15th ANNUAL MANTRATHON for World Peace and 🌏Healing during Saga Dawa Month🙏: Teachings on Mantra, Rigdzin Dupa Dechen Namrol Sadhana, and Mantra Accumulation plus ⛩ Bodhisattva Vow Ceremony, Nyungne Fasting Ritual, Buddha Puja, and Life Release🐠 MAY 28 - JUNE 11, 2025 (All events in-person and online🖥) Dear Sangha and Friends, Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche and Odiyana Institute wish you all an auspicious Saga Dawa, which begins on May 28and ends on June 25, 2024! 🌈During this holy month, the most important events in the life of Lord Buddha Shakyamuni -- His birth, Enlightenment and Parinirvana 🙏-- are all celebrated. It is also a time when the power of our virtue is multiplied many thousands of times over. For this reason, group spiritual practice is emphasized. This Saga Dawa, we are pleased to announce our 15th Annual Mantra-Thon for World Peace 🌎 and Healing! In the past several years, we have been witnessing great suffering throughout the world caused by political divisions and tensions, poverty, natural disasters, and the violence of warfare. As Rinpoche has told us many times, the primary method that we Buddhists have at our disposal to help those in such miserable states of suffering is Dharma practice. As Guru Padmasambhava, or Guru Rinpoche, 🙏is the embodiment of all the Buddhas and spiritual masters of the Three Times, and is the very reflection of our own primordially perfected state, by supplicating Guru Rinpoche, and by unifying our mindstream with his through Guru Yoga and sadhana practice, and by accumulating his mantra, we receive the blessings needed to reveal our own innate Buddhahood, and thus gain the capacity to uproot samsara. As Padmasambhava himself said, "for those with faith and devotion in me, I am there in front of them." Therefore, this year's Mantrathon will focus on the accumulation of the Vajra Guru Mantra, with the collective goal of 1 Million recitations: OM AH HUNG BENZA GURU PEMA SIDDHI HUNG🙏 When the late HH Dudjom Rinpoche III 🙏(Yangsi Sangye Pema Zhepa) visited the USA in 2019, he visited Santa Barbara at Tulku Orgyen's request and generously bestowed the empowerment for the special and rare Rigdzin Dupa (Assembly of Vidyadharas) sadhana from the Dudjom Tersar, known as Dechen Namrol (Display of Great of Exaltation). In the time of Dudjom Lingpa, this unique Guru Rinpoche practice was the main Guru practice of the Three Roots in the Dudjom lineage, but in recent decades has been upheld almost solely by the tantrika sangha in Pemakod, first under the leadership of Togden Kunzang Longdrol,🙏 and then by Togden's current incarnation, Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche, and his father Lama Rigdzin Phuntsok. Now, we in Tulku la's sangha have the precious opportunity to do so as well, since Tulku la translated the sadhana about 10 years ago. We have not had the opportunity to practice the full sadhana together for several years, so this will be an especially blessed Mantrathon. Mantrathon 2025 Practice and Teaching ⏰ Online Schedule (all dates and times are PST) 🧘🧘‍♀️ Wednesday, May 28th from 6-8 PM Bodhisattva vow ceremony Teaching on mantra Beginning of Mantrathon practice Saturday, May 31 from 9 AM to 8 PM NyungNe Practice of 11-Faced Avalokiteshvara (9 AM-5 PM) Mani Kulwa (6-8 PM): special "call and response" chanting of OM MANI PEME HUNG with instructions from Patrul Rinpoche *Day includes a simple lunch Sunday, June 1st from 10 AM - 12 Noon Dudjom Tersar Ngondro practice Mantrathon accumulation Thursday, Jun 5th 6-8 PM Guru Rinpoche Day Shower of Blessings sadhana and Tsog Mantrathon accumulation Saturday and Sunday, June 7-8 from 9 AM - 12 Noon and 2 PM - 5 PM Rigdzin Dupa Sadhana with Tsog🍞 Mantrathon accumulation *both days include a simple lunch Wednesday June 11th from 6-8 PM Saga Dawa Duchen and Full moon Day Mantrathon Accumulations Buddha Puja Concluding Prayers and Dedication Ceremony🙏 * For those in the Santa Barbara area, or for who wish to donate, there will be a life 🐜release in the morning (details TBA) Other Important Information • In order to minimize the number of communications and plan more effectively, we are asking you to register✍️ for the NyungNe and Rigdzin Dupa retreats in advance if you wish to attend those specific events. To register, click here. • Please note that the NyungNe practice involves the taking of the 8-Mahayana Precepts for a 24-hour period. Rinpoche will bestow the vows at the beginning of the day. Information about these vows is available online if you would like to know more. • In keeping with Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche encourages us to maintain a vegetarian diet 🥦🥑as much as possible during the month of Saga Dawa. • To join us at the above dates and times, go to odiyanainstitute.org and click the regular Sunday Zoom Link. • This year we will use a variety texts, many of which can be found on our website for download under (resources --> texts or mantra-thon texts) • Click here for a Google Form--where you may log your mantra totals and name those in need of prayers and dedications. • You may begin accumulating Vajra Guru mantras for this event as early as May28 (the 1st day of Saga Dawa). • A provisional mantra total will be announced at the Dedication Ceremony (so please submit your total to-date on or before June 11) • However, you may continue to accumulate additional mantras all the way up until June 25 (the last day of Saga Dawa) and submit those additional mantras on the same Google form. • A grand mantra total will be announced after Saga Dawa ends. • The Mantrathon is always free of charge. However, donations during this special time of year, to support Tulku Rinpoche's ongoing activities in India (Pemakod Dharma Wheel and the Odiyana Charitable Society), 🌻🌷🪻as well the maintenance of the center here in Santa Barbara, are very much appreciated. To make a donation, Click Here. • If you have any questions about this event, please email Aaron: aaroncebtt@gmail.com • We hope you will join in this precious opportunity to practice together! In the Dharma, ⛩ Aaron Joseph For Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche ☀️and Odiyana Institute🌷 (fb)