Monthly Prayers for our Gurus
With Venerable Gyalten Chimé
September 1, 2024
May the glorious lamas live long.
May happiness and well-being arise for all sentient beings, present throughout space.
May I and all beings without exception, having gathered the two accumulations and purified the two obscurations, be swiftly established in the state of Buddhahood.
OVERVIEW:
As we wish for the above, we are offering Long Life prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Gyumed Rinpoche every month (including a recital at the end for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift return).
We encourage all of Rinpoche’s students and all who are connected with him to join in this Long-Life Prayer. We know that you can do prayers in your home, yet when all sangha members gather together, it helps make the intent of the prayer more effective.
Also, we know that doing Long Life Prayer is Guru Devotion Practice.
Many of the great masters have said that doing Long Life Prayer for your Guru is the best way to accumulate merit and purification practice. We think this is not late, but rather a very good time to do this Long-Life Prayer as both His Holiness and Rinpoche are involved in so many dharma activities, and teachings and they are in their older years.
We hope all of you can join in these prayers on the first Sundays of each month from 4:00 to 5:30 WST – (Western Standard Time ). Four of our local centers will be involved: Land of Medicine Buddha, Ocean of Compassion, Vajrapani, and Tse Chen Ling.
Our center will offer the Long life prayer (October 6). The prayers will be rotated monthly (same time each first Sunday) at these other Bay Area FPMT centers.
Please check out our sister centers for their Zoom connections. And if the practices will be offered also In-person or not.
First Sunday of the month,
4:00 pm – 5:30pm
September 1st- Ven Chime * (online only)
October 6th- Land of Medicine Buddha (online only)
November 3rd- Ocean of Compassion
December 8th – Tse Chen Ling
January 5th – Vajrapani
NOTE: Each center will have a different ZOOM link for you to use so please check the individual centers’ websites for their link.
Leader
Venerable Gyalten Chimé (Lisa DuPont, M.S.), is an American Buddhist monastic in the Tibetan, Gelug tradition with over 25 years of experience in study and retreat in Tibetan Buddhism with numerous Tibetan Masters. Ven. Chimé also brings her many years of training & experience in psychology/neuroscience as a school psychologist and…
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