learned how to navigate live-streaming, we have been keeping in touch by offering programs via Zoom.

2021 is considered by Tibetan astrology as the year of the Iron Ox a fitting symbol of perseverance, energy, honesty and positivity. The Iron Ox is associated with carefulness, loyalty and effort. In 2021 I am looking to offer an in-depth series and life-stream workshops as we continue with stay-at-home while the world begins to heal from the pandemic.

From January 2021 through May of 2021 we will be establishing a matching funds campaign for funds to build a new Za Pang Thang nunnery. The old nunnery was closed this year when a main supporting wall crumbled and collapsed, making the nunnery unsafe and impossible to repair. I am thinking to launch this project mid-January and run through May when the building season resumes.

As we come to the end of this challenging year, we are moving into an encouraging New Year. If vaccine efforts worldwide go as planned, I hope we can emerge safely from our isolation.

I keep you and yours in my daily prayers. I look forward to easier days in 2021 with wishes I can see you in person, that our doors will open and we can join together as a spiritual family and dharma community.

Happy New Year!

Blessings

Zachoeje Rinpoche

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