His Holiness Drikung Kabgyon Chetsang Rinpoche

will consecrate Vajra Dakini Nunnery
and visit the Sunray Peace Village

September 8 -12, 2010 

Vajra Dakini Nunnery is a contemplative community of ordained women, and a place of training and practice for monastics and lay practitioners, women and men, old and young. Part of the Drikung Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism, Vajra Dakini welcomes practitioners from all lineages. At the time of the consecration by H.H. Drikung Kabgyon Chetsang Rinpoche, the nunnery officially receives the lineage blessing to open and begin its work serving the Dharma and the community.

Fulfilling the mission and vision of Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, Vajra Dakini Nunnery is the first training monastery in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for western women in North America. It is one of three monasteries for western monastics. 

The consecration of the Nunnery Residence, Retreat cabin and White Tara Shrine involves special ceremonies that making them “holy places”, carrying the blessings of the Drikung lineage, and suitable for making offerings and pilgrimage. 

Please join us for this historic occasion and for all the related events. HH Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, the supreme head of the Drikung lineage, will consecrate the nunnery.

• September 8 - Drikung Western Monastic Gathering at Vajra Dakini Nunnery with H.H. Chetsang Rinpoche. Sojong translation into English for the first time sponsored by the Nunnery.

• September 9 - H.H. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche - Public Talk at the Sunray Peace Village: "Mahamudra and Dream Yoga."

• September 11 - Public Consecration of Vajra Dakini Nunnery and White Tara Statue at Vajra Dakini Nunnery.

• September 12 - White Tara Empowerment with H.H. Chetsang Rinpoche at Vajra Dakini Nunnery.

Information and registration details can be found on Varjra Dakini Nunnery's website.  Additional information can be found on the Sunray Peace Village blog here.  Check the blog for updates as we approach this auspicious and historic series of events. 

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