New Global Giving Campaign for Safe Home Childbirth In Tibet

Dr. Ngagay checking a newborn at Rima Village Clinic

In honor of the U.S. holiday of Mother’s Day, May 8, 2016, we are kicking off a new fundraising campaign through Global Giving to support our clinic in Tibet. In 2014 we raised $27,165 and in 2015 another $5,025 for our Safe Childbirth in Tibet project through Global Giving. Our success was due to the exceptional generosity of friends of the Amitabha Foundation, and their friends reached through Facebook, Twitter and other online social media.

Our goal this year is to raise $30,000, enough to pay health workers’ salaries for 1 year, provide training and supplies to reduce infant mortality and purchase a new ambulance for the Rima Village Clinic in Ayang Rinpoche’s birthplace area in Eastern Tibet. Read more about our Global Giving project here, or make a donation now. You can pay online or by check.

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Even if you have very limited financial resources, you can help us raise money for this important cause by creating your own personalized fundraising page for this project. You could set one up to commemorate Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, your birthday, your wedding, the marathon you’re about to run, your new business venture, to remember a loved one, or for any other reason you can think of!

Share our project on Twitter or Facebook, so we can reach others who will care about saving mothers’ and infants’ lives in this remote area on the Tibetan Plateau. Every new person you connect with could make the difference in providing a clean home birth with an educated birth attendant and access to emergency care.

Thank you for caring!

Achi Chokyi Drolma Offering Puja in Bylakuppe April 20-26

Wrathful Achi from Ayang Rinpoche

Drikung Kagyu Dharma Protector Achi Chokyi Drolma

 

The annual 100,000 Achi Tsog Offering Puja at Ayang Rinpoche’s monastery in Bylakuppe will begin April 20 and last for one week.

Those who would like to make an auspicious connection with the Achi Tsok Offering Puja may send their donations to the Drikung Charitable Society account. For a tax deductible donation in the U.S., please send your check to the Amitabha Foundation, P.O. Box 2572, Aptos, California 95001, or donate online below. Please do not send in any names for dedication at this point, as the pujas have finished for this year.


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Here is an edited excerpt of a short biography of Achi Chokyi Drolma, given by Ayang Rinpoche in Sydney, Australia in 2004:

Achi Chokyi Drolma is an emanation of Vajra Yogini and Tara. She was born in the central area of Tibet. Beginning at a young age she was very special. She had great compassion and always practiced Tara, and she taught the Tara prayer for everyone in the village. When she grew older she prophesized that in the future there would be a new Buddhadharma lineage, and that she would be that lineage’s Dharma protector, whereupon she wrote protector offering prayers. Several generations later, her great grandson Jigten Sumgon started the Drikung lineage and she did become the main lineage Dharma protector.

She moved to Eastern Tibet, married and had 4 sons. Her most holy practice place is in East Tibet. At her death she attained the Great Rainbow Body. Her entire body become rainbows and light, leaving only her hair and nails. Like this, with no need to change this physical body, she went to the Pure Land.

On the relative level Achi was like the Dharma protector. But on the ultimate level, Achi had already attained the 10th Bhumi of a Bodhisattva. In this way, Achi was already enlightened. Achi’s activity in Tibet is very famous. All the Tibetan people, especially the older generation people, know very well about her great activity, how it is so helpful because it is very fast. In Tibet, some great masters say that Achi is exactly the same as the Buddha, and if we pray to Achi, then by our Achi practice we will achieve enlightenment, or we will attain the Pure Land at our death moment.

Rinpoche’s 2016 Teaching Schedule in the US and Canada

Ayang RinpochePlease save the dates for Rinpoche’s 2016 visit to the US and Canada. More information will follow.

Aug 18-27 Toronto, Ontario

Phowa Course

Ph: 647-909-3288
Contact: Joan
Sept 2-4  

Vancouver, British Columbia

Teaching (To Be Announced)

amitabhafoundation.vancouver@gmail.com

Sept 9-18  

San Jose, California

Phowa Course

Email: eventsjca123@gmail.com

Ph: 408-923-8888

Contact: Silvie

Venue: School of Arts & Culture
1700 Alum Rock Avenue
San Jose, CA 95116

 

Long Life Guru Rinpoche-Amitayus Empowerment in Hong Kong

AmitayusGRempowerment

H.E. Chöje Ayang Rinpoche to bestow the Rigdzin Tsedrub Guru Rinpoche-Amitayus combined empowerment of the Longchen Nyingthik tradition

Date: 11 March 2016 (Friday )
Time: 7pm
Venue: Regal Kowloon Hotel, Versailles Ballroom (71 Mody Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong)

Free Admission. No Registration. Limited seats (400 seats). First come first serve.

For enquiries, please 5106 5430 / 9389 8999 ?Rosaline? / 9666 9220 ?Ben??whatsapp and wechat also available ?

“Limitless Life Buddha” or Amitayus is the symbol of the Deathless state, the perfection of wisdom, compassion and good fortune. These are the essential qualities that are needed to lead a happy, healthy, long and meaningful life. The Rigdzin Tsedrub -Guru Rinpoche and Amitayus combined Empowerment comes from an unbroken, pure lineage of the special Longchen Nyingthik tantric terma cycle by Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa of the Nyingthik tradition of the Nyingma Lineage. Jigme Lingpa was a reincarnation of two important masters, Vimalamitra and King Trisong Deutsen. As embodiment of these two figures, Tibet’s primary Dzogchen lineages were combined in him, both of which are contained in the Nyingthik Yabshi.

There is nothing more important to us than our life and because we are fortunate enough to have a precious human life, we possess the opportunity to enter, make progress on, and complete the spiritual path. To make our life meaningful everyone needs wisdom. Wisdom never deceives us and, as an inner Spiritual Guide, helps us to make correct decisions in life leading us in the direction of true happiness.

Additionally, the ability to fulfil our wishes easily will come if we have positive mental energy, good fortune (merit), and good karma in our mind. Through receiving the empowerment of Buddha Amitayus and the confluence of the blessings of the unbroken lineage, the power of the master conferring the empowerment, the devotion and confidence of the recipients of the empowerment, obstacles to a stable and long life can be averted and energy loss on the physical, psychic and spiritual levels can be restored. By engaging in the meditation practices associated with this Buddha we can learn to increase our own life span, wisdom, and merit. Through doing so we can swiftly complete the spiritual path for the benefit of ourselves and others.

Amitabha Foundation, Hong Kong