2nd Annual
Water Bowl Offerings
A Preliminary Retreat
with Ven. Jangchup Phelgyal
August 21-29
Vajrapani is pleased to offer the popular water bowl retreat again this summer!
The Water Bowl Offering Retreat is a rare experience in which a minimum of 100,000 water bowls are offered. Lama Zopa has said that each retreater gains the merit of the sum of all water bowls filled by all participants! Each participant will thus be able to claim 100,000 water bowls in meeting the requirements of their Preliminary Practice.
Partial attendance is possible with credit given for the days you can attend. People that come just one day can accumulate at least 10,000 water bowls.
Venerable Jangchup offers delightful encouragement and teachings throughout the practice. Sessions will be interspersed with meditation on what it means to make offerings and gain merit as an expression of guru devotion, a condition essential to quick enlightenment: “We accumulate masses of negative imprints in our minds. The water bowl offering is a symbolic practice to clean those imprints. People reported changes; subtle things happen”, says Venerable Jangchup.
Ordained in 1995, Venerable Jangchup Phelgyal came to live at Vajrapani in 2005 where he teaches and gives a waterbowl retreat each summer: “It was a wonderful opportunity to meet Buddhists and not Buddhists of various levels of practice. In the course of the days during the retreat, we saw how we changed and grew and we celebrated together”, says Venerable Jangchub about his experience in the first Water Bowl Offering Retreat.

"I am so
grateful to have Venerable Jangchup as a friend and teacher...I
have learned so much from him about myself and the world around
me...."
Venerable
Jangchup trained and taught at Columbia, Yale, Oxford and
Stanford Universities and has three masters degrees and a
doctorate in psychology with clinical training.
At thirty, Hawkins Mitchell Ph.D. took his mother's maiden name
because he thought it sounded more distinguished.
His name was
changed once again when he received full ordination.
His translator wrote out his bikshu name for him on a
slip of paper, but failed to explain that he'd spelled it phonetically
and written the last name first and
first name last without adding an all-important comma.
The result: his
first name (which was in fact his last) is not generally written
with a "p" and his last (which is indeed his first)
does not exist in Tibetan.
Venerable
Jangchup laughs. "Samsara will get you every time. Remember, I'm the guy who wanted a distinguished name; and I
got it all right. For
years I thought I was introducing myself as, say, John Smith,
while in fact it was coming out as "Hello, my name is
Snithe Jaboo."
SCHEDULE
August 21:
3:00pm-5:00pm Registration
6:00pm Dinner
7:30pm Introduction session
August 22 to 28:
5:00am-5:30am Prostrations to the 35 Buddhas (main gompa)
5:30am-8:30 First session (stupa)
8:30am-9:30am Breakfast break
9:30am-12:00pm Second session (stupa)
12:00pm-3:30pm Lunch break
3:30pm-6:00pm Third session (stupa)
6:00pm Dinner break
After dinner there will be sharing time (movies, discussions, explanations of the benefits of the water bowl offering…)
The retreat will end on August 29th with lunch.
| Fees: (inclusive of
accommodation, meals, retreat fees) |
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Non-Member |
Member |
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10% |
| Camping |
$840.00 |
$756.00 |
| Main Dormitory |
$880.00 |
$792.00 |
| Semi Private Dormitory |
$920.00 |
$828.00 |
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| Private Room (single) |
$1,200.00 |
$1,080.00 |
| Private Room (double) |
$1,080.00 |
$972.00 |
| Cabin (single) |
$1,360.00 |
$1,224.00 |
| Cabin
(double) |
$1,160.00 |
$1,044.00 |
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| Scholarship Application deadline |
21st
July |
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No one will be turned away for lack of funds
PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING
-Warm clothes for mornings and evenings
-A holy personal object to put in the stupa during the sessions
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here for details regarding financial aid
Click
Here for Course and Registration General Info
Cancellation
Policy
A position for Course
Manager Scholarship might still be available for this
course. Click here for more
information.
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