Palpung New York

Celebration of the 69th Birthday of Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa
2022-03-12 09:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Palpung Thubten Chöling, 245 Sheafe Road, Wappingers Falls, NY, 12590, United States
Join us as we celebrate the 69th birthday of Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa.
We are pleased to announce that the Maitreya Shrine Room is now open to visitors. Visitors are required to wear masks. Please note that accommodations remain closed to the public.
This event is also being offered remotely on Zoom. If you would like to participate, please click here.

9:30 am | Prayers for long life and auspicious conditions. These will include a special morning purification fire ceremony (Gelek Trinpung), the prayer to the Sixteen Arhats and the practice of White Tara. An offering of a Ku Sung Tuk ceremony (the symbols of enlightened body, speech and mind) will be inserted within the chanting. The assembly can offer katas following the Ku Sung Tuk.

There are many ways to share in the merit of these activities through sponsoring the fire offering ceremony and the tea served during the chanting. Be sure to include a prayer with your donation which will be read aloud to the assembly.
You may also simply mail your tax-deductible contribution to:
Palpung Thubten Chöling
Attn: Office
245 Sheafe Road, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590.
Please make checks payable to Palpung Thubten Choling or PTC. For credit card payments, fax your credit card number (VISA or MasterCard only), along with the expiration date and signature and the amount you would like to charge to (845) 297-5761. For your protection, please do not email your credit card information.

As we are not able to check email during chanting events, please send your prayer request and sponsorship information 48 hours before the first day of chanting to guarantee that we receive it in time to announce your prayer. If you are not able to do that, please leave a short but clear message of your prayer on 845-297-2500 and we will do our best to have your prayer announced.

Please do not visit the monastery if you feel unwell and/or have a fever.
All visitors are required to wear a mask indoors. Children 12 years old and younger must be supervised. No pets please.

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廣定大司徒仁波切69歲祝壽盛會
2022年3月12日（週六）

本寺很高興地宣布，彌勒佛大殿將於 3 月 3 日藏曆新年日開始對公眾開放。訪客必須佩戴口罩。
請注意，餐廳和住宿仍不對外開放。

法會也將在Zoom 轉播。請點擊此鏈接

上午9:30開始慶生盛會：修長壽吉祥法門，包括 早上特別“桑”火供法會（淨化煙供），修長壽白度母、十六阿羅漢，獻供身、語、意-證悟的象徵，之後大家獻哈達。

各位可隨喜贊助火供、供茶，而共享法會的功德。請點擊此處贊助 並付上回向名字。

Kalu Rinpoche's Practice of Aspiration Prayers (Monlam Choga), followed by the Short Practice of the Peaceful & Wrathful Deities (Shitro)
2022-03-11 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-03-07 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-02-25 10:00 - 12:00
Due to the risks of covid and its variants, the monastery will be closed to the public until further notice. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night classes will continue on Zoom only. To join us via Zoom please click here.

Chanting of the Monlam Choga, a practice of offering and aspiration prayers compiled by Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche. This is followed by the short liturgy of Shitro (Peaceful and Wrathful Deities), a profound practice from the cycle of teachings and meditations of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. We dedicate this practice to the deceased in order to purify negativities, avert obstacles in the bardo, and establish a connection with the deities that will ripen in future lives.

If you would like to participate, please use our online event registration form.

Thousandfold Lamps & Offerings (Tong Chö)
2022-03-11 06:30 - 08:00, 2022-03-07 06:30 - 08:00
Due to the risks of covid and its variants, the monastery will be closed to the public until further notice. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night classes will continue on Zoom only. To join us via Zoom please click here.
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
2022-03-10 19:30 - 20:00, 2022-03-03 19:30 - 20:00, 2022-02-24 19:30 - 20:00, 2022-02-17 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
2022-03-09 19:30 - 20:00, 2022-03-02 19:30 - 20:00, 2022-02-23 19:30 - 20:00, 2022-02-16 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.

Study Group on Awakening the Sleeping Buddha
2022-03-08 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-03-01 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-02-22 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-02-15 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
2022-03-07 19:30 - 20:00, 2022-02-28 19:30 - 20:00, 2022-02-21 19:30 - 20:00, 2022-02-14 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.

Daily Evening Services
2022-03-01 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
2022-03-01 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)

Losar Schedule 2022 Year of the Water Tiger Clearing Obstacles for the New Year
2022-02-27 09:00 - 2022-03-03 12:00
Losar (Tibetan New Year) Schedule 2022

We are pleased to announce that the Maitreya Shrine Room will be open to visitors beginning Losar Day, March 3. Visitors are required to wear masks. Please note that the dining room and accommodations remain closed to the public.

The resident sangha of PTC will be participating in a variety of chanting events to dispel obstacles and bring about auspicious conditions. The dates are listed below.

February 27, 28 & March 1 (Sunday, Monday & Tuesday)
9:30 am | Mahakala Chanting (Tsendring, the extended version of the Protector Bernachen practice)

March 2 (Wednesday)
3:30 pm | Ritual to Reverse Impending Death (Chiblu) inserted inside our daily Mahakala chanting.

March 3 (Thursday)| Losar Day – First Day of the Tibetan New Year
5:30 am | Welcome in the New Year with the traditional playing of instruments
6:00 am | Morning Fire Offering (Sang)
9:00 am | Lighting of 500 Butterlamps
9:30 am | Prayers for long life and auspicious conditions for the new year.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE FROM HOME
To join us via Zoom please click here.

For those who wish to sponsor the chanting, donations can be made towards meals, fire offering ceremonies, or the tea served during the chanting. General contributions towards these special practices are also welcome. Be sure to include a prayer with your donation which will be read aloud to the assembly.
It is customary to make “changbu” (squeezing a small slice of bread in your left hand, leaving imprints) to place in the Chiblu box. You may mail a changbu, along with pieces of fingernails, stands of hair and loose change to be placed inside the Chiblu box. YOUR CHANGBU MUST BE RECEIVED BEFORE FEBRUARY 23rd.
You may donate any amount and provide us with the names for dedication (both living and deceased). To make these dedications, download the donation form in English / Chinese.
You may make your donations on-line or simply mail your tax-deductible contribution to:
Palpung Thubten Chöling
Attn: Office
245 Sheafe Road, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590.
Please make checks payable to Palpung Thubten Choling or PTC. For credit card payments, fax your credit card number (VISA or MasterCard only), along with the expiration date and signature and the amount you would like to charge to (845) 297-5761. For your protection, please do not email your credit card information.
As we are not able to check email during chanting events, please send your prayer request and sponsorship information 48 hours before the first day of chanting to guarantee that we receive it in time to announce your prayer. If you are not able to do that, please leave a short but clear message of your prayer on 845-297-2500 and we will do our best to have your prayer announced.

法林寺藏曆新年法會
245 Sheafe Road, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590
2022年2/27 –3/3

本寺很高興地宣布，彌勒佛大殿將於 3 月 3 日藏曆新年日開始對公眾開放。訪客必須佩戴口罩。
請注意，餐廳和住宿仍不對外開放。

法林寺將舉行法會，為來年帶來吉祥緣起。祈願災障消除、疫情平息、佛法昌盛、國泰民安、如意滿願、六時吉祥。預祝各位合家親朋新年身心安康吉祥，遠離疾病災障違緣，世出世間功德事業順利圓滿。

2月27，28，3/1日（週日至二）大黑天除障法
9:00am | 二臂大黑天加長儀軌，驅除來年障礙違緣。連修三天。

3月2日 （週三）祛除壽障“除佈”法
3:30pm | 修大黑天時加插“除佈”法。此法是囘遮死神、災障、疾病、增福壽健康的密乘深奧的法門。由喇嘛慈寧加持。最後焚燒“除佈”以示災障全消。

3月3日（週四）迎藏曆新年法會
5:30am | 迎新年法會開始
6:00am | 火供“桑”消災除障。償還業債、平息戰爭瘟疫、增進和諧、回遮疾病。
9:00am | 供酥油燈5百盞
9:30am | 修 招財福壽、消災除障，如意吉祥法門。

網上參加法會：請點擊此鏈接
如蒙樂捐，請點擊此鏈接[功德金表]

智慧林普賢大祈願會
將於2022年3月11至17日舉行。在印度智慧林駐錫的大司徒仁波切，將率領其寺530僧眾修法祈禱；並供燈20萬盞。

“除怖”如何制作：把一小塊麵包（約3分之1片吐司）在病痛處按壓一下，（但千萬不要按壓前額！）左手握住麵包，右手大拇指 按一下左手食指與拇指握住麵包 之處上端，中指按一下左手末指握住麵包的下端。向麵包吹一口氣，觀想您的病痛障礙惡業宿債等，全部去了這塊麵包。最後撒上小許指甲碎、頭髮碎、2至3個硬幣。

功德金$688 財神寳瓶
每個寳瓶均裝藏很多珍稀聖物：如釋迦牟尼佛、蓮花生大師、和很多大師的舍利子，招財進寶精華丸，四大元素能量丸，種類繁多的珍寶及來自世界聖地的聖土、石、水。出家人特地修法三天，為這些寳瓶開光，添加威力能量，重衡宇宙元素，招財進寶，平息不靖，恢復健康，增福錄寿，除病災障。它可供奉在家宅、公司等地方，加持您自己，家人，住宅或公司，而且亦因供養三寳而積聚無量功德。

Tonglen: 自他交換法 Exchanging Oneself with Others - Online
2022-02-26 09:00 - 10:00
Tonglen: 自他交換法 Exchanging Oneself with Others
With Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa 上師金剛持慈尊廣定大司徒仁波切講授

Register here 課程註冊

Thousandfold Lamps & Offerings (Tong Chö)
2022-02-25 06:30 - 08:00
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)

Fourth Anniversary of Lama Norlha Rinpoche's Passing
2022-02-18 10:00 - 16:00
In light of concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, to protect the well-being and safety of everyone, Palpung Thubten Chöling Monastery remains closed to the public.

Please join us in remembering Lama Rinpoche’s
great kindness and blessings.
Lama Norlha Rinpoche in Memoriam 1938-2018

Early Morning | Thousandfold Lamp Offering (Tong Chö)
A traditional Tong Chö of 1,000 butter lamps, 1,000 bowls of saffron water and 300 bowls filled with rice, incense and flowers accompanied by chanting of the Chenrezig practice.
We are praying for everyone to be safe and healthy. Please feel free to sponsor the offerings and send in your prayers.

The next chanting sessions are being offered remotely on Zoom. If you would like to participate please click here.
10:00 am | Kalu Rinpoche’s Practice of Aspiration Prayers (Monlam Choga), followed by the Short Practice of the Peaceful & Wrathful Deities (Shitro)
Chanting of the Monlam Choga, a practice of offering and aspiration prayers compiled by Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche. This is followed by the short liturgy of Shitro (Peaceful and Wrathful Deities), a profound practice from the cycle of teachings and meditations of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. We dedicate this practice to the deceased in order to purify negativities, avert obstacles in the bardo, and establish a connection with the deities that will ripen in future lives.
2:00 pm | Chanting The King of Aspiration Prayers (Zangchö Monlam) and Calling the Lama From Afar
Calling the Lama from Afar was 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.
To join us with the chanting please click on the following links to download each text:

Kalu Rinpoche’s Practice of Aspiration Prayers (Monlam Choga)
Calling the Lama from Afar
Kagyu Monlam Book

The Essence of the Bodhisattva Path - Online
2022-02-12 10:00 - 11:00
The Essence of the Bodhisattva Path
With Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa

“When you have compassion, a bodhisattva’s compassion for all sentient beings, why you have bodhicitta for all sentient beings is because of your joy, not because of your sorrow.”
— Tai Situ Rinpoche
Register here

Overview:

This event is a rare opportunity to receive a teaching on The Way of the Bodhisattva directly from His Holiness Kenting Tai Situ Rinpoche, the Supreme Head of the Palpung Monastic Seat and the living root guru of Mingyur Rinpoche. During the webinar, Tai Situ Rinpoche will share with us the heart essence of this profound text, bringing it alive so that we can make these teachings a lived experience.
Why Should I Attend?
How can you walk the bodhisattva path with joy, confidence, and openness? In this webinar, Vajradhara Tai Situ Rinpoche will give an overview of the bodhisattva path and provide practical instructions on how to practice bodhichitta, the aspiration to guide all sentient beings to realize their awakened nature, and other practices within the bodhisattva’s training.
What Will I Learn?
In this event you will learn:

about buddha nature
about the essence of the bodhisattva path
skillful ways to train your mind in awareness, compassion, and wisdom

What Is Included in the Program?
This event will include:

teachings from Vajradhara Tai Situ Rinpoche on Shantideva’s profound text The Way of the Bodhisattva
[Mingyur Rinpoche will attend the teachings as well.]

Register here

Kalu Rinpoche's Practice of Aspiration Prayers (Monlam Choga), followed by the Short Practice of the Peaceful & Wrathful Deities (Shitro)
2022-02-11 10:00 - 12:00
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).
Chanting of the Monlam Choga, a practice of offering and aspiration prayers compiled by Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche. This is followed by the short liturgy of Shitro (Peaceful and Wrathful Deities), a profound practice from the cycle of teachings and meditations of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. We dedicate this practice to the deceased in order to purify negativities, avert obstacles in the bardo, and establish a connection with the deities that will ripen in future lives.

If you would like to participate, please use our online event registration form.
