Karma Thegsum Choling Minneapolis

Losar 2006

Losar 2006

Losar 2006

Losar 2006

Losar 2006

Some of the KTC Sangha - Losar 2006

KTC Minneapolis shrineroom after Green Tara Puja, Losar 2006.

Schedule

9:30 AM- Sitting Meditation

10:00 AM - Intentions for Gaia followed by Puja and Tsok

Some of the KTC Sangha who performed the First Light Ceremony this year

See original posting below.

May Peace & Joy Fill Your Heart… Happy Winter Holidays!

Click on the picture to read the barn.

12 inch handmade letters in clay, glazed and fired to withstand all weather extremes, fabicated by KTC Sangha member and potter Suzanne Rooney and installed on their barn by husband, KTC Sangha member artist Russ Vogt and old friend, artist David Cooley. The words are an exerpt from a Tibetan Buddhist dedication prayer. You can drive by the Prayer Barn in Plymouth at 17210 County Road 47.

Lama la, Suzanne & Russ

We sit in silent meditation and do our respective daily practices 24X7 the week leading up to Losar, the Tibetan Lunar New Year. Our intention is: To relieve suffering for all sentient beings. The effect of this activity is real. The more people connected to it the stronger the effect is. We want many people to connect with us in support of this intention. We want to relieve suffering, and we can, all of us, do it.

KTC Minneapolis is dedicated to preventing the extinction of the practices of the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. The money raised by the Meditation-Thon goes into our general operations and into special projects. Click here to participate. Thank you.

May the poison of malicious enmity
Never arise in the mind of any one of us.
With loving minds, like the meeting of mother and child,
May all the world be filled with peace and happiness.
(From the closing lines of the First Light Prayers.)
Written by H.E. the 12th Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche

This year KTC will be doing a First Light Ceremony on New Year’s Day, January 1 beginning at 6:00 a.m. First Light is a ceremony that has been done at KTD, our parent monastery, and some KTCs worldwide since January of 2000. The ceremony is dedicated to bringing a world of peace. Everyone is welcome to attend, but we request that you make a donation for a butter lamp that will be dedicated to world peace. Butter lamps cost $1.00 per day, so for $30 you can have a butter lamp dedicated to peace on our shrine for a full month, and the prayers from our Sangha will include this intention. KTD has 108 butter lamps as a result of First Light practice. For our first ceremony, we will light lamps at the beginning of the ceremony. The approximate schedule is as follows:

6:00 a.m. Lamp lighting.
6:05 a.m. Chanting of the First Light prayers. There are 3 short prayers. We will chant each prayer 3 times in Tibetan and 3 times in English. This is a plain chant and everyone can participate.
6:30 a.m. Green Tara Puja (You may chant or follow along.)
7:30 a.m. Long life prayers and dedication.
7:45 a.m. Tea and treats

Please RSVP to Marva Bohen. bohen001@umn.edu. Materials need to be prepared for everyone.

Russ, Suzanne & Hal
Scraping & Painting the Center
Summer 2005

“Anyone who is willing to live the life I have led can do the things I do.” Fools Crow

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