May 17, 2019 A Chronicle of Promoting the Dharma at the Renowned Thousand-Year-Old Onsenji Temple in Kinosakicho, Japan
By 2019, first year of the Reiwa era in Japan, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche had been promoting the Dharma there for eleven years. While the entire country was busy celebrating the new year, Rinpoche accepted an invitation from Abbot Ogawa Yuushou of Onsenji Temple to preside over the Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara Empowerment Puja and transmit pith instruction on the Diamond Sutra on May 17th at the ancient Kinosaki temple, thus helping everyone to simultaneously cultivate good fortune, wisdom and plant causal conditions in Japanese believers so that they could one day practice Vajrayana Buddhism. This also opened up a new chapter in the promulgation of Tibetan Buddhism in Japanese temples.
The day before the puja, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche performed a preparatory ritual, an auspicious sign of a colorful halo around the sun appeared in the clear sky.
Upon the perfect completion of the puja, Rinpoche compassionately blessed all believers and tourists who had come to worship at the temple by touching their heads one by one with the vajra. Some waited for the blessings in line, while others ran forward to receive them. All of them were overjoyed. Rinpoche blessed the Honorary Abbot of Onsenji Temple, Ogawa Yuusen.
Rinpoche blessed the Abbot of Onsenji Temple, Ogawa Yuushou. Abbot Ogawa was deeply moved by Rinpoche and shared his thoughts after the puja “I feel a wave of warmth flow into my hand and through my entire body. I am also very moved by the power Rinpoche gave me, which cannot be described with words. This is not a superpower; it is because Rinpoche has attained a very profound state of enlightenment so that he can release this kind of energy or power. Although I don’t have the noble virtues of Rinpoche, as a monastic who also practices Tantra, I can assure this.” continue reading »
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Updated on October 28, 2021