Dharma Teachings in Kuala Lumpur with Choden Rinpoche

Join us in Kuala Lumpur from 4 to 12 December 2010

We have a wonderful programme of events lined up for you, including Refuge Ceremony, Teachings, Puja, and Tantric Initiation - all to be held at Pearl International Hotel.  Buddha is coming to our doorstep this coming December, so don’t miss this precious opportunity to receive blessing and make a connection.

Kyabje Choden Rinpoche 

Renowned as a great yogi, scholar and teacher of our fortunate times, Choden Rinpoche was born on a very auspicious day, 15 of Fourth Month of the lunar calendar in 1931.   This day also marked the full moon day of Saka Dawa that commemorates Buddha Shakyamuni’s birth and enlightenment.  Choden Rinpoche was the reincarnation of the previous great Mahasiddha Lama Choden of Rongpo Rabten Monastery in Kham region who was then instructed by the Eleventh Dalai Lama to establish the 1000 Offering Puja of Buddha Namgyalma (a long life deity) and a debate system for learning the Buddhist Philosophy at his Monastery.   Having completed only the first instruction, the Mahasiddha passed into the sphere of Dharma.  Coincidentally, when the late Mahasiddha’s brother Gongpo Nyisher took on and established the debate system at the Monastery, on the very same auspicious day, Choden Rinpoche was incarnated.

Born as one of seven children in a noble family from Dahi, the Khampa region of Eastern Tibet, Rinpoche’s connections to past spiritual masters were evident from early childhood in his exemplary conduct and superior intelligence as well as in the miraculous signs often witnessed in his presence. Reting Rinpoche, the Regent of Tibet, officially recognized the small boy as the living reincarnation of the previous Mahasiddha Lama Choden, who had been one of the finalists in the search for the Thirteen Dalai Lama’s reincarnation.

At the age of seven, Rinpoche took novice ordination from His Holiness Pabongka Rinpoche who named the child Losang Gyalten Jikdrel Wangchuk.  Rinpoche traveled to Central Tibet at the age of seventeen and enrolled in Sera Je Monastery where he was trained in the Five Canons of Buddhist philosophy. While mastering this twenty-five year course of study, Rinpoche became an outstanding student of His Holiness Trijang Rinpoche and His Holiness Pabongka Rinpoche as well as numerous other prominent lamas. Under their tutelage, he received empowerments, oral transmissions and personal instruction. He was given complete pith instructions and ear-whispered transmissions as well, which led him to an internalized understanding of the teachings.  By virtue of this lengthy apprenticeship with many renowned lineage masters, Rinpoche mastered the Five Canons and earned the title Pandita.

During the 60s, Rinpoche undertook a solitary retreat, relying on the metok chuelen practice for sustenance. Rinpoche states unequivocally that his productive practice, his accumulation of merit and his accomplishment of clarity of mind are directly attributable to his metok chuelen practice.  In 1985, Rinpoche left Tibet, traveling through Nepal to India.  In Dharmasala, as his paramount wish, Rinpoche finally met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama: it was as if he had met with Buddha Shakyamuni himself.

Rinpoche spent twenty years of his youth studying Buddhist logic, the Perfection of Wisdom sutras, Middle Way philosophy, Treasury of Knowledge treatises, and monastic code and conduct at Sera Je Monastery. Subsequently, he dedicated another two decades to contemplation, meditating on the Five Canons in order to internalize the teachings. Most recently, he has devoted a third span of twenty years to teaching in South India and worldwide, and at the FPMT Centers at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s request. 

Kyabje Choden Rinpoche is regarded as one of the great masters of our day, and is particularly famed for his pure moral conduct. His great insight into the Dharma and his peerless and compassionate conduct have inspired many students in the West to follow in his example to take ordination vows.

Programmes

Public Events

Two-day events 4th & 5th December 2010 at Phoenix Ballroom 2, 5th floor Pearl International Hotel

Activities on 4 December:

10am   Light and Flower offerings (all day)

11am   TEACHING:  “Why are accumulation of merits and purification important for our practice?”

2pm    INITIATION:  Kunrig (Jenang)

4pm    TEACHING:  “How to practice Kunrig for purification”

Activities on 5 December:

10am   Light and Flower offerings (all day)

11am  TEACHING:  “How is taking daily refuge a means for enlightenment?”

2pm    REFUGE CEREMONY & conference of 5-lay vows (dharma names to be given)

3pm    PUJA:  Kungrig Jangwa Puja (for purification of the living beings karmic and deceased)

Yamantaka Initiation, Commentary and Retreat

Activities below are held at Flamingo 1, 7th Floor Pearl International Hotel

YAMANTAKA INITIATION:

6 December at 7pm  and 7 December at 2pm

LUNG ON YAMANTAKA LONG SADHANA & EXPERIENTIAL COMMENTARY ON YAMANTAKA TANTRA & RETREAT:

8 December at 6pm Lung on Yamantaka Long Sadhana 

8 to 10 December at 6pm each day Commentray on Yamantaka Tantra

8 to 10 December at 9pm each day Explanation on Yamantaka Practice led by Geshe Gyaltsen

YAMANTAKA RETREAT:

11 to 12 December from 5am to 8pm each day  (comprising 4 sessions per day)

 

Chokyi Gyaltsen Center (Penang)

14 December - Start from 7.30pm  - Cintamani Tara Jenang

16 to 17 December  -Start from 7.30pm -   Commentary on Cintamani Tara Short Sadhana Practices

Contact :  Stephanie  012-4282929