We are very happy to announce that our temple is becoming complete and very traditional. Especially, we have a very wonderful statue of Buddha Shakyamuni from India, and a great Guru Padmasambhava statue from China.Traditionally the filling up of statues is very important, and we have filled our statues with precious and holy substances from Tibet and from great masters. Therefore these are very blessful and wonderful statues both externally and internally – it’s very rare to find similar in Finland.

When a temple is completed, it’s traditional for the whole sangha to gather to do a consecration and celebrate. We have decided to have the consecration, party and an empowerment on July 15th – 16th 2018. The third year of the five year course on Relaxing in the nature of mind is finished on 14th, and right after that Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche and Venerable Khenpo Pema Rangjung will do a consecration of the temple and the statues on the morning of 15th at 9 am. We will have a great party from lunch until evening. We have performances planned, and everyone is also welcome to give their performances of singing, playing instruments etc. You can stay overnight.

Venerable Khenpo Pema Rangjung will kindly bestow the empowerment of Guru Rinpoche in the morning of 16th at 9 am. This is the first empowerment to be given in this precious land. This is a very auspicious time for the empowerment because 16th is the festival of Buddha’s turning of the wheel of dharma. We wish to gather as many participants as possible, because this is a very special event. The program finishes at 11 am.

Venerable Khenpo Pema Rangjung is a khenpo from Dzogchen Shri Singha university. Please read more at his website dzogchenkhenpo.org Please register by July 9th by filling the form at https://goo.gl/forms/4ZAB6JDIbi2sNyIN2 Attendance is free of charge. Donations to the center and lamas are welcome.

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Teaching on Konchog Chidu. For more information please click here.

Teaching on 6 paramitas.

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The sangha of Danakosha gatrhers to celebrate Saga Dawa festival, the festival of Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana. Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche will kindly give refuge vows to those having requested. This is followed by a group practice. Visitors are welcome to the sang practice at 9:00 and to lunch!

Schedule:
8:00-9:00 Refuge vows
9:00-12:00 Sang practice
12:30-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-16:30 Buddha Shakyamuni practice

Please register by May 22nd to info@danakosha.fi.

Conclusion of the teaching on six bardos.

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Bardo is used to refer to the state between death and rebirth. In Tibetan Buddhism, this in-between state is seen as a precious opportunity to reach liberation as the coarse forces of this life cease to apply. Furthermore, bardo can refer to any transitional state, many of which can occur even in this very life and can thus be utilized to reach enlightenment.

Schedule
Sat – Sun 21. – 22.4.
10:00-11:30 teaching
11:30-14:00 lunch break
14:00-16:00 teaching

Suggested donation
One day 25€ / 20€ (normal / student or unemployed)
Both days 50€ / 40€

Registrations to info@danakosha.org by April 16th.

Transport
Tram 3 or buses 14 and 18

The sangha of Danakosha gathers to a Tibetan New Year reception with Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche. We will do a short prayer followed by a short dinner together.

Accommodation in a dormitory 10 €, if you wish to stay for the night.

The program starts at 6 pm, but you can come at any time you wish during the day. If you wish you can bring food or snacks to the table.

Everybody is cordially welcome to join us on this special occasion. Please register by February 9th.

The Power of Aspiration – Four causes of being born in the realm of Buddha Amitabha

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche at Tampere, Finland. February 2-4th 2018

How to be born in the pure land of Buddha Amitabha? Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche kindly teaches four methods creating the causes to be born in the realm of Buddha Amitabha. The teaching is based on ancient Buddhist tradition and is mentioned in many sutras. These are motivation, aspiration, visualization and bodhichitta mind. Venerating Buddha Amitabha is especially popular in China, but also many Tibetan masters have composed prayers for a birth in Dewachen realm (sanskr. Sukhavati). Concentrating on Amitabha is one of the easiest ways for attaining enlightenment, becauseanyone can do these practices.

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche is a fully authorized teacher and Buddhist master, who leads Danakosha Dharma Center.

The event is organized by the Tibetan Buddhist center Danakosha Ling, a Tibetan Buddhist center in the Nyingma tradition offering Buddhist teachings and retreats. Read more at www.danakosha.org.

We will show photos and videos from Tibet during the teaching breaks. Danakosha Trust presents their projects and sponsor a child programs in the Himalayas. Danakosha Trust is a non-profit aid programme promoting education, cultural exchange and the empowering of communities living in Himalayan area. Currently the focus is on fundraising efforts on the primary education of children and youth in two projects in Northern India and Eastern Tibet. Programmes & how to participate: www.danakoshatrust.org

Location: Werstas, the Finnish Labour Museum in Tampere, Bertel hall, 2nd floor. www.werstas.fi. Väinö Linnan aukio 8 33210 Tampere, Finland.

Recommended payment for the course: employed 50 € (Fri 10 €, Sat+Sun 20+20 €), the unemployed and students 38 € (Fri 8 €, Sat+Sun 15+15 €).

Schedule:

Fri February 2nd 2018 at 18-19:30

Sat-Sun February 3rd and 4th 2018
10-11:30 Buddhist teaching
13-13:45 Danakosha Trust presents their activities (free attendance)
14-15:30 Buddhist teaching

Please register to info@danakosha.org

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Konchog Chidu Drubchod retreat.
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Danakosha organizes a karma yoga of two weekends of concentrated and diligent work at Danakosha Ling at the following weekends:

Fri Sep 29 – Sun Oct 1 2017
Fri Oct 6 – Sun Oct 8 2017

There is a lot of work needed to be finished before the winter arrives. We wish there will be as many participants as possible, and request everyone who can come to join us in the work. Food will be offered to the participants.

There will also be a Guru Rinpoche tsog in Danakosha Ling on Saturday September 30th at 4 pm.

We need to know the number of participants on each day for the arrangements. Please indicate when you can come in the following doodle calendar: https://doodle.com/poll/dueewhrm363x9k45

Location: Danakosha Ling, Forssantie 37, Jokioinen, Finland

Danakosha has a great joy to announce that Khunu Rinpoche is going to visit Finland. He is a reincarnation of Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen, who was a very learned scholar of the nonsectarian rime movement and one of the teachers of H.H. the Dalai Lama. His reincarnation was recognized by H.H. the Dalai Lama and H.H. the Sakya Trizin. He received his education in Mindrolling Monastery in Dehra Dun, India. He has received teachings from e.g. H.H. Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche and H.H. the Dalai Lama, all of who were students of his previous incarnation.

We will do a Guru Rinpoche tsog with Khunu Rinpoche on Saturday September 30th at 4 pm. After this he will give a dharma teaching. After the teaching, those who wish can offer him a khata and an offering envelope.

The program is held at Danakosha Ling, Forssantie 37, Jokioinen, Finland.

Cordially welcome!

Organized by Zangthal Editions and Wisdom Publications.
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The subject of the weekend teaching is Wheel of Analysis and Meditation, a text written by the great master Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche. This teaching is an instruction to meditation very suitable for beginners. Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche will kindly explain Mipham Rinpoche’s text.

It is said in the text:

Whatever problems there are in the world
Are created by the afflictions in our own minds.
A mistaken attitude is a cause for the kleshas,
Yet the pattern of our thoughts can be refined.

We don’t know how problems come from our own mind, and how to keep our mind at peace. Therefore Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche gave an explanation on how to do that through meditation, as well as how to measure the progress at meditation and the significance of the practice. This is the essence of the teaching.

This is one of the most important teachings for creating positive actions and for attaining Enlightenment. It is also the essence of all of the Buddha’s teachings. Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche says in the text:

To recite the Four Seals of the Mahayana Dharma
Is equivalent to understanding the teachings
In the eighty-four thousand sections of the Dharma.
If you meditate well on the points explained here,
Since they bring together the key points of many thousands of sutras,
You will easily gain the treasure of knowing perfectly the profound and vast,
And liberation will swiftly follow in its wake.

Schedule:
Friday September 8th at 19-21
Saturday September 9th at 9:30-11:30 and 15:30-17:30
Sunday September 10th at 9:30-11:30 and 14:30-16:30 Please note the changed time

Price: 50 €, includes teaching and food.
Accommodation inside 10 € / night (bring your own sleeping bag). Places for inside accommodation are limited. Accommodation in your own tent 10 € for the weekend.

Location: Danakosha Ling, Forssantie 37, Jokioinen, Finland

Registrations by Wed August 30th by email to info@danakosha.fi
Please indicate your wish for the accommodation in your registration.

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Sampa Lhundrub Weekend. Read more here.

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has kindly agreed to give teachings on the 37 practices of Bodhisattvas in the Saga Dawa festival, the festival of Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana.

For everyone who wishes to attain real happiness and full bliss through the Buddhist religion it’s very important to know how these methods are actually practiced and used. There are many different methods for beings with different faculties. The great bodhisattva master Gyalse Thokme Zangpo gave this very useful teaching for beings with three different kinds of faculties about how to practice Buddhadharma and especially Mahayana. This teaching is especially useful for new dharma practitioners.

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche also gives refuge vows to those having requested. You can also request other vows from Rinpoche, such as five lay vows, bodhichitta vow or a vow of vegetarianism. If you are taking vows, please bring a ceremonial khata scarf to be offered to the Lama.

Schedule:
Fri June 9th at 9-12 and 14:30-17:30: Practice
Sat June 10th – Sun June 11th at 10-12 and 15-17: Teaching on 37 practices of Bodhisattvas

Prices:
Recommended offering for the teaching: 50 €
Accommodation inside: 20 € / night
Accommodation in a tent: 30 € for the whole time / tent
Meals: 15 € / day

We organize carpools. Please let us know if you need a ride or can provide one, where you depart from, and when.

Registrations by June 2nd 2017 to info@danakosha.fi

As you know, Danakosha has gotten a wonderful place in the mid-point of the three major cities in south-western Finland. We emphasize being an authentic Buddhist center for study and practice, for students from all over the world, and particularly for northern Europe. There are very few Tibetan Buddhist centers in northern Europe. In this center we will offer summer courses and annual retreats, such as traditional drubchens and many other events.

In order for everything to go smoothly for the participants and organizers, we need to build rooms for accommodation, take care of the environment, and establish symbolic monuments of Buddhism, such as temples, stupas, mani wheels, etc. We need many people to help, particularly those with skills in construction. Our karma yoga program will take place between May 5th 2017 to June 4th 2017, and you can come for any time that is suitable for you. We offer accommodation and food for the voluntary workers. The supervisor of the project will be Jarkko Soihtu.

It would also be of great help if you have extra bathroom or kitchen furniture, which you can donate. We need for example faucets, toilet seats, sinks, an industrial dishwasher, a big fan-assisted oven, industrial hotplates or a gas stove, refridgerators, chest freezers, possibly a soup kitchen, a wood-burning stove, a big paella pan, etc. Suggest freely.

We would be happy to know as soon as you know if you can come to help in the renovations. Please contact us to info@danakosha.fi

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche will continue with the teachings from Karling Zhithro and gives the oral transmission to one of Longchenpa’s seven treasures, Tsig Dön Dzö – The Treasure of the genuine meaning.

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January 21st to 22nd: Mindrolling Taipei
January 25th to 26th: Chuan-der
January 31st to February 2nd: Chuan-der

The sangha of Danakosha gathers to a Tibetan New Year reception. We will spend a moment of prayer for those who suffer or die in Tibet, and for all who suffer due to wars, natural disasters or other reasons around the world. This short prayer will be followed by a short dinner together.

Everybody is cordially welcome to join us on this special occasion. Please register by February 20th.

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Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has very kindly agreed to give teachings on A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s way of life, a classic text of Mahayana Buddhism by the great master Shantideva. The text presents the essential practices and way of life of a Bodhisattva, a person who has set to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings.

After the teaching we do gomde meditation and recitation practice.

Tuesdays Nov 22nd, Nov 29th, Dec 13th, Dec 20th at 6 pm at Theosophical society, Vironkatu 7 C 2, Helsinki.

For non-members we suggest a donation of 7-10 euros / session. Donations make it possible to run our activities and for an authentic lama to reside in Finland.

Everyone interested is cordially welcome!

Teaching from Dza Patrul Rinpoche: Clarifying the Two Truths.

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Danakosha Dharma Center celebrates its 10 year anniversary and getting our new place, Danakosha Ling in Jokioinen, on the day of Lha Bab Duchen, the festival of Buddha’s descent from heaven, on November 20th. Everybody is cordially welcome to join us on this special day.

The celebration takes place at Danakosha Ling, Forssantie 37, Jokioinen, on Sunday November 20th, starting at 10. We will have lunch at 12.

Registrations by November 11th. Please let us know if you need a ride, or if you can offer a ride.

Pith instructions of the common preliminaries of the Longchen Nyingthig cycle of Great perfection.

For more information please visit www.danakosha.se

Friday 4.11. – Sunday 6.11. Teachings on the six bardos
Sunday 6.11. Morning: Teaching continues
Afternoon and evening: Initiation of Hundred peaceful and wrathful deities from the tradition of Karma Lingpa (Karling shitro), torwang (initiation bestowed with support of torma).

For more information please contact tulkudakpa2016@gmail.com

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We are very honored to announce that the consort of late His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche, Mindrolling Sangyum Kushog, will visit Danakosha Dharma Center in Finland for the first time with with a retinue of many monks and nuns, including Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Mindrolling Monastery’s current chanting master Tulku Ngawang Jigdral Rinpoche. Very venerable Mindrolling Sangyum Kushog received numerous teachings from His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche, and she is a great practitioner and mother of Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche. We are very happy that she is able to appear in this country, which for us, is a blessing comparable to having His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche visit here himself. His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche is the root teacher of Danakosha’s spiritual director Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche.

WELCOMING CEREMONY
We would like to invite all of you to the welcoming ceremony of Venerable Mindrolling Sangyum Kushog at Danakosha Dharma Center, Museokatu 17 A, Helsinki, on Friday October 14th at 5 pm.

Historically Danakosha is the birthplace of Garab Dorje and Padmasambhava. The great Dzogchen master Garab Dorje taught the Dzogchen teachings in this world in this fortunate kalpa. Garab Dorje’s great disciples Shri Singha and Padmasambhava attained realization of Great Perfection equal to Garab Dorje. The teachings of those great masters have been held and spread all over the world by innumerable dakinis of both Oddiyana and Tibet, and the lineage remains to this day.

BLESSING OF DANAKOSHA LING IN JOKIOINEN
Now to our great joy and auspiciousness the great consort Mindrolling Sangyum Kushog has agreed to bless Danakosha’s new place, Danakosha Ling, in Jokioinen, for the benefit of sentient beings, and for spreading and remaining of Buddhadharma all over the world.

Childrens’ Buddhist Lotus Club visits Danakosha. The club explores Buddhism in a way suitable for children, and is intended for children aged 5-12 (younger children can come with their parents). The program includes Manjushri mantras with Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche, among other things.

Read more at the website of the club (in Finnish).

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July 6th is the birthday of H.H. the Dalai Lama. Danakosha’s sangha gathers to celebrate this by making a mandala offering and praying together for the continued activities and long life of H.H. the Dalai Lama. This is followed by a tea party.

We invite everyone to join us on this special day.

Registrations by July 1st.

Danakosha has the great joy to announce that Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has very kindly agreed to bestow an empowerment of Tara in connection with Saga Dawa festival, the festival of Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana. Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche also gives refuge vows to those having requested. You can also request other vows from Rinpoche, such as five lay vows, bodhichitta vow or a vow of vegetarianism. If you are taking vows, please bring a ceremonial khata scarf to be offered to the Lama.

Recommended offering to the Lama: 30 – 50 €

We organize carpools. Please let us know if you need a ride or can provide one, and where you depart from.

Registrations by May 14th 2016.

For more information please contact urgyenling@mail.dk or visit www.Dzogchenurgyenling.dk.

The sangha of Danakosha gathers to a Tibetan New Year reception. We will spend a moment of prayer for those who suffer or die in Tibet, and for all who suffer due to wars, natural disasters or other reasons around the world. This short prayer will be followed by a short dinner together.

Everybody is cordially welcome to join us on this special occasion. Please register by February 5th.

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Danakosha organizes a Questions and Answers session with Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche and Marpa Tulku Rinpoche. Everybody is welcome to come and ask questions and have discussions on their subjects of interest.

On Sundays from October 18th to November 29th Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche will kindly teach Tibetan language for beginners. We will learn the alphabet, pronunciation and basic vocabulary.

Recommended offering 50 € for the whole course.

Registrations by October 11th.

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche gives a talk on Buddhist logic at a Tibetan Buddhist Day in University of Turku.

Place: Sirkkala, Minerva 221, Kaivokatu 12, University of Turku

Time: 10.00-14.30. Rinpoche’s lecture at 10:15-11:45

Every Tuesday from October 13th to November 24th we will do a short meditation combined with a teaching on different Dharma subjects for beginners by Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche.

Danakosha’s members free of charge, for others recommended offering 7 € for each time.

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Danakosha’s sangha celebrates the annual Lha Bab Duchen Festival in remembrance of the Buddha’s descent from the God realm, and at the same time the anniversary of Danakosha Dharma Center. Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche will kindly give teaching of the Buddha Shakyamuni Sadhana and explain the meaning of Buddhist festivals.

Please register by October 27th.

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Danakosha’s sangha gathers to celebrate the 80th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Danakosha Dharma Center, Museokatu 17 A, Helsinki, on Monday July 6th 2015 at 5 pm.

We will make a one hour prayer for the long life of H.H. the Dalai Lama. After this we enjoy a dinner together. We ask no payment for the dinner, but donations are welcome.

We invite everyone to join us on this special occasion.

Registrations by July 1st.

Teaching on 12 links of interdependent origination.

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Schedule:
May 8th to 10th, Copenhagen: 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
May 12th to 17th, Gjerrild: Teachings on “the Bardo of this life” by Karma Lingpa

For more information please contact urgyenling@gmail.com

Schedule:
Thu April 30th – Sun May 3rd: Konchog Chidu teaching
Mon May 4th: Konchog Chidu tsog

Organized by Wangdenling, Dzogchen community of Slovakia.
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Schedule:
Fri 13th Feb – Sun 15th Feb 2015
Sun 22nd Feb – Tue 24th Feb 2015

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Danakosha Finland has a great joy to announce that Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche will lead a Konchok Chidu drubchod retreat in Finland from December 26th 2014 to January 1st 2015. Drubchod is an especially powerful group retreat, and its purpose is to pacify all abstacles, obscurations and sicknesses, increase virtues, accumulate merit, and increase prosperity for all sentient beings and particularly our own surroundings. It is important to do positive actions when the year changes. If you have had a great year, it’s a result of your own virtuous actions and a blessing of the three jewels and three roots, so we thank them for their kindness, and wish that the next year will be equally auspicious. If the year has been difficult, we wish the difficulties end, and new good things happen in the next year.

This is Danakosha’s yearly winter drubchod retreat. It’s a very important event and we wish that there will be many participants, and that particularly all members of Danakosha’s sangha participate.

Konchok Chidu means the “Embodiment of the Precious Ones.” It is a Guru Rinpoche practice which encompasses all the Three Roots – outer peaceful Padmasambhava as the Guru, inner wrathful Padmasambhava as the Yidam, and secret Padmasambhava in the form of Simhamukha as the Dakini, as well as a long life form of Padmasambhava. The terma was discovered by the terton Jatson Nyingpo, a reincarnation of Nyongben Tingzin Zangpo, a close student of Padmasambhava, who attained the rainbow body. Konchog Chidu is a very profound and wide cycle of teachings, and it is one of the highest and most secret way of accomplishing Padmasambhava’s mind.

You can read more about Konchog Chidu here.

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Danakosha Dharma Center, and he is the first Tibetan Buddhist lama to reside permanently in Finland by the request of his disciples. He has received teachings from the most prominent Buddhist teachers of our time, such as Kyabje Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche and Kyabje Tsetrul Rinpoche. He has graduated from Mindrolling Monastery’s college as a certified holder of sutric and tantric teachings.

Schedule:

26.12. Starts at 18:00

27.12. – 31.12.
6 – 8: Practice
8 – 9: Breakfast
9 – 11:30: Practice
11:30 – 14 Lunch break
14 – 15:30 Practice
15:30 – 16 Tea break
16 – 18: Practice

1.1.2015
klo 6 – 10: Practice and receiving the blessings of the week’s practice. Everybody is very welcome to receive the blessings, even if they have not participated in the drubchod. Receiving the blessings starts at 8:30.
11:00 Ending celebration

Location: Danakosha Dharma Center, Museokatu 17 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.

Price: 150 €, or 120 € for students and the unemployed.

Registrations by December 19th.

Accommodation: On request we can try to arrange accommodation in sangha members’ homes for those who are coming from far away. Please contact us.

NOTE! The course has been extended for one week, and the teaching will continue on December 9th

For everyone who wishes to attain real happiness and full bliss through the Buddhist religion it’s very important to know how these methods are actually practiced and used. There are many different methods for beings with different faculties. The great bodhisattva master Gyalse Thokme Zangpo gave a very useful teaching for beings with three different kinds of faculties about how to practice Buddhadharma and especially Mahayana. Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has kindly agreed to explain this teaching to everyone who is interested. This teaching is especially useful for new dharma practitioners.

The teachings are given on Tuesdays 18.11., 25.11., 2.12.2014 and 9.12.2014 at 18 to 20.

Price: 5 € / session, free for Danakosha’s members

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has kindly agreed to give a teaching on the preliminary practices of the Longchen Nyingthig cycle of Great Perfection. Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche gives explanations on all of the practices contained in the preliminary practices. This is a precious opportunity to receive the necessary teachings for new students of Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche who wish to start practicing Longchen Nyingthig and have taken the refuge vows, as well as for old practitioners.

Longchen Nyingthig is a cycle of Dzogchen or Great Perfection teachings, a terma treasure revealed by the master Jigme Lingpa, who was a fully enlightened being.

Schedule:
10 to 12 and 14:30 to 16:30 on both days.

Free admission.

Registrations by November 30th.

Knowing the fundamentals of Buddhism is very useful in this difficult life. Whether you are a Buddhist practitioner or not, knowing Buddhist philosophy helps you both internally and externally. Therefore our teacher Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche wants to offer us this base knowledge which we really need.

Schedule:
10 to 12 and 14:30 to 16:30 on both days.

Suggested donation to the Lama 30 €

Registrations by November 8th.

For more information please contact urgyenling@gmail.com

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The precious Buddhist relics of the Maitreya Loving Kindness Relic Tour will arrive in Finland for the third time. The exhibition displays relics of Buddha Shakyamuni and many other Buddhist masters. The exhibition is held in Helsinki at Dharma Center Danakosha, Museokatu 17 A, from August 2nd to 3rd 2014. Free entrance.

The exhibition is open on Saturday August 2nd from 10 to 19 and on Sunday August 3rd from 10 to 17. During the exhibition you can get a personal blessing from Buddha Shakyamuni’s relics. The blessings are conducted by Buddhist monks and nuns present.

You can find a wealth of information on the relics and the exhibition at the website of the relic tour.

The tour is hosted in Helsinki by Tara Liberation FPMT Study Group. Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has kindly given the space of Danakosha Dharma Center to be used for the exhibition.

Inquiries regarding the exhibition:
sarirahelsinki@gmail.com
tel: 041 478 2806

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July 6th is the birthday of H.H. the Dalai Lama. Danakosha’s sangha gathers to celebrate this by making a mandala offering and praying together for the continued activities and long life of H.H. the Dalai Lama. This is followed by a tea party.

We invite everyone to join us on this special day.

Registrations by July 1st.

Danakosha has the great joy to announce that Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has very kindly agreed to give a teaching on chöd practice and bestow an empowerment on Yumka Dechen Gyalmo from June 13th to 15th 2014, in connection with Saga Dawa festival, the festival of Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana. The teaching focuses on the meaning of chöd. The teaching is given at Rangjung Ösel retreat centre in southern Finland.

Chöd refers to cutting through the grasping at a self and its attendant emotional afflictions. It’s most famous as a teaching on trancedent generosity by transforming the aggregates into an offering for deities and for demons as a compassionate act of self-sacrifice. Chöd aims to free the mind from all fear and to arouse realization of its true nature, primordially clear bliss and emptiness. It is a powerful tool for healing all kinds of ailments, both physical and mental.

The chöd practice was originally taught by the yogini Machig Labdron. She was and is both a dakini and a deity, an emanation of Yeshe Tsogyal and Yum Chenmo, or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the buddhas. Historically, this Tibetan woman, a contemporary of Milarepa, was an adept and outstanding teacher, a mother, and a founder of a unique transmission lineage.

In the Longchen Nyingthik tradition the practice of chöd does not require empowerment, only oral transmission. However, as a gesture of kindness Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche will offer the empowerment of the Longchen Nyingthik dakini Yumka Dechen Gyalmo as a powerful support to the students who have requested to learn the chöd practice.

Schedule:
Fri 13.6. at 9-18: Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche gives refuge vows for those having requested. Teaching on chöd
Sat 14.6. at 9-18: Teaching on chöd
Sun 15.6. at 9-18: Empowerment: Yumka Dechen Gyalmo

The teachings are open for Buddhists.

We serve a breakfast, lunch and dinner, 5 euros each. Please let us know in your registration whether you participate in the meals.

Accommodation: ask Huija (huija@outlook.com) for accommodation indoors, or you can camp in your own tent, or book a cheap room in Kestikievari Kopparnäs (0400 701159).

Recommended offering to the Lama: 120 € / 100 € (members, students, unemployed)

We organize carpools. Please let us know if you need a ride or can provide one, and where you depart from.

Please register by June 6th.

For more information please visit www.tibet.dk/urgyenling/

For more information please visit danakosha.se

For more information please visit www.dzogchen.sk and www.wangdenling.sk.

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has very kindly agreed to give a teaching on Jigme Lingpa’s commentary on Vimalamitra’s pith instructions “Seven Point Mind Training”. This teaching continues the teachings given on fall 2013.

Jigme Lingpa says that through this teaching you can practice all nine yanas on the same cushion. It displays the key points of all the yanas, as well as how to follow the teacher. Therefore this teaching is very suitable for everyone from beginners to those with high realization. This teaching focuses on methods of meditation.

Jigme Lingpa’s short biography

Jigme Lingpa is one of the most important figures in the Nyingma
lineage. He was born in 1729 or 1730 in the Yarlung Valley of
Tibet. At the age of six he entered the Pelri Osel Tekchenling
monastery. Although he first had little interest in monastic pursuits,
things changed at the age of thirteen, when Jigme Lingpa began his
training in earnest, studying key Nyingma scriptures, treasure cycles
and Indian Buddhist classics and received several important
transmissions.

At the age of twenty-eight Jigme Lingpa entered a
three-year retreat, where he experienced a vision where a wisdom
dakini bestowed on him the Longchen Nyingthig treasure cycle. He kept
the treasure secret until having a series of visions of Longchenpa in
another three-year retreat. When he emerged from retreat he
established a hermitage in Chonggye where he ultimately began to
transmit the Longchen Nyingthig.

Jigme Lingpa also later oversaw
the printing of his edition of the Nyingma Gyubum, a compilation of
all Nyingma tantra, in twenty-eight volumes.

Schedule:
Friday: 18-20
Saturday and Sunday: 10-12 and 15-17

Price: 100 €, or 80 € for Danakosha’s members, students and unemployed. For those who are not Danakosha’s members the price includes a two month temporary membership in the Danakosha study group (note: religious community membership is not required). The membership entitles you to attend our Gomde, Sakyamuni Sadhana and Tsog practices without further donation for its duration.

Please register by March 14th to info@danakosha.fi.

The sangha of Danakosha gathers to a Tibetan New Year reception on Sunday March 2nd at 4 pm at Danakosha Dharma Center, Museokatu 17 A, 00100 Helsinki.

We will spend a moment of prayer for those who suffer or die in Tibet, and for all who suffer due to wars, natural disasters or other catastrophes around the world. This short prayer will be followed by a short dinner together.

Everybody is cordially welcome to join us on this special occasion. Please register to info@danakosha.fi by February 24th.

Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has very kindly agreed to give a teaching on Jigme Lingpa’s commentary on Vimalamitra’s pith instructions “Seven Point Mind Training”.

Jigme Lingpa says that through this teaching you can practice all nine yanas on the same cushion. It displays the key points of all the yanas, as well as how to follow the teacher. Therefore this teaching is very suitable for everyone from beginners to those with high realization. This teaching focuses on methods of meditation.

Jigme Lingpa’s short biography

Jigme Lingpa is one of the most important figures in the Nyingma
lineage. He was born in 1729 or 1730 in the Yarlung Valley of
Tibet. At the age of six he entered the Pelri Osel Tekchenling
monastery. Although he first had little interest in monastic pursuits,
things changed at the age of thirteen, when Jigme Lingpa began his
training in earnest, studying key Nyingma scriptures, treasure cycles
and Indian Buddhist classics and received several important
transmissions.

At the age of twenty-eight Jigme Lingpa entered a
three-year retreat, where he experienced a vision where a wisdom
dakini bestowed on him the Longchen Nyingthig treasure cycle. He kept
the treasure secret until having a series of visions of Longchenpa in
another three-year retreat. When he emerged from retreat he
established a hermitage in Chonggye where he ultimately began to
transmit the Longchen Nyingthig.

Jigme Lingpa also later oversaw
the printing of his edition of the Nyingma Gyubum, a compilation of
all Nyingma tantra, in twenty-eight volumes.

Schedule:
Friday: 18-20
Saturday and Sunday: 10-12 and 15-17

Price: 100 €, or 80 € for Danakosha’s members, students and unemployed. For those who are not Danakosha’s members the price includes a two month temporary membership in the Danakosha study group (note: religious community membership is not required). The membership entitles you to attend our Gomde, Sakyamuni Sadhana and Tsog practices without further donation for its duration.

Please register by March 14th to info@danakosha.fi.

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Sixth of July is the birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Danakosha’s sangha celebrates his birthday by reciting prayers for the benefit of all sentient beings. After the prayers we will have lunch together.

We invite everyone to join us on this special occasion.

Please register by July 1st.

June 14th at Aarhus
June 15th to 21st at Gjerrild: Sevenfold mind training by Jigme Lingpa
June 23rd at Copenhagen: Torma empowerment of the peaceful and wrathful deities

For more information please click here or contact Jens Rasmussen.

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Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has kindly agreed to give a teaching on refuge on Saga Dawa festival, the festival of Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana. He will also kindly give refuge vows to those having requested. This is followed by a group practice.

Recommended offering to the Lama: 20-50 €

Please register by May 19th.

May 17th to 19th: Stockholm
May 21st: Visby, Gotland
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The sangha of Danakosha gathers to a Tibetan New Year reception. We will spend a moment of prayer for those who suffer or die in Tibet, and for all who suffer due to wars, natural disasters or other reasons around the world. This short prayer will be followed by a short dinner together.

Everybody is cordially welcome to join us on this special occasion. Please register by February 4th.

Please note that the course has been continued on January 13th 2013.

Recommended offering: 7 € / session. For Danakosha’s members the offering is covered by monthly donations, but one can make a separate offering at the end of the course.

Read more here.

For those who wish to learn Buddhism, it’s very important to know the fundamentals. The course is especially targeted for beginners.
Tuesdays 9.10., 16.10., 23.10., 30.10., 13.11., 20.11., 27.11., 11.12.

The teachings are translated to Finnish.

The teachings are broadcasted live in the internet on this page.

Recommended offering: 5 € / session. For Danakosha’s members the offering is covered by monthly donations, but one can make a separate offering at the end of the course.

For more information please contact Jens Rasmussen.

Schedule:

Friday November 2nd to Sunday November 4th:
Teaching on Konchog Chidu, the Embodiment of the Precious Ones.

Read more about Konchog Chidu here.

Schedule:
Friday: 6 pm to 8 pm
Sat – Sun: 10 am to 12 am and 3 pm to 5 pm
Recommended offering to the Lama: 50 €.

Tuesday November 6th at 6 pm:
Empowerment of Amitays, the deity of long life, from Konchog Chidu.
Recommended offering to the Lama: 30 €.

Please register by October 29th.

Please check later for more information.

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More information coming later.

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Schedule:
Public lecture
Saturday September 1st at 11-12 at Turku city library’s studio. Free entrance.

Four foundations of mindfulness
Saturday September 1st at 14-16 and 17-19, and Sunday September 2nd at 10-12 and 14-16 at Yoga studio Samadhi, Askaistentie 29, Turku.
Recommended offering to the Lama: 50 €, or 15 € / teaching session.

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For more information please check the website of Dzogchen Urgyen Ling or send them email.

In connection with the Saga Dawa festival, the festival of Buddha Shakyamuni’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana, Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche has kindly agreed to give a teaching on the inner part of the preliminaries of the Longchen Nyingthig cycle of Great Perfection. The teachings are given from June 1st to 3rd. The sangha of Danakosha gathers to celebrate on the actual Saga Dawa day, June 4th.

For the weekend we request a participation fee of 90 €, or 60 € from students, unemployed and Danakosha’s members. The Saga Dawa festival on Monday is free, but the attendees may give offerings to the Lama. The attendees are requested to participate on the duties and to bring food or drink. Please register as soon as possible. Please register on time, so we can arrange car rides for Monday.

Schedule:

Friday: 18 – 20 Teachings

Saturday – Sunday:
8 – 9:30 Ngöndro practice
9:30 – 10:00 Break
10 – 12 Teachings
12 – 15 Lunch break
15 – 18 Teachings and practice with a tea break in the middle

Monday:
8:00 – 9:00 Sang offering
9:00 – 10:00 Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche gives refuge vows to those having requested
10:30 – 12:00 Buddha Shakyamuni Sadhana
12:00 Lunch

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Please contact Prof. Wu Kuan for more information.

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