Saga Dawa - Online with Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche & Pema Khandro
With Pema Khandro and Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche
June 14, 2022
Khenpo Gawang and Pema Khandro and the beloved dog Sweat Pea at the House of Bodhichitta in 2016
Saga Dawa is the most auspicious day of the Tibetan Buddhist Calendar and a day celebrated by Buddhists all around the world. It is the anniversary of the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and the day he passed away into parinirvana. The effects of actions on this day are said to be multiplied by ten million times because of the spiritual power of this full moon on the fourth month. Join us for prayers and aspirations on this auspicious occasion.
For Saga Dawa, Khenpo Gawang will teach the Sadhana of Sakyamuni Buddha and give the initiation for the practice and for the mantra. This will be a reading transmission, or rlung.
Join Khenpo Gawang, Pema Khandro, friends and members for this joyous online celebration of the Buddha’s Anniversary.
Instructions for Offering Butterlamp and Prayer.
Friends and members of the community will offer aspiration prayers on this special occasion. Donate upon registration and/or as a butterlamp sponsor.
Sponsors of the Butterlamp offering will be given the opportunity to come online live during the ceremony and recite their aspiration prayer while holding a butterlamp or a candle or tealight.
For an example of an aspiration prayer, see the following example below. Plan to write your aspiration prayers to be completed in under two minutes.
༄༅། །བློ་སྦྱོང་སྨོན་ལམ་དོན་བསྡུས་བྱང་སེམས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་བདེ་ལམ་བཞུགས།།
The Blissful Path to the Ocean of Bodhicitta
A Brief Prayer of Aspiration for Mind Training
by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
An excerpt of this prayer translated by Translated by Adam Pearcey, 2015.
འཕགས་མཆོག་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་དང་། །
pakchok chenrezik wang dang
By the truth of the perfect mind of awakening
སངས་རྒྱས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་རྣམས། །
sangye changchub sempa nam
Generated by the supreme noble Lord Avalokiteśvara
ཐུགས་སྐྱེད་མཐར་ཕྱིན་བདེན་པ་ཡིས། །
tuk kyé tarchin denpa yi
And all the buddhas and bodhisattvas,
བདག་གཞན་མཁའ་མཉམ་འགྲོ་ཀུན་ལ། །
dakshyen khanyam dro kün la
May the supreme mind of bodhicitta be born
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་མཆོག་སྐྱེ་བར་ཤོག །
changchub sem chok kyewar shok
In me and in all other beings, as limitless as space.
སེམས་ཅན་དུག་ལྔ་ལ་ཞུགས་དང་། །
semchen duk nga la shyuk dang
May the causes and effects of beings’ suffering—
རིགས་དྲུག་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མྱོང་བ་ཡི། །
rik druk dukngal nyongwa yi
Their involvement with the five poisons,
སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྒྱུ་འབྲས་བདག་ལ་སྨིན། །
dukngal gyundré dak la min
And painful experiences in the six classes,
བདག་གི་ཕྱིན་དྲུག་སེམས་དང་ནི། །
dak gi chin druk sem dang ni
All ripen on me! To them all, as limitless as space,
དུག་ལྔ་མེད་པའི་དགེ་རྩ་རྣམས། །
duk nga mepé getsa nam
I offer the six perfections in my own mind,
ནམ་མཁའ་མཉམ་པའི་འགྲོ་ལ་སྦྱིན། །
namkha nyampé dro la jin
And sources of virtue, free from the five poisons.
རིགས་དྲུག་འཁོར་བའི་གནས་སྟོང་ནས། །
rik druk khorwé né tong né
May all the realms of saṃsāra’s six classes be emptied,
རིགས་མཆོག་དྲུག་གི་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས། །
rik chok druk gi chenrezik
And may everyone attain the level of Avalokiteśvara,
ཡེ་ཤེས་དྲུག་ལྡན་ཐོབ་པར་ཤོག །
yeshe drukden tobpar shok
In his six sublime families and with six types of wisdom.
ནད་མུག་མཚོན་བསྐལ་ལོག་པར་བལྟས། །
né muk tsön kal lokpar té
May all disease, famine, belligerence, wrong views,
ཉམས་ཆག་ཉེས་ལྟུང་སྡིག་པའི་ཚོགས། །
nyamchak nyetung dikpé tsok
Impairments, transgressions, downfalls, harmful actions,
གཅེས་འཛིན་བར་ཆད་གདོན་བགེགས་ཀུན། །
chedzin barché dön gek kün
Self-cherishing, obstacles, harmful influences and impediments,
བདག་ཉིད་གཅིག་པུའི་སྟེང་དུ་སྨིན། །
daknyi chikpü tengdu min
All ripen on me and me alone!
ཚེ་དཔལ་ལོང་སྤྱོད་བདེ་སྐྱིད་མཐུ། །
tsé pal long chö dekyi tu
And to all these beings, who are as limitless as space
ཉམས་རྟོགས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀུན། །
nyamtok khyentsé yeshe kün
I dedicate long-life, glory, wealth, happiness, power,
ནམ་མཁའ་མཉམ་པའི་འགྲོ་ལ་བསྔོ། །
namkha nyampé dro la ngo
Experience, realisation, and knowing, loving wisdom.
ཀུན་ཀྱང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སྤྱོད་མཆོག་གིས། །
kün kyang changchub chö chok gi
May they all, through supreme enlightened actions,
རབ་མཛེས་འཕགས་པའི་གནས་ཐོབ་ཤོག །
rab dzé pakpé né tob shok
Attain the level of the most splendid Noble One!
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About the Leaders
Pema Khandro
Pema Khandro is an internationally renowned teacher and scholar of Buddhist philosophy. Ordained in the Nyingma lineage, enthroned as a tulku, and trained as an academic, her teachings celebrate the dynamic coalescence of tradition and the modern context. She is the founder of Ngakpa International and its three projects: The Buddhist Studies Institute, Dakini Mountain […]
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Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Pema Karpo Meditation Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Having completed thirty years as a monk, fourteen years of teaching experience, and nine years of study at the Buddhist University of Namdroling Monastery in South India, he holds a Khenpo degree, the Buddhist equivalent of a PhD. […]
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