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Benefits of and Reasons for Seeking White Tara Initiation

 
You might have obstacles in your life that could cause your untimely death. If the obstacles are due to your good karma and merit being exhausted, then in order to prolong your life now and to have longevity in future lives, you need to practice powerful ways to collect a lot of merit, such as taking long life initiations, reciting the mantras of long life deities, saving the lives of animals and people, offering medicine to people and taking care of sick people, offering food, clothing and shelter to the poor people.
 
If the obstacles in your life and untimely death are due to negative karma, the solution is to purify it. You can also make butter lamp (light) offerings to the Triple Gem. Butter lamp offerings help you develop Dharma wisdom and clairvoyance due to their nature of dispelling the darkness around holy objects.
 

White Tara is extremely powerful. Tara is very close to sentient beings, like a mother to her children. She is very quick to fulfill our wishes and to grant us happiness and a long life, as well as to help us develop wisdom. By taking refuge in Tara and practicing meditation, visualizations, and having faith, you have the power to remove obstacles to your life and to prolong your life.
 
Please pass along this event information to all Tibetans and spiritual friends in your area and connect with White Tara, Rinpoche and Sangha at our center.

for more about the sera lachi tour visit their webiste www.sera-monastery.org

Saturday, August 20, 2011; 1PM

Presenters

1. Ven. Tritul Jampa Kalden ( Gomde Rinpoche ) was born on 14th of June, 1973 in Karnataka State, South India. He was initiated into monkhood in the year 1979 at Sera Mey Monastery. In 1987, he was recognized as the 6th incarnate of Gaden Tripa Ngawang Choekyi by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and joined Sera Monastic University. He was awarded the Geshe degree in Buddhist Philosophy in 2003 and studied Tantric courses and Tibetan Astronomy at Gyuto Tantric Monastery. He is a main president of Sera Monastery's Ritual and Puja ceremonies, and was the Presiding Lama for the 2002 Harya Griva Retreat Puja and the 2005 Monlam Chenmo (great prayer ceremony) Fire Puja ceremony. Rinpoche has performed teachings, initiations and empowerment ceremonies in Hong kong and few other countries. 

2. Geshe Tenzin Choephel was born on 25th of November, 1969 in India. In 1979 Geshe la joined monastic life of Tse Chok Ling Monastery at Dharmasala in North India.  He completed studies of all five major Buddhist treatises and was granted the Geshe degree (equal to a Ph.D in Buddhist philosophy) by the Sera Mey Monastic University in 2004. He is currently Chief Administrator in the Head office of Sera Mahayana University (Sera Theckchenling Lachi).  He is the chanting master for the SERA MONKS WORLD PEACE TOUR 2011 and will also lead the sand mandala creation. I can use Tibetan Dung-Chen (long horn) or Trumpets are used in Buddhist Ceremonies and to make monks to the Temple also for other Auspicious occasions & events.

 
3. Geshe Tenzin Dhargye was born in 1971 in the Himachal Pradesh region of India. He has trained in Buddhist studies of philosophy and logic at Sera Monastic University since 1978.  He taught Buddhist philosophy for a year at the International Buddhist Center and Gaden Yiga Choeling Monastery (F.P.M.T.) in Mongolia.  In 2005 he was appointed an administrator in the head office of Sera Mahayana University. Geshe- la is the monastery's spiritual leader for the World Peace Tour . He oversees local efforts and is responsible for providing spiritual and compassionate guidance for religious tours that are operated throughout Europe.

 
4. Tenzin Thinlay was born in Ladakh, India, in 1979. He took refuge with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Ladakh at the age of six. He already had a strong yearning to become a monk and loved being close to the monastery. In 1989, he went to Sera Monastery to study Buddhist philosophy and learned to create Hayagriva and Chenrezig (Avolekiteshvara) sand mandalas and Tormas (butter sculptures). Tenzin Thinlay is in charge of computer facilities at Sera Monastery; he’s responsible for the monastery’s web site content and training younger monks to use computers.
   
Since 2004 he has worked in the Sera Theckchenling Lachi Culture Society, the administrative office of Sera Monastery. Web site address : http://www.sera-monastery.org
 

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