We are very happy and honored to invite Acharya Tashi Wangchuk to visit the Hong Kong sangha again and to kindly give us a teaching on the topic of[Mind Training] , 3rd Dec (Sunday)
Acharya Tashi Wangchuk
Date: 03 Dec 2017 (Sunday)
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Venue: Yogamala (11/F Man Cheung Building, 15-17 Wyndham St., Central, Hong Kong)
Teachings will be conducted in English with Cantonese Translation
About Acharya Tashi Wangchuk
Acharya Tashi Wangchuk is the resident teacher at NalandaWest, the Nalandabodhi event center in Seattle, where he teaches regularly. Acharya-la also is the main acharya overseeing the North American Nalandabodhi centers. Acharya Tashi was born and raised in eastern Bhutan, and at the age of 15 moved to Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, India, the seat-in-exile of His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa. At Rumtek, Acharya studied for ten years and graduated from Karma Shri Nalanda Institute, the principal Karma Kagyu shedra, or monastic college. This is the same shedra from which Nalandabodhi’s main teacher Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and our former resident teacher Acharya Sherab Gyaltsen Negi also graduated.
After graduating from Shedra, Acharya Tashi took on one year of teaching responsibilities for the Karma Kagyu lineage in Hong Kong. After that, he returned to Rumtek to teach at the shedra from which he graduated. He then went to Nepal, where he did editorial work for Nitartha International, an educational organization founded by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and devoted to the preservation of endangered Tibetan texts in digital formats. Acharya Tashi is one of the principal editors in the Nitartha International project of publishing the renowned Eight Great Treatises of the Karma Kagyu lineage, and remains active while in Seattle in preparing for publication in many different forms classical Tibetan texts vital to the continuity of the Kagyu lineage.
Acharya-la has been a featured teacher at Nitartha Institute and the Nalandabodhi annual retreat.
We joyfully announce the second annual Tara Drupchen to be held by the Nalandabodhi International sangha: October 13-15, 2017 at Nalanda West in Seattle. The Nalandabodhi sangha, founded and guided by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, will be engaged in a practice intensive focused on awakening the fearless and compassionate energy that is our mind’s true nature, as symbolized by Tara. This practice intensive will be led by our senior Nalandabodhi acharyas and lamas, and will be joined Nalandabodhi centers around the world engaging in Tara practice at the same time.
Drupchen (Tibetan: སྒྲུབ་ཆེན་ ; literally, “great practice [gathering]” or “great accomplishment [gathering]”) is a traditional format for a practice-intensive retreat in the Vajrayana tradition. It provides a strong condition for accumulating merit and is a powerful method for dispelling obstacles and hindrances for ourselves and our dharma activities.
How to make prayer requests and offerings
You can make an offering in honor of those who are ill, recently passed away, or to dispel fear about any challenge you face, or fears for the world.
These prayer requests and aspirations will be shared with our Nalandabodhi teachers and sangha participating in the Drupchen, as well as those participating in related Tara Practice at our centers and study groups around the world.
As an act of generosity and auspicious connection, it is a time-honored practice to make a monetary offering to accompany a prayer request. A suggested minimum donation is USD 10/HKD 78/NT 315/RMB 67
When donating by credit card you can enter your prayer request on the donation webpage. For bank transfer donations please see below.
Making offerings to sponsor a Drupchen creates a connection to the practice that enables us to accumulate merit and dispel obstacles, even if we are not able to personally attend.
Your donation will provide the offerings of candles, flowers, and food; make the necessary preparations for the ritual ceremonies; provide offerings to our teachers in gratitude for sharing this practice with all of us; and support the ongoing dharma activities of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and our Nalandabodhi sangha.
Any donation amount is welcome! As a guideline for giving, this is what your donation supports:
A donation of USD 108/HKD 838/NT 3390/RMB 720 provides the equivalent of snacks and refreshments for all attendees for one practice session
A donation of USD 250/HKD 1939/NT 7848/RMB 1667 provides the equivalent of shrine offerings for one practice session
A donation of USD 1250/HKD 9695/NT 39,241/RMB 8334 supports the equivalent of one full practice session
A donation of USD 3300/HKD 25,595/NT 103,903/RMB 22,010 supports the equivalent of hosting all of our teachers for an entire day
A donation of USD 5000/HKD 38,780/NT 156,965/RMB 33,335 supports the equivalent of one full day of practice
Bank transfer donations
After making bank transfer donation (see below for account info) please send your receipt to asia.hk@nalandabodhi.org. Please also include any prayer request you would like to make in the email. Prayer requests should be in the following format:
Your name
Name(s) for whom you are requesting prayers
Type of prayers you are requesting (choose one type for each individual request):
○ Prayers for the recently deceased
○ Prayers for the ill
○ Prayers for success, removal of obstacles, or other situations
Your specific prayer request. For example: “For my brother, Joe Smith, to dispel the obstacles that are making it difficult for him to find a new job,” or “For my friend, Mary Jones, who passed away on September 4, 2016.”
Acharya Tashi Wangchuk
