21 April 2023 (Friday) - 24 April 2023 (Monday)
2023 Dzogchen Buddha Path
74-Hour Global Tara Event
Friday, April 21 – Monday, April 24 (Taiwan UTC+8)
Thursday Evening, April 20 – Sunday Evening, April 23 (Pacific UTC-8)
An International Grand Blessing Ceremony of the
10,000 Offerings to the 21 Noble Taras
Please join H.E. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche and the international Dzogchen Buddha Path Sangha for the Fifth Annual Grand Tara Event. The Holy Vajra Master, along with authorized Dharma teachers and Sangha, will conduct and broadcast this live event from Taipai, Taiwan and many other international locations. Practitioners and friends from around the world will attend this glorious online gathering of like-minded individuals joining together in heart, mind, voice, music, and visual splendor. There has never been a better opportunity to join a virtual international assembly to experience the power of love, compassion, and peace in the world.
The 2023 Dzogchen Buddha Path 74-Hour Global Tara Event will commence at 1 PM on Friday, April 20th and conclude at 3 PM on Monday, April 24th (Taipei UTC+8).
The Grand Blessing Ceremony of the 10,000 Offerings to the 21 Noble Taras is a 74-hour group practice and devotion to the Great Compassionate Victorious Mother Tara, female Buddha revered by Buddhists around the world. It is said that Tara – manifestation of Avalokiteshvara – alleviates all fear, anxiety, obstacles and dangers, helping all who call her name. Registration is required and tickets are priced on a sliding-scale (see below).
Event Schedule
The 2023 Global Tara Event is shown below. It is subject to change. Please check back for updates.
The Great Merit of Supporting Our Global Events
Now, more than ever during the worldwide proliferation of war, famine and disease, powerfully focused group practice is vital for purifying the harmful energy of negative thinking. It also provides a means for the public to transform impermanent worldly resources into an inexhaustible source of merit. It is the aspiration of Dzogchen Shri Singha Foundation to build mandalas in many locations around the world. This is a perfect opportunity to offer generously both locally and internationally to support the enlightened Dharma activity of the Holy Vajra Master and to increase the merit and happiness of all who participate. We will utilize ritual implements, sacred clothes, musical instruments, and decorative ornaments gathered during past international Tara Events engage in earnest teachings, prayer, song, practice, chanting and mantra recitations to benefit all beings. Funds raised during the event support the Dharma activities of the Holy Vajra Master and create tremendous merit for all who participate.
Especially for those who may not be able to attend the online Tara practice, a donation made with pure intention to support its success is an extremely beneficial and worthwhile action. We will make offerings on behalf of these virtuous sponsors during the three-day ceremony. Please consider contributing to the Tara Event Fund today.
About the Tara Event
The Tibetan word drupchen translates literally as “Vast Accomplishment.” It is said that the positive karma generated by several days of drupchen practice engaged with the correct intention can equal months or even years spent in solitary retreat.This extremely powerful group practice draws upon all the skillful methods of Dharma contained within the Vajrayana teachings to generate great merit and eliminate negativity of all kinds. While we hope to return to such retreats in the near future, the goal of our continuous online practice is similar and utilizes holy texts written for this purpose. This type of sadhana, or “means to accomplishment,” includes abundant offerings, visualizations, mantras, mudras, chanting, music, and dancing. All of these supports for positive thinking harmonize to help create a pure and sacred environment in the perception of the practitioners.
~ Swift Tara Prayer from The Buddha Path, Second Ed. ~
Oh great compassionate victorious Mother Tara.
May I and all sentient beings be free
from
all fears, obstacles and dangers.
May I and all sentient beings
quickly attain
the supreme happiness of Enlightenment.
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SWOHA
Event Pricing
Registration is required and sliding-scale admission fees include all members of the household. Funds raised during the event support the Dharma activities of the Holy Vajra Master and create tremendous merit for all who participate. Suggested admission to the Global Tara Event is $300 per person. The admission price includes entry to all 74-hours of practice. Due to the financial impact of the pandemic, we are offering several pricing levels. Simply choose the level that is right for you.
• Full price ticket: $300
• Sliding scale ticket levels: $108, $150, $200, $250
Offerings are not included in the entrance fee.
As always, the teachings and ceremonies themselves are offered free of charge. Fees cover the overhead costs of administering a complex international internet event. It is also traditional in Buddhism for students and practitioners to make individual offerings to the teachers during the event. You may voluntarily make an offering to any of the teachers at any time during the event. It is most auspicious to do this at the beginning or at the end of the event.
Offering at the Tara Mandala
You do not have to attend the Tara Event to make offerings. Click here to make offerings in North America, or contact your local Dzogchen Buddha Path Dharma Center.
Offering Menu
$5 – Flower – Represents the beauty of our true nature
$5 – Candle – Increases our wisdom and the wisdom of all beings
$5 – Dharma Wheel – Request the teachings to most benefit our minds on the path to Buddha
$10 – Mandala – Offering all worldly and enlightened enjoyments to all Buddhas and all beings. This directly antidotes our ego-clinging and results in spacious and abundant feelings.
$20 – Eight Auspicious Symbols – Aspiration to embody Buddha’s qualities of body, speech, wisdom so that all beings become Buddha.
$25 – Seven Royal Treasures – Aspiration to embody Buddha’s enlightened activity: supreme faith, discipline, generosity, learning, self-restraint, respect for others. We offer these enlightened qualities to this world and all worlds in order that world peace may reign.
$25 – Prayer Request – Specific requests for self or others, including healings, means to practice Dharma, auspicious partner, a new home, more work, and so on.
$70 – All-Inclusive Offerings & Prayer Request ($90 value) Includes all of the above.
Correct Intention for Offering
Offering at the Tara Mandala is an extraordinary opportunity to set your intention to heal personally, while holding your vision for world peace and health. We are all on the path to becoming Enlightened Wisdom. Here we begin to experience what that means. Your intention is essential. While participating on the Tara Global Event Zoom call, be focused and stay present with the chanting and teachings of the teacher and activities of the chödpön. Know that Buddha Tara is really receiving your offerings. The Buddhas do not need the offerings, but we do need to offer them to antidote our ego-clinging and help us generate merit. This event is for us. Enjoy the opportunity to go deep into your heart, to feel world peace, to want world peace, and to know that your intention and actions make a difference. Offer what is comfortable. Imagine you are at the mandala, wholeheartedly make the offering, and know the offering and prayer are received.
How to Register
We encourage you to register as soon as possible. You will be emailed a link shortly before the event. Each participant must register. Members of your household may participate, but links may not be shared.
Please contact your local Event Director if you have questions or issues with registration.
About the Teacher
The 2023 Dzogchen Buddha Path 74-Hour Global Tara Event will be directed by H.E. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche. A vibrant and dynamic teacher, Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche is a 33rd-generation lineage holder of the Buddhist wisdom lineage of Dzogchen, a Lama of Dzogchen Monastery, and professor of the Dzogchen Shri Singha University. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche has more than seven years of solitary cave meditation experience in the high Tibetan holy mountains and embodies the qualities of a realized practitioner and yogi. He is a published author of numerous Tibetan and English books, including The Buddha Path, a practice book that encompasses all of Buddha’s teachings, and which is now available in English, Chinese, Russian, and German. It is soon to be released in Nepali, Japanese, and Spanish.
More about Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche »
The Great Merit of Supporting Retreats
Even if you will not be able to attend this event, you or anyone else you know may earn tremendous merit by supporting those in attendance. Even for an online event of this kind, there is much left to do to ensure success and to pave the way for future events of its kind to reach Sangha all over the world.
There are four ways you can help:
1. Offer your time and talent. Volunteer for the Tara Event and get the unique benefits of joining in the activities of the Holy Vajra Master, Compassionate Heroine Buddha Tara, and all Buddhas. Contact your local event director for information.
2. Offer donations. There is much technical infrastructure and actual building materials and supplies needed to produce this event and to provide the infrastructure for future events.
3. Make offerings. You do not have to attend the event to offer. You can make offerings for yourself or on behalf of others. Mandala Offering Form
4. Attend this virtual worldwide event. Showing up online helps to increase our accumulation power! Event Registration
If you would like more information, please contact the International Event Director or your local Dharma Center.
Bodhi Lama Carrie Ure
International Event Director
Dzogchen Buddha Path 74-Hour Global Tara Event
lamacarrie@thebuddhapath.org
