Parinirvana Day

April 4, 2017

Price
  • $10.00 – Program Price

Thirty years ago, April 4, 1987, the Vidyadhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the beloved founder of Shambhala, left his human form. Each year on the anniversary of his parinirvana (death of an enlightened being) we gather to honor his precious life, vast teachings, outrageous wisdom and infinite compassion. We look forward to gathering with you at Sky Lake from 6pm (with set-up at 5.30pm), where we will be joined by Acharya Arawana Hayashi. 

We will practice the Sadhana of Mahamudra Feast, and you are invited to bring food for that, which we will set up in the shrine room. Food that tastes good without being heated up would be most suitable. There will be a celebratory period during the feast section where devotional poems, songs, dances and other remembrances of the Buddha activity of the founder of Shambhala can be offered.

This is also an appropriate time of year to think of all the hard work and dedication that has gone into preserving and restoring the Druk Sakyong’s, the Sakyong’s and others’ teachings in the form of video, photographic, and audio materials, as well as documents, books, manuscripts, calligraphies, and other physical objects, by the Shambhala Archives. Their newly launched website can be found here, and an short video here. Please consider donating online, to help preserve these teachings for many future generations.

Please join us for this special event and add your enriching presence to what may well be a formative experience for many newer practitioners. The message and insight from this special evening of practice continues to be appropriate and powerful. Also listening to practitioners, old and new, express their fresh and heartfelt connection to the Vidyadhara is a great delight.

Open to all.  Please bring a dish or drink to share.

Set-up at 5:30 pm / Sitting at 6:00 pm / Practice begins at 6:30 pm. Please join for set up if you can.

Please register online so we know to expect you and get in touch if you can help, have questions, ideas, or contributions.

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