Druk Ralung Shedrup Choling

🌼𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐍𝐘𝐔𝐍𝐆𝐍𝐄𝐘 – 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄🌼

•⁠ ⁠𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 “𝘉𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘍𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 – 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘺𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘯𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥-𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘦𝘻𝘪𝘨” 𝘣𝘺 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘦

At one time the great Nyungne master Bodhisattva Dawa Gyeltsen was in the southern part of Tibet, where an old, infirm woman came for blessing. Bodhisattva gave her blessings and made dedication prayers on her behalf, and he told her that her illness was due to past life karma and that she should practice patience and develop bodhicitta. He gave her many instructions. She was very moved, and devotion arose within her. With tears in her eyes, she told Bodhisattva, “I’m sure I have done lots of wrong deeds in the past, but even in this life I have committed terrible acts.”

Bodhisattva replied, “Well, wrong deeds can be overcome if you confess them sincerely.” The old woman then told him her story.

“In a place called Kyi D**g, I was the wife of a rich businessman and had one son. When my son was seven years old, my husband went on a business trip to Nepal. He was gone for about three years. During that time, I had an affair with another man and bore a daughter with him. I killed the daughter so that my husband would not find out. I also wasted a lot of our fortune. My son told me, ‘When father comes back, we’ll see what will happen to you.’ I was very angry, and I grabbed a stone and hit him, saying, ‘What did I do?’ Then he bled to death. I was making up all kinds of stories about what had happened, but we had an old monk living in the house who said prayers for us. He knew everything, so I poisoned him.

One day my husband came back with lots of wealth, and our maid told him everything. I was listening to them, and I heard my husband say, ‘Tonight I will pretend that I don’t know anything, but tomorrow I will punish her by gouging out her eyes.’ I was so afraid that I put a lot of poison in the chang (Tibetan barley beer), and I gave it to my husband along with eight of his people, two of our neighbors, and two maids. The next morning, they were all in a coma and within two days they all died. So I ran far away to the south, and my parents and other family members suffered a lot because of what I had done. In addition to all this, in my life I have done many other despicable deeds.”

Hearing this story, with tears in his eyes Bodhisattva thought, “What a poor woman, with so much negative karma. Nyungne is the solution for her since Lord Chenrezig has vowed to protect any sentient being who does one set of the practice from falling into the three lower realms.” Then he gave her teaching and empowerment and instructed her to do eight sets of Nyungne practice.

After having received the blessing, the old woman felt better immediately, and during the month of Saka Dawa, she participated in an Eight Nyungne practice. One day she was very thirsty, and she drank a little bit of chang, and then another day she was very hungry, and she ate two of the four torma offerings. So, she did six perfect sets of Nyungne and two broken sets. Soon after that, she died.

Many years passed and one day someone remembered the story of this old woman and asked Bodhisattva what happened to her. Bodhisattva, being completely clairvoyant, smiled and told everyone that even though this Nyungne practice of thousand-armed Chenrezig is extremely beneficial, very few people are able to do it. The woman was born in a wealthy, Brahman family in east India. Although she managed to obtain a human birth, because she violated one Nyungne by drinking, it caused her to have some mental problems. And because she ate the food, she had an ugly physical appearance. But she was very devoted to Chenrezig practice, and he could see her going to Amitabha Buddha’s pure land after this life.

Bodhisattva further said, “Those who do Eight Nyungne properly will absolutely be able to go to the pure land of Amitabha Buddha, and they will eventually attain complete enlightenment; doing the practice once will protect them forever from falling into the lower realms. Therefore, this is the teaching and practice of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas, and everyone should try to practice it.”

🪷𝟑𝟎–𝟑𝟏 𝐌𝐀𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌🪷

𝙃𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝘽𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙝𝙖’𝙨 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙧𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙖
Gyalwa Dokhampa, together with Drukpa Khamdrak, Senior Udzins and lopens will lead the Sitatapatra Empowerment and Singye Tsewa Initiation on 30 May, followed by a special ceremony honouring Lord Buddha’s Parinirvana on 31 May.

This program is organised by Drukpa Australia in collaboration with Sewla Buddhist Center and other Buddhist associations at the Cambodian Welfare and Culture Center, Perth, Western Australia. 🙏😊🙏

འདི་ནི་ ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་ ༥ པའི་ཚེས་ ༦ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་འཛིན་ཐགས་རིགས་བསླབ་སྡེ་ (RTA) དང་ གངས་གཟིག་ཟློས་གར་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པ་མཆོག་དགུང་ལོ་༧༠་ བཞེས་པའི་དུས་སྟོན་དང་བསྟུན་ཏེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་པ་ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མཆོག་གི་རྣམ་ཐར་ཟློས་གར་འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་འདི་ལུ་གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་དང་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་སྒྲོན་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་གིས་ཆོག་ཐམ་ཡོད་མི་ལས་འགུལ་ལུ་ང་བཅས་འབྲུག་ར་ལུང་བཤད་གྲུབ་ཆོས་གླིང་དགོན་པ་སྤྱི་ནས་མེ་ཏོག་ཆུང་རུང་མཆོད་པའི་རྫས་ཟེར་གསུང་དུ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་འདིའི་ལས་འགུལ་ལུ་ཞབས་ཏོག་ཞུ་ཚུབ་མི་འདི་ལུ་དགའ་ཚོར་བྱུང་ཡོད།

In recognition of the noble initiative undertaken under the gracious patronage of Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck, Druk Ralung Shedrup Choling Monastery has made a humble contribution of Nu 100,000 in support of the theatrical production on Zhabdrung Rinpoche, organized by the Royal Textile Academy (RTA).

This offering is made with deep reverence in honor of the momentous occasion of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Singye Wangchuck’s 70th Birth Anniversary. The Monastery extends its heartfelt prayers and sincere aspirations for His Majesty’s long life, continued good health, and for the enduring peace, prosperity, and wellbeing of the Kingdom of Bhutan. 🙏🙏😊