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His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Visits Taipei Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center
On January 12, as the old year gave way to a new Spring, His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang arrived at the Taipei Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center on invitation from Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche. At Rinpoche’s supplication, His Holiness revealed teachings about the essentials of the cultivation of Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara visualization and recitations, and led everyone in chanting the Great Six-Syllable Mantra for a period. Everyone was deeply grateful to His Holiness for bestowing these precious revelations, and to Rinpoche for bestowing them with this auspicious causal condition. continue reading »
Updated on January 16, 2020
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche Presides over the Amitayus Empowerment Puja and Amitayus Fire Offering in Japan to Perfect Completion
At the outset of the 2020 New Year, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche presided over an “Amitayus Empowerment Puja” at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan. This Dharma method was transmitted directly to Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche by His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang himself, and is a unique feature of the Drikung Kagyu Order, extremely precious and auspicious. After the “Amitayus Empowerment Puja,” Rinpoche went on to perform an “Amitayus Fire Offering.” Although the Amitayus Fire Offering isn’t part of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Rinpoche specifically implored His Holiness to bestow him with an Amitayus Fire Offering Dharma text so that he may use it to benefit sentient beings of the Six Realms. In this chaotic Age of Dharma Decline, Rinpoche cannot resign himself to leave sentient beings in torment, and thus compassionately bestowed this Amitayus Empowerment, and performed the fire offering puja as offerings to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and in charity to all sentient beings, so as to help them to eliminate their karmic hindrances more quickly, and perfect reserves of merits and wisdom. continue reading »
Updated on January 10, 2020
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche Leads Disciples to Phyang Monastery in Ladakh, India to Participate in the Pujas Presided Over by His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang and Pay Him Birthday Well-Wishes
Under direct instructions from His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang, on July 30, 2019, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche led approximately 200 disciples from the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center to the Phyang Monastery in Ladakh of northern India to participate in the pujas which would be presided over by His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang himself, and would include the Teaching of Bodhicitta Precepts, a Great Drikung Phowa, and an Amitayus Empowerment Puja, as well as to pay His Holiness birthday well-wishes. continue reading »
Updated on August 26, 2019
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche Presides over the 2019 Great Indiscriminate Amitabha Puja for Transferring Consciousness of the Drikung Kagyu Order of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan to Perfect Completion
On August 11th, 2019, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, Abbot-Guru of the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center, presided over the auspicious Great Indiscriminate Amitabha Puja for Transferring Consciousness at Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei.
By way of preparation, Rinpoche had spent several very arduous days conducting a special retreat. At the beginning of the puja, he explained that the attendees’ motives for participating were very important, and that their every action and thought during the puja would affect their future lifetimes. He said that Shakyamuni Buddha had expressly introduced Amitabha to teach sentient beings how to become liberated from reincarnation’s sea of suffering. The guru said that because life is gone in the blink of an eye, he hoped everyone would cherish this opportunity by making a firm resolution to prepare for the final seconds of their lives.
Rinpoche led the twenty-thousand attendees in a collective performance of the Dharma. The sight of so many people praying for their deceased loved ones to be liberated was extremely moving! Under the protection and blessings of the Buddhas, the Bodhisattvas, Lord Jigten Sumgon, the Lineage Gurus, His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang, His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chungtsang, and Dharma Protector Achi, the puja came to a perfect completion, providing merits for vast numbers of sentient beings.
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Updated on August 21, 2019
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche Presides over the Amitayus Puja and Expounds the Diamond Sutra in Japan to Perfect Completion
On May 19th, 2019, in Japan, His Eminence Vajra Guru Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche presided over the Memorial Puja Commemorating the Eleventh Anniversary of the Consecration of the Kyoto Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center. There were total of 200 attendees, including Abbot Ogawa Yuushou of Onsenji Temple in Kinosaki, Japan, twenty-one believers from Taiwan, Japan, and China, and 179 disciples. They all felt extremely fortunate for being able to participate in such a rare and precious puja! continue reading »
Updated on May 29, 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 orally transmit 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. continue reading »
Updated on May 29, 2019
Puja Held at Onsenji Temple in Japan
On May 17th, 2019, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche presided over an auspicious puja at Osenji Temple in Kinosakicho, Yushima, Japan. In the May 18th of the Japanese newspaper, Daily News, an article was published about Rinpoche’s promotion of the Dharma. continue reading »
Updated on May 22, 2019
February 5th, 2019: The Lunar New Year Blessing Pujas Come to a Perfect Completion
On this auspicious first day of the 2019 Lunar New Year (Year of Pig), the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Taipei held its first pujas celebrating the beginning of spring. Thanks be unto His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche for tirelessly performing four pujas in a row: The Thirty-five Buddhas Repentance, the Black Water Jambhala, the Amitayus, and the Elephant Jambhala Pujas, thereby alleviating the effects of the attendees’ karma, adding to their good fortune and longevity and increasing their resources for practicing Buddhism.
The Thirty-five Buddhas Repentance Ritual was especially auspicious. As the attendees made earnest prostrations, Rinpoche led them in chanting the Buddhas’ names one at a time, deeply moving everyone present with his compassion and all-embracing power.
During the two Jambhala pujas, the guru allowed participants to make wishes so that they could have sufficient mundane and supramundane wealth.
While performing the Amitayus, Rinpoche waved a five-color flag, selflessly bestowing his good fortune and longevity upon each attendee! continue reading »
Updated on February 22, 2019
The Shakyamuni Buddha Empowerment Puja Comes to a Perfect Completion
Shakyamuni Buddha is the Teacher of the Three Realms and the Compassionate Father of the Four Forms of Birth, as well as the Lord who spreads the Dharma throughout Jambudvipa (the Earth). In Tibetan Buddhism, it is of utmost importance to have a guru, for without a guru’s guidance, it is impossible to attain realization. In view of this, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche presided over the Shakyamuni Buddha Empowerment Puja for the first time at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Taipei to help sentient beings form a connection with Shakyamuni Buddha in their future lifetimes, eliminate their hindrances to practicing Buddhism, and attain perfect accomplishment as soon as possible. continue reading »
Updated on January 31, 2019
In Japan, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche Expounds the Diamond Sutra and Presides over the Chod Puja to Perfect Completion
On January 5th, 2019, to kick off the New Year, the Kyoto Buddhist Center had the auspicious causal condition to host His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche as he expounded the Diamond Sutra—which contains the most important of the ideas central to the Great Prajna Sutra—for the first time. Drawing from his genuine cultivation, and while in a profound state of samadhi, the guru pointedly brought to light the Bodhi significance, touching the hearts of all the attendees!
In the afternoon, with the right causal condition, Rinpoche presided over the Chod Puja, one of the Eight Sadhanas in Tibetan Buddhism, in order to liberate sentient beings with causal conditions and eliminate the attendees’ hindrances. Everyone present was deeply moved! Immersed in both Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism, this puja was extremely precious!
A total of 141 people participated, including Abbot Ogawa Yuki from Onsenji Temple in Shirosaki, Japan, eighteen Japanese and Taiwanese believers, and 122 disciples. All, without exception, felt extremely fortunate to have been granted such a rare and auspicious opportunity! continue reading »
Updated on January 16, 2019
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