2024 Event Gallery

January – April 2024 Online ZOOM Teachings with International Sangha

– led by Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche

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April 27th – 28th, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST – Vipassana Meditation

with Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche at Tibet House Brazil (Online ZOOM)

Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche will explain how to use traditional techniques of Vipassana, analytical or discursive meditation, and non-conceptual meditation or resting the mind, to come to understand and directly experience the fundamental nature of mind and phenomena.

These teachings will be based on the book, Stages of Meditation. For information about the Kindle edition, click here.

For information about the Apple Book edition, click here.

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13 -14 April 2024, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST – Mahamudra Retreat in Brazil

with Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche (Online ZOOM)

Jigten Sumgon’s Song of the Realization of the Five Limbs of Mahāmudrā & Ganges Mahāmudrā by Tilopa – Commentary by Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche

Mahāmudrā is a collection of teachings and meditation methods that allow practitioners to discover and gradually stabilize the recognition of the fundamental nature of mind.

** Mandarin & Spanish translation available

Click here for the Deity Yoga Sadhana Practice Book

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30 – 31 March 2024, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST – Tsik Sum Né Dek, The 3 Statements that Strike the Vital Point

with Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche (Online ZOOM)

Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche will continue with teachings on Garab Dorje’s brief and profound instructions that embody the essence of the Dzogchen path.

* Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche has requested that we commit to listen to every teaching in this Dzogchen series (about 3 weekends). Students are encouraged to join online during each teaching session.

Click here for Patrul Rinpoche Teaching:  Three Statements Strike the Vital Point

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03 – 04 February 2024, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST –  Buddha Amitabha Teaching & Practice

*In-person at DDSC Temple & online with International Sangha

Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche will lead this profound practice to invoke the blessings of Buddha Amitabha and perform the Jangchok ritual.

The  Buddha Amitabha Jangchok ritual connects those who have died with the blessings of Buddha Amitabha, creating the causes for a positive rebirth and the removal of obstacles.

TEXTS:

***  To submit names of the deceased for the Jangchok Puja, please click here.

To submit names of the deceased for the Jangchok Puja, please click here.

***  If you would like to make an offering for the Buddha Amitabha & Jangchok Puja, please click here.

If you would like to make an offering for the Buddha Amitabha & Jangchok Puja, please click here.

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20 -21 January 2024, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST – Preliminary Practices (Ngondro) of the Profound Five-fold Path of Mahamudra

Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche will give the transmission and instructions for the preliminary practices (Ngondro) of the Five-fold Mahamudra. Engaging in this suite of practices purifies the mind of negativity and gathers the accumulations of merit and wisdom.

This purification process creates receptivity to the more subtle methods of Mahamudra and Dzogchen.

* Online with Mandarin translation available

Click here for the Deity Yoga Sadhana Practice Book

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Lamp Offerings:

*** If you would like to make Special Lamp Offering (108 lamps) or Crystal Lamp Offering (1 Year) during this Special Teaching for Dedication of Merits to Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/lamp-offerings/ OR https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-living/, and provide us with names in request submission.

*** For Pujas for the Deceased Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-deceased/  OR  https://drikungdharmasurya.org/donation/ and provide us with names in request submission.

*** Your Donations are deeply and gratefully appreciated, as they will be used to help operate and sustain the Center for the benefit of all beings. Anyone with a wish to participate is welcome to attend, and no one is turned away due to a lack of funds.

2nd Annual Traditional 4-Nyungne (8 Days) Retreats

27 February – 06 March 2024 (Month of Miracles)

In-Person @ DDSC Temple & On-Line ZOOM with Worldwide Sangha

…led by Lama Bunima with Khenmo Tsechik and Lopön Ani Gamtso

This Nyungne Retreat will be held after Losar (the Tibetan New Year) during the auspicious Month of Miracles. The Nyungne practice is a profound kriya tantra meditation ritual based on loving-kindness and compassion in the form of Thousand-Armed Chenrezig.

Video Clips of Sangha Practices during 2nd Annual  Traditional 4-Nyungne (8 Days) Retreats

  • 1st Nyungne, starts Feb 27, ends Feb 29: 9AM – 6:30PM EST (1st Day); 9AM – 6:30PM EST (2nd Day)

    • End of 1st Nyungne, Feb 29:  7AM – 7:30AM EST

  • 2nd Nyungne, starts Feb 29, ends Mar 02: 9AM – 6:30PM EST (1st Day); 9AM – 6:30PM EST (2nd Day)

    • End of 2nd Nyungne, Mar 02:  7AM – 7:30AM EST

  • 3rd Nyungne, starts Mar 02, ends Mar 04: 9AM – 6:30PM EST (1st Day); 9AM – 6:30PM EST (2nd Day)

    • End of 3rd Nyungne, Mar 04:  7AM – 7:30AM EST

  • 4th Nyungne, starts Mar 04, ends Mar 06: 9AM – 6:30PM EST (1st Day); 9AM – 6:30PM EST (2nd Day)

    • Retreat Conclusion, Mar 06:  7AM – 9AM EST

Each Nyungne session is a complete whole. Participants can take part in one, several or eight Nyungne sessions.  In each Nyungne session, Lunch @12:30 – 2PM EST on 1st day; Fasting on 2nd day ’till 7AM on following day. 

The practice involves maintaining strict 8 Mahayana Precepts vow and meditating while reciting mantras and prayers, and performing prostrations and visualizations. Undertaken in sets of two days, the first day includes one vegetarian meal at noon, drinking water throughout the day as needed. The second day is a complete fast performed in noble silence.

First time practitioners are encouraged to choose the first Nyungne because the explanations for the meditation will be given then.

The Nyungne is renowned as a superior means to purify negative karma and accumulate great merit. It is said that completing even one Nyungne prevents rebirth in the lower realms, and the practice of eight consecutive Nyungne leads to birth in Buddha Amitabha’s Pure Land of Dewachen.

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche has given this specific message regarding the Nyungne practice series:  “Geshe Ngawang Phuntsok Rinpoche said: ‘The Nyungne ritual is simple but has great benefits.’ As said in The Benefits of the Mahayana Sojong Vows, ‘Completing this practice even just once, one could take rebirth in the human or god realm; one could gain a precious human body that leads to temporary happiness and, ultimately, to enlightenment.’ Lama Bu Nima attended the first Nyungne I led in Gargon in 1982, and he has done many more since. He continues to conduct this practice in the traditional way. And now he is responsible for leading this monthly Nyungne retreat.”

Suggested Donation:  $40 / person / each Nyungne session OR $160 / person / all 4 Nyungne sessions

  • Any donations are deeply and gratefully appreciated, as they will be used to help operate and sustain the Center for the benefit of all beings. Anyone with a wish to participate is welcome to attend, and no one is turned away due to a lack of funds.

  • Please specify which Nyungne #, 1 or several, or all 4 sessions that you register to attend.  The temple can also then plan for vegetarian lunch for everyone.

  • Please contact DDSC at drikungdharmasurya@gmail.com if you are out of town participant for the entire in-person retreat and look for accommodation.

Registration required at:

  • drikungdharmasurya.org/upcoming-events/
  • drikungdharmasurya@gmail.com

Click here for Registration for Zoom link:  

Zoom Info & Registration

To register for the Zoom meeting information, click the above button.  If you do not receive the email, please check your Spam folder.  Thank you!

Lamp Offerings:

*** If you would like to make Special Lamp Offering (108 lamps) or Crystal Lamp Offering (1 Year) during this Special Teaching for Dedication of Merits to Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/lamp-offerings/ OR https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-living/, and provide us with names in request submission.

*** For Pujas for the Deceased Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-deceased/  OR  https://drikungdharmasurya.org/donation/ and provide us with names in request submission.

Event Details:

Practice Texts

  • Your Donations are deeply and gratefully appreciated, as they will be used to help operate and sustain the Center for the benefit of all beings. Anyone with a wish to participate is welcome to attend, and no one is turned away due to a lack of funds.

New Year Celebration with Green Tara Blessings

bestowed by

8th Arjia Rinpoche

In-Person @ DDSC Temple with Mongolian and DDSC Monastics

…for the Washington D.C. Mongolian Buddhist Community and Public Sangha

25 February 2024 @ 2PM EST

Video Clips of New Year Celebration & Green Tara Blessings by 8th Arjia Rinpoche @ DDSC, 25 Feb 2024

  

Lamp Offerings:

*** If you would like to make Special Lamp Offering (108 lamps) or Crystal Lamp Offering (1 Year) during this Special Teaching for Dedication of Merits to Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/lamp-offerings/ OR https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-living/, and provide us with names in request submission.

*** For Pujas for the Deceased Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-deceased/  OR  https://drikungdharmasurya.org/donation/ and provide us with names in request submission.

Avalokiteshvara Empowerment

bestowed by

His Holiness the 37th Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang

In-Person @ DDSC Temple with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang & On-line ZOOM with Worldwide Sangha

24 February 2024, Full Moon @ 10AM EST

…24 February 2024 is the Full Moon known as Chötrul Düchen, “Great Day of Miraculous Manifestations”. It is believed that the effects of both positive and negative actions are multiplied ten million times.

Video Clips of Avalokiteshvara Empowerment Event by HH Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang @ DDSC, 24 Feb 2024

 

Registration required at:

  • drikungdharmasurya.org/upcoming-events/
  • drikungdharmasurya@gmail.com

Click here for Registration for Zoom link:  

Zoom Info & Registration

To register for the Zoom meeting information, click the above button.  If you do not receive the email, please check your Spam folder.  Thank you!

Lamp Offerings:

*** If you would like to make Special Lamp Offering (108 lamps) or Crystal Lamp Offering (1 Year) during this Special Teaching for Dedication of Merits to Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/lamp-offerings/ OR https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-living/, and provide us with names in request submission.

*** For Pujas for the Deceased Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-deceased/  OR  https://drikungdharmasurya.org/donation/ and provide us with names in request submission.

Event Details:

Practice Texts

  • Opening and Closing Prayers: Deity Yoga Sadhana Practice Book
  • Your Donations are deeply and gratefully appreciated, as they will be used to help operate and sustain the Center for the benefit of all beings. Anyone with a wish to participate is welcome to attend, and no one is turned away due to a lack of funds.

1 MILLION CHENREZIG MANDALA PRACTICE

…accumulation Merit Offerings For World Peace 

FEB 16 (Friday) – FEB 19, 2024 (Monday)

In-Person @ DDSC Temple & On-line ZOOM with Worldwide Sangha

…led by Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche with Khenpo Tashi Nyima, Lama Bunima, Khenmo Tsechik and Lopön Ani Gamtso

FEB 16 (Friday) – FEB 19, 2024 (Monday):  10AM – 12PM & 2PM – 4PM EST

…Accumulation Merit Offerings For World Peace 

…The Days of Miracles – beginning on 1st day of Tibetan New Year Losar on 10 Feb 2024 – commemorate the special time when Buddha Shakyamuni showed miraculous powers, and culminate on Chötrul Düchen, 24 Feb 2024. 

…The Mani Retreat is centered on the boundless love, compassion, and wisdom of Avalokiteshvara, whose mantra is OM MANI PADME HUNG HRIH.  When we recite OM MANI PADME HUNG with the mind to benefit all beings, we are engaging in a profound method that transforms our impure body, speech, and mind to a pure state of body, speech, and mind. Reciting each syllable of the Mani mantra with a mind of bodhicitta closes the doors to the six realms of samsara and frees sentient beings from suffering.

Video Clips of 1 Million Chenrezig Mandala Practices @ DDSC, 16 – 19 February 2024

Suggested Donation:  $60 / person

  • Any donations are deeply and gratefully appreciated, as they will be used to help operate and sustain the Center for the benefit of all beings. Anyone with a wish to participate is welcome to attend, and no one is turned away due to a lack of funds.

Registration required at:

  • drikungdharmasurya.org/upcoming-events/
  • drikungdharmasurya@gmail.com

Click here for Registration for Zoom link:  

Zoom Info & Registration

To register for the Zoom meeting information, click the above button.  If you do not receive the email, please check your Spam folder.  Thank you!

Lamp Offerings:

*** If you would like to make Special Lamp Offering (108 lamps) or Crystal Lamp Offering (1 Year) during this Special Teaching for Dedication of Merits to Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/lamp-offerings/ OR https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-living/, and provide us with names in request submission.

*** For Pujas for the Deceased Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-deceased/  OR  https://drikungdharmasurya.org/donation/ and provide us with names in request submission.

Event Details:

Practice Texts

  • Opening and Closing Prayers: Deity Yoga Sadhana Practice Book
  • MANI Text:  PRACTICE OF THE EXALTED AVALOKITESHVARA
  • Practice books will be provided.
  • You are welcome to attend the retreat as your schedule allows.
  • Your Donations are deeply and gratefully appreciated, as they will be used to help operate and sustain the Center for the benefit of all beings. Anyone with a wish to participate is welcome to attend, and no one is turned away due to a lack of funds.
“The more Mani mantras we recite, the more love will increase in the minds of sentient beings, the more hatred will decrease. The minds of beings will become peaceful and happy, which will also help one’s country. If the minds of humans become peaceful and happy, then also the minds of spirits will become peaceful and happy. The Mani mantra practice is supreme in order to bring about peace and happiness.”

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche

2024 LOSAR New Year of the Dragon CELEBRATION with Blessings and Gifts

10 – 11 February 2024

In-Person @ DDSC Temple with Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche & On-Line ZOOM with Worldwide Sangha

…to be led by Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche

  • Saturday, February 10, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST:   Fortune Buddha Dzambhala Empowerment with New Year Blessings

  • Sunday, February 11, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST:  Bodhicitta Teaching with Buddha Shakyamuni, Fortune Dzambhala, Achi Chökyi Drolma Smoke Offerings and Prayer Flag Raising Ceremony & Wei Sang Smoke Offering

CLICK HERE for ZOOM LINK

Meeting ID: 892 1520 3598

Passcode: 623864

CLICK HERE TO VIEW PHOTO GALLERY OF 2024 LOSAR CELEBRATION @ DDSC

CLICK VIDEO CLIPS BELOW TO WATCH 

Lamp Offerings:

*** If you would like to make Special Lamp Offering (108 lamps) or Crystal Lamp Offering (1 Year) during this Special Teaching for Dedication of Merits to Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/lamp-offerings/ OR https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-living/, and provide us with names in request submission.

*** For Pujas for the Deceased Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-deceased/  OR  https://drikungdharmasurya.org/donation/ and provide us with names in request submission.

Event Details:

Practice Texts

  • Opening and Closing Prayers: Deity Yoga Sadhana Practice Book
  • Your Donations are deeply and gratefully appreciated, as they will be used to help operate and sustain the Center for the benefit of all beings. Anyone with a wish to participate is welcome to attend, and no one is turned away due to a lack of funds.

HEART SUTRA PURIFICATION PUJA

04 FEBUARY 2024, 1PM – 5PM EST

…Ritual Purification Puja with Nepalese Tamang Society of Greater Washington (TSGW) for LOSAR 2024 Year of the Dragon

In-Person @ DDSC Temple

…led by Nepalese Monastics and Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche

Video Clips of Heart Sutra Purification Puja

SPECIAL INTERRELIGIOUS COMMUNITY EVENT

28 JANUARY 2024, 7PM – 10PM EST

…with Representatives from Six (6) Other Religious Faiths

…to collaborate and explore sacred architecture, get to know one another, heal divides, deepen understanding of self and others, create community, and build an inspiring future.

In-Person @ DDSC Temple

…with Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche & Representatives from Wiccan, Judaism, Muslim, Hindu, Catholic, and Baptist religions

  • 37 Bodhisattva Practices Recitation
  • Mindfulness Meditation
  • Explanation of DDSC’s sacred Shrine Hall & Drikung Kagyu and its Practices
  • Informal Dialogue / Discussion with Q & A
  • Spiritual Journey to Buddhism by Sangha Members

CLICK HERE TO VIEW PHOTO GALLERY OF 2024 Interreligious Community Event @ DDSC

Video Clips of Informal Group Dialogue / Discussion

Vipassana (Special Insight) Guided Meditation Retreat

06 – 07 January 2024

@ DDSC In-Person and Virtual ZOOM

…to be led by Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche with Khenmo Tsechik and Lopön Ani Gamtso

06 – 07 January 2024:  10AM – 12PM & 2PM – 4PM EST

…offered to General Public of All Levels from All Walks of Life

Boy Scout of America Fairfax Virginia Team & Families visiting DDSC During Lunch Break of Vipassana Retreat

Suggested Donation:  $40 / person

  • Any donations are deeply and gratefully appreciated, as they will be used to help operate and sustain the Center for the benefit of all beings. Anyone with a wish to participate is welcome to attend, and no one is turned away due to a lack of funds.

Registration required at:

  • drikungdharmasurya.org/upcoming-events/
  • drikungdharmasurya@gmail.com

Click here for Registration for Zoom link:  

Zoom Information & Registration

To register for the Zoom meeting information, click the above button.  If you do not receive the email, please check your Spam folder.  Thank you!

Lamp Offerings:

*** If you would like to make Special Lamp Offering (108 lamps) or Crystal Lamp Offering (1 Year) during this Special Teaching for Dedication of Merits to Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/lamp-offerings/ OR https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-living/, and provide us with names in request submission.

*** For Pujas for the Deceased Parents or Loved Ones, please proceed on DDSC webpage at https://drikungdharmasurya.org/pujas-for-the-deceased/  OR  https://drikungdharmasurya.org/donation/ and provide us with names in request submission.

Event Details:

Practice Texts

  • Opening and Closing Prayers: Deity Yoga Sadhana Practice Book
  • Your Donations are deeply and gratefully appreciated, as they will be used to help operate and sustain the Center for the benefit of all beings. Anyone with a wish to participate is welcome to attend, and no one is turned away due to a lack of funds.