Palpung New York

Thousandfold Lamps & Offerings (Tong Chö)
2021-09-04 06:30 - 08:00, 2021-08-28 06:30 - 08:00, 2021-08-21 06:30 - 08:00, 2021-08-14 06:30 - 08:00, 2021-08-07 06:30 - 08:00 (America/New_York) | Palpung Thubten Chöling, 245 Sheafe Road, Wappingers Falls, NY, 12590, United States
The Maitreya Center of Palpung Thubten Choling reopened as of July 1, in accordance with New York State guidelines. However, because of heightened covid rates in the area, we will no longer be allowing people to come in person to the monastery classes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. The classes will continue on Zoom as usual, they just will not be hybrid (combining both online and in person).
A traditional Tong Chö of 1,000 butter lamps, 1,000 bowls of saffron water and 300 bowls filled with rice, incense and flowers is offered weekly, accompanied by chanting of the Chenrezig practice.

(Free of charge)

Thursday Evenings - Chenrezig Practice
2021-09-02 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-26 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-19 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-12 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-05 19:30 - 20:00
Due to the risks of covid and its variants, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night classes will continue on Zoom only. To join us via Zoom please click here.
7:30-8:30pm | Chenrezig Practice
Please join us online as we chant and meditate in order to realize our inborn great compassion. Guru Vajradhara Tai Situ Rinpoche has said that, “Chenrezig is the embodiment of compassion, Bodhicitta. We reach Buddhahood intentionally, and the intention is Bodhicitta. That is what Chenrezig represents. The Chenrezig Sadhana is the most sacred and profound sadhana. By practicing it with awareness, you can attain Chenrezig’s enlightened body, speech, and mind.”
The liturgy is being screen shared. It is translated as well as written phonetically. You can chant along, or silently read the translation.
If you would like to participate, please use our online event registration form.

Wednesday Evenings - Medicine Buddha Practice and The Verses that Saved Sakya from Sickness, led by Lama Norgyal
2021-09-01 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-25 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-18 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-11 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-04 19:30 - 20:00
Due to the risks of covid and its variants, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night classes will continue on Zoom only. To join us via Zoom please click here.
7:30-8:30pm | Medicine Buddha Practice and The Verses that Saved Sakya from Sickness, led by Lama Norgyal
Please join us online as we chant this essential practice which can increase our healing powers so that we can help those in our lives who are struggling with illness and obstacles and also remove our own physical and mental suffering. An abbreviated version of the Chenrezig practice is inserted in the prayer which follows, known as the Verses that Saved Sakya from Sickness.
The liturgies are being screen shared and are translated as well as written phonetically. You can chant along, or silently read the translation.
If you would like to participate, please use our online event registration form.

Daily Evening Services
2021-09-01 18:00 - 19:30
These services are held everyday, but their details are only listed on the first day of the month.
You are welcome to join us for all or part of our evening services, called “tsokpa”, to sit in meditation. Chanting is in Tibetan, so for those interested in participating in the chanting, transliterated copies of the text are available for use in the shrine room. Evening Tsokpa includes the Mahakala Protector practices.
(Free of charge)

Daily Morning Services
2021-09-01 06:00 - 08:00
These services are held everyday, but their details are only listed on the first day of the month.
You are welcome to join us for all or part of our morning services, called “tsokpa”, to sit in meditation. Chanting is in Tibetan, so for those interested in participating in the chanting, transliterated copies of the text are available for use in the shrine room. Morning Tsokpa includes Tara and Medicine Buddha.
(Free of charge)

Study Group on Awakening the Sleeping Buddha
2021-08-31 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-08-24 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-08-17 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-08-10 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-08-03 19:30 - 20:30
Due to the risks of covid and its variants, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night classes will continue on Zoom only. To join us via Zoom please click here.

Led by Lamas Depa and Lhadrun, we will be exploring in depth Awakening the Sleeping Buddha written by the Twelfth Tai Situpa, Pema Donyo Nyinche. In this book, HE Tai Situ Rinpoche lucidly presents and explains very basic and important principles such as Buddha Nature, Bodhichitta, Reincarnation, Karma and Emptiness. In this class, which includes study, discussion and meditation, we will investigate these principles deeply, and also draw from the works of other Buddhist masters for further elucidation.

Guru Vajradhara Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa, The Twelth Tai Situpa, is a great meditation master, scholar, artist, and is the abbot of Sherab Ling Monastery in northern India, as well as the head of our own monastery, Palpung Thupten Choling.

We are very much looking forward to this new class and students of all levels are welcome to join any Tuesday. There are no prerequisites and no attendance requirement.

Monday Evenings - Introduction to Buddhist Meditation
2021-08-30 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-23 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-16 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-09 19:30 - 20:00, 2021-08-02 19:30 - 20:00
Due to the risks of covid and its variants, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night classes will continue on Zoom only. To join us via Zoom please click here.

7:30-8:30pm | Introduction to Buddhist Meditation
Teachings on foundational Buddhist thought along with basic meditation instructions taught by resident teachers who have graduated from the PTC three-year retreat program. Appropriate for beginners and for anyone who would like to refresh their understanding of meditation or just meditate with a group. No prerequisites or attendance requirement, join us any Monday.
If you would like to participate, please use our online event registration form.

Lineage and Activities of Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa
2021-08-29 14:00 - 16:00
Lama Tenam Shastri will present on the tremendous Lineage and Activities of Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. (請保留這一天!)
Lama Tenam Shastri is the Executive Secretary and Chief of Protocol to Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. Lama Tenam will speak in English. Simultaneous Chinese translation will be available. Zoom and YouTube links provided below!
On Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82984589935?pwd=[REDACTED]
Webinar ID: 829 8458 9935
Passcode: [REDACTED]
On YouTube:
https://youtu.be/aTNooIKmULs

Visting the Monastery:
We welcome visitors to join us for lunch in the Maitreya dining room, and ask that you let us know in advance by emailing reservations@kagyu.com. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, all visitors are required to wear masks at this time. We regret that the dining room will not be open for other meals at this time.
Overnight accommodations will also be available for fully vaccinated guests only. If you would like to stay at the monastery, please make reservations in advance using our online form.
If you need assistance with making your reservation, please email reservations@kagyu.com.
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法林寺

請保留這一天！
2021 年 8 月 29 日周日下午 2 點
金剛總持廣定大司徒的傳承與事業

由上師金剛總持廣定大司徒的執行秘書兼首席戒律師
喇嘛天南 沙斯力 開示
喇嘛天南英語開示，中文同聲傳譯。
YouTube 和 Zoom 鏈接將公佈。
On Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82984589935?pwd=[REDACTED]
Webinar ID: 829 8458 9935
Passcode: [REDACTED]

On YouTube:
https://youtu.be/aTNooIKmULs

About Lama Tenam Shastri:
Lama Tenam Shastri is the Executive Secretary and Chief of Protocol to Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. He became a monk at the age of eight and trained at a small monastery under the tutelage of Very Venerable Drubsing Rinpoche. He received his novice ordination from H.H. the 16th Karmapa. From His Eminence the 3rd Jamgon Kongtrul he received the full ordination to be a bhikkhu. He studied many fundamental Tibetan Buddhist texts including the Jewel Ornament of Liberation, the Precious Garland of the Supreme Path, the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, and the Tibetan Grammar Situ Drelchen by the 8th Tai Situpa from the Very Venerable Khunnu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen Rinpoche, one of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachers. Lama Tenam graduated first in his class in both his undergraduate and graduate Buddhist studies at Sarnath Tibetan University, Varanasi, India.
From Guru Vajradhara H.H. Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa, he received the complete transmissions of the eight major lineages of Vajrayana Buddhism and twice detailed instructions on the three main Mahamudra texts by the 9th Karmapa. He also received numbers of personal instructions from H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa and served him from 2000 to 2004.
Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa is Lama Tenam’s Root Guru who has been guiding his personal dharma practices as well as daily life.

Commemoration of Buddha's Joyful Day
2021-08-22 10:00 - 15:00
Unvaccinated Guests Must Wear Masks
The observance of Buddha’s Joyful Day on the full moon day of the seventh lunar month is based on the story of Maudgalyayana, a disciple of the Buddha, who discovered through his meditative powers that his mother had been reborn as a hungry ghost. Distressed, he approached the Buddha for help, who then advised him to make offerings to the Sangha, as the merit from doing so would help relieve the suffering of his mother and other beings in the lower realms. Buddha’s Joyful Day is observed by making offerings of necessities to monastics, reciting sūtras and performing acts of generosity. The merit from these deeds is dedicated to all beings, especially to relieve the suffering of the deceased.
Please join us as we make prayers and offerings for our parents, ancestors, and the deceased through a special recitation of the Amitabha sadhana with tsok offerings, a fire puja for the deceased, and aspiration prayers for the well being of us and all other beings, especially those to whom we dedicate the practice by name, both living and deceased.
The practice entitled ‘Jangchok’ will be included within the chanting of the Amitabha sadhana. Jangchok is done for the benefit of the recently deceased to achieve liberation. For persons who may have passed away a long time ago the Jangchok practice will still bring great blessings to the deceased and create the causes and conditions for the liberation of the person. For the living, it is said that once their karmic debtors are liberated through this practice, the person will have less obstacles. For all beings, this practice will help to create favorable conditions and enhance their well-being.
It is said that, “no matter how long ago your deceased dear ones or relatives have passed away, it is still very vital to make prayers and offerings for them to increase their merit.”
During the chanting of the Long Amitabha and Jangchok sadhanas all the names of the deceased will be blessed and burned to symbolize purification of their defilements, obscurities and negative karma by the fire of wisdom, ripening their merit to be reborn in Amitabha’s pureland of Dewachen. Also included will be a dedication of merit to all sponsors and their designated names for blessing. As it is taught in the Ullambana Sūtra, the merit of making these offerings will bring excellent health, long life, removal of obstacles from the donor’s dharma practice and work, and rebirth of the deceased in Dewachen. The merit will also be dedicated to world peace and the liberation of all sentient beings. May the Dharma continue to flourish.

Chanting Schedule:
10:00 am | Chanting of Long Amitabha Sadhana
1:30 pm | Continuation of chanting of Long Amitabha Sadhana with Tsok, Jangchok Sadhana, followed by Sür (special fire offering ceremony)
For information on how to join us via ZOOM, please click here.

You may donate any amount and provide us with the names for dedication (both living and deceased). To make these dedications, download the Amitabha Sadhana Dedication Form in Chinese and English.

As of July 1 we welcome visitors to join us for lunch in the Maitreya dining room, and ask that you let us know in advance by emailing reservations@kagyu.com. We regret that the dining room will not be open for other meals at this time.
Overnight accommodations will also be available for fully vaccinated guests only. If you would like to stay at the monastery, please make reservations in advance using our online form.
If you need assistance with making your reservation, please email reservations@kagyu.com.

八蚌法林寺（PTC）
(原名噶舉法林寺)

盂蘭節除障祈福度亡法會
2021年8月22日 (周日)

農曆七月為佛教孝道月，而七月十五為盂蘭節，也是佛歡喜日。此日供僧道糧，藉此功德為父母消災延壽，為合府祈福消災; 超度祖先亡者,令先靈早生佛國; 報四重宏恩，利濟三塗群生，超度一切亡者,特別是因新冠疫情、河南水災喪生的衆生。歡迎大眾趁此良機, 生起歡喜心, 以衣、食、臥具、藥物等供養僧人道糧。法林寺隆重舉行法會，祈以此功德令功德主闔府親朋長壽安樂,祛除身心疾病，工作事業修行等障礙逆緣; 祖先及一切亡者,往生阿彌陀佛淨土; 並迴向佛法昌盛，世界和平，疫情平息, 眾生速得暫時永遠的大安樂！
早上10:00 阿彌陀佛天法長軌
下午1:30 阿彌陀佛天法長軌 (繼續), 消災障“將除”, 山林煙供，火供“餗”
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法會功德利益
在修阿彌陀佛天法時, 將加修消災除障法“將除”. 此法的巨大加持力，令不論是最近過世，或已過世很久的祖先亡者迅速得救度。同時亦為功德主及生者名單加持、祈福消災、超度怨親債主、祛除惡業身心疾病，清淨障礙逆緣，增加順緣福報。法會將超度並焚燒亡者名單，象徵以智慧之火，令亡者祛除惡業障礙逆緣，圓滿福報而往生阿彌陀佛淨土。而且將加持功德囘向給施主及其提供的名單.
在修山林煙供，火供“餗”時，焚燒供品,上供佛菩薩本尊護法、及下施三途六道眾生，如天神土地諸神，惡魔鬼魅等，怨親債主。亡者因惡業障礙祛除而得到超度；而生者則因障礙逆緣祛除,而病痛痊愈及順緣福報增加。
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從 7 月 1 日，歡迎大家共進午餐。請您提前通過電子郵件reservations@kagyu.com 预约。但抱歉早、晚餐仍未開放。
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Calling the Lama from Afar - Teaching and Chanting
2021-08-15 10:00 - 12:00
This class is being offered remotely on Zoom. If you would like to participate, please use our online event registration form.

Lama Norgyal will be teaching on and leading the sangha in the chanting of Calling the Lama from Afar. Written by the great master Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, this text is a powerful supplication to invoke the blessings of the lama and the great masters of all four Tibetan Buddhist lineages. A combination of profound meditation instruction and plain-spoken reminders about the way we can delude ourselves on the path, this melodiously sung devotional prayer is an inspiration for practitioners of all levels.
10:00 am | Teaching on Calling the Lama from Afar
11:00 am | Chanting of Calling the Lama from Afar
Click here to download English text of Calling the Lama from Afar.
As of July 1st we welcome visitors to join us for lunch in the Maitreya dining room, and ask that you let us know in advance by emailing reservations@kagyu.com. We regret that the dining room will not be open for other meals at this time.
Overnight accommodations will also be available for fully vaccinated guests only. If you would like to stay at the monastery, please make reservations in advance using our online form.
If you need assistance with making your reservation, please email reservations@kagyu.com.
