Dalai Lama to Confer Yamantaka Initiation in USA

On a morning of May 1, 2011, in a Terrace Theater during a Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California, a Dalai Lama will privately deliberate a Solitary Yamantaka Initiation. It is extremely rare for him to deliberate an arising from a Highest Yoga Tantra category in a West, so this is to be regarded as a many unusual event.
The tickets for this arising have been giveaway of cost, though a Dalai Lama is privately as well as without delay asking for a particularly serious, lifetime use commitment. If we have been a mature, trained practitioner, as well as know yourself means to reside by this commitment, afterwards a arising is open to you. If, for any reason, there is a possibility we cannot reside by this commitment, afterwards it is best to give a arising a pass. The Dalai Lama will also be giving a public talk later in a afternoon, as well as which will be open to anyone.
In a morning, a Dalai Lama will give a bodhisattva vows as well as a tantric vows, as well as all practitioners have been approaching to reside by those vows. In addition, he is privately requiring which each practitioner have 3 pledges:

To perform, upon every day basement -- for a rest of one's hold up -- a short sadhana associated with this deity.

To recite, upon a every day basement -- for a rest of one's hold up -- a one-page Six Session Guru Yoga, 3 times during a daytime as well as 3 times during a evening.

To complete, during slightest once during one's lifetime, a week or 10 day use retreat under a guidance of a qualified teacher.

Although not explicitly stated, there is a idea between many practitioners which damaged commitments can essentially digest a hold up of a lama who bestowed a initiation. we do not have a wisdom to contend whether this is true or untrue in a Dalai Lama's case; however, upon a small possibility it could be true, we would positively not want! to risk harming him in any way by my own incapacity to keep these commitments. As a personal matter, we would courtesy these commitments as a "do or die" proposition, as well as keep them during all costs, no make a difference what obstacles competence seem to arise.
Apart from any putative harm to others, a disaster to keep these commitments would positively means critical problems to movement in one's own life. This sold deity's use is no trifling make a difference -- Yamantaka is a angry aspect of Manjushri, as well as promises done to this deity have been of a many contracting probable impression -- thus, this use is not for dilettantes, or "empowerment collectors."
Further details upon this event, together with a online registration form, may be visited by clicking here.
This eventuality is being hosted by Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling, as well as they have posted a beneficial celebration of a mass list upon their website which we may instruct to deliberate prior to receiving a initiation.
May we please be excused for adding a following recommendations to which list?
The first recommendation would be to somehow take Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin's Six-Session Guru Yoga: An Oral Commentary with a Detailed Explanation of a Bodhisattva as well as Tantric Vows. This was first published back in 1999, in a limited edition, as well as we do not know how easy it is to find.
The next recommendation would be to take dual small books by Sharpa Tulku as well as Richard Guard: Self-Initiation of Vajrabhairava as well as Meditation upon Vajrabhairava. These have been translations of Kyabje Phabongkha Rinpoche's works. The latter will give we a flavor of what competence be approaching during retreat, while a former will give we a flavor of how damaged vows as well as commitments competence be easy should something go wrong. It also has a middle sadhana.
Finally, if we can find it, there is a two-volume set Yamantaka Cycle Texts, done in 1995 as well as 2002 by Sharpa Tulku,! a Dalai Lama, as well as various others.
Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling will, of course, have a suitable use texts accessible during a Long Beach Convention Center in May

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