Gankar Tulku Rinpoche is a celebrated Tibetan spiritual leader and head of the Dzindu Monastery in Tibet. At the age of four he was formally recognized as the third incarnation of Gankar Tulku, the great master of the Dzindu Monastery, whose second incarnation was killed in the atrocities committed by the Chinese after they invaded Tibet in 1950. At five, Gankar Tulku Rinpoche was ordained a novice monk, and his care and education were entrusted to a great Buddhist master, Tara Tulku Rinpoche. At ten, he entered Drepung Loseling, the largest Buddhist monastery in the world, where many of the greatest Buddhist scholars have been trained. When he was twenty-one, he was ordained by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. In 1996 he was awarded the Geshe Lharampa degree, the highest academic honor attainable in the Buddhist world. He has completed his advanced studies at the Gyuto Tantric University, graduating with the highest honors, and now continues studying directly under His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.
Rinpoche is presently based in India at the Drepung Loseling University but travels yearly. He leads tours with groups of monks, some of whom are scholars, musicians, and artisans, and participates in many public events, forums, and conferences. He is the founder and director of Khacholing Center in Minnesota and Tardo Ling Center in San Francisco, and continues to work for the rebuilding of the Dzindu Monastery in Tibet.
Spreading messages of peace, harmony, and fellowship wherever he travels, Rinpoche is sought after for his spiritual teachings and is a world ambassador for Buddhism.
Medicine Buddha Empowerment on Friday March 13th at 7:00 pm
Bring your children, friends and family, open to all!
Donation: $20. All proceeds go to help with Rinpoche's projects and the building of the New Gompa at Jangchub Gepel Ling a retreat Center in the White Mountains.
Location: Center for Ancient Healing Arts, LLC
6834 E Culver st
RSVP: 480 212 6747
Medicine Buddha Empowerment
This empowerment is considered by Tibetan Buddhists to be the most powerful blessing for healing, dispelling sickness and for awakening the innate healing wisdom that lies within every individual.The practice of the Medicine Buddha meditation (sadhana) is said to be much more effective when one has received the Medicine Buddha Empowerment from a qualified lama (Tibetan Buddhist meditation master).
This empowerment is given periodically at various Tibetan Buddhist centers around the world. It can be taken with the intention of practicing the Medicine Buddha meditation (sadhana) or as a blessing. In either case it would be expected to enhance ones practical and spiritual efforts for the healing of oneself or others.
According to Buddhism, health and sanity is inherent to all sentient life. Inevitably, within the confused condition of samsara, sentient beings experience many conditions that are detrimental to the experience of this basic nature, but however strong these conditions of suffering and imbalance may be, the underlying nature of our being's purity remains indestructible. As the conditions of our physical body are inextricably linked to our mind, our physical health and well-being can be balanced and purified with the practice of meditation, and by invoking our inherent and basic health as embodied in the Medcine Buddha.
In the Buddhist scriptures the Buddha tells of the great bodhisattva who prior to becoming enlightened as the Buddha of Medicine, vowed to liberate others from confusion and suffering, specifically physical and mental illness. While the Buddhist teachings do not speak of external saviours, it does teach that when the strong prayers of a great being such as the Medicine Buddha are joined with the devotion of those who invoke their compassion, the conditions for balance and healing are established. Thus there is an ancient and highly revered tradition in Buddhism of invoking and supplicating the Medicine Buddha.
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