Saga Dawa Düchen
This day celebrates Buddha Shakyamuni’s enlightenment and parinirvana. At the age of thirty-five Buddha attained enlightenment at Bodhgaya. This day also marks the anniversary of his parinirvana at Kushinagara.
“Profound peace, natural simplicity, uncompounded luminosity, I have found a nectar-like Dharma.”
London Practice Schedule
Monday 17th June – open to all Rigpa Mandala students
3-5:20pm: Buddha Prayers
3pm: Introduction, 3 Crucial Points, Sitting (10min), followed by ‘Verses of 8 Noble Auspicious Ones’
3:20 pm: Mipham Rinpoche’s Buddha Sadhana (English)
3:40pm: Bodhisattva Vow (English)
4:20pm: Verses of Homage (English)
4:50pm Heart Sutra (English)
5:00pm Zangcho Monlam (English)
5:20pm break
6:00 – 8pm: Sadhana Practices (including Narak Kong Shak)