Hybrid: “Calling the Guru from Afar”: Continuation of Guru Yoga in Honor of Kyabje Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche: 

June 25 and 26, from 7pm to 8pm

This weekend we will be practicing Lodro Thaye’s famous “Crying to the Gurus from Afar”. You can join “in person” at KCCL or “online” via OCEAN’s main shrine room by following this link https://ocean.chronicleproject.com/shrine-room/. Then click on Main Shrine.

The following weekends (until further notice), we will continue with other guru yogas.

Here is the link for the translation by the Nalanda Translation Committee, which is the text we will be using: https://www.nalandatranslation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Intensifying-Devotion.pdf

Furthermore, here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5n98iwZpKo, for a talk on Lodro Thaye’s Calling the Guru from Afar given by His Eminence, the 4th Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, in which he focuses on explaining the title as encapsulating the essence of the entire Guru Yoga. It was his first public teaching as part of the Commemoration of the Jamgon Kongtrul Lineage Ceremony. The event took place during the 30th Kagyu Monlam Chenmo in Bodhgaya, India. At the end of his talk, at 1:08:28, he gives the reading transmission (lung) for the practice.

As requested, here are a few other helpful links related with Calling the Guru from Afar:

Jamgön Kongtrül Rinpoche IV’s talk including lung is available here:

 

Chöje Lama Wangchuk’s two video talks are the following:

Talk 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTc_tuU-IWE

Talk 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0WVLUylf4k

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s six video talks (Calling The Guru from Afar, 30 June – 1 July 2010, Menz, Germany)are the following:

Talk 1: 42:28

 

Talk 2:  54:30

 

Talk 3: 1:00:51

 

Talk 4: 57:42

 

Talk 5: 50:36

 

Talk 6: 30:28

 

And here is the link for Garchen Rinpoche’s beautiful chanting of the “Calling the Guru from Afar”, in Tibetan: https://youtu.be/1ItHwEwRDjE

Here is the link to the pdf file for the photos of Thrangu Rinpoche Slide Show Total June 21, 2023: