The Verses of the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones

Teaching and Practice

Saturday, January 24

10:00am - 12:15 pm and 2:00 to 4:30 pm

Online Program

with Drubpon Pema Rigdzin

This program will be recorded and shared with all those who register.

In this daylong teaching, we will study and practice this commonly known but rarely explained prayer of the Verses of the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones or Tashi Gyepa, composed by the great Nyingma scholar, Jamgön Mipham. 

This powerful invocation originates back to the Sūtra of the Eight Auspicious Ones from Buddha Shakyamuni instructed to one of his disciples in order to deflect fear, protect from harm and dispel obstacles. It is both a timeless and timely prayer in our present day. 

On a worldly level, invoking the names of awakened beings brings auspiciousness and success on one’s endeavors. On a spiritual level, it sets the circumstances for our practice to thrive.  

The sets of eights include: The Eight symbols, the Eight Healing Tathāgatas, Eight Bodhisattvas, Eight Goddesses, the Eight Worldly Guardians, and their respective implements.

Drubpon Pema Rigdzin (Lama Freddie), will offer the oral transmission, a line-by-line explanation, and lead an accumulation of the recitation to fulfill the aspirations and prayers for oneself and the world. 

If recited through once before commencing any activity; whatever the project, it will work out exactly as you wish. 

Jamgön Mipham 

Recording will become available to all those who register.  

Drubpon Pema Rigdzin, Lama Freddie, has trained in Tibetan Buddhism for thirty years and completed extensive Vajrayana retreats under Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. He is a lead ritual chanter (umdze) at the Vajrayna Foundation, and teacher for Drub Nyiy Döjö Gatsal  Three-Year Retreat Center.  Lama  Freddie is also a Chaplain with Stanford Health Care and the Hospice of Santa Cruz County, an acupuncturist with a BA in Physical Therapy and a keen researcher of ancestral forms of healing.

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