28 Heintzman Street
Toronto, Ontario M6P 2J6
(416) 766-7964
E-mail: pema@riwoche.com

Riwoche Tibetan Buddhist Temple is located in Toronto, Canada. Activities focus on the spiritual development of all sentient beings through teaching, meditation practice, and other means.

Just as a skilled physician makes use of various remedies according to the needs of each patient, so also are various methods used to guide students toward enlightenment and to benefit all beings.

Drawing upon the wisdom of all schools of Buddhism, teachings at Riwoche Tibetan Buddhist Temple emphasize Tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism, an unique and effective collection of teachings and practices particularly appropriate to the present age.

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MAY 2008 EVENTS CALENDAR

JUNE 2008 EVENTS CALENDAR

HH PHAKCHOK RINPOCHE 2008 TORONTO TEMPLE VISIT

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Medicine Buddha Meditation

Tuesday Evenings 7:30 p.m.

Stimulates the benefit of natural healing influences for
the health and well-being of oneself and others, especially
those suffering from physical and mental afflictions.

Tranquility Meditation

Thursday Evenings 8:00 p.m.

Cultivates mindfulness and awareness in a simple practice
which allows the busyness and speed of habitual mind to subside
so that intrinsic peace and clarity may manifest naturally.

Green Tara Meditation

Saturday and Sunday Mornings 9 a.m.

Invokes the feminine aspects of enlightened wisdom in the form
of Green Tara and nurtures the development of compassion.

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UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS

Our Temple doors are opening to welcome the public when the 9th annual DOORS OPEN TORONTO celebration of architecture and history takes place throughout the city with a special focus on Toronto's Sacred Spaces and Sacred Circles. Your visit highlights will include volunteer guides to talk about the special features of a Buddhist shrine and the traditional Buddhist ritual instruments. Come visit us and browse through the outdoor bazaar. Inside the Riwoche Temple Store you will find a wonderful selection of items to support a meditative practice. For visitors a cafe style lunch plate will be available during the afternoon featuring the very delicious Tibetan "momo". Last admittance to building at 4:00pm.

The retreat will be held at the Riwoche Temple. Venerable Khenpo Sonam Tobgyal Rinpoche will teach the Six Commentaries on the Bardo. During the retreat the practices include Dzogchen meditation and teachings on the Bardo Thodol. There will be an empowerment of the 100 Peaceful and Wrathful Deities. Attendance of the full week is required. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Loretta Wong at LORETTAWONG108@YAHOO.COM.

For the first time His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche and his father, His Eminence Chokling Rinpoche, will visit Toronto together and will jointly bestow empowerments.

Events at Riwoche Tibetan Buddhist Temple
· Sangye Won Empowerment
· Teaching from Sangye Won, founder of Riwoche
· Teaching from Taklung Thangpa
· Vajrakilaya (Sangtig Phurba) Empowerment
· Tara Who Protects from 8 Fears empowerment from the Chokling Tersar
· Vase Blessing Ceremony, for long life and prosperity

Events at Public Venues (locations to be determined)
· Public talk: The Great "I"
· 4-Arm Chenrezig Empowerment
· Manjushri Empowerment
· Vajrapani Empowerment
· Naga Vase Puja

His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche will give the Sangye Won Empowerment, teach on the Jewel Ornament of Liberation, Taklung Thangpa, and Sangye Won, and give a public talk on The Great "I".
Phakchok Rinpoche is the Supreme Head of the Taklung Kagyu lineage, the Abbot of a monastery in Chapagaon in the southern Kathmandu Valley, and the Head of Riwoche Monastery in Tibet's Dokham region. Born in 1981 to Chokling Rinpoche and his wife Dechen Paldron, Phakchok Rinpoche is grandson of Tulku Ugyen Rinpoche and the eldest brother of the Yangsi Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Recognized by the Kagyu regents and ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he has studied with a number of great lamas, including Khyentse Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Tulku Ugyen Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche and Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche. An enthusiastic and vibrant young lama, his teachings are direct, accessible, and always fresh, opening up our minds in a playful and inspiring way.

His Eminence Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche will give Vajrakilaya and Tara Empowerments, give a teaching on Tara, and conduct the Prosperity Vase Blessing and Tsok.
Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche was born in eastern Tibet in 1953, the second son of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Recognized by the Karmapa as the fourth reincarnation of the great 19th-century tertön Chokgyur Lingpa Rinpoche, he studied at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim and received transmissions of the entire Nyingma lineage from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Dudjom Rinpoche. He lives at Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling, one of the largest monasteries in Nepal, where he serves as Vajra Master, presiding over the Vajrayana rituals for the living and dead. He is a tertön and ngakpa with a wife and four children. His oldest son, Phakchok Rinpoche, is an important Taklung Kagyü tulku; while the youngest, Yangsi Rinpoche, is the reincarnation of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

This year Riwoche Temple will again be hosting a fundraising run in High Park. We would like to encourage everyone to participate — last year was very enjoyable. There will be a 5K and a 1K course, and registrants may choose to either walk or run.

Venerable Khenpo Sonam Rinpoche will bestow the Medicine Buddha Empowerment.
This empowerment is the Healing Power of a Compassionate Heart and Awakened Mind. $35

Translation at most Riwoche Temple events is generously provided by Shakya Dorje, an accomplished Tibetan interpreter and fully qualified Emchi, or physician of Tibetan medicine, a student of the eminent physician the late Venerable Dr. Trogawa, Rinpoche.