Sangye Menla (Medicine Buddha) Empowerment The Medicine Buddha Empowerment is a very powerful blessing that works on the spiritual, psychological and physical levels, to dispel illness and awaken our innate healing wisdom. Date: June 26th & 27th (full moon & lunar eclipse) Time: 10 am – 4 pm (2 hr. break for lunch on your own) Suggested Donation: $30 Vajrasattva Empowerment Meditation on Vajrasattva and reciting the 100-syllable mantra is one of the most powerful methods of purification and inner transformation in Tibetan Buddhism. It is said that there is no impurity, defilement, or negative karma that cannot be purified through this practice. Date: July 10th & 11th (new moon and solar eclipse) Time: 10 am – 4 pm (2 hr. break for lunch on your own) Suggested Donation: $30 Phowa Retreat Phowa is the Tibetan Buddhist practice of the transference of consciousness at the time of death. It is a critical practice in dying well and consciously. This nine-day retreat will begin with an Amitabha Empowerment and end with an Amitayus Empowerment. Date: August 21st – August 29th Time: Weekends 10-4 pm, weeknights 7-9 pm Suggested Donation: $95 Note: All events will take place at 35-15 Leverich Street in Jackson Heights, New York 11372 - Apt 509. |

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