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URL:https://uufsd.com/events/tibetan-ceremony-empowerment-for-manjushri-th
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SUMMARY:Tibetan Ceremony: "Empowerment for Manjushri\, the Buddha of Wisdom
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Tibetan monks from the Gaden Shartse Norling Monastery
  for a special ceremony titled "Empowerment for Manjushri\, the Buddha of 
 Wisdom" at 7:00pm in Founders' Hall. Suggested donation $20.\n\nWisdom is 
 crucial for enlightenment. If we lack wisdom\, we will make many mistakes 
 that will cause hardship and pain for ourselves and others. Therefore\, wi
 sdom is our real inner wealth. Everyone is welcome to attend this blessing
  empowerment to make a strong connection with the Wisdom Buddha and to acc
 elerate the attainment of the knowledge that eliminates suffering.\n\nTher
 e will be the transmission of the mantra oṃ a ra pa tsa na dhīḥ In Ti
 betan tradition\, this mantra is believed to enhance wisdom and improve on
 e's skills in debating\, memory\, writing\, and other literary abilities. 
 "Dhīḥ" is the seed syllable of the mantra and is chanted with greater e
 mphasis and also repeated a number of times as a decrescendo.\nSACRED ARTS
  OF TIBET TOUR with The Monks of Gaden Shartse Norling Monastery\nUUFSD is
  honored to host the monks of Gaden Shartse Norling Monastery\, South Indi
 a\, during the week of May 16-20\, for a Sacred Sand Mandala Creation. Thi
 s ancient two dimensional Tibetan Buddhist mandala is the most artistic\, 
 labor-intensive and concentration-intensive of all mandalas created. For a
  full list of events\, visit uufsd.org/sandmandala.\n\n\nAbout Gaden Shart
 se Monastic College\nGaden Shartse Monastic College is situated amid lush 
 green hills and jungle in the remote countryside of southern India. It was
  founded in 1969 as an effort to re-establish one of the great monastic tr
 aditions of Tibet. A small group of elder monks and fifteen young boys\, a
 ll of whom had managed to escape the destruction in Tibet\, settled on lan
 d given to them by the Indian government in Mundgod\, Karnataka. Today the
  college is at the forefront of the revival of Tibetan Monastic education\
 , with more than 1600 resident students\, teachers\, scholars\, and spirit
 ual practitioners. Due to the success of the academic program and the qual
 ity of the teachers at the monastery\, Gaden Shartse has established a rep
 utation as being the leader in the field of Buddhist and Tibetan studies.
LOCATION:UU Fellowship of San Dieguito\, 1036 Solana Drive\, Solana Beach\,
  CA\, 92075\, United States
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