བྱམས་བརྩེ་ཆོས་གླིང་གི་སློབ་་བུ་ཡོངས་ལ་སྨོན་འདུན་ཞུ་རྒྱུ། །

སྤྱི་ལོ་གསར་དུ་ཚེས་བའི་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་གྱི་དགའ་རྟེན་ལོ་སར་བའི་ནང་ལ། །ནད་མེད་ཚེ་རིང་ཡོང་བའི་སྨོན་འདུན་དང་། །བྱ་བ་ལམ་འགྲོ་ཡོང་བའི་སྨོན་འདུན་ཞུ་རྒྱུ། །ལུས་ལ་ན་ཚ་མེད་པར་ཤོག །སེམས་ལ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མེད་པར་ཤོག །བྱ་བ་ལམ་འགྲོ་ཡོངས་བར་ཤོག །གང་བསམ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡིན་བཞིན་དུ་འགྲུབ་པའི་སྨོན་འདུན་གྲངས་མེད་ཞུ། །

To all my dharma students and friends and family,

I wish you all a very happy holidays and auspicious 2019.

May you and your family have a healthy and long lives.

My your body be free of sickness and your mind be free of suffering.

May all your aspirations (especially dharma aspirations) be realized without obstacles.

May the Three Precious Jewels bless you all and my prayers are with you always.

– Geshe Trinly Gyatso (Geshe la)

2019 TEACHING SCHEDULE (JAN – MAR)

We have a break from teachings/weekly prayer until after the new year. Starting January 13 2019 The next series of teachings will be as follows:

A) TEACHING ON TAKING OF REFUGE

1. Reason for taking Refuge (cause)
2. What is Refuge
3. The object of Refuge
4. The Jewel of Buddha
5. The Jewel of Dharma
6. The Jewel of Sangha
7. The benefit of taking Refuge
8. Advice after taking Refuge

(During this period Geshe la will give refuge vows to all who wish to take refuge)

B) THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

1. True cause of suffering
2. True Karmic cause of suffering
3. True suffering
4. Cessation of suffering
5. Path to cessation of suffering
6. Path of accumulation
7. Path of preparation
8. Path of seeing
9. Path of meditation
10. Path of no more learning

C) BRIEF EXPLANATION ON TWELVE LINKS OF DEPENDENT ORIGINATION

1. Ignorance
2. Formation
3. Consciousness
4. Name and Form
5. Sense faculties
6. Contact
7. Sensation
8. Craving
9. Grasping
10. Becoming
11. Rebirth
12. Aging and Death

This Sunday is Lama Tsongkhapa day. There will be no Dharma teaching, but instead a prayer. It will start at 10 a.m. and end for lunch.

Some background on this special day as described from Lama Yeshe website:

Ganden Ngamchoe (or Lama Tsongkhapa day), is a celebration of the anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s parinirvana and enlightenment. It is celebrated on the 25th day of the 10th month in the Tibetan calendar. This year, Lama Tsongkhapa Day falls on Sunday, December 2.

This event is also known "festival of lights" as it is a custom to light hundreds of lights in every home and temples and monasteries. So, in Tibet on this night because of all the hermitages in the mountains, we used to see the mountains lit up.

Lama Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) is a renowned saint, scholar, yogi, teacher, and author from Tibet. Among his many contributions to the Dharma, Lama Tsongkhapa wrote 18 volumes of teachings, including his Lam Rim Chenmo – The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.

All the teachings we receive at our temple come from these volumes. So the Tsog offering we is to remember his kindness and pay homage to him. Please bring an offering to the alter. There are no restrictions.

All merit (positive potential) accumulated on this day is multiplied 100,000 times.

Full Tara prayer will take place today: Thursday Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. to ~8:30 p.m.

For the Full Tara prayer, please

• bring your vajra and bell if you have them
• bring offerings for the altar: flowers, fruits or cookies made without eggs or animal fats.
• avoid eating meat, eggs, onions or garlic during the day until after the prayers.