Huge Dzambala Retreat Starting April 23rd…get involved!!!!!
The holy 27 inches Dzambala Statue with many crystals offered onto his body. The beautiful workmanship done by Datin Ng. This Dzambala has been specially prepared for this upcoming retreat and many more in the future.
(By Tsem Rinpoche)
The main shrine in Kechara House (KH) with Lord Tsongkapa and the Dzambala in the front. Dzambala will help us purify the negative karma arising from miserliness that make our minds narrow, selfish, hard and our hands tight-fisted to share with others. The Paramita of giving can be achieved with Dzambala. 500 bowls of pure clean water are offered in front of Dzambala… this will be done daily during the powerful retreat to generate merits for the participants themselves and the arisal of Kechara World Peace Centre in the near future.
- Retreat starts on April 23, 2010. I will confer a oral transmission of Dzambala’s mantra that day and also Giving Refuge Ceremony. So those who take this ceremony becomes a Buddhist from that day onwards.
- Wee Liang, Gim Lee, Tho and Eddie Tan worked hard to set up this altar for the retreat.
- Eddie Tan will assist Girlie as chant master (umze) during retreat.
- Up till today 105 people have signed up for this special retreat… and the roster is open for more. Some of you who are out of station… contact the below by email (www.kechara.com) to find out how you can participate from where you are and all the exciting details. You can participate also wherever you are in the world.
- Friends from the USA will be flying in for the refuge and event. How dedicated.
Tsem Rinpoche
Below are retreat details from Liaison Yoke Fui and or committee heading the Kechara House dept:
Dear Retreat Participants:
Please be informed of the following:
A. Program/ Retreat Schedule1) 18th April 2010, at KH 1, 11.30AM
Refuge briefing class for those that wish to take refuge from H.E. Tsem Rinpoche on 23/4/2010 and those that wish to renew their refuge vows.2) 18th April 2010, at KH1, 2PM
Talk on the practice and iconography of Lord Dzambala. All registered participants are advised to attend as this will help you in the Retreat.3) 23rd April 2010, at KH1
7.30PM – Arrival and attendance taking of all participants
7.45PM – Arrival of Rinpoche
8.00PM – Oral transmission & Refuge giving by Rinpoche
9.00PM – 1st session of Retreat begins4) 24th April 2010, KH1
2nd Session of Retreat5) Thereafter Retreat will be conducted at KH1 every Wednesday & Thursday until the required number of Mantra recitation & water offering is completed.
B. Motivation:
- May wealth, sponsors and people of different expertise come forth to help in the project of Kechara World Peace Centre
- May all obstacles be cleared
- May there be HUGE STATUES of Vajrayogini, Lama Tsongkhapa and Dzambala at KWPC for the benefits of all
C. Required mantras and water offerings to be completed:
- Engage in 500,000 Dzambala mantras cumulatively
- Accumulate 100,000 water offerings to Dzambala
- Minimum 54,000 prostrations
D. Notes:
- Offerings can be put on altar and the individual water offerings made for Dzambala bathings by each person also count
- Daily make 400 to 500 water offerings on altar
- Make sure your breath and hands are clean
- Make 3 prostrations before you make water offerings/ clear offerings
- Ask permission from Dzambala for the honour to collect merits
- Each 108 water offerings( part of the puja) is only equivalent to 50 water offerings for the target count (to cover for mistakes)
- Each person to donate rm2 per day( more also can) that they participate. A bowl for this purpose will be placed at the altar
- Before making the donation, make the motivation that in this and all future lives, may all have access to cleanliness. Then make offerings
- Make offerings of 10 flower garlands to Dzambala each day (ppl should make donation for flowers)
- Have 10 different people each day to make the flower offerings to Dzambala. And ask for Dzambala to make everything prosperous and grow
- Make water offerings quietly without talking. Visualise, concentrate and breathe. It is best to recite Dzambala’s mantra when making the offerings
- Each person’s retreat mantra, prostration & water offering count should be recorded at the reception
- The donations are only a small amount to teach generosity towards dharma and the bigger purpose
- Each person can buy Dzambala pendants, incense, etc to be placed on the altar during the ritual for great blessings. Then they can take it back as blessed to wear or give as gifts from KP dept. Very powerful to be blessed during retreat
- Also accumulate 108,000 prostrations to Setrap and Dzambala combined. This is to purify the body so that when we do dharma work, there are no obstacles
Should you need further clarification ,please contact any of the following persons:
- Yap Yoke Fui – 012 2232 996 (leafyap53@yahoo.com)
- Phng Wee Liang – 012 2383 222 (wlphng@gmail.com)
- Tan Gim Lee – 017 6206 193 (gimleetan@gmail.com)
Thank you, may you have a meaningful retreat.
Dzambala Retreat Sub Committee
Kechara House Buddhist Association Malaysia
Scenes From April 23rd, Where I Gave a Talk And Refuge to The Audience
This lady flew in from the USA especially to take refuge that day.
After the talk, meeting Lew, who I met for the first time although he has worked in Ladrang E-division for two months…Lew radiates good energy. I like him.
A few students gets together after the dharma talk and refuge ceremony to have a snack. KH group are fun and easy group of people.
Tsem Rinpoche
Update on 8 May 2010 (Friday)
Final count on Dzambala Retreat:
- Mantra: 605,532
- Water offering: 102,660 bowls
- Prostration: 63,298
Congratulations Kechara House!
Picture above sent by Yoke Fui, showing Dzambala retreat sub-com having supper and Yoke Fui passing my message to them, some of the retreatants are continuing with their prostration practice. Yoke Fui also mentioned that Setrap retreat will start after Wesak Day as Kechara House shall focus on promoting and preparing for Wesak Fair on May 22.
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After working on tsemtulku.com website since last year, and after working in Ladrang for more than 2 months, this is the first time I met Rinpoche. He lives upstairs and I work downstairs, but we just never met (despite there were once where I nearly met Him during a dinner).
After watching Rinpoche on Youtube for more than a year, this is the 1st time I listen to Rinpoche’s talk LIVE, and it is really awesome 🙂
When He talks about the animal, I can really feel Rinpoche’s compassion, and I cannot stop tearing.
After the talk, not only I get a hug from Rinpoche, I also get a pendent from Him, which I have worn it since then.
I sincerely thank you Rinpoche for your tireless effort in spreading the Dharma.
Joining to Kechara House and learning what real dharma is all about has been an eye opener for me. For the most part, I had been very skeptical about Buddhism before I had the honour to have encountered it through H. E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche. I thought Buddhism was about idolatry, going to temples only during the big festivals to perform rituals that don’t make any sense to me and that seem like a big waste of money, lighting joss sticks in front of scary looking deities to ask for 4-D numbers, praying to the dead, asking for a husband/wife, children, good job, business, good luck, money, money and more money. During Chinese New Year, it’s so important to ask the Wealth God to grant lots of money. It was about me, me and me and moneeeeeey. That was what I saw all around me, and until I met Rinpoche, I decided that was not my cup of tea.
After having pored through countless of Rinpoche’s teachings over YouTube, my eyes opened up and I realised that what I saw around me was not real Buddhism. Now through Kechara I’ve learnt about Dzambala who is also the “Wealth God”, not exactly by definition, but we can perceive him to be so. But instead of asking him for money, we ask him to help us cut our miserliness. Instead of focusing on ourselves, we focus out on others. We focus on purifying the negative karma pervading us, caused by ourselves and learn to practise generosity. Then with the negative karma purified, wealth and resources may come as a side benefit, but we learn to use it to benefit others and support our dharma practice, not to fuel our greed. I think that sounds more like real Buddhism.
Many people look towards Lord Dzambala for material wealth not realising that Dzambala bestows both material and spiritual wealth to practitioners. The whole retreat was handled very well from preparation until the last day when Lord Dzambala was invited to reside at Dzamabala Chapel located at Kechara House 2. Retreat participants took part in different processes of the retreat and that in itself is already showing generosity at work, as some retreatants had taken time away from family and job to be part of this event. For those who missed this retreat, do not despair as there will be more retreats coming up. Do look out for the next one and come join in the preparations and participate in the retreat itself.
Arya Dzambala is specially a manifestation of the purified qualities of attachment in the form of miserliness. It is without doubt that we all who are stuck in Samsara have in us a certain degree of us being a miser.
But during this entire Dzambala retreat from preparation, beginning until the end, we can see our miserliness being transformed, purified and turned into generosity. Weeks of preparations were made to ensure that all is done proper to have a retreat fit for all practitioners and offerings fit and grand enough for all the Buddhas.
Datin Ng spent her time sticking svarovski crystals onto the Dzambala statue
Kwok Wai, Lili Ng, and Pat Ng were busy making the palanquin for Arya Dzambala
Yoke Fui and her team were busy arranging their jobs in order to accomodate the influx of overwhelming members attending the event
and at the end during the thanks giving puja, the massive crowd which came in to join in the puja was handled very well.
kudos to all whom have put in so much effort to make this even such a success!
The Dzambala Retreat was really amazing. David gave such a clear and thorough explanation. Prior to the Dzambala Retreat, I have always seen Dzambala as just Buddha of Wealth. So, just pray to him and wealth comes your way. Very limited in my view, I know. But after listening to Rinpoche’s and David’s talks about Dzambala, I know better. I especially felt so moved as to how Dzambala saved Buddha selflessly when Devadatta tried to kill Buddha. From Dzambala’s own selflessness, he arose into the Buddha of Generosity to eliminate our miserliness. And here, miserliness does not just refer to all things outside of us – but most of all, the stinginess we hold within – our mental and emotional miserliness.
That was mind blowing when Rinpoche explained it to us. There are so many levels of miserliness that we engage in every single moment of our lives, daily. Hence, to know that Dzambala does not just grant us wealth or wishes, we first have to cut off our own miserliness and Dzambala helps us with that. In time, even our own generosity will blossom within at all levels. That would be the greatest wealth we have – our inner generosity towards others. In this way, Dzambala does grant us our wealth – inner and outer.
Terima Kasih Rinpoche!
It is very interesting to have read the comments here…
Thanks to this retreat, I met a Dharma sister when I was just so new to Kechara and like a blur cat, agreed to help her accomplish the water offerings after a Sunday Manjusri Class. My first time doing water offerings during a retreat! Never knew much later she would end up becoming the proud owner of a rescued puppy named ‘Good Luck’! How causes and conditions work are just beyond me!
That event made me attend the regular Thursday Dzambala Puja and it was a good experience. Even getting the Dzambala ritual set was a story by itself..proof of when one is sincere, Dharma opens many doors and windows…
Dear Rinpoche,
Today is the final day of the Lord Dzambala retreat. We have achieved the targets of mantra, water offerings and also the prostrations. It has been a wonderful experience. I am now looking forward to completing the Lord Setrup retreat.
Thank you again for your kindness in allowing us to play a part in the manifestation of Kechara World Peace Center.
With Folded Hands,
Wee Liang
Dearest Rinpoche,
Thank you for everything. Through your kindness many people were granted refuge with a great lama and for allowing us to proceed with the Dzambala retreat that most of us desperately need (to cut miserliness & gain generosity, achieve spiritual & external wealth). I’m so happy that both my kids, Rachle & Xander got the Je Tsongkhapa & Lord Dzambala “Lhung” from Rinpoche. They were so excited to meet Rinpoche in person and as for me, it was a great opportunity to renew my refuge vows with Rinpoche. I will remember Rinpoche’s advice to me. Thank u so much Rinpoche.
Dear Rinpoche,
Thank you very much for your consideration and kindness in changing your decision on the retreat. Today was officially the first day of the retreat and we had a great time.
It is the first time i get to participate in a retreat. Although it is only the first day, It was a great experience. I hope and pray for the retreat to go on smoothly.
May Lord Dzambala grant us inner and outer wealth for the swift manifestation of KWPC and all the blessed activities of Kechara House.
Sincerely,
Wee Liang
Dear Rinpoche,
I am sure you have very good and valid reasons to cancel the retreat. I believe that you only choose the best for all of us. I have told myself several times to not go against your decision of cancelling it. But i really would like the retreat to go on for the swift manifestation of KWPC. By being at Kechara House, I have realised how your teachings and facilities has brought light to many of us, myself especially. I would really love it if KWPC can manifest fast to benefit many many people at a quicker rate and i believe very much in the pujas.
Can we at least restore the altar with Lord Dzambala on it?
As my Guru, only you know what commitment i should take that will benefit most sentient beings.
Sincerely,
Wee Liang
Dear Wee Liang,
Give me your ideas on reversing my decision? What do you commit to ? or What can be done to make me feel to allow the retreat??
Do you all deserve it? Why?
TR
Dear Rinpoche,
I feel very honoured to be chosen as part of the Dzambala retreat sub committee. It has also been alot fun setting up and getting everyone together. We are all really looking forward to dedicating the merits of the retreat to the growth of Kechara house and the swift manifestation of Kechara World Peace center.
Is there anything I can do to change your decision with the Dzambala retreat?
Sincerely,
Wee Liang
I wish I could be with you! Please embrace my presence and allow me Blessings.
Yes, time to engage in retreat. It is especially beneficial and create causes to gain spiritual & material wealth!
Dzambala practive very good to help people with financial difficulty. Do attend this practice to learn ancient methods of overcoming our lack of giving and miserliness that are the direct causes for wealth,