Beloved Holiness,
Thank you for everything you have done over many years to support and encourage and energize your worldwide Drikung Kagyu family.
Thank you for your blessings and everything you did to make Chicago Ratna Shri Sangha a reality and to allow us to grow and honor your kindness over all these years.
Thank you for sending Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche to be our revered teacher.
Thank you for your wonderful teachings, your uplifting empowerments and your inspirational presence these last few days.
Thank you for coming to Chicago again and spending this weekend with us to uplift us with your presence.
Thank you,
Your most devoted teachers, students and friends
Thank you for everything you have done over many years to support and encourage and energize your worldwide Drikung Kagyu family.
Thank you for your blessings and everything you did to make Chicago Ratna Shri Sangha a reality and to allow us to grow and honor your kindness over all these years.
Thank you for sending Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche to be our revered teacher.
Thank you for your wonderful teachings, your uplifting empowerments and your inspirational presence these last few days.
Thank you for coming to Chicago again and spending this weekend with us to uplift us with your presence.
Thank you,
Your most devoted teachers, students and friends
All of our Teachings, Practice Sessions & Retreats
are Offered In-person & Online
Please join us!
are Offered In-person & Online
Please join us!
"When one comes to the essence of being, the shining wisdom of reality, illumines all like the cloudless sky."
-Jetsün Milarepa
-Jetsün Milarepa
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CRSS Event Dates Special Jangchok Ceremony Sunday, October 11th at the Hilton Northbrook givebutter.com/jangchok-puja Vajrakilaya Retreat October 23-25, 2026 https://givebutter.com/Vajrakilaya2026 Achi Chökyi Drolma Fulfilment Ritual January 7-9 January 10th Dzambala Nyugne Retreat Friday Evening, February 19 6:30pm - Saturday & Sunday Ending Monday Morning, February 22 Guru Rinpoche Friday, March 19th Empowerment 7pm Retreat Saturday & Sunday Vajrayogini Drupchö Wednesday, April 21 - Sunday, April 25 Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche's Other Events Vajrayogini Empowerment Buddhist Studies Institute October 10th Online Awakening on the Path of Bliss & Emptiness Drikung Dzogchen Community of Vermont October 17-19 Mani Drupchen Drong Ngur Changchubling November 11-15th More Events TBA Soon! Iowa, Albuquerque, Austin Ratna Shri News this week:
FRIDAY Night Teachings with Ven. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee - ONLINE ONLY 7:00PM CST - 4 Mindfulnesses - Beginning Sept. 11th Jangchok Special Puja with Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche at the Hilton Northbrook. 10:00AM CST October, 11th 2026 
Jangchok & 1,000 Lamp Offering Puja Presided by Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche Sunday, October 11 • 10:00 AM Hilton Northbrook 2855 Milwaukee Ave Northbrook, IL 60062 Chicago Ratna Shri Sangha warmly invites you to join Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche for a very special Jangchok Puja and 1,000 Lamp Offering. Register: https://givebutter.com/jangchok-puja Suggested Offering to Attend: $35 Lamp Dedications: $21 per lamp dedication Lamps may be dedicated for living or deceased loved ones. For those attending locally, please bring photographs of those you would like included in the prayers and dedications. Photos must be printed on regular printer paper only. Please do not bring original photographs. For those who cannot attend in person, or for loved ones living elsewhere, you may email their names and pictures in advance to Anor: [email protected] Sheet for Names for the puja in English Sheet for Names for the puja in Tibetan A Special Offering of 1,000 Lamps The offering of 1,000 lamps is considered a deeply auspicious and meritorious practice in the Buddhist tradition. Light symbolizes wisdom, clarity, awakening, and the dispelling of ignorance and obstacles. By making lamp offerings with sincere intention, we create merit—the beneficial karmic potential generated through virtuous actions such as generosity, prayer, compassion, and making offerings. This merit may then be dedicated for the welfare of others, for favorable conditions in this life, for those who are ill or facing difficulties, and for those who have passed away. The collective offering of 1,000 lights is especially beautiful and powerful, bringing together the prayers and aspirations of the community and dedicating them for the benefit and awakening of all beings. Jangchok Puja Jangchok is a profound Buddhist purification and dedication practice performed for the benefit of both the living and those who have passed away. Through prayer, ritual, offerings, and dedication of merit, we create auspicious conditions and make heartfelt aspirations for purification, healing, peace, and liberation. May the light of these 1,000 lamps illuminate the path of wisdom, dispel obstacles and suffering, and generate vast merit dedicated to the peace, healing, liberation, and awakening of all beings. Friday Night Teaching Series
📿 Friday Night Dharma Teaching Series 📿 The Four Mindfulnesses Fridays beginning September 11, 2026 7:00 PM CST Chicago Ratna Shri Online Only Friday Night Teaching Series with Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche Chicago Ratna Shri warmly invites you to a new Friday evening teaching series with Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche on the Four Mindfulnesses, beginning September 11, 2026. The Four Mindfulnesses offer profound instructions for bringing Dharma practice directly into our experience of body, feelings, mind, and phenomena. Through these teachings, Drupon Rinpoche will guide us in cultivating greater awareness and insight while learning to recognize the nature of our experience with clarity and wisdom. The series will include practical meditation instruction, giving participants an opportunity not only to study these teachings but to integrate them through meditation and daily life. Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, you are warmly welcome to attend. May these teachings deepen our mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion for the benefit of all beings. 🙏 https://givebutter.com/CRSS-Friday-Teachings 📅 Fridays 🕖 7:00 PM - ONLINE ONLY Hosted by Chicago Ratna Shri 💠 Suggested Offering $15 per session or $108 for the full series Your generosity helps support translation and the ongoing Dharma activities of Ven. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche. 🙏 Please register and support this precious opportunity to study and practice the authentic Dharma. REGISTER: https://givebutter.com/CRSS-Friday-Teachings 
VAJRAKILAYA RETREAT October 23–25, 2026 | Chicago Ratna Shri With Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche & Venerable Bunima Lama https://givebutter.com/Vajrakilaya2026 Chicago Ratna Shri warmly invites you to join us for a three-day Vajrakilaya Retreat in the Drikung Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Vajrakilaya (Dorje Phurba) is the powerful manifestation of enlightened activity associated with the removal of obstacles and the transformation of negative forces. Through intensive group practice, mantra recitation, visualization, ritual offerings, and prayers, we gather to purify obstacles and create auspicious conditions for Dharma practice, peace, and the benefit of all beings. The retreat will be led by our Spiritual Director, Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, together with Venerable Bunima Lama. 🗓 October 23–25, 2026Three Daily Sessions 10:00 AM–12:00 PM CST 2:00–5:00 PM CST 7:00–8:30 PM CST 📍 Chicago Ratna Shri 1038 Woodlawn Ave. Des Plaines, IL 60016 Practitioners are warmly invited to participate in this precious opportunity for intensive Vajrakilaya practice and to dedicate the accumulated merit toward the removal of obstacles, the flourishing of the Dharma, and the peace and well-being of all beings. All are welcome. Monthly Dakini Day Tsok
Monthly Dakini Day Vajrayogini Tsok Join us for Vajrayogini Monthly Dakini Day Tsok with Ven. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche Monday, October 5th 10:00AM CST ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86051515462?pwd=TUZWbTlCZXdUN3dRclM4TlBIT25KZz09 Thank you Vajrayogini Monthly Benefactors Elizabeth & Patrick Gergaud Crystal James Wendy Hung Nathalie Gareau Chiasson To Become a Dharma Benefactor Select Monthly Recurring Donation on PayPal Choose Amount & Dharma Activity You Wish to Support Monthly Attend at crss or on zoom. You are welcome to bring any tsok offerings of food, drink, flowers or dana for our lama. Online tsok offerings may be given via paypal or givebutter - or sponsor a monthly tsok in honor of a loved one 🙏 deep thanks for your participation and generority. 
Chakrasamvara Tsok
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Mondays - Saturdays 9:30AM CST/UTC-6 A Rainfall of Benefit & Happiness 
Join our Morning Practice Group: A Rainfall of Benefit and Happiness
9:30-11:00AM CST This gracious offering includes: Riwo Sang Cho Smoke Offering & White Zambhala - Summoning of Good Fortune, Concise Vajrayogini & Concise Achi Chokyi Drolma Serkyem & Torma Offering 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 Guru, Chicago Ratna Shri & All Beings in All Realms Without Exception. Please send any prayer requests to [email protected] A RAINFALL OF BENEFIT AND HAPPINESS
Mondays - Fridays Daily 9:30 - 11:00AM CST Join us on Zoom! Click the link to join Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86051515462?pwd=TUZWbTlCZXdUN3dRclM4TlBIT25KZz09 Click HERE for A Rainfall of Benefit and Happiness text Click HERE for Daily Prayers text Click HERE for the Concise Achi Chökyi Drölma text Thank You Rainfall of Benefit & Happiness Benefactors Alisha Cartwright Molly Jones Carolyn Lewis Ani Wangmo To Become a Dharma Benefactor Select Monthly Recurring Donation on PayPal Choose Amount & Dharma Activity You Wish to Support Monthly 
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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 On our PayPal menu you may now find the Offering Options:
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 [email protected] with any questions Monthly Benefactors of the Dharma
Lama Meals Karen Zielke Dhyana Wilde Yuval Ahlfeld Karmen Lääne Bolortsetseg Ayush Jain Chakrasamvara Tong Tong Li Artem Onuchin Chöd Alina Peftieva Takiko Larson Joseph Alexis Weekly Teachings Karen Zielke Alisha Cartwright Domagoj Miskovic Lynn Dean A Rainfall of Benefit and Happiness Alisha Cartwright Carolyn Lewis Medicine Buddha Lou Farley Munkhtsetseg Bondoo Vajrayogini Elizabeth & Patrick Gergaud Crystal James Wendy Hung Nathalie Gareau Chiasson White Tara Claire Higham William Evans 100 Lamp Prayer Khorolsuren Jantsan General Supporters of Ven. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche & Chicago Ratna Shri Bill Evans Unurtsetseg Erdenebat Elizabeth Gergaud Emily Webber Molly Jones Lisa Lam Paula Macali Javier Garcia Andrei Gheorghe Jonathan Martin Karen Smith Heather Lindquist Emily Kohl Wangmo Halverstadht Przemyslaw Lukacz Iwona Lippert Kind Anonymous Donors 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 [email protected] 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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May all beings benefit!
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