༄། ཨལ་བྷར་ཊ་ས་གནས་གནས་བཞུགས་དད་ལྡན་མི་མང་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་སྙན་ལམ་དུ་ཆེད་ཞུ།
བྱམས་བརྩེ་ཆོས་གླིང་ཆོས་ཚོགས་སུ་ས་ག་ཟླ་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་ལ་གཤམ་གསལ་དུས་ཚོད་རེའུ་མིག་ལྟར་དགེ་སྦྱོང་ལ་ཕེབས་འདོོད་ཡོད་པ་རྣམས་ལ་དགའ་བསུ་ཞུ།།

Hello Dharma Friends,
These are the special Saka Dawa (Vesak) events details for May to June:

A quick summary of the special events is below:

11 MAY, SAT
11:30am – 3:30pm
Medicine Buddha retreat

This is very powerful in purifying negative karma, healing the sick and helping the beings in the lower realms.

Program:
10:00-11:00am: Sadhana & mantra recitation part 1

11:00-11:15am Break

11:15-12:30pm Medicine Buddha part 2

12:30-2:00pm Lunch – potluck

2:00-3:00pm Medicine Buddha Jangwa

12 MAY, SUN
1 – 3pm
Children’s festival

Children’s fest Pizza party

A live retelling of Buddha’s early life in “Three Moons in May” commemorating the birth, enlightening, and passing of Lord Buddha.

Washing of the Buddha statue ceremony

Vegetarian pizza lunch

18 MAY, SAT
1:30 – 4pm
Tsog Offering

Lama Chopa Prayer and Guru Yoga practice. The prayer consists of making offerings and requesting the blessing of Buddhas to all sentient beings and the inspiration from the Spiritual Teacher (Guru). This practice unites our minds and the mind of the Guru in order to receive blessings and generate realizations on the path to enlightenment. A Tsog offering helps to restore degenerated spiritual vows and commitment.

19 MAY, SUN
11:30am – 3:30pm
Confession and Vajrasattva practice

These days epidemics and wars seem to continuously torment many parts of our world. This is the collective karmic result of the past non-virtuous action accumulated by sentient beings. In order to quickly purify that, we all need to increase the two accumulations of Merit and Wisdom of all sentient beings. The supreme method for accomplishing this is the practice of Vajrasattva and confession to 35 Buddhas. 

No meat, eggs, garlic for the whole day.

23 MAY, THU
6:30 – 8pm
Full Tara Prayer

Remove all obstacles and to pray for accomplishment of all our aspirations.

No meat, eggs, garlic for the whole day.

26 MAY, SUN
11:30am – 3:30pm
Heart Sutra

6 JUN, THU
6:30 – 8pm
Full Tara Prayer


Scheduling is subject to change, please refer to the website calendar for the latest schedule: https://jtclcalgary.ca/calendar/

We’ll also send out reminders as events approach with additional details.
Thanks, JTCL Calgary