Events in March 2024
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March 5, 2024(1 event)
6:00 pm: YUMKA/DAKINI TSOK INHOUSE – on the 25th of the Lunar monthYUMKA/DAKINI TSOK INHOUSE – on the 25th of the Lunar monthMarch 5, 2024 - 6:00 pm Happy Dakini Day! Please feel free to join us at the Centre. Yumka (The Queen of Great Bliss) with Tsok feast offering on the 25th of the lunar month is dedicated to Padmasambhava's consort, the enlightened wisdom Dakini, Yeshe Tsogyal. Tsok means “gathering together” for a spiritual feast. The practitioners come together, the food and drink to be offered to everyone is assembled, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas gather together, and finally as a result of this practice, merit and wisdom are accumulated or “gathered together” by the participants. Text is available at this link: 10th & 25th - Rigdzin Dupa & Yumka Tsok Liturgy - English & Chinese |
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March 9, 2024(1 event)
VAJRAKILAYA (DHARMA PROTECTOR) – on the 29th of the Lunar monthVAJRAKILAYA (DHARMA PROTECTOR) – on the 29th of the Lunar monthMarch 9, 2024 - Today is Dharma Protector Day Vajrakilaya is the main Nyingma protector deity whose practice dispels harmful beings, harmful emotions, and negative circumstances, creating beneficial conditions for Dharma practice and the path to enlightenment. Text is available at this link: NamchoDailyPractice & Vajrakilaya For ritual practice days, we encourage our sangha to join those Palyul Centres whose practices are led on Zoom by a resident Lama.
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March 10, 2024
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March 16, 2024(1 event)
9:30 am: 'Mahayana Ground, Path & Fruition' - Teachings on ZOOM by Lopon Rigzin Losal'Mahayana Ground, Path & Fruition' - Teachings on ZOOM by Lopon Rigzin LosalMarch 16, 2024 - 9:30 am Saturday mornings from 9:30 -11:00 am -starting back March 16th The Ottawa Palyul Centre is delighted to once again host a teaching by Lopon Rigzin Losal, one of Namdroling’s advanced English-speaking monastic teachers. He will take us through a text that explains the Ground of Reality by showing how the two Truths (Relative and Ultimate) are established. Then the Path to Liberation which covers the two accumulations of Merit and Wisdom, the five stages on the journey beginning with the path of accumulation, and the ten levels of spiritual development (Bhumis). Finally he will explain the result, the Fruition of practice in the five ‘bodies’ (manifestations of Buddhahood), the five kinds of wisdom and other qualities of enlightenment. Lopon will teach from a draft text prepared by Khenpo Sonam Tsewang specifically for teachings on ‘Mahayana Ground, Path & Fruition’.
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March 17, 2024(1 event)
MEDICINE BUDDHA – on the 8th of the Lunar monthMEDICINE BUDDHA – on the 8th of the Lunar monthMarch 17, 2024 - Today is Medicine Buddha Day Meditational deity practice on the Medicine Buddha is carried out to pacify all physical and mental illnesses, diseases and suffering caused by all disturbing emotions such as anger, desire, pride, ignorance & jealousy. Text is available at this link: For ritual practice days, we encourage our sangha to join those Palyul Centres whose practices are led on Zoom by a resident Lama.
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March 18, 2024
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March 19, 2024(1 event)
6:00 pm: GURU TSOK INHOUSE - on the 10th of the Lunar monthGURU TSOK INHOUSE - on the 10th of the Lunar monthMarch 19, 2024 - 6:00 pm Happy Guru Rinpoche Day! Please feel free to join us at the Centre. Rigdzin Dupa with Tsok feast offering - focusing on the inner practice of Padmasambhava to purify our obstacles and to receive blessings & accomplishment from Guru Rinpoche. Tsok means “gathering together” for a spiritual feast. The practitioners come together, the food and drink to be offered to everyone is assembled, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas gather together, and finally as a result of this practice, merit and wisdom are accumulated or “gathered together” by the participants. Text is available at this link: 10th & 25th - Rigdzin Dupa & Yumka Tsok Liturgy - English & Chinese |
March 20, 2024
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March 23, 2024(1 event)
9:30 am: 'Mahayana Ground, Path & Fruition' - Teachings on ZOOM by Lopon Rigzin Losal'Mahayana Ground, Path & Fruition' - Teachings on ZOOM by Lopon Rigzin LosalMarch 23, 2024 - 9:30 am Saturday mornings from 9:30 -11:00 am -starting back March 16th The Ottawa Palyul Centre is delighted to once again host a teaching by Lopon Rigzin Losal, one of Namdroling’s advanced English-speaking monastic teachers. He will take us through a text that explains the Ground of Reality by showing how the two Truths (Relative and Ultimate) are established. Then the Path to Liberation which covers the two accumulations of Merit and Wisdom, the five stages on the journey beginning with the path of accumulation, and the ten levels of spiritual development (Bhumis). Finally he will explain the result, the Fruition of practice in the five ‘bodies’ (manifestations of Buddhahood), the five kinds of wisdom and other qualities of enlightenment. Lopon will teach from a draft text prepared by Khenpo Sonam Tsewang specifically for teachings on ‘Mahayana Ground, Path & Fruition’.
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March 24, 2024
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March 25, 2024(1 event)
AMITABHA/PHOWA – on the 15th of the Lunar monthAMITABHA/PHOWA – on the 15th of the Lunar monthMarch 25, 2024 - Today is Amitabha/Phowa Day Buddha Amitabha, whose name means ‘Boundless Light’ is particularly associated with the clear light of liberation that dawns when one recognizes the true nature of one’s own mind. This subtlest manifestation of mind arises also at death and is known as the clear light of death. Phowa – Namchö Practice - The practice of conscious dying and the transfer of Consciousness to the Pure Land; a profound way in which Dharma is realized spontaneously. Text is available at this link: For ritual practice days, we encourage our sangha to join those Palyul Centres whose practices are led on Zoom by a resident Lama.
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March 26, 2024
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