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Vajravega Jenang Blessing Empowerment
August 21 - August 21, 2024
Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoché
Robert A.F. Thurman
Learn the Most Powerful Spiritual Protection Practice Done before the full Kalachakra Empowerment
Vajravega, the wrathful form of Shri Kalachakra and the King of the Wrathful Deities, is the protector aspect in Kalachakra. There are many benefits to establishing a connection with Vajravega. The essence of Vajravega is that he represents the non-conceptual primordial wisdom that arises when the winds enter the central channel. This is the method by which the root ignorance of conceptuality is cut. It is also the basis or container where the precious six vajra yogas arise. When we establish a wheel of protection with Vajravega, we are symbolically stopping the arising of dualistic appearances and abiding within the non-conceptual wisdom. Vajravega is considered the King of Spiritual Protection, and his 60 retinues are incredibly powerful.Khentrul Rinpoche has never before agreed to bestow this practice on students before, keeping it to a very limited number. This powerful practice forms a vajra-protective sphere containing Vajravega and 60 protectors. It is performed at the start of a Kalachakra empowerment ceremony to secure the space. It is also done in some of the extensive Kalachakra Sadhanas. Robert Thurman requested the Vajravega Jenang and other special practices on the mind Mandala. For this reason, Yeshe Wangmo requested Rinpoche grant this wheel of protection practice that is so special and rare. Khentrul Rinpoche agreed to give this specific practice especially due to Robert Thurman’s initial request for Vajravega.
While attendance of the full retreat is highly recommended, Rinpoche is permitting our local community to attend the Vajravega Jenang Empowerment as a stand-alone offering. Please register here on this page for attendance of only the empowerment. If you would like to register for the full retreat, please click here.
Please note: lunch will not be offered on-site to those attending just the empowerment, so you will need to make arrangements for lunch after the ceremony at one of the many local dining establishments off-site.
Schedule
Wednesday, August 21
ABOUT THE TEACHERs
Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoché
Khentrul Rinpoché spent the first 20 years of his life herding yak and chanting mantras on the plateaus of Tibet. Inspired by the bodhisattvas, he left his family to study in various monasteries under the guidance of over twenty-five masters in all the Tibetan Buddhist tradition...
Robert A.F. Thurman
Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University as well as co-founder and President of Tibet House US and it's Menla Retreat & Spa. A world-wide lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, activist for the plight of the Tibetan people, translator of Buddhis...
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