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All of our Teachings, Practice Sessions & Retreats
are Offered In-person & Online
 Please join us! 

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37 Bodhisattva Practices
bestowed by highly esteemed guest teacher Tulku Tenzin Norbu Rinpoche

Register HERE
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Special Teaching Event on Zoom
Saturdays March 11, 18 & 25 at 9:00am

***Extra Day Added***
April 1st, 9:00 - 11:00am CST
translation with Ina Bieler


Tashi Delek Vajra Family!
May Your New Year of the Water Rabbit be Filled with Many Blessings, Dharma Activities & Abundance!  
Announcing New Offering Opportunities​

Monthly Benefactors of Chicago Ratna Shri
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Please Consider Becoming a
Monthly Benefactor of the Dharma!


Support our Precious Guru Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, our Resident Nun Ani Stanzin Chorol
& Auspicious Dharma Activities at Chicago Ratna Shri 

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On our PayPal  menu you may now find the Offering Options:


  • Monthly Lama Meals Benefactor
  • Monthly Milarepa Teachings Benefactor
  • Monthly Medicine Buddha Benefactor
  • Monthly Vajrayogini Benefactor
  • Monthly White Tara Benefactor
  • Monthly Rainfall of Benefit & Happiness Benefactor

Thank You for Supporting our Precious Teacher Druponla and His Incredible Dharma Activities
​and center Chicago Ratna Shri!

If you would like to be one of our Monthly Benefactors
Please Join us in this Meritorious Opportunity

Select Monthly Recurring Donation on PayPal 
Choose Amount & Dharma Activity You Wish to Support Monthly

***No Minimum to Become a Benefactor***

Chicago Ratna Shri Monthly Benefactors
Will be Listed with the Dharma Activity they are Sponsoring
May All Beings Benefit


contact register.crss@gmail.com with any questions

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Dakini Day Vajrayogini Tsok
Join us for Vajrayogini Dakini Day Tsok
with Ven. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche
Saturday, April 15th time tba

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86753244830?pwd=d1lCMDUzMlhxQmpaVlZ0SUVsdHJQZz09

Thank you Vajrayogini Monthly Benefactors
Elizabeth & Patrick Gergaud
​Crystal James


100,000 Songs of Milarepa Teachings & Meditation
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​with Ven. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche
Friday Evenings 
7:00 pm CST/UTC-6
English translation by Ina Bieler
Chinese translation by Rocco Cheng
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"When one comes to the essence of being, the shining wisdom of reality, illumines all like the cloudless sky."
-Jetsün Milarepa

Join us on Zoom
Click https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82397732288?pwd=TTZhclVoYUYzOXVmb3FhWTdSQUhvQT09

​Join us on our Livestream YouTube:​https://www.youtube.com/c/ChicagoRatnaShriSangha

​Click HERE to watch the entire teaching series on our Youtube channel!

Chinese translation with Rocco Cheng click below to watch
YouTube 頻道 [法寶典藏] https://youtube.com/c/法寶典藏  
 
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Thank you Milarepa Teachings Monthly Benefactors
Karen Zielke & Alisha Cartwright



  
A Rainfall of Benefit &  Happiness

**a new daily practice for all to attend!**
Daily Practice Mondays - Saturdays 9:30 am CST/UTC-6
with Ani Stanzin Chorol


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Ani Stanzin Chorol has generously offered to lead us in A Rainfall of Benefit and Happiness every morning at 9:30am Central Time.  This gracious offering includes the Riwo Sang Cho Smoke Offering and the Summoning of Good Fortune.

Please join us in this most auspicious daily purification and generosity practice.  May this be a cause and condition to come together to remove obstacles and generate merit for the benefit of our precious teacher, CRSS and all beings in all realms without exception.
  A RAINFALL OF BENEFIT AND HAPPINESS 
with Ani Stanzin Chorol


Mondays - Saturdays

Daily 9:30 - 10:30 AM Central Time

Join us on Zoom!
Click the link to join Zoom 
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86051515462?pwd=TUZWbTlCZXdUN3dRclM4TlBIT25KZz09


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Click HERE for A Rainfall of Benefit and Happiness text
Click HERE for Daily Prayers text


Thank You Rainfall of Benefit & Happiness Monthly Benefactors 
​Alisha Cartwright & 
Molly Jones
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Monthly Benefactors of the Dharma

Lama Meals
Karen Zielke
Dhyana Wilde


Medicine Buddha
Lou Farley

Milarepa Teachings
Karen Zielke
Alisha Cartwright


A Rainfall of Benefit and Happiness
Alisha Cartwright

Vajrayogini
Elizabeth & Patrick Gergaud
​Crystal James


White Tara
Claire Higham

General Supporters of Ven. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche & Chicago Ratna Shri
Emily Webber
Molly Jones
Lisa Lam
Javier Garcia
Andrei Gheorghe
Jonathan Martin
​Karen Smith


Chicago Ratna Shri is Deeply Appreciative of your Generous Offerings 
Thank you for Supporting our Kind & Precious Lama Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche
& Chicago Ratna Shri

***no monthly offering too small, please join us and become a monthly benefactor!***
contact 
register.crss@gmail.com
May the Dharma Flourish & May the Benefactors be Abundantly Blessed
May Peace & Goodness Prevail Everywhere & May All Dharma Wishes Be Achieved


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Nyungne Retreat
with Ven. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche
Friday, April 28th 6:30pm - Monday, May 1st 8:00am CST


Nyungne is a special fasting and purification practice performed in conjunction with prostrations and prayers to Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion.
This is a very powerful method for purifying negativity of body, speech, and mind, and for pacifying strong delusions such as desirous attachment and hatred.
It is also a special way of receiving blessings and for improving our minds of love, compassion, and bodhichitta.
This practice is done annually at Chicago Ratna Shri Sangha center 
Suggested Registration Offering to Attend: $120 - $150 in person, $60 - $108 on zoom
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​REGISTER HERE


Requirements for Participating in this Retreat
To participate in this retreat you must agree to do the following:
    1    Take and observe precepts .
    2     Precepts are special vows of moral discipline that you promise to observe diligently for retreat time.. A ceremony for taking precepts will be conducted at early morning. You must participate in this ceremony in order to attend any part of the retreat. Please continue reading below for more detailed information about the precepts.
    3    Engage in fasting for one day.                                                                                                                                                                    This involves abstaining from all meals during a 24 hour period, except for lunch on Saturday. You should also avoid eating certain foods during the lunch, including alcohol, meat, eggs, onion, garlic and spices.
Please note that this retreat mainly involves chanting prayers and making physical prostrations. A brief explanation of how to engage in the practice will be given orientation session.
You may wish to have a yoga or exercise mat available for making prostrations.
Please note, from 3pm Saturday until 7am Monday , participants must continue fasting and observing the precepts.
About the Precepts
The practice of taking and keeping the  special practice of moral discipline that is performed with bodhichitta intention, the compassionate wish to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. The essence of this practice is taking eight precepts and keeping them purely for retreat time which include: (1) killing; (2) stealing; (3) sexual activity; (4) lying; (5) taking intoxicants; (6) eating after lunch (meaning we only eat lunch); (7) sitting on high or luxurious thrones or seats; (8) wearing ornaments, perfume, singing & dancing.
Because this practice is motivated by bodhichitta it is especially powerful for purifying negativities, accumulating merit, and creating the cause for us to attain the unsurpassed happiness of enlightenment.

If you have any questions about this retreat, please contact us at register.crss@gmail.com

Prayer Booklets
We will be using the following prayer booklets during the retreat, which you may wish to purchase in advance.
Drop of Essential Nectar (https://tharpa.com/us/catalog/product/view/id/497/s/drop-of-essential-nectar-booklet/)
A special fasting and purification practice in conjunction with Eleven-faced Avalokiteshvara

How to Participate:
You must register in advance to participate in person or via Zoom. After registering you will receive an email with a 
link to join the live stream REGISTER HERE

Suggested Registration Offering to Attend: $120 - $150 in person, $60 - $108 on zoom

Your generous offering to support this auspicious dharma activity is greatly appreciated!!! 
Please click the link to offer via PayPal, thank you!!
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7CR53JVBMCWLA 

Auspicious Offerings Available to Connect with the Blessings of the Nyungne Retreat: 
7 Lamp Offering $15
21 Lamp Offering $33
Dharma Text Offering $10
Sponsored Prayer Request (to be listed on the shrine and read aloud at the end of the Nyungne Retreat) $10 - $108

***Please be sure to note on PayPal what your kind offering is for.  Thank you so very much!***
 Send any general prayer requests to be added to the shrine to register.crss@gmail.com 
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Weekly White Tara Practice
Wednesday's at 7pm CDT/UTC-6
Please join us in person at the center for this practice!
Our doors are open.
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A Flowering Stream of Ambrosia
A Concise Practice Sadhana of the Exalted Tara
Led by Ven. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche
Ani Stanzin Chorol


Wednesdays 7pm CST/UTC-6 ​

Click HERE for Opening Prayers and Dedication Prayers
Click HERE for White Tara Text

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84634423623?pwd=SVNBRlBsNXlsWDMrbEsvWVBNVzN5UT09

Thank you White Tara Monthly Benefactor Claire Higham
Weekly Medicine Buddha Practice
Sundays at 10am CDT/UTC-6
Please join us in person at the center for this practice!
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Medicine Buddha Practice
The Heart of Benefit and Well-Being
​Led by Ven. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche 
Ani Stanzin Chorol

Sundays 10am CST/UTC-6
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​Click HERE for Opening Prayers and Dedication Prayers
Click HERE for Medicine Buddha Text
Click HERE for Achi Smoke Offering Text
Click HERE for World Peace Prayer

​Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84634423623?pwd=SVNBRlBsNXlsWDMrbEsvWVBNVzN5UT09
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​Thank you Medicine Buddha Monthly Benefactor Lou Farley



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Chicago Ratna Shri Sangha
​1038 Woodlawn Ave.
Des Plaines, IL  60016
info
@chicagoratnashri.com
register.crss@gmail.com
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With your support-
​May the fruits of loving-kindness, compassion and wisdom be fully blossomed into the hearts of every sentient being!


​We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donation helps support and preserve the teachings of the Drikung Kagyu lineage
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 May all beings benefit! 

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