This ongoing event is open for registration through 12 June 2025. You are cordially invited to participate by sending offerings and optional dedications.
We are pleased to share photos taken by Bokar Ngedon Chokhor Ling monastery, Mirik, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
Event ID: 3836
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Brief description: Saka Dawa commemorates the holiest and most sacred days in Tibetan Buddhism. Falling in the fourth month of the Tibetan calendar, the special activities during Saka Dawa culminate on the full moon of the 15th lunar day, which this year falls on June 11th, 2025. This time is associated with three major events in the life of Buddha Shakyamuni, his birth, enlightenment and mahaparinirvana. The merit of any good deeds performed during the special month of Saka Dawa is considered to be multiplied many times. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: The ‘Gong-ter Zab-tik Dol-chog’ is a profound Tara practice held annually at Bokar Ngedon Chokhor Ling Monastery over eight consecutive days during the sacred month of Saka Dawa, according to the Tibetan lunar calendar. Presided over by Kyabje Bokar Khenchen Lodoe Thonyor Rinpoche, the practice involves invoking and meditating on Tara, with the first seven days dedicated to the recitation of Tara prayers and extensive offerings, culminating in a special Tara mandala ritual known as ‘Tashi Charbab’ on the eighth day, which coincides with the 15th day—or full moon—of Saka Dawa. The practices related to Tara, the female embodiment of the enlightened activity of all the Buddhas, are especially renowned for being highly efficacious in pacifying and bringing protection from all the myriad causes of danger and suffering for ourselves and others and for bringing the fulfilment of all positive good wishes.
Nyungney is a powerful practice which includes strict fasting and centres on the recitation of prayers and mantras, as well as on guided visualizations of Chenrezig (Avalokitesvara), the embodiment of all the buddhas’ loving-kindness and compassion. Translated as ‘abiding in the fast’, Nyungney is said to be especially effective in the healing of illnesses, the nurturing of compassion, and the purification of negative karma.
There is no webcast for this event. Gompa member-supporters are invited to register for the event and to send offerings, together with dedications, at any time up until June 12th, 2025.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.