Dharma Activities for the month of December 2013

1/12/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – noon

Lam Rim Class

6/12/2013 (Friday)

10.30 am – noon

Lam Rim Review & Discussion

8/12/2013 (Sunday)

10.30 am – noon

Lam Rim Review & Discussion

10/12/2013 (Tuesday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Tara Puja

12/12/2013 (Thursday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

13/12/2013 (Friday)

10.30 am - noon

Lam Rim Review & Discussion

15/12/2013 (Sunday)

10.30 am - noon

Lam Rim Review & Discussion

17/12/2013 (Tuesday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm 

Medicine Buddha Puja

27/12/2013 (Friday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja & Lama Tsongkhapa day

Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi's Inaugural Visit to CGC

We are extremely delighted to announce that Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi, Abbot of Kopan Monastery, will be visiting CGC from 8th Nov (Fri) to 10th Nov (Sun) 2013.

The programs are attached below:

8th Nov, Friday, 8 pm: Teaching on "How to practice patience in a not so patient world"

9th Nov, Saturday, 11 am: Oral transmissions on "Short Lamrim" and "Confession on 35 Buddhas"
9th Nov, Saturday, 7:30 pm: Oral transmission on "Golden Light Sutra"

10th Nov, Sunday, 10 am: Teaching on Animal Liberation and the Actual Practice on CGC's MEGA Animal Liberation

We look forward to seeing you all.

Dharma Activities for the month of November 2013

01/11/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am - Noon

Lam Rim Class

2/11/2013 (Saturday)

2.00 pm - Evening

Karma Yoga (Cleaning and preparation for Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi’s Visit)

3/11/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – Noon

Lam Rim Class

1.30 pm - Evening

Karma Yoga (Cleaning and preparation for Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi’s Visit)

8/11/2013 (Friday)

10.30 am

Scheduled Arrival of Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi to CGC Penang 

8.00pm – 10.00pm

“How to Practice Patience In a Not So Patience World” by Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi

9/11/2013 (Saturday)

11.00 am – 12.30 am

Oral Transmission of “Short Lam Rim” and “Confession to the 35 Buddhas” by Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi 

7.30 pm – 10.00 pm

Oral Transmission of “Golden Light Sutra” by Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi

10/11/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – 12.00 pm

Short teaching on animal liberation and actual CGC annual Mega animal liberation presided by Khenrinpoche Geshe Chonyi

12/11/2013 (Tuesday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

15/11/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – Noon

Lam Rim Class

17/11/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – Noon

Lam Rim Class

2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Medicine Buddha Puja

19/11/2013 (Tuesday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Tara Puja

22/11/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am - noon

Lam Rim Class

24/11/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – Noon

Lam Rim Class

2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Wealth Vase Puja

(**Special day: Lord Buddha’s actual descent from god realm of thirty three. Karmic results are multiplied by 100 million on this day.)

28/11/2013 (Thursday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

29/11/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – 12.00 pm

Lam Rim Class

Dharma Activities for the month of October 2013

04/10/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – noon

Lamrim Class       

06/10/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – noon

Lamrim Class       

11/10/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – noon

Lamrim Class       

12/10/2013 (Saturday)

10.00 am – 12.00 pm

Tara  Puja  

13/10/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – noon

Lamrim Class       

14/10/2013 (Monday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

18/10/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am - noon

Lamrim Class

8.00pm – 10.00pm

Medicine Buddha Puja    

20/10/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – noon

Lamrim Class       

25/10/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – noon

Lamrim Class       

27/10/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – Noon

Animals Liberation

29/10/2013 (Tuesday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

Dharma Activities for the month of September 2013

13/09/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – 12.00 pm

Lam Rim Class

8.00 pm - 10.00 pm

Tara Puja

14/09/2013 (Saturday)

11.00 am – 1.00 pm

Guru Puja

15/9/2013 (Sunday)

3.00 pm - 5.00 pm

Lam Rim Class

19/09/2013 (Wednesday)  

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Medicine Buddha Puja 

20/09/2013 (Friday)  

10.00 am – 12.00 pm

Lam Rim Class 

       

22/09/2013 (Sunday)

3.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Lam Rim Class

27/09/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – noon

Lam Rim Class

29/09/2013 (Sunday)

11.00 am – noon

Animal Liberation

2.00 pm - 3.00 pm

Lam Rim Class

3.00 pm - 4.00 pm

Guru Puja

Dharma Activities for the month of August 2013

01/08/2013 (Thursday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

03/08/2013 (Saturday)

3.00 pm – 5.00 pm

ONLY for the Yamantaka Retreat Participants together with Geshe Deyang will start the Yamantaka self-generation practice

7.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Jangwa via Yamantaka fire puja

04/08/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – 5.00 pm

Yamantaka Self Initiation

~ Only for all the participants must have completed both the Yamantaka Retreat and Yamantaka Fire Puja

14/08/2013 (Wednesday)  

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Tara  Puja 

16/08/2013 (Friday)  

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja  

       

21/08/2013 (Wednesday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Medicine Buddha Puja

25/08/2013 (Sunday)

11.00 am – noon

Animals Liberation

31/08/2013 (Saturday)

11.00 am – noon

Guru Puja

Dharma Activities for the month of July 2013

02/07/13 (Tuesday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

05/07/13 (Friday)

10.00 am - Noon

Lamrim Class

06/07/13 (Saturday)

1.00 pm – 3.00 pm

***His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s Birthday

Recitation of Mani mantra, Practice of Chenrezig Guru Yoga and other prayers for world peace

07/07/13 (Sunday)

3.00 pm-5.00 pm

Lamrim Class

12/07/13 (Friday)

10.00 am - Noon

Lamrim Class 

8.00 pm - 9.30 pm

*** Lord Buddha 1st Teaching day - merits multiply by 100 million times

Recitation of Golden Light Sutra, 12 Deeds of Buddha Shakyamuni and other prayers.

14/07/13 (Sunday) 

3.00 pm-5.00 pm

Lamrim Class

16/07/13 (Tuesday)

8.00 pm-10.00 pm

Tara Puja

18/07/13 (Thursday)

8.00 pm - 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

19/07/13 (Friday)

10.00 am - Noon

Lamrim Class

21/07/13 (Sunday)

3.00 pm - 5.00 pm

Lamrim Class

22/07/13 (Monday)

8.00 pm -10.00 pm

Medicine Buddha Puja

26/07/13 (Friday)

10.00 am - Noon

Lamrim Class

28/07/13 (Sunday)

11.00 am – Noon

Animal Liberation

2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Lamrim Class

Ganden Tripa Rinpoche Visits Penang 8 to 14 June 2013

Dear Dharma brothers & sisters,

We are extremely pleased to announce that His Eminence Ganden Tripa Rinpoche, who is the supreme spiritual head of the Gelugpa Buddhist tradition worldwide, will be visiting Penang from June 8 to June 14 2013 with CGC being one of the co hosts for this extremely rare visit by His Eminence.

Rinpoche will arrive at the Penang International Airport on June 8 (Saturday) at about 5pm.

It is very auspicious to greet and welcome our teacher when he comes to your area. Please join us and help show him how welcomed he is and how happy we are to see him! (CGC members and members of the public are all invited to welcome the arrival of His Eminence Ganden Tripa Rinpoche)

If you have a khata, please bring it along to offer it to Rinpoche as sign of auspiciousness and purity. You can also bring flowers for the welcoming.

Below is the brief introduction on Ganden Tripa Rinpoche:

Ganden Tripa Rinpoche was born in Ladakh in the early 1930s and he is recognized and enthroned as a child as the reincarnation of the founder of Rizong Hermitage.

He was appointed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama as Abbot both of Gyumed Tantric Monastery and of Drepung Loseling, two of the main Gelugpa monasteries.

Rinpoche was appointed as the Ganden Tripa, the spiritual head of the Gelugpa lineage, on October 26, 2009 in Dharamsala, India.

Rinpoche has made the practice of meditation his principal focus in life, and has conducted numerous extensive retreats, including a three-year tantric retreat on the Yamantaka mandala in a remote hermitage in Ladakh. He is known for his achievements in practice and scholarship in both the sutra and tantra traditions.

The Ganden Tripa is the supreme spiritual head of the Gelugpa Buddhist tradition worldwide. This position stretches back in an unbroken lineage to Lama Tsongkhapa, who founded Ganden Monastery in 1409, who then passed on this prestigious position in an unbroken lineage to the 102nd throne holder today.

This highly esteemed position as Ganden Throne-holder is attained through a vigorous selection process which requires years of extensive training and service in the highest ranking position in the monastic institution.

In the history of Ganden Tripa, they are not only supreme spiritual head of Gelugpa but they were tutors and spiritual advisers to young Dalai Lamas and regents of Dalai Lamas during their absence. Some occasions in history, Ganden Tripas had responsibility to find reincarnation of Dalai Lamas.

Below are his programmes while in Penang:-

Date     : June 10 to June 12 (Monday – Wednesday)

Time    : 8.00pm (3 days) 

Venue  : Masyarakat Penyayang (Caring Society),  
              Jalan Utama 

Teaching topic : Foundation of All Good Qualities

Admission is Free.

Please try to attend this extremely rare event. One can gain such enormous amounts of blessings and benefit by receiving such precious teachings from such a High Lama.

Please Note: Participants must bring an FM-radio to listen to the English translation.

Dharma Activities for the month of June 2013

03/06/2013 (Monday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

07/06/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – Noon

Lamrim Class

09/06/2013 (Sunday)

3.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Lamrim Class

10/06/2013 – 12/06/2013 (Monday – Wednesday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Ganden Tripa Rinpoche Visit

Teaching Topic: The Foundation for All Good Qualities

Venue: Kompleks Masyarakat Penyayang

*** Participants must bring an FM-radio to listen to the English translation. For more details please refer to the attachement file.

14/06/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – Noon

Lamrim Class

16/06/2013 (Sunday)

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Lamrim Class

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Tara Puja

18/06/2013 (Tuesday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

21/06/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – Noon

Lamrim Class

23/06/2013 (Sunday) 

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Lamrim Class

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Medicine Buddha Puja

28/06/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – Noon

Lamrim Class

30/06/2013 (Sunday)

10.00 am – Noon

Animals Liberation

2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Lamrim Class

Famed Buddhist master from Tibet coming to town - The Star, Monday May 20, 2013

A POPULAR Tibetan Buddhist master will be visiting Penang on Thursday until May 28 to give blessings to devotees.

Kyabje Choden Rinpoche (pic), who is the spiritual head of Ananda Dharma Centre at San Jose, California, United States, will be at Chokyi Gyaltsen Centre at 37-Y, Lorong Zoo 1, Air Itam, during this period.

At 2pm on Friday, Choden Rinpoche will conduct the Cha Sum Puja, which is a powerful ritual to eliminate obstacles in one’s life and spiritual practice.

Choden Rinpoche will also conduct a White Umbrella Deity Initiation at 2pm on Saturday and an oral transmission of the Medi-cine Buddha Sutra at 7.30pm on May 28.

Admission is free.

Choden Rinpoche is regarded as one of the great masters of today and is particularly famed for his pure moral conduct. He has taught worldwide and at the Foundation for Preservation of Mahayana Tradition centres at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s request.

When Tibet was invaded in 1959, Choden Rinpoche went into solitary retreat for 19 years. He never left his tiny dark room in Lhasa.

In 1985, he was allowed to leave Tibet for India. Since then, he has taught thousands of students at Sera Jey Monastery in South India, and in Dharma centres around the world.

Source: http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2013/5/20/north/13126895&sec=North

Teachings by H.E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche at CGC

Dharma Activities for the month of May 2013

04/05/2013 (Saturday)  

3.00 pm – 5.00 pm 

Guru Puja

10/05/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – 12 noon

Lamrim Class       

17/05/2013 (Friday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Tara Puja  

Lord Buddha’s Conception

20/05/2013 (Monday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Guru Puja

23/05/2013 (Thursday)

8.30 pm – 10.00 pm

WESAK EVE

·      Lights offering

·      Bathing Buddha

·      Praise to Shakyamuni and the 12 Deeds of Buddha

24/05/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – 12 noon

HAPPY WESAK

·         Bathing Buddha

·         12 Deeds of Buddha

·         Medicine Buddha Puja

(Lunch Provided)

6.30 pm  - 7.30 pm                          

21 Tara praises recitation

7.30 pm – 8.30 pm 

Kyabje Choden Rinpoche arrive

*** Welcome Kyabje Choden Rinpoche

25/05/2013 (Saturday)

10.00 am – 1.00 pm

Members’ Day

(Lunch Provided)

2.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Cham Sum Puja and Oral Transmission on Commentary of Cittamani Tara  

~ By Kyabje Choden Rinpoche

26/05/2013 (Sunday)

2.00 pm – 5.00 pm

White Umbrella Deity Initiation (Jenang)                     

~ By Kyabje Choden Rinpoche

28/05/2013 (Tuesday)

7.30 pm

Oral Transmission of Medicine Buddha Sutra

~ By Kyabje Choden Rinpoche

Dharma Activities for the month of April 2013

5/04/2013 (Friday)  

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm 

Guru Puja

       

06/04/2013 until 14/04/2013 (Saturday until Sunday) 

10.00 am – 9.00 pm

Jade Buddha Event at Penang Times Square 

       

18/04/2013 (Thursday)     

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm 

Tara Puja

20/04/2013 (Saturday)

3.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Guru Puja

25/04/2013 (Thursday)

8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Medicine Buddha Puja

26/04/2013 (Friday)

10.00 am – noon

Lamrim Class       

26/04/2013 (Sunday)

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

Animal Liberation  

2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Lamrim Class

Jade Buddha for Universal Peace