Four Harmonious Friends: Bay Area FPMT Centers
Lama Tsongkhapa Day — Ganden Ngamchoe

online event
Thursday, December 10, 2020

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8:00am PST (Pacific Standard Time):
    Prostrations to the 35 Confession Buddhas
    led by Elaine Jackson

10:00am PST:
    Recitation of Prayers in honor of Lama Tsongkhapa
        Destiny Fulfilled
        Glorious One of the Three Worlds
        Hymn of Experience
        Dependent Arising: A Praise of the Buddha

2:00pm PST:
    Lama Chöpa Tsog*
    led by Venerable Steve Carlier
    Dedicated for the Health and Long Life of Geshe Ngawang Dakpa

6:00pm PST:
    Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga (Ganden Lha Gyäma) and Vajrasattva Tsog*
    led by Venerable René Feusi

*Highest Yoga Tantra Practitioners who would like to participate in offering Tsog at home may set out offerings on their home altars and have on hand a small amount of meat and alcohol as well as a stick of incense for offering the leftover Tsog after dark.

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Please join The Four Harmonious Friends- the four Bay Area FPMT Centers, for Ganden Ngamchoe, a celebration to commemorate the 601st anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa's Parinirvana.  Lama Tsongkhapa is the founder of our Gelupa lineage and is revered by all Tibetan Buddhist traditions as a scholar, practitioner, meditator, teacher, and author.

Among Lama Tsongkhapa’s major accomplishments is writing the Lamrim, or the Great Treatise on the Path to Enlightenment, a step-by-step guide to the spiritual practices that lead to enlightenment. He also wrote several condensed versions of the Lamrim, including Foundation of All Good Qualities, the Three Principal Aspects of the Path, and Song of Experience.

He also revitalized the monastic code in Tibet, established the annual Great Prayer Festival, established Ganden Monastery, the first of the great monasteries in the Gelugpa tradition, and wrote 18 volumes of teachings.

For more information and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Recommendations for Practitioners on Ganden Ngamchoe, please follow this link to FPMT.

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Make Merit through Generosity.  Support the Bay Area FPMT Dharma Centers.  Donations made here will be shared among the Bay Area Centers.

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Texts may be downloaded using these links: 

• 1000 Offerings to Lama Tsong Khapa
• A Hymn of Experience (PDF, ebooks)
• Dependent Arising: A Praise of the Buddha
• Destiny Fulfilled
• Extensive Offering Practice
• Heruka Vajrasattva Tsog
• Lama Chӧpa is available from FPMT​
• Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga
• Lama Tsongkhapa's Secret Biography
• Prayer for the Flourishing of Je Tsongkhapa's Teachings
• The Glorious One of the Three Worlds (Päl dän sa sum ma)

The Four Harmonious Friends

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This one Zoom link will access all of the programs listed above:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86710002188?pwd=dVM2VjFxMFJ0OGxPWm5YUllYTGtwUT09

Meeting ID: 867 1000 2188
Passcode: LTKday