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Pilgrimage with Chokling Rinpoche And Phakchok Rinpoche Dec 15-25
The Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation is organizing our first ever guided pilgrimage to
all the major sacred sites of Lord Buddha Shakyamuni. As Buddhists, a pilgrimage
is an important act of devotion and faith. It enables us to accumulate merit and
purify our defilements and obscurations of the body, speech and mind by the
power of the blessings at each sacred site.Lord Buddha said:
Monks, after my passing away, if all the sons and daughters of good family
and the faithful, so long as they live, go to the four holy places, they should
go and remember: here at Lumbini the enlightened one was born; here at Bodhgaya
he attained enlightenment; here at Sarnath he turned twelve wheels of Dharma;
and here at Kushinagar he entered parinirvana. Monks, after my passing away
there will be activities such as circumambulation of these places and
prostration to them.. a pilgrimage to them [the four places] will help to
purify their previously accumulated negative karmas, even the five heinous
actions...This pilgrimage will be more unique as it will be led by His Eminence Chokling
Rinpoche and Kyabgon Phakchok Rinpoche. During this once-in-a-lifetime
pilgrimage, we will be tracing the Footsteps of Buddha Shakyamuni more than 2500
years ago. We will be visiting : Lumbhini, where Buddha was born Sravasti, where Buddha showed his supernatural abilities and performed miracles Kushinagar, where Buddha entered parinirvana Vaishali, where Buddha received an offering of honey from a monkey and is the main place for the third turning of the Wheel of Dharma.Bodhgaya, where Buddha attained enlightened Rajgir, where Buddha subdued Nalagiri, the angry elephant, through friendliness. Buddha also turned the Wheel of Dharma for the second time in nearby Vultures Peak Nalanda, where Buddha was a king in one of his former lives, and was the site of one of the great Buddhist Universities Sarnath, where Buddha turned the Wheel of Dharma for the first time. At the major holy sites, both Rinpoches will give brief teachings and lead all the pilgrimage participants in meditation practice as well as accumulation of merit through feast offerings and so forth.
Website : http://www.cglf.org/news-a-events/foundation-events.html
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