Venerables Lead Prays for Victims
Special Tsok Offering & Monlam Prayers for Earthquake Victims in Eastern Tibet
Presided by
Venerable Choeden Rinpoche of Sera Je Monastery (India)
&
Kyapche Thupten Zopa Rinpoche of Kopan Monastery (Nepal)
On Sunday, April 25th, Venerable Choeden Rinpoche of Sera Je Monastery and Kyapche Thupten Zopa Rinpoche, Spiritual Director of Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), will preside over a special community Tsok (offering) and Monlam (prayers) for the earthquake victims and survivors in Eastern Tibet. Prayers will be led by monks from Nechung Buddhist Center, Gyuto Vajrayana Center, and other Buddhist centers.
Hosted by TANC’s newly initiated Tibet Earthquake Relief Committee, the Tsok offering and Monlam prayers will be held from 2-5pm this Sunday at Berkeley Adult School on 1701 San Pablo, Berkeley. Map and Parking go to the Find Us page. Tea & snacks will be served.
The offering is open to anyone interested in showing solidarity for the dead, missing and injured victims of the earthquake. The offering chants will be from all the four sects of Tibetan Buddhism.
A new version of the slide show presentation on the earthquake will also be presented.
Predominantly a Tibetan populated city, Kyegundo (Chinese: Jaigo/Yushu) no longer exists as it was before April 14, 2010 when the 6.9 rector scale earthquake devastated this Tibetan area of Kham (Chinese: Qinghai). Your prayers and solidarity is needed.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was born in 1946 in Thami, in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, not far from the Lawudo cave where his predecessor had meditated for the last 20 years of his life. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is now the Spiritual Director of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition and oversees all of its activities.
This is a FREE event.
INDIAN POEM
“This day is a special day, it is yours.
Yesterday slipped away, it cannot be filled anymore with meaning.
About tomorrow nothing is known.
But this day, today, is yours, make use of it.
Today you can make someone happy.
Today you can help another.
This day is a special day, it is yours.”
