News & Announcements for May
Dear Precious Sangha, It's May Day and we have arrived at the time of year to celebrate Mother's Day and Buddha Tara! Precious Sangha members in twelve different host cities around the world have been gathering weekly to spring clean local Dharma centers and plan glorious mandalas, as we joyfully prepare for the 2022 Dzogchen Buddha Path 74-Hour Global Tara Event. And that's not all! The Fifth Month North America Committee has planned other inspiring Dharma teachings and worldly events. Scroll down for more details. We sincerely invite you all to attend the many events, teachings and practices of The Buddha Path in the month of May! May all be auspicious! May all beings benefit! Love and blessings,
Bodhi Lama Carrie Ure
Publisher/Editor
Dzogchen Buddha Path Newsletter
Fifth Month North American
Monthly Committee Activities
A Message from our International Fifth Month Bodhisattva Leader: Precious Sangha,Your Fifth Month International and Regional Committees greet you with the international theme for May: "Transforming Resources and Technology into the Buddha Path." This month we will emphasize how to expand our skill sets in order to joyfully share Dharma teachings and activities. Please take a look at this rich variety of teachings,
multi-day internet programs, worldwide events, and practice opportunities. I look forward to seeing you all at these auspicious events. Love and blessings to all,
Dharma Acharya Rikkianne Chatfield
Fifth Month Bodhisattva Leader
International Teachings, Events, and
Practice Opportunities
2022 Dzogchen Buddha Path Spring Internet Teaching Program
Sunday, May 1st – Saturday May 7thThe Dzogchen Shri Singha Foundation is pleased to announce our annual Dzogchen Buddha Path Spring Internet Teaching Program. The Spring Internet Teaching Program will be taught by Venerable Bodhi Lama Orgyen Thabkey Dorje (Erik Drew Jung) under the guidance of His Eminence Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche. This five-day event will be held online via Zoom, and presents an ideal opportunity to deepen your understanding and experience of the teachings of the Dzogchen Lineage and practice the Dzogchen Buddha Path. For more details and registration please visit: https://www.thebuddhapath.org/events/2022-dzogchen-buddha-path-spring-internet-teaching-program/
2022 Dzogchen Buddha Path
74-Hour Global Tara Event
May 13 - 16th (Taiwan) Please join H.E. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche and the international Dzogchen Buddha Path Sangha for the Fifth Annual Grand Tara Event. The Holy Vajra Master, along with authorized Dharma teachers and Sangha, will conduct and broadcast this live event from Taipai, Taiwan and many other international locations. Practitioners and friends from around the world will attend this glorious online gathering of like-minded individuals joining together in heart, mind, voice, music, and visual splendor. There has never been a better opportunity to join a virtual international assembly to experience the power of love, compassion, and peace in the world. The 2022 Dzogchen Buddha Path 74-Hour Global Tara Event will
commence at 1 PM on Friday, May 13th and conclude at 3 PM on Monday, May 16th (Taipei UTC+8).
There are five opportunities for spreading world peace and happiness:
1. Offer your time and talent. Volunteer for the Tara Event and get the unique benefits of joining in the activities of the Holy Vajra Master, Compassionate Heroine Buddha Tara, and all Buddhas. Contact your local event director for information.
2. Donate generously. There is much technical infrastructure and actual building materials and supplies needed to produce this event and to provide the infrastructure for future events. Donate here.
3. Make offerings. You do not have to attend the event to offer. You can make offerings for yourself or on behalf of others. Offering Menu
4. Attend this virtual worldwide event. Showing up online helps to increase our accumulation power! Register here.
5. Promote the event! Tell everyone you know. Spend your time and talent to make a video or slide presentation or online teaching.
For more information and registration, click here.
Intentional Happiness:
How to End the Reactions that Cause our Suffering
An International Teaching with Dharma Acharya Mary Orton
May 4th 9:00 pm Pacific
Join Zoom Meeting
https://dzogchenbuddhapath.zoom.us/j/82025277719 Meeting ID: 820 2527 7719
Passcode: 805495
Americas Teachings, Events, and
Practice Opportunities
Creating Dharma Teachings Through AnimationSaturday, May 21, 9:00 am Pacific Join Sangha Mitra Dewi Anderson and Precious Sangha Member Alexi Duynslager for a special one-hour teaching entitled “How Even a Novice Can Produce a Video Illustration or Animation of a Dharma Teaching.” During the 2022 Great
Miracle Event we witnessed the profound power of creating wonderful presentations that show-case fundamental Buddhist principles. If you would like to learn how to harness those skills, don’t miss this event! Zoom details forthcoming.
2022 Saga Dawa Teaching & Practice Program
Dear Precious Sangha, I am very pleased to inform you of our upcoming auspicious event, the Dzogchen Buddha Path Saga Dawa Teaching and Practice Program! This year’s Saga Dawa Event will be similar to this year’s Great Miracle Event in structure and will be organized by the 12 Dzogchen Buddha Path Administration Committees (Day 1 by the January Committee, etc.) The Saga Dawa Event will take place from June 2nd - June 14th, 2022 (Taiwan Time). Registration will open soon. For now, please save the date and those on monthly committees should gently start to activate. I rejoice in all your good intentions and actions, and look forward to engaging in another wonderful program with
you! Sincerely,
Bodhi Lama Zangshod
2022 Saga Dawa Event Director
The Daily Practice of the Three Supreme Jewels and Three Roots is the text used to accumulate mantras for world peace. This concise text is now available to all virtuous beings who aspire to join in the enlightened activity of the Holy Vajra Master by reciting holy mantras. Please click here to download the text. For more information on how to practice the Three Root Mantras, please review the announcement on 100% Cautious and 0% Fear. Click here to read the instructions.
Recording Mantra Accumulations When you are reciting mantras, you can record your accumulations using the BuddhaPath
App or by logging in to thebuddhapath.org and recording them using the Mantras button under the Accumulations section of the My Daily Enlightenment page. We have
included more detailed instructions below. If you are unable to use My Daily Enlightenment or the BuddhaPath App, you can send your reports to mantras@thebuddhapath.org.
Tracking the Mantra Accumulations of
Our Worldwide SanghaIt is obvious these are challenging times. Globally, as many people increase fear and suffering, now, more than ever, it is critical that we hold onto Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. As difficult conditions increase, virtuous practice must equally increase. So this is the most important time for us to respect each other, care for each other, and support each other. We encourage Sangha all over the world to participate in mantra accumulations. We are therefore reinstating our Million Mantra Accumulation project to continue recording the mantra recitations of our worldwide Sangha. Visit our Telegram channel to watch our accumulations grow, to receive updates on the app, and to get support, tips and tricks for easily recording your practice accumulations and reporting your progress. Remember that rejoicing increases our merit! When you record your accumulations, you generously provide others the opportunity to rejoice in your
virtuous activity. In this way we will swiftly bring world peace!
The Dzogchen Buddha Path Teaching Calendar:
Introducing a New Way to Find Teachings, Practices,
Events and Retreats Worldwide Now at your fingertips and available in multiple languages, the Dzogchen Buddha Path Calendar displays information and links to teachings, practices, tutoring, internet events, and in-person events and retreats, worldwide, in your own time zone and language. Regions include America, Asia, Europe and Russia. Calendar displays in four ways: Dzogchen Buddha Path Website
Google Calendar Subscription
iCalendar Subscription
Google Play or App Store app If you are an event director or authorized Dzogchen Buddha Path teacher in any of the four regions of
America, Asia, Europe or Russia, you now have direct access to apply to place your event on the calendar for your region. The process is swift and greatly increases your ability to advertise and promote your teachings and events to a worldwide audience. International and For-Credit Events
Teachings America
Practices America
Teachings Asia
Practices Asia
Teachings Europe
Practices Europe
Teachings Russia
Practices Russia May the Dzogchen Buddha Path Teaching Calendar be the auspicious condition for all beings to receive precious Dharma teachings throughout all universes!
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