KALACHAKRA RITUAL PREPARATION

7:00am-9:30am
Earth Ritual Prayers

9:30am -10:00am
A Short Teaching

10:00am-12:00pm
HHDL Birthday Celebrations

"Trungkar" Parade until 1:15pm

1:30pm-4:30pm
Earth Ritual Prayers

KALACHAKRA RITUAL PREPARATION

7:00am-11:30am
Prayers

1:00-2:30 pm
Earth Ritual Dance

2:30pm-4:30 pm
Prayers

6:30pm-8:00pm
Evening Dharma at the Kalachakra
Speaker: Alexander Berzin
Topic: Orientation To Buddhism and the Kalachakra

KALACHAKRA RITUAL PREPARATION

7:00am-12:00pm
Prayers

1:00pm-2:30 pm
Prayers

KALACHAKRA PRELIMINARY TEACHINGS

8:00am-10:00am
Prayers (optional for Public)

8:00-12:00 pm
A Talk for World Peace
West Lawn of the Capitol
Free to the Public
Public can arrive at 8:00am.
Program ends at noon.

1:00pm-4:00pm
Preliminary Teachings
For the Preliminary Teaching, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will teach on Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo's 37 Practices of a Bodhisatva (Laklen Sodunma) & Kamalashila's The Middling States of Meditation (Gomrim Barpa).

6:30pm-8:00pm
Evening Dharma at the Kalachakra
Speaker: Thupten Jinpa
Topic: Under the Buddhist Umbrella:
Do science, secularism, and religion all fit?

Kalachakra Preliminary Teaching

8:00am-10:30am
Prayers

1:00pm-4:00pm
Preliminary Teachings
For the Preliminary Teaching, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will teach on Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo's 37 Practices of a Bodhisatva (Laklen Sodunma) & Kamalashila's The Middling States of Meditation (Gomrim Barpa)

Following the Teachings
Tsog Ceremony

Kalachakra Preliminary Teaching

8:00am-10:30am
Prayers

1:00pm-4:00pm
Preliminary Teachings
For the Preliminary Teaching, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will teach on Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo's 37 Practices of a Bodhisatva (Laklen Sodunma) & Kamalashila's The Middling States of Meditation (Gomrim Barpa).

6:30pm-8:00pm
Evening Dharma at the Kalachakra Speaker: ven. Thubten Chodron
Topic: Buddhism, Empowerments, and Everyday Life

Kalachakra Ritual and Offering Dance

7:00am-11:30am
Prayers

1:00-3:00 pm
Ritual Offering Dance

6:30pm-8:00pm
Evening Dharma at the Kalachakra Speakers: Alexander Berzin,
Sofia Stril-Rever,
Vesna Wallace

moderated by
Robert Thurman
Topic: Deepening your Kalachakra Views:
The Mandala, The Cosmology, The Deities, and the Meaning

Kalachakra Empowerment

7:00am-12:00pm
Self Generation Prayers

1:00pm-4:30pm
Preliminary Initiation for Students

6:30pm-8:00pm
Evening Dharma at the Kalachakra Speaker:
HE Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche
Topic: Bodhicitta

Kalachakra Empowerment

7:00am-12:00pm
Self Generation Prayers

12:45pm-5:00pm
Kalachakra Empowerment

5:00pm-8:00pm
Viewing Mandala

6:30pm-8:00pm
Evening Dharma at the Kalachakra
Speaker:
Robert Thurman
Topic: Supreme Goodness as Power: Kalachakra Buddhahood as the Bodhisattva's Way to Fulfill Vows

Kalachakra Empowerment

(15th Day of 5th Tibetan Month Full Moon Day)

7:00am-12:00pm
Self Generation Prayers (Optional for Public)

12:30pm-5:30pm
Kalachakra Empowerment

6:30pm-8:00pm
Evening Dharma at the Kalachakra
Speaker: ven. Jhado Rinpoche
( with translation)
Topic: Practicing Kalachakra
Six-Session Guru Yoga

Tenshug

7:00am-8:00am
Prayer Ceremony

8:00am-9:00am
Long Life Empowerment

9:00am-12:00pm
Tenshug: Long Life Empowerment for His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Presentation of Special Award to Katri Samdong Rinpoche by North America Tibetan Association

3:30pm-4:30pm
Dismantling of Mandala

4:30pm-5:00pm
Concluding Prayers