Upcoming Events
Saga Dawa Nyungne Retreat May 24-27, 2021 with Drupon Ratna Vajra
Nyungne is the powerful purification practice of 1000 Arm Chenrezig, supported by temporarily observing the eight Sodjong Vows. This particular nyungne takes place over the auspicious and powerful saga dawa full moon.
Nyungne is normally a closed retreat held at CRSS, but as we are still following Covid restrictions, only a handful of people will be able to practice in person at the center. Anyone else who may be interested can join us online with Zoom. An unusual opportunity!
If you wish to practice in person, you must request to attend by texting or calling Ani Stanzin at 1-760-750-0996. In person participation will be limited to 6 or 7 people.
The retreat will start at 6:30PM on Monday, May 24 and may include the reading transmission empowerment if anyone needs it. The balance of the schedule will be determined as the retreat progresses.
The Sodjong Vows which are generally difficult for lay practitioners to keep in daily life, are strictly kept for the manageable, limited time of two days. The vows are given at the beginning of practice on the first day (Tuesday), renewed the morning of the second day and relinquished after the final puja on the morning of the third day (Thursday). You are strongly encouraged to take the vows to get the most benefit from the practice. If you feel you cannot maintain them, you are welcome to to participate in the online practice without taking the vows.
The vows taken in the morning on the first day of the retreat:
1. No killing
2. No stealing
3. No sexual misconduct
4. No lying
5. Avoid intoxicants
6. Fasting* - Nyungne allows one meal the first day and beverages only after the meal until bedtime.
7. Avoid sitting on a high or fancy seat
8. Avoid perfume, ornaments, singing or dancing
With the addition of the following for the second day, until relinquished after completion of a final practice on the morning of the third day:
• No speaking other than to recite practice
• Fasting - No food or water the second day and until the last practice is complete on the last morning.
* Food at lunch on Saturday is restricted: Strictly vegetarian - no meat, fish, eggs, or beans. No food related to onions or radishes, i.e: onions, leeks, chives, horseradish, daikon, etc. “White foods” like fruit, vegetables, wheat, rice, milk, cheese and butter are all good.
If you would like more information, have specific questions about the retreat, or need suggestions about how to manage the retreat in your own space, please email ratnachi@hotmail.com or call Bill at 312-933-6824.
The text may be streamed with the Zoom practice, but better to request a pdf to download and print.
Please join Drupon Ratna Vajra and
Ratna Shri Sangha online
for a Celebration of Losar-Tibetan New Year
Year of the Iron Ox
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Friday February 12, 2021 at 10AM, CDT (US and Canada)
In celebration of Losar, Drupon will be leading Lama Chopa Guru Yoga and Tsok Practice and the Smoke Offering Practice, A Rainfall of Benefit and Happiness. NOTE: six people will have the opportunity to join Drupon and Ani Stanzin at Ratna Shri Sangha to participate in person. You must request to participate by texting or calling Ani Stanzin at 1-760-750-0996. To preserve proper social distancing, only these six can be admitted. We appreciate your understanding. Texts for Losar practices are available for download from Garchen Buddhist Institute: Lama Chopa Guru Yoga and Tsok Offering pdf A Rainfall of Benefit and Blessing Smoke Offering pdf Time: 10:00 AM, CST (US and Canada) Sunday, February 12, 2021 Join: Iron Ox Losar Celebration - Please use this new link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84634423623?pwd=SVNBRlBsNXlsWDMrbEsvWVBNVzN5UT09 |
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Chicago Ratna Shri Sangha and his students and friends worldwide extend our warmest wishes to His Eminence Drupon Ratna Vajra Rinpoche as he marks his 53rd birthday August 16th, 2020. An internationally respected practitioner, teacher, retreat master and yogi, His Eminence Drupon Ratna Vajra Rinpoche has empowered us all by his teaching and by his actions. His message of compassion and peace resonates across America and is an inspiration to people around the world.” For Buddhists, you are the human manifestation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Thank you for being our guide on our Dharma journey. |
PARNASHAVARI
Mantra chanted by Drubpon Kunsang
Praise to Parnashavari chanted by Drubpon Kunsang
Praise to Parnashavari oral transmission by His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche
Parnashavari (Tib. Ri tro ma, lo ma gyun ma), the dakini who attired in green leaves of medical plants, the 20th of the 21 Tara (connected with the wisdom of Amoghasiddhi), the one who protects us from contagious diseases.
The Meaning and Benefits of the Mantra of Loma Gyonma (Parnashavari)
It is stated in the Collected Teachings (Kabum) of Lord Jigten Sumgön that the mantra of Parnashavari is very effective and powerful for healing, pacifying, and bringing the pestilences under control.
Mantra: OM PI-SHA-TSI PAR-NA-SHA-WARI SARVA
MA-RI PRA-SHA-MA-NI HUNG
OM: sacred syllable that consists of three sounds A, U, M representing Buddha’s purified body, speech and mind, which bless and activate our body speech and mind, plant the seed of the three kayas (nirmanakaya, sambhogakaya and dharmakaya). Here in particular, the sounds are invoked to prevent, protect and liberate our body, speech and mind from the pestilence such as the coronavirus.
PISHATSI: a female divinity of great powers such as a dakini or yogini who can protect, prevent and liberate beings from all demonic spirits, negative and obstructing forces
PARNA: a leaf of a tree or a plant
SHAVARI a tribal lady of the forest who masters magic and healing using forest herbs and medicines
PARNASHAVARI: a powerful forest-hermit-dakini who attired in green leaves of medical plants that are remedies to all illnesses and pestilences
SARVA: all, everything
MARI: illness or pestilence
PRASHAMANI: pacifier
SARVA MARI PRASHAMANI: the Pacifier of all illnesses and pestilences
HUNG: to attain the siddhis (attainment), to fulfill the aspiration, to be established in the deity-state, the Parnashavari-hood.
Explanation given by Drubpon Kunsang and complemented by Sanskrit scholar Mats Lindberg. May it benefit all.
Verses in Praise of Mother Parnashavari Who Eliminates All Diseases
息除病魔障-葉衣佛母讚頌文
ཆོས་སྐུ་བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོའི་དཀིལ་འཁོར་ནས། ། ཡམས་ལ་སོགས་པ་ནད་ཀི་འཇིགས་པ་དང༌། །དུས་མིན་འཆི་ལས་སོབ་པར་བེད་པ་ཡི། །དོན་འགྲུབ་ཕིན་ལས་ཡུམ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
chö ku dewa chen pö kyin khor né/ yam la sok pa né kyi jik pa dang/ dü min chi lé kyop par jé pa yi/ dön drup trin lé yum la chak tsel lo/
Out of the mandala of dharmakaya's great bliss
You protect against dangerous diseases like epidemics
And against untimely death-
I pay homage to you, the mother of wish-fulfilling activities.
法界大樂壇城中，守護疫情病難及，驅除非時死畏懼，成事佛母前頂禮！
པདྨའི་གདན་ལ་གསེར་མདོག་རི་ཁོད་མ། །རྩ་བའི་ཞལ་སེར་གཡས་གཡོན་སོ་དང་དཀར། །དབུ་སྐྲ་ཐོར་ཚུགས་གཟི་བརིད་ལྡན་པ་ཡི། །དངོས་གྲུབ་ལྷ་མོའི་སྐུ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
pemé den la ser dok ri trö ma/ tsa wé zhel ser yé yön ngo dang kar/ u tra tor tsuk zi ji den pa yi/ ngö drup lha mö ku la chak tsel lo/
You, golden-colored Parnashavari, sit on a lotus seat,
Your main face is yellow, the right one blue, and the left one white
Your hair is bound up in a topknot, and you are full of splendor-
1 pay homage to the divine body of the goddess granting accomplishments.
金色葉衣蓮花墊，中面黃右藍左白，頭髻往上威武尊，事業佛母前頂禮！
ཡེ་ཤེས་ཐུགས་རེའི་བདག་ཉིད་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས། ། དུས་མཐའི་མེ་དཔུང་ལྟ་བུའི་ཀོང་དཀིལ་ན། ། ཞལ་གསུམ་ཕྱག་དྲུག་འཇིགས་བེད་ཁོ་མོའི་ཞལ། ། ཞབས་གཉིས་བརྐྱང་བསྐུམ་མཛད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
yé shé tuk jé dak nyi chom den dé/ dü té mé pung ta bü long kyil na/ zhel sum chak druk jik jé tro mö zhel/
zhap nyi kyang kum dzé la chak tsel lo/
You, Illustrious One, are the embodiment of wisdom and compassion,
You stand in the midst of masses of fire, burning like at the end of time,
With your three faces and six arms, you look terribly wrathful-
I pay homage to you, whose one leg is stretched and the other bend.
智悲總體如來尊，立於劫未熊火中，三面六臂忿怒尊，伸曲二足前頂禮！
རི་ཁོད་ལོ་མ་སྐུ་ལ་བསྣམས་པ་ཡི། །མདའ་གཞུ་དགྲ་སྟྭ་ཤིང་ལོའི་བམ་པོ་འཛིན། ། སིག་མཛུབ་རོ་རེ་བསྣམས་པའི་ཤ་ཝ་རི། །ཡུམ་ཆེན་འགྲོ་བའི་མགོན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།། །།
ri trö lo ma ku la nam pa yi/ da zhu dra ta shing lö bam po dzin/ dik dzup dor jé nam pé sha wa ri/ yum chen drowé gön la chak tsel lo/
You, who wears a robe of leaves, hold bow and arrow,
Battle ax, and a bunch of branches.
Parnashavari, you show the threatening mudra and hold a vajraI
pay homage to you, great mother, protectress of beings.
身以葉衣之莊嚴，手持箭斧和葉子，金剛杵威懾獵手，怙主佛母前頂禮！
ཨོཾ་པི་ཤ་ཙི་པརྞ་ཤ་ཝ་རི་སརྦ་མ་རི་པྲ་ཤ་མ་ནི་ཧཱུྃ།
OM PI-SHA-TSI PAR-NA-SHA-WARI SARVA MA-RI PRA-SHA-MA-NI HUNG
嗡 必夏字 巴爾那夏瓦日 薩爾瓦瑪日 巴惹 夏瑪尼 吽
དགེ་བ་འདི་ཡིས་མྱུར་དུ་བདག །ལོ་མ་གོན་པ་འགྲུབ་གྱུར་ནས། །འགྲོ་བ་གཅིག་ཀང་མ་ལུས་པ། །དེ་ཡི་ས་ལ་འགོད་པར་ཤོག །
gewa di yi nyur du dak/ lo ma gyön pa drup gyur né/ drowa chik kyang ma lü pa/ dé yi sa la gö par shok
By this virtue,
may I swiftly accomplish Parnashavari
and establish all beings without exception in her state.
以我所修此功德，成就葉衣佛母尊，一切眾生盡無餘，願皆度至彼淨土。
འབི་གུང་སོབ་པ་འཇིག་རེན་གསུམ་ག་མགོན་པོའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་ལས་བཤུས།།
This was taken from the collected works of Drikung Kyobpa Jigten Sumgön.
此法摘自直貢覺巴吉天頌恭之法藏。
Mantra chanted by Drubpon Kunsang
Praise to Parnashavari chanted by Drubpon Kunsang
Praise to Parnashavari oral transmission by His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche
Parnashavari (Tib. Ri tro ma, lo ma gyun ma), the dakini who attired in green leaves of medical plants, the 20th of the 21 Tara (connected with the wisdom of Amoghasiddhi), the one who protects us from contagious diseases.
The Meaning and Benefits of the Mantra of Loma Gyonma (Parnashavari)
It is stated in the Collected Teachings (Kabum) of Lord Jigten Sumgön that the mantra of Parnashavari is very effective and powerful for healing, pacifying, and bringing the pestilences under control.
Mantra: OM PI-SHA-TSI PAR-NA-SHA-WARI SARVA
MA-RI PRA-SHA-MA-NI HUNG
OM: sacred syllable that consists of three sounds A, U, M representing Buddha’s purified body, speech and mind, which bless and activate our body speech and mind, plant the seed of the three kayas (nirmanakaya, sambhogakaya and dharmakaya). Here in particular, the sounds are invoked to prevent, protect and liberate our body, speech and mind from the pestilence such as the coronavirus.
PISHATSI: a female divinity of great powers such as a dakini or yogini who can protect, prevent and liberate beings from all demonic spirits, negative and obstructing forces
PARNA: a leaf of a tree or a plant
SHAVARI a tribal lady of the forest who masters magic and healing using forest herbs and medicines
PARNASHAVARI: a powerful forest-hermit-dakini who attired in green leaves of medical plants that are remedies to all illnesses and pestilences
SARVA: all, everything
MARI: illness or pestilence
PRASHAMANI: pacifier
SARVA MARI PRASHAMANI: the Pacifier of all illnesses and pestilences
HUNG: to attain the siddhis (attainment), to fulfill the aspiration, to be established in the deity-state, the Parnashavari-hood.
Explanation given by Drubpon Kunsang and complemented by Sanskrit scholar Mats Lindberg. May it benefit all.
Verses in Praise of Mother Parnashavari Who Eliminates All Diseases
息除病魔障-葉衣佛母讚頌文
ཆོས་སྐུ་བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོའི་དཀིལ་འཁོར་ནས། ། ཡམས་ལ་སོགས་པ་ནད་ཀི་འཇིགས་པ་དང༌། །དུས་མིན་འཆི་ལས་སོབ་པར་བེད་པ་ཡི། །དོན་འགྲུབ་ཕིན་ལས་ཡུམ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
chö ku dewa chen pö kyin khor né/ yam la sok pa né kyi jik pa dang/ dü min chi lé kyop par jé pa yi/ dön drup trin lé yum la chak tsel lo/
Out of the mandala of dharmakaya's great bliss
You protect against dangerous diseases like epidemics
And against untimely death-
I pay homage to you, the mother of wish-fulfilling activities.
法界大樂壇城中，守護疫情病難及，驅除非時死畏懼，成事佛母前頂禮！
པདྨའི་གདན་ལ་གསེར་མདོག་རི་ཁོད་མ། །རྩ་བའི་ཞལ་སེར་གཡས་གཡོན་སོ་དང་དཀར། །དབུ་སྐྲ་ཐོར་ཚུགས་གཟི་བརིད་ལྡན་པ་ཡི། །དངོས་གྲུབ་ལྷ་མོའི་སྐུ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
pemé den la ser dok ri trö ma/ tsa wé zhel ser yé yön ngo dang kar/ u tra tor tsuk zi ji den pa yi/ ngö drup lha mö ku la chak tsel lo/
You, golden-colored Parnashavari, sit on a lotus seat,
Your main face is yellow, the right one blue, and the left one white
Your hair is bound up in a topknot, and you are full of splendor-
1 pay homage to the divine body of the goddess granting accomplishments.
金色葉衣蓮花墊，中面黃右藍左白，頭髻往上威武尊，事業佛母前頂禮！
ཡེ་ཤེས་ཐུགས་རེའི་བདག་ཉིད་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས། ། དུས་མཐའི་མེ་དཔུང་ལྟ་བུའི་ཀོང་དཀིལ་ན། ། ཞལ་གསུམ་ཕྱག་དྲུག་འཇིགས་བེད་ཁོ་མོའི་ཞལ། ། ཞབས་གཉིས་བརྐྱང་བསྐུམ་མཛད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
yé shé tuk jé dak nyi chom den dé/ dü té mé pung ta bü long kyil na/ zhel sum chak druk jik jé tro mö zhel/
zhap nyi kyang kum dzé la chak tsel lo/
You, Illustrious One, are the embodiment of wisdom and compassion,
You stand in the midst of masses of fire, burning like at the end of time,
With your three faces and six arms, you look terribly wrathful-
I pay homage to you, whose one leg is stretched and the other bend.
智悲總體如來尊，立於劫未熊火中，三面六臂忿怒尊，伸曲二足前頂禮！
རི་ཁོད་ལོ་མ་སྐུ་ལ་བསྣམས་པ་ཡི། །མདའ་གཞུ་དགྲ་སྟྭ་ཤིང་ལོའི་བམ་པོ་འཛིན། ། སིག་མཛུབ་རོ་རེ་བསྣམས་པའི་ཤ་ཝ་རི། །ཡུམ་ཆེན་འགྲོ་བའི་མགོན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།། །།
ri trö lo ma ku la nam pa yi/ da zhu dra ta shing lö bam po dzin/ dik dzup dor jé nam pé sha wa ri/ yum chen drowé gön la chak tsel lo/
You, who wears a robe of leaves, hold bow and arrow,
Battle ax, and a bunch of branches.
Parnashavari, you show the threatening mudra and hold a vajraI
pay homage to you, great mother, protectress of beings.
身以葉衣之莊嚴，手持箭斧和葉子，金剛杵威懾獵手，怙主佛母前頂禮！
ཨོཾ་པི་ཤ་ཙི་པརྞ་ཤ་ཝ་རི་སརྦ་མ་རི་པྲ་ཤ་མ་ནི་ཧཱུྃ།
OM PI-SHA-TSI PAR-NA-SHA-WARI SARVA MA-RI PRA-SHA-MA-NI HUNG
嗡 必夏字 巴爾那夏瓦日 薩爾瓦瑪日 巴惹 夏瑪尼 吽
དགེ་བ་འདི་ཡིས་མྱུར་དུ་བདག །ལོ་མ་གོན་པ་འགྲུབ་གྱུར་ནས། །འགྲོ་བ་གཅིག་ཀང་མ་ལུས་པ། །དེ་ཡི་ས་ལ་འགོད་པར་ཤོག །
gewa di yi nyur du dak/ lo ma gyön pa drup gyur né/ drowa chik kyang ma lü pa/ dé yi sa la gö par shok
By this virtue,
may I swiftly accomplish Parnashavari
and establish all beings without exception in her state.
以我所修此功德，成就葉衣佛母尊，一切眾生盡無餘，願皆度至彼淨土。
འབི་གུང་སོབ་པ་འཇིག་རེན་གསུམ་ག་མགོན་པོའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་ལས་བཤུས།།
This was taken from the collected works of Drikung Kyobpa Jigten Sumgön.
此法摘自直貢覺巴吉天頌恭之法藏。
His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang's Birthday Celebration
Sunday August 4th
10am-12pm
On this coming Sunday August 4 we going to celebrate His Holiness Drikung Kyabgong Chetsang's Birthday and also that day is “ the great festival” where the Buddha turned the wheel of Dharma. So, this is very auspices day for us to celebrate and we going to do lama Chopa and tsok offering. Please bring some flowers and tsok offering.
Please join us for this celebration.
Sunday August 4th
10am-12pm
On this coming Sunday August 4 we going to celebrate His Holiness Drikung Kyabgong Chetsang's Birthday and also that day is “ the great festival” where the Buddha turned the wheel of Dharma. So, this is very auspices day for us to celebrate and we going to do lama Chopa and tsok offering. Please bring some flowers and tsok offering.
Please join us for this celebration.
DZOGCHEN TEACHING AND MEDICATION WITH DRUPON RATNA VARJRA RINPOCHE
August 10th and August 11th,
10AM - 12PM and 2PM - 5PM each day
Drikung has an unusual connection to both Mahamudra and Dzogchen profound dharma teachings. Please join us for these rare and special teachings, when Venerable Ratna Vajra will be giving instruction on "Taking The Five Poisons onto the Path, the completion-phase of the three roots of Dzogchen teaching and meditation".
Drupon will also be leading meditation during the teachings to help bring direct and practical experience of these instructions.The five poisons or the five principal Klesha, which are called poisons are
1. Attachments
2. Aversion
3. Ignorance
4. Pride
5. Jealousy
These five can be further condensed into the three desire “ or attachment”, and jealousy is a combination of attachment and aggressive whether you hear the Teachings, study it or practice, during that time you need to generate bodhicitta to develop love and companion to yourself and all sentient beings.
August 10th and August 11th,
10AM - 12PM and 2PM - 5PM each day
Drikung has an unusual connection to both Mahamudra and Dzogchen profound dharma teachings. Please join us for these rare and special teachings, when Venerable Ratna Vajra will be giving instruction on "Taking The Five Poisons onto the Path, the completion-phase of the three roots of Dzogchen teaching and meditation".
Drupon will also be leading meditation during the teachings to help bring direct and practical experience of these instructions.The five poisons or the five principal Klesha, which are called poisons are
1. Attachments
2. Aversion
3. Ignorance
4. Pride
5. Jealousy
These five can be further condensed into the three desire “ or attachment”, and jealousy is a combination of attachment and aggressive whether you hear the Teachings, study it or practice, during that time you need to generate bodhicitta to develop love and companion to yourself and all sentient beings.
WEEKLY PRACTICE & TEACHINGS
Wednesday Night White Tara Practice
Tea & Conversation | 6:45-7:30pm
White Tara Meditation Practice | 7:30-8:30pm
All Are Welcome.
Suggest Donations $1-10.
Sunday Vajrapani and Chod Practice
Practice | 10:00am - 11:30am
All Are Welcome.
Suggest Donations $1-10.
Practice | 10:00am - 11:30am
All Are Welcome.
Suggest Donations $1-10.
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