MRC

09/05/2025

上師在學生心中是充滿了智慧、幽默及可愛
上師經常用道歌給學生開示
其中一首最重要的「一切顯相」
就是學生們經常唱頌及修持的一首
而這首道歌
是上師由第十六世大寶法王給予信心指引後的証悟道歌

《一切顯相》

一切顯空不二顯相
如同彩虹光彩閃亮
在顯空離戲的廣境中
放下放鬆寬坦安住

種種聲音聲空不二
如同回音繚繞不停
在聲空離戲的廣境中
放下放鬆寬坦安住

種種覺受樂空不二
超越筆墨所能形容
在樂空離戲的廣境中
放下放鬆寬坦安住

一切覺空不二覺性
超越概念所能明瞭
在覺空離戲的廣境中
放下放鬆寬坦安住

（西元1998年,堪布仁波切在尼泊爾滿願大佛塔附近的譯經院,即興而說）

04/28/2025

We had a very beautiful retreat this weekend. Thank you so much to our precious teachers: Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen, Lama Rabten Tshering, Acharya Tashi Wangchuk, and Lama Tenzin, for leading this most meaningful practice and ceremony. And thanks too to all the volunteers and participants for your interest, energy, and generosity. May all those who have departed and those living with suffering see the face of Amitabha.
🙏✨❤️✨🙏

04/21/2025

THIS WEEKEND!

Amitābha Retreat
Sat., April 26, 2025 - Sun., April 27, 2025
9:30 am - 3:30 pm Pacific

Presented by the Mahasiddha Retreat Centre, the Amitābha Retreat will be held both onsite at Maitrivana in Vancouver and online via Zoom.

To Pre-Register and other details: https://mrclodgeandcabins.com/events/amitabha-retreat-2025/

Vancouver is grateful to host an esteemed group of Acharyas and Lamas for the weekend practices, including Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyalsten, Acharya Tashi Wangchuk, Lama Rabten Tshering, and guest teacher Lama Tenzin (from Kagyu Kunkhyab Chuling).

This is a precious opportunity for Nalandabodhi members and friends to make prayer requests for the living and departed. For the first time in our community, the lamas will be performing the name-burning ceremony.

Sadhana recitation will be in Tibetan with the screen-shared liturgy in Tibetan, English, and Chinese.

All are welcome to participate; you may attend all or some of the practice sessions. Please note: Registration in Chinese is coming soon.

About AMITĀBHA PRACTICE

According to Mahayana Buddhist sutras, Amitābha was a king who renounced his kingdom and became a monk named Dharmakāra. Inspired by the teachings of Lokesvararaja Buddha, he made 48 great vows for the liberation of the sentient beings.

The Eighteenth Vow, the basis of the Pure Land known as Sukhāvatī, is thus:

“When I have attained Buddhahood, all sentient beings in the ten quarters who aspire in sincerity and faith to be reborn in my land and who have thought of me (or repeated my name) up to ten times; if they fail to be born there, then may I not attain the Perfect Enlightenment …”

After five aeons of self-cultivation, the Bodhisattva Dharmakāra finally attained the Supreme Enlightenment and became Buddha Amitābha. Due to his infinite merit and compassion, simply calling out Amitābha Buddha’s name is enough to draw his infinite life.

Repeated recitation of Amitābha’s name praise or his mantras — especially when dying — can help a devotee be reborn in Sukhāvatī Pure Land.

04/14/2024

What an exciting opportunity to attend Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche's teachings on Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Rinpoche holds both lineages! Don't miss👍👍👍

The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen
2024 ASIA RETREAT
May 3 - 5

Seen as the culmination of all practice and study by the New Translation Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the experience of Mahamudra, or “great symbol,” is an overwhelming sense of extraordinary clarity, totally open and non-dualistic. Dzogchen, or “great perfection,” is the ultimate teaching according to the Nyingma tradition and also represents the pinnacle of spiritual development.

Both lineages of meditation practice emphasize the ultimate state of awareness within, and the clear and luminous nature of, the mind. By applying ourselves to these practices, we can all experience our world more directly.

In this retreat, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, holder of the wisdom lineages of both Dzogchen and Mahamudra, together with Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen, will present the view and practices of these two traditions in a pragmatic, informal style.

This retreat is open to the general public.

Residents of Asian countries are invited to attend onsite in Taiwan.

For those living outside Asia, the retreat is available on Zoom.

Teachings will be translated simultaneously into English and Chinese. You are welcome to attend live on Zoom, or watch the recordings later. Recordings of the teachings will be available for 14 days after the retreat ends.
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