Auspicious Signs of Perfect Completion of the Phowa Conducted by His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche For years, there have been hundreds of sentient beings who accumulated and possessed sufficient grand merits and virtues as well as causes and conditions have beseeched and obtained the Phowa Dharma of Drikung Kagyu school, the most auspicious among the […]
]]>The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo offered during a Phowa retreat: Lord Buddha Amitabha is considered to be that one who once looked upon the suffering of sentient beings as he was becoming Buddha, as he was moving into his fully enlightened state, and saw the condition of sentient […]
]]>According to the Tibetan calendar, the 28th of November was Amitabha-Day, on a full moon. According to buddhist teachings, positive impressions of any kind and especially through meditation practice are multiplied considerably on a day like this. On this occasion, many members of the EC sangha joined the “Phowa” meditation on the red Buddha of [...]
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]]>Life’s most awesome event is death, and death comes to all without regard to wealth, beauty, intelligence or fame. Death is inevitable, but how you die terrified and confused, or with confidence and spiritual mastery is within your control. Phowa, or ‘transference of consciousness at the time of death’ is the simplest and most direct […]
]]>There are lots of different phowa practices. Mostly they are Amitabha sadhanas. I received one from the Nyingma lineage and also there is one from Naropa’s lineage. Amitabha is the special deity that helps in the transfer of consciousness at the time of death. If you don’t have any doubt then there aren’t many obstacles […]
]]>According to the Tibetan custom, in the event of someone dying, a member of the family of the dying person would request a Lama to perform the “phowa” ceremony (i.e. Transference of consciousness at the time of death.) The Lama performing the ceremony would have himself mastered the art of phowa (transferring the consciousness at […]
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