Dorje Chang Institute



Spiritual Program at DCI

 




July 12 – 31 Program of Classes and Events

followed by class descriptions

Mon July 12, 7.30pm Sutra Hour: Vajra Cutter Sutra Recitation

Mon July 12 – Wed July 14 Geshe Wangchen is away in Wellington participating in the presentation of the Dhammapada to NZ’s Parliament as well as a gathering at Bodhinyanarama Buddhist Monastery on Buddhist Perspectives: Caring for the Dying and Deceased that aims to help health professionals who care for the terminally ill and dying.

Tue July 13 No Class

Thu July 15 Buddha Day, International Sangha Day and Prayer Wheel Consecration:

    6am Eight Mahayana Precepts (if it is your first time taking the

    Eight Mahayana Precepts please RSVP by Wed, July 14 at 10am)

    11am Precept Lunch (open to those taking precepts on this day, must

    RSVP by Wed, July 14 at 10am)

    6.30-7pm Soup & bread supper

    7-8.30pm Prayer Wheel Consecration

    8.30-9pm Dessert and hot drinks

Fri July 16, 7.30pm Medicine Buddha Puja

Sun July 18, 10am Spring Cleaning for the Mind (Shantideva: Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Ch. 2) with Geshe Wangchen

Mon July 19, 7.30pm Tara Puja

Tue July 20, 7.30pm Guru Puja with Tsog

Fri July 23, 7.30pm Medicine Buddha Puja

Sun July 25, 10am Spring Cleaning for the Mind (Shantideva: Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Ch. 2) with Geshe Wangchen

Mon July 26, 7.30pm Sutra Hour: Vajra Cutter Sutra Recitation

Tue July 27, 7.30pm Emptiness (Lama Tsong Khapa’s Middle Length Lam Rim cont.) with Geshe Wangchen

Fri July 30, 7.30pm Medicine Buddha Puja

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We’ve completed our Prayer Wheel for World Peace

and invite you to join us for the consecration

on the upcoming, powerful Buddha Day!

Buddha Day Prayer Wheel Consecration!

Thursday, July 15 is a very special day...

  • Buddha Day – Celebration of Buddha Shakyamuni’s

First Teaching

    “Karmic results are multiplied one hundred million times, as

    cited by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in the Vinaya text Treasure of

    Quotations and Logic” making this an excellent day to create

    virtue, take precepts, be generous, abstain from non-virtue, etc.

  • also FPMT International Sangha Day

    “The Sangha, by taking vows of renunciation, living in morality

    and having the space to focus on the Dharma are an integral

    part of maintaining the existence of the Buddha's teachings.

    It is for this reason that FPMT International Sangha Day is set

    to fall on the First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma Day.”

    “From the early days of the FPMT, monks and nuns have served

    tirelessly to help bring the benefit of the Buddha’s teachings to

    the far corners of this planet. Today, the FPMT International

    Mahayana Institute (IMI) community has over 300 monks and

    nuns who continue to serve throughout the FPMT in many

    capacities: as teachers, retreat leaders, center directors,

    spiritual program coordinators, developers of educational

    curriculum, editors and as counselors.”

    At Dorje Chang Institute we are very fortunate to have four

    resident Sangha members, two monks and two nuns including

    Lharampa Geshe Wangchen (Resident Teacher), Ven Lobsang

    Konchunk (Resident Artist), Ven Gyalten Wangmo (Spiritual

    Program Coordinator) and Ven Tenzin Nangsa (Geshe-la’s Attendant/Secretary).

    Sponsorship of Sangha food and stipends is always appreciated.

    Each year we also make a donation to support the FPMT’s

    IMI monastic community. Donations towards this are

    wonderful too.

  • Dorje Chang Institute’s Prayer Wheel for World Peace

Consecration

    We’ve completed our Prayer Wheel for World Peace and invite

    you to join us for the consecration! Sponsorship and donations

    are still very much needed to complete payment for the Prayer

    Wheel. This is a very powerful day to make a donation and be

    a part of the benefit the Prayer Wheel offers to sentient beings!

Thursday, July 15: Schedule of Events at Dorje Chang Institute

6am Eight Mahayana Precepts (if it is your first time taking the

Eight Mahayana Precepts please RSVP by Wed, July 14 at 10am)

11am Precept Lunch (open to those taking precepts on this day, must

RSVP by Wed, July 14 at 10am)

6.30-7pm Soup & bread supper

7-8.30pm Prayer Wheel Consecration

8.30-9pm Dessert and hot drinks

For all of these events, plus offerings to Sangha,

your sponsorship is welcome.

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New Sunday Class with Geshe Wangchen:

Spring cleaning for the mind!

Sundays 10am beginning July 11

This class will focus on the second chapter from Shantideva's

famous and inspiring text, A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life.

We all wish to be free of future suffering, but how can we achieve

this? What are practical and skillful ways to begin clearing out the junk

(negative karmic actions) from the past? Come uplift the mind by

finding out how to toss out the junk!

Open to all.

Facility Fee $10 (Dharma Friend monthly contributors free)

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Emptiness

with Geshe Wangchen

7pm Tuesdays beginning again July 27 - Geshe-la will continue his commentary on Lama

Tsong Khapa's profound treatment of this topic as presented in The Middle

Length Lam Rim. Intermediate to advanced level class.

Facility Fee $10 (Dharma Friend monthly contributors free)

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Group Recitation of Vajra Cutter Sutra!

Monday, 7.30pm July 26 (Sutra Hour)

Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Benefits of the Vajra Cutter Sutra:

"The Vajra Cutter Sutra is unbelievable. It is one of the most profitable

practices... The most important thing is that each time we read it; it

plants a seed, an imprint to realize emptiness. The more you read it,

the more imprints it leaves on the mind. So it becomes easy to realize

emptiness. It becomes quicker and quicker to realize emptiness in

this life. If not in this life, then quickly in future lives."

"You also create a lot of merit, so it helps to actualize bodhichitta quickly,

together with all the other realizations. That's the business. That's the deal

with the Vajra Cutter Sutra. You create so much merit for whatever you wish.

You help others and you achieve all your wishes easily."

To read the full teaching on the benefits of the Vajra Cutter Sutra visit:

http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/advice/pdf/BensofVajracttrsapr06.pdf

Free Facility Fee.