His Holiness Kyapgon Ngawang Tenzin Rinpoche is Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche’s teacher and one of the highest Buddhist masters in Bhutan. It is a great honor and joy that His Holiness is giving this Online Live Empowerment.
Empowerment is a ritual in Vajrayana Buddhism which empowers us to engage in the particular spiritual practices we receive Empowerment for. This way, we can receive blessings and accomplishments through those practices. The function of Empowerment is to ripen our Buddha Nature. It can only be granted by qualified Vajra Masters.
Avalokiteshvara (in Tibetan Chenrezig) is a Bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas. Receiving Avalokiteshvara Empowerment will enable the devoted participants to practice with the blessing of Avalokiteshvara and to experience and express this blessing in this life. The Empowerment serves as a spiritual authorization to train in the generation and completion stage of Avalokiteshvara.
His Holiness Kyapgon Ngawang Tenzin Rinpoche does not only possess the lineage blessing but His Holiness’ life is a manifestation of Avalokiteshvara’s body, speech and mind, finding its expression in His Holiness helping every sentient being with any possible means. Throughout his life, His Holiness has led and initiated countless Avalokiteshvara mantra recitations and His Holiness has personally recited one hundred million Avalokiteshvara mantras many times. As a highly acclaimed master in Mahamudra and Dzogchen, His Holiness always emphasizes how the essence of these highest practices is similar to that of the Avalokiteshvara practice. Likewise, His Holiness focuses on the Avalokiteshvara practice of love, compassion and bodhicitta in all of his teachings.
During this Empowerment, which belongs to the Action Yoga Tantras (Kriya Yoga Tantras), the participants will be taken through the Avalokiteshvara sadhana practice and prayer text composed by His Holiness. The composition of this text can be considered as a compassionate blessing rooted in His Holiness’ realizations for the purpose of invoking Avalokiteshvara in all of the devoted participants. Also, an oral transmission and brief explanation of an Avalokiteshvara prayer by the Tibetan king Songten Gampo who was an emanation of Avalokiteshvara will be provided during this Empowerment.
An incredibly precious opportunity!
About His Holiness Kyapgon Ngawang Tenzin Rinpoche
His Holiness is the reincarnation of the great Yogi Rigzin Jinpa Gyaltsen — the holder of the secret doctrines. Rinpoche had been the master of Philosophy and Logic of the Punakha Monastic Body since he was forty-five years old. For 10 years, His Holiness also held the highly esteemed position of Dorji Lopon, or “Vajra Master”, heading the Vajracarya division of the Central Monastic Body. Later Rinpoche chose to live a life of simple renunciation in a small hut to meditate and practice in seclusion.
As a result of unwavering practice, His Holiness’ level of understanding and experience have thrived and his insights and realizations have expanded immeasurably. Rinpoche has brought great benefit to the Bhutanese community and has given many masters and teachers direct instructions in empowerment, transmission and teaching of Mahamudra, the Six Doctrines of Naropa and Dzogchen.
