Current News and Highlights of Recent Events at Tsechen Kunchab Ling

Recent Activities by Our Teachers at Tsechen Kunchab Ling

HIS EMINENCE RATNA VAJRA RINPOCHE returned to Tsechen Kunchab Ling in August of 2009, conducting many wonderful activities, including the following: Birthday Celebration for H.H. Sakya Trizin, Long Life Initiation, Refuge Ceremony, and Children’s Program. Following the long life ceremony, His Eminence led a very special combination of Padmasambhava and Amitayus Long Life Initiation and a tsok offering. Padmasambhava/Amitayus Guided Retreat and Special Prayers for Health and Longevity *Sacred Jambala Water Offering Ceremony for Increase of Merit and Wealth. This ceremony of 1118 water offerings was offered for the increase of transcendent good qualities of enlightenment and the worldly good qualities of merit and wealth.	Please visit the photo galleries for additional images of activities in 2009!
HER EMINENCE JETSUN KUSHOK CHIME LUDING. In July of 2009, Her Eminence Jetsun Kushok Chime Luding bestowed the Twenty-One Taras Initiation Cycle at the Temple . TARA PRACTICE RETREAT was held at the Temple from September 5 to September 7. This study and practice weekend retreat followed on the initiations bestowed by Her Eminence Jetsun Kushog-la by providing an opportunity for study and practice of the twenty-one Tara cycle in the ancient tradition of Palden Atisha, under the guidance of Venerable Khenpo Kalsang Gyaltsen and Venerable Lama Dorjee Gyaltsen. This retreat provided an excellent opportunity for guided practice and explanation of the Tara sadhana, with special accumulation of merit in conjunction with His Holiness Sakya Trizin’s birthday and Golden Jubilee.

Major Activities in Previous Years
	New Temple's Main Buddha Image Is Consecrated On Descent from Heaven Day, 2008, a very large, beautiful image of the Buddha Shakyamuni was filled with blessings and consecrated by Venerable Lama Kalsang Gyaltsen and Venerable Lama Dorje Gyaltsen, under the guidance and blessings of His Holiness the Sakya Trizin. The Buddha image will be the main statue in the new shrine room. It is attended on the right and left by statues of Sariputra and Moggolana. It was sponsored by Her Eminence Jetsun Kushog Chime Luding, and cast over a period of an entire year by craftsmen in Nepal who were personally chosen by His Holiness Sakya Trizin. CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON FOR ACTIVITIES AT THE TEMPLE IN 2008 and LINKS TO PREVIOUS YEARS' ACTIVITIES AND PHOTO GALLERIES.