Bodhgaya Teaching Venue and Logistics

 

Phowa Course with Ayang Rinpoche in 2017, Bodhgaya, India

Rinpoche invites everyone, whether or not they can make a pilgrimage to Bodhgaya next year, to make an auspicious connection by sponsoring the teachings. Rinpoche gives the teachings in Bodhgaya every year free of charge, and your US tax-deductible donation will help ensure that these teachings continue for years to come.


Phowa Sponsorship



Registration for the course is not required, but since Bodhgaya is extremely crowded that time of year, please plan ahead to make arrangements to attend. Here is some Bodhgaya Logistics and Travel Information. The nearest airport is GAYA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT and the train station is GAYA RAILWAY STATION.  If people require taxis to be arranged, they can do so through agents in Bodhgaya. Accommodation need to be arranged on your own.

In 2020 the teachings will be held at the Mahabodhi Society of India:

Venue for 2020 Bodhgaya teachings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tibet Healthcare Update

In Honor of Mother’s Day in the US — Save a Mother’s Life!

New Roof, Ayang Clinic in Rima Village, Eastern Tibet

The Amitabha Foundation has been involved in promoting health and education in Eastern Tibet since 2004. Our focus is Safe Home Childbirth, but while we have been improving birth outcomes, we have also been supporting the general health of all the nomads in the Rima Village and surrounding township areas. Click here for background on our project. In 2016 we were able to accomplish so much! Read our Trip Report from the visit to Rima in July, 2016. We will return to the area in August 2017 and need your help. This is what we accomplished last year; see below for our new plans:

  • Clinic roof replacement, exterior painting, and repair of interior water damage ($17,275)
  • 51 meter well at the clinic ($3,050)
  • New training program for three barefoot doctors apprenticing with clinic doctor
  • Training at Yushu County Hospital for two midwives
  • 100 Clean Birthing Kits ($4,000)
  • Stable infant vaccination program
  • 5-Year evaluation of Community Health Educator program

Villagers watch drilling in the clinic courtyard

Finding water at 51 meters

Clean Birthing Kit

Midwife Vaccinates a Baby at the Clinic

This year we need to raise $15,000 to pay salaries for 2 doctors, 3 medical trainees, 1 midwife and a new midwife trainee, and the head Community Health Educator. In addition, it will cost $6,000 for 150 birthing kits. The clinic staff has also asked us to raise funds to purchase grinding and rolling machines to make their own traditional Tibetan medicines. This is an excellent business idea to bring in much-needed income to the clinic and make it sustainable into the future. The head doctor has all the necessary knowledge and can train his apprentices to identify and harvest herbal compounds for the medicines. He has estimated it will cost $25-30,000 in initial start-up costs.

Many people and organizations have contributed to support our work in Tibet for the past 14 years. You can make a difference in the lives of these nomad families. A small investment can have a big impact on saving the lives of mothers and infants, and on the overall health of an entire community.

Support the clinic with a one-time donation


Tibet Clinic Sponsorship



 

Make a one-time donation in any amount




 

 

Make your gift longer-lasting with a recurring monthly donation


Monthly Sponsorship
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Shitro Empowerment in Hong Kong August 26-29

Torma for the 42 Peaceful Deities and Shitro Shrine, Garrison, New York (2009)

Ayang Rinpoche will bestow the Karma Lingpa Shitro (100 Peaceful and Wrathful Deities) empowerment and give related teachings in Hong Kong, August 26-29, 2017. Read more about the empowerment and the significance of the 100 Peaceful and Wrathful Deities practice here. Please contact Amitabha Foundation Hong Kong for more information and to register.

Flat A, 13/F Waldorf Mansion No 2-6 Causeway Road
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong PRC
tel: 852-2882-1032
email: info@amitabhafoundation.hk
web:  http://amitabhafoundation.hk

Updated May 31, 2017:

It is Amitabha Foundation Hong Kong’s pleasure and great honour to host the Hundred Wrathful and Peaceful Deities Empowerment to be bestowed by His Eminence Choeje Ayang Rinpoche to Hong Kong. Through the great compassion of His Eminence Choeje Ayang Rinpoche, such a supreme empowerment will be held in Hong Kong from 26-29 August 2017.  The Amitabha Foundation Hong Kong will be hosting the event at the International Trade & Exhibition Center at Kowloon Bay where the magnificent Hundred Deities Mandala will be installed.

 

Commonly known as the Hundred Deities, they include forty-two peaceful Deities and fifty-eight wrathful deities that one encounters during the bardo stage. If one has received the empowerment and blessing, and having seen their pictures in the past, one will recognise these deities as the reflections of the nature of Dharmadhatu and attain instantaneous liberation in the bardo stage.

 

At the spacious venue we have booked for the empowerment, we will be erecting a magnificent Hundred Deities Mandala with the help of lamas specially selected and sent by His Eminence.

 

Amitabha Foundation Hong Kong sincerely invite you to join us in this supreme empowerment. Bring along all your family, friends, loved ones, sangha, dharma brothers and sisters and everyone you come across between now and then.  The empowerment is free of charge to anyone who wishes to join.  We will not be able to arrange for meals & accommodation.

 

Registration for the empowerment: http://bit.ly/2nk3WPZ

If further assistance is needed,please do not hesitate to contact registration team at100deities@gmail.com, or call +852 6032 0599

 

Regards,
Amitabha Foundation Hong Kong

 

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www.booking.com/Kowloon/Hotels

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Good bargains hostel & hotel:

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HO HO HOSTEL http://www.hohohostel.com/

Tai An Guest House http://bit.ly/2mWjoRZ

Micro Hotel http://bit.ly/2meXk1f

Urban Pack http://bit.ly/2meYGJy

 

Introduction to True Nature of Mind Teachings in Toronto May 13-14

Ayang Rinpoche will give Introduction to the True Nature of Mind teachings in Toronto, May 13-14, 2017, 9:00am—12:00pm & 3:00pm—6:00pm. For more information and to register, download the flyer in English, Chinese and Vietnamese here.

You can choose any of the following ways to register for the course:

1. Please click the link :http://amitabhafoundation.ca/2017-tnm/
2. Email us at info@amitabhafoundation.ca,
3. Join us in wechat group for registration
4. Text message to 647-909-3288
Suggestion Donation: Free to attend

Address: 781 Warden AVE. Toronto, ON, M1L 4C2

Pre-requirements:  You must have taken refuge ordination before. If this is your first time attending the True Nature of Mind teaching, you must first have an interview with Ayang Rinpoche.  If you attended Ayang Rinpoche’s True Nature of Mind teaching before, you don’t need to be interviewed again and can directly register for the course.

If you need an interview for this teaching, please register with Toronto Amitabha Foundation ASAP. Please provide your name, phone number, email address, and indicate that you need an interview. If you require a receipt mailed from us, please also provide your mailing address.

More details regarding this teaching will be found  online.