Dear friends,

We are delighted that Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche will be visiting the centre of Dhagpo Möhra again this year.
On the 13th and 14th of September Rinpoche will teach about the Four Truths of the Noble Ones. And on Sunday the 15th Rinpoche will give the empowerment of Mañjuśrī.

For more information about Rinpoche’s activity: jamgon-kongtrul.org

The Four Truths of the Noble Ones

More than 2500 years ago, one week after his Awakening, the Buddha gave his first teaching to a group of five ascetics in the Deer Park of Varanasi, in Northern India. This first teaching – the first turning of the wheel of Dharma in the world – became known as “The Four Noble Truths” or, more accurately, “The Four Truths of the Noble Ones”:

The Truth of Suffering, the Truth of the Origin of Suffering, the Truth of Cessation and the Truth of the Path.

In brief, the first truth is a description of samsara and the different aspects of suffering inherent to a conditioned existence. The second truth examines the causes of our conditioning, that is, karma and the obscuring afflictions. The third truth describes the complete liberation from suffering. The fourth one presents the path and the methods that lead to this complete liberation.

These profound topics are not only the first teachings given by the Buddha, but they are entrance doors to understand and to follow the Buddha’s own process of realisation.

As he himself said:

« Thus, through the deep contemplation,
the careful examination of these dharmas
that were not taught before,
called “suffering”, “origin of suffering”, “cessation of suffering”
and “path leading to the cessation of suffering”,
the true knowing, the eye, the awareness,
the intelligence, the insight, the wisdom, the clarity have arisen in me »

– From the Mahāvastu (eng. The Great Story), an early biography of the Buddha Shakyamuni.

Empowerment of Mañjuśrī

On Sunday the 15th, Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the empowerment of Orange Mañjuśrī.
This particular empowerment comes from the collection of the 9th Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje: Knowing one liberates all (Tib. Chik shé kün dröl)
Mañjuśrī (Tib. Jampel) or Mañjughosha (Tib. Jamyang) is the awakened presence (Tib. yidam) primarily associated with wisdom.
“Mañju”, which literally means “soft” or “gentle”, refers to loving-kindness and the complete pacification of all sufferings, and “śrī “, which literally means “glory” or “splendour”, refers to the blazing qualities of realisation.
In this way, Mañjuśrī embodies, like all the Buddhas, the inseparability of compassion and wisdom.
The practice of Mañjuśrī and the recitation of his mantra is meant to enhance intelligence, memory, eloquence, and, ultimately, to support genuine insight.

« Whenever I need to understand or to ask something,
may I see without hindrance the Gentle Protector himself.

May my way of life be like that of Mañjuśrī,
who lives to accomplish the benefit of all beings throughout space,
in the ten directions. »

– Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāraḥ, 10, 53-54

Registration

More details regarding programme and registration can be found on our website: learn more


We are looking forward to welcome you soon once again.
Heartfelt wishes, from Dhagpo Möhra