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Dec 24

The 30th Kagyu Monlam Chenmo Day Four

24th December – Bodhgaya.

Mahayana Sojong
The monks and nuns attending the Monlam are expected to attend the whole day at the Pavilion and to take the Mahayana Sojong vows unless they are ill or old. In addition, every morning so far the rear of the pavilion has filled with an astonishing number of laypeople who also wish to keep Sojong during the Monlam. Mahayana Sojong is a very powerful practice taken for restoration and purification of broken vows and precepts. As in all Mahayana practices its foundation is bodhichitta, the mind of enlightenment, and the motivation is:
“for the sake of all sentient beings; to benefit them; to liberate them; to eliminate famine; to eliminate illness”…
Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche gave the Mahayan Sojong vows, enunciating them carefully two syllables at a time, for everyone to repeat.

Session Two
During the teaching on the “Three Primary aspects of the Path”, Gyalwang Karmapa gave the Bodhisattva Vows, and also gave two lungs [reading transmission of the text ] for the short ngondro practice which he himself composed in 2006 specifically for use by students living in the developed world who might not have time to complete a more extensive ngondro practice, and for the longer ngondro written by the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje as a preliminary to Mahamudra.

Session Three
A large section of empty blue mats was noticeable at the front of the laypeople’s area. Friends of Kagyu Monlam had gone for their special audience with the Gyalwang Karmapa. The third session often contains special prayers. Today the focus was on the removal of obstacles. To this end the “Praises of the Twenty-One Taras” was recited , followed by other prayers to Tara and to Sarasvati.

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MIND TRAINING TEACHING The Gyalwang Karmapa gave an extensive teaching on the 8 Verses of Training the Mind

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THE PRAJNAPARAMITA
Taught over six sessions, this is a direct explanation of the Buddhist view of emptiness

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THE CHENREZIK PRACTICE The Gyalwang Karmapa taught on how to practice Chenrezik and recite his mantra

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100 SHORT INSTRUCTIONS
Taught over nine sessions, this text by the 8th Karmapa was taught in great depth by the present Karmapa.

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THREE PRINCIPLE ASPECTS
A comprehensive teaching that condenses the entire Buddhist path by Tsongkhapa

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