Lhoppon Rinpoche leads the Mipham Shedra sangha in the powerful and precious Shakyamuni Buddha Puja in honor of the four Great Festival Days. These days are honored to signify the aspects of the life of Buddha Shakyamuni. These auspicious days are powerful times to practice and it is believed that positive or negative actions are …
Annually at Mipham Shedra, Lhoppön Rinpoche guides us in the practice of “Vajrakilaya” four days before Tibetan New Year, to purify obstacles, delusion and negativity that sometimes arises in the lives of dharma practitioners. This enables students to enter the upcoming year cleansed, refreshed and renewed. As a wrathful Heruka full of compassion who embodies …
Each month on Dakini Day we practice the Puja, “Yumka Dechen Gyalmo — Queen of Great Bliss” for the benefit of all sentient beings. This is a beautiful & powerful practice! Everyone is invited to attend. The chanting is in Tibetan and Rinpoche teaches in English. This is a Tsog Puja meaning we each bring …
We will be celebrating Guru Rinpoche Day with a Feast Offering.The tenth day of the waxing and waning moon is when Vajrayana practitioners meet to focus on practice as a sangha. The Tibetan word for this practice, tsok, signifies “gathering” and covers sangha gathering, gathering of merit and wisdom, and gathering of wisdom and means. …
The first Saturday of each month we gather to practice Green Tara Puja for the benefit of all sentient beings. “In the course of the third turning of the Wheel of the Dharma, Buddha Shakyamuni gave many teachings on Tara…all of these became very popular in India and were brought to Tibet in the …