If you are glad that the Winter Retreat is taking place and would like to contribute to this good action you can choose to participate to one of the activities below.
Donations are currently accepted for the 2014 Annual Winter Retreat as follows:
Offering Gold Leaf to Buddha | |
Offering gold leaf to the Buddha on the Jowo Statue at the monastery. When Buddha Shakyamuni was forty, there were six prominent non-Buddhist religious teachers in India. At one point they gathered together and, in order to attempt to discredit the Buddha, they challenged him to a competition of miracles. The Buddha accepted, and the competition occurred at the beginning of what is now the first month of the Tibetan and Asian calendars. The Buddha’s exhibition of miracles occurred from the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. For the first eight days, the six other religious teachers competing were still present, but on the eighth day the Buddha scared them off in the following way: From the Buddha’s throne the bodhisattva Vajrapani, accompanied by five fearsome rakshasas, emerged. Seeing that, the six tirtika teachers ran off as fast as they could and did not come back. For the remaining week the Buddha exhibited miracles alone without any competition. When Vajrapani emerged from the Buddha’s throne, he offered the Buddha white mustard seed, which therefore commemorates this occasion. The competition happened in the Bihar in India at Sravasti. 80,000 Buddhists and 84,000 Hindus attended the competition |
$100 U.S. dollars for each offering Cash, checks ONLY. Send checks to one of the addresses below. |
Dharma Books for Winter Teaching | |
To print "The lamp that Illuminates the Meaning of the Names" books used in the Winter Teaching for 1000 ordained Sangha. (The books is curently printing) |
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Clothes for Ordained Sangha | |
 For purchasing clothes for the ordained Sangha |
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Winter Retreat Support | |
To purchase foods, butter lamps, flowers, tormas... for the Winter Retreat. |
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Animal Liberation Practice | |
"All beings treasure their lives the most. All Buddhas treasure all beings the most. If one saves other beings' lives, one fulfills the wishes of all Buddhas." Each month Rinpoche arranges an animal release in China. |
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Donation by checks | |
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Seattle and other places: make checks payable to Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche, Inc. and send to: Vanessa Nguyen San Jose: Việt Nam: | |
May all beings benefit from your generosity and compassion!
Thank you!
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