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Annual Holiday Sale of Handicrafts and Baked Treats

Saturday, December 2, 2018
Time: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Tibetan clothing, prayer flags, handicrafts, jewelry, art, and more!

Come see the cultural hall and library transformed into a marketplace of vendors at Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism. Items offered for sale include: blankets, jewelry, statues, prayer flags, incense, clothing, art prints, books, CDs, and Himalayan art calendars. Many of these items make wonderful holiday gifts! Additionally, many baked items are available for sale, including gluten-free.

At 12:00 pm enjoy a free tour of the Shrine Room with its traditional Tibetan murals, sculptures, mandalas, and triple-sized golden Buddha statue. Tibetan tea will be served.

Teaching on Death, Bardo and Rebirth

By Tulku Yeshi Rinpoche
Date: Sunday, December 9, 2018
Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: Shrine Room
Suggested contribution: $30 Public, $20 Members
Prerequisite: None

All ordinary beings must go through death, the bardo, and rebirth. But most of us have no idea or education about these three steps. In this teaching we will study and visualize the three levels with the three Buddha bodies which are visualized together during these experiences: death – dharmakaya; the bardo – samboghakaya; birth – nirmanakaya. If you can understand and visualize these three processes along with the three kayas, then you have the chance to be liberated when you are dying, in the bardo, or before rebirth.

Sharing the Dharma

By H.E. Dagmo Kusho Sakya
Sunday, November 4
Time: 11:15 – 11:45 am
Location: Shrine Room
All are welcome

Lecture topic: Trip to Vajrakilaya Puja in Darjeeling
Dagmola will discuss her trip to Darjeeling, India, where she attended an annual Vajrakilaya Puja led by His Eminence Asanga Vajra Rinpoche at Ghoom Monastery. Vajrakilaya is the yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity of all the buddhas and whose practice is famous for being powerful for blessings, protection and removing obstacles.

White Tara Initiation

Bestowed by H.E. Dagmo Kusho
Translator: Rigdzin Tingkhye
Date: Saturday, November 10, 2018
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Shrine Room
Suggested contribution: $35 Non-Members, $25 Members, $15 Children 12 & Under
Prerequisites: One must not eat any meat, eggs, garlic, or consume alcohol on the day of the initiation. One must also be celibate for that day.

White Tara, Cintamani Cakra, is a refuge for all sentient beings and can guide everyone to the island of blissful liberation. She is well known as the Giver of Life. The practice of White Tara brings long life, subdues illness, evil spirits, and negative karma, and clears away mental obscurations and obstacles in one’s life.

White Tara Meditation and Teaching

By H.E. Dagmo Kusho
Translator: Rigdzin Tingkhye
Date: Saturday, November 10, 2018
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Shrine Room
Suggested contribution: $35 Non-Members, $25 Members, $15 Children 12 & Under

Sincere practitioners who have received the White Tara initiation are invited to hear H.E. Dagmo Kusho teach the White Tara sadhana and can go through the meditation practice with her.

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Guru Rinpoche Bumtsok Retreat

Led by Tulku Yeshi Rinpoche
Date: Friday & Saturday, October 12-13, 2018
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, with a lunch break between 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Sakya Monastery Shrine Room

If someone wants to become a Buddha or a Bodhisattva, one needs to accumulate merit and purify defilements. A very meritorious practice of Guru Rinpoche is a Bumtsok, which is a 100,000 Tsok offerings to Guru Rinpoche. It is fine to join the first day, the second day, or both. If you cannot come, it is considered very meritorious to donate food or money for a tsok offering for this event. Candles and flowers are acceptable as well.

Marici Fellowship: HOSTA – Hospice Support for Animals

Please join Amy Alcaraz and Teresa Lamb for this first HOSTA gathering Monday, Oct 15, 2018, 7:00pm at Sakya Monastery in the Cultural Hall

The end of life for the animals we care about can feel deeply overwhelming for everyone involved. To help during this time the Marici Fellowship’s HOSTA program is being formed.

The goal of HOSTA is to create a network of sangha members who have gone through, are currently going through, who would like to be prepared for this process with their own pets, and those who are interested in helping others.

Compassion in Living and Dying

Date: Sunday, October 21, 2018
Time: 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Location: Sakya Monastery Shrine Room
Suggested Donation: $20 Members, $30 Non-Members

What would it be like to approach death with compassion in place of fear? Venerable Thubten Chodron shares how cultivating compassion day to day makes our lives meaningful, which in turn helps us to approach our own and others’ deaths with a clear mind and open heart.

Green Tara Initiation

Bestowed by H.E. Dagmo Kusho Sakya
Translator: Dagmo Chimey Sakya
Date: Thursday, October 4th
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Shrine Room
Suggested contribution: Public $35, Members $25

As the embodiment of the Great Wisdom Mother, Green Tara is the Savior of all beings. Meditation on Green Tara is believed to be very effective in releasing beings from distressing circumstances both great and small.

Green Tara Initiation

Movement and Meditation of Tara

Date: Friday, October 5
Time: 7:00-9:00 pm
Location: Shrine Room
Suggested Donation: $15 (for full Retreat costs, see details)

The Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of Tara is a movement meditation in the Vajrayana tradition. In this retreat, the dancers are led into a Mandala of dance and instructed in the subtlety of sacred movement and mudras (hand gestures). Participants learn experientially the philosophy, meditations, and visualizations of the traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice.

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