Please use use Zoom Link for all lunar day pujas online and visit the Event Page for prayer packets and texts. | | |
At Dorje Ling
Saturday, April 4th: The Conclusion of ODD's Decho for Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche, hosted by ODD (center and online) Event Page
Sunday, April 5th, 1:00-4:00: Final Teaching on Ngöndro, taught by Matthew Small (center and online)
Friday, April 10th, 7:00-8:30: Tröma Nagmo Red Feast Pure Vision (DL center only)
Sunday, April 12th, 400-6:30: Yeshe Tsogyal, hosted by Tashi Choling (center and online)
Friday, April 17th, 4:00-6:30: New Moon Tröma Nagmo, hosted by Tashi Choling (center and online)
Saturday, April 18th, 10am-3:00pm (12-1 potluck): Sangha Work Party, (center)
Sunday, April 19th, 10:30am-12:30pm: Decho for Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche, hosted by Tashi Choling (online)
Saturday, April 25th, 4:00-5:30: Riwo Sang Chöd, (center only)
*Please note: this month's smoke offering is on a Saturday to accommodate lunar pujas
Sunday, April 26th, 4:00-6:30: Guru Rinpoche, hosted by Tashi Choling (center and online)
Friday, May 1st, 4:00-6:30: White Tara, (center only)
Saturday, May 2nd, 8:30am-5:30pm: Silent Meditation Retreat, (center only)
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Ongoing at Dorje Ling
Sunday mornings, 11:00-12:15: Ngöndro Practice (DL center and online)
Tuesday evenings, 7:00-8:30: Book Study (online only)
Wednesday evenings, 7:00-8:30: Meditation Class (DL center only)
Our Greater Community
Marig Munsel: Thursdays starting April 9th, 5:30-7:30pm (online)
A 3-year Buddhist program with Lama Bruce Newman, Event Page
TLC Transitional Life Care: Saturday, April 25th, 10:00-12:00 & 2:00-4:00 (online)
Entrance to Dewachen, on the Path to Amitabha’s Pure Realm with Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, Event Page
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Social Media
Our previous Facebook account has been retired at last, almost five years after the passing of Jampal Gyatso (Clark was the "owner" of the account!) We now have a new Facebook page with the same name and a connected Instagram account. Please follow this link to our new page and follow us there for updates, news, and upcoming events.
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Parking
Please feel free to park in the Dorje Ling parking lot. Although there are only a few spots, everyone is welcome to park there, and we know the street parking looks rather treacherous right now. Work party task!
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Saturday, April 18th
10:00am - 3:00pm
12:00-1:00pm Potluck
Join us in caring for our center as we welcome spring. Come refresh, renew, and create a beautiful space for everyone to enjoy—your support makes all the difference.
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Saturday, May 2nd
8:30am - 5:30pm
Dorje Ling is pleased to offer an additional meditation retreat this May. Both beginners and experienced meditators are warmly invited!
Join Matthew Small, Dorje Ling’s program director, to explore meditation techniques:
- Start of the day: Shamatha (calm abiding) meditation
- Remaining: Vipassana (insight) meditation
The days will be divided into increasingly longer sessions with instructions from Matthew using the texts Natural Liberation by Gyatrul Rinpoche, and The Attention Revolution by B. Alan Wallace, PhD, as well as other sources.
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We will provide simple vegetarian lunch. If you have any dietary restrictions or allergies, please bring your own food.
The recommended donation is $25. Please offer what you can; no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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3rd Anniversary of Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche's Decho
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Please join us for the conclusion of the Decho for Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche, hosted by Orgyen Dorje Den
Saturday, April 4th
9:30am - 12:30pm
3:00pm - 7:00pm
Extensive Kunzang Nyima Vajrasattva (center and online)
An additional opportunity to practice with the sangha from all of Rinpoche's centers will be hosted by Tashi Choling
Saturday, April 19th
10:30am-12:30pm
Concise Kunzang Nyima Vajrasattva (online)
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“...by the power of the prayers of the buddhas and bodhisattvas which are unceasing and undiminishing, buddhas and bodhisattvas will always come into the world systems in the form of sponsors, of teachers, and in the form of students of the doctrine and various other ways to ensure that the continuity of the blessings of the lineage are not lost and will endure."
-Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche
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Meditation Classes
Wednesdays 7:00-8:30pm
(in person only)
We explore a variety of meditation techniques.
Open to everyone
and drop-ins are encouraged.
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Ngöndro Practices
Sundays 11:00-12:30pm
(in person and online)
A foundational practice for students of Vajrayana Buddhism. Open to everyone.
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Lunar Day Practices or Pujas
4:00-6:30 pm
See Upcoming Events for dates
(in person, some offered online)
These practices are intended for our sangha members to come together and make offerings.
Open to everyone.
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"You must first practice hearing the Dharma, then contemplating it, then meditating upon it. If you don’t learn the Dharma first, then on what will you meditate? It will help you accomplish your own benefit and the benefits of others—in this life and future lives."
-Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche
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Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance with Lama Bruce Newman
Three-Year Program, Year One
Thursdays, starting April 9th
5:30-7:30pm
(online)
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"I participated in the Marig Munsel program from 2000–2004 at Tashi Choling, in what I believe was its first session taught by Bruce Newman. The course was invaluable to me—it brought me back from a long period of limited involvement at the Center into what has now been 26 years of steadily deepening participation.
The program offered a strong grounding in the foundational texts of Buddhist study and practice, while continually emphasizing the importance of bringing one’s practice “off the cushion” and into daily life. Just as meaningful were the rich discussions on how to engage the wider world as a Buddhist, and the deep sense of sangha that developed among participants—connections that continue to support me to this day.
I am profoundly grateful to Bruce Newman for creating and offering this program, and I warmly encourage anyone wishing to establish a solid foundation on the Buddhist path to consider joining.
I later had the opportunity to repeat two years of the course at Orgyen Dorje Den, and I will be attending this upcoming session on Zoom from Dorje Ling—please join me! If you live in the Portland area, we might even gather to participate together, which would be wonderful."
– Carolyn Myers
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Entrance to Dewachen, on the Path to Amitabha’s Pure Realm with Khenpo Karten Rinpoche
Saturday, April 25th
10:00-12:00 & 2:00-4:00
(online)
"The Four Causes for Rebirth in Sukhavati’ is a classic Buddhist teaching that helps us realize our aspiration to fully integrate pure dharma during our lifetimes and to be reborn in Amitabha’s Pure Land following our dying process. Bringing the pure realm to mind, gathering immeasurable roots of virtue, generating bodhicitta, and the dedication of merit through prayer will be our focus. Khenpo Karten Rinpoche is delighted to share this profound teaching and considers the topic 'his specialty'."
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