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September 19th through 21st

5:00-7:00pm each day

Friday, September 19th: Tso Kye Tuk Tig (Guru Rinpoche)

Saturday, Sept 20th: Vajrasattva

Sunday, Sept 21st: Khandro Tuk Tig (Yeshe Tsogyal) and Refuge Ceremony

Sponsored by Dorje Ling Buddhist Center



Held at Kagyu Changchub Choling (KCC)

4936 NE Skidmore St., Portland

Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, born in Tibet in 1950 and recognized as a tulku, has taught worldwide for decades. Together with his late brother Khenpo Palden Sherab, he co-founded the Padmasambhava Buddhist Centers.

These three empowerments form a gateway to Vajrayana Buddhism: Guru Rinpoche as the path-blazer, Vajrasattva as purifier, and Yeshe Tsogyal as wisdom. Receiving these blessings from an authentic lama is a rare and precious opportunity.

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Arrival Time and Parking

Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure you are on time for the event. Everyone will wait outside until the start of the event and enter together.

Parking is available in the neighborhood but due to the amount of attendees, plan on parking several blocks away. If you are able to, please leave the parking spaces closer to the center available for individuals who may have difficulty walking. There is a park near NE Shaver and 47th (about a 6 minute walk) that might have more parking.

Registration and Donations

Register early to ensure you have a spot: we anticipate a lot of interest.

Suggested donation is $40 per day: please donate what you can according to your means, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All offerings are appreciated and will offset the expenses of the event.

In addition, it is traditional to make a cash offering (dana) and a kata (white scarf) to the teacher at the end of each day.

Empowerments are not just formal rituals, they are transmissions that connect us directly to the wisdom and blessings of enlightened beings. Receiving an empowerment grants permission to engage in specific practices and establishes a spiritual link between the student, the teacher, and the deity. It plants the seed of awakening in recipients and provides the lineage support needed to benefit from Buddhist practices.

Together the three empowerments offered in September form a complete gateway to the Vajrayana path: Guru Rinpoche as the path blazer, destroyer of obstacles; Vajrasattva as the purifier, who introduces a fresh, luminous foundation for meditation; and Yeshe Tsogyal as the embodiment of wisdom. Receiving these blessings from an authentic lama such as Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche is a rare and precious opportunity.

From Rigpa Shedra:

Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal was born in Tibet in 1950, and was recognized as a tulku of Khenpo Sherab Khyentse, the head abbot lama of Gochen Monastery in Kham, who was a renowned scholar and practitioner who lived much of his life in retreat.

In 1960 Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal and his brother Khenpo Palden Sherab together with their family escaped from Tibet. In India, he studied at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, and received his Bachelor’s Degree from Sanskrit University in 1970. In 1978, H. H. Dudjom Rinpoche appointed him as the khenpo of the Wish-fulfilling Nyingmapa Institute in Boudhanath, Nepal. During the 1980’s Khenpo studied and worked closely with Dudjom Rinpoche in France and at the Yeshe Nyingpo centre in New York. During the 1980's he began orally translating the teachings of his brother, Khenpo Palden Sherab, at various centres in the U.S. In 1988, the brother khenpos founded the Padmasambhava Buddhist Centres, which now have branches in the U.S., India, and Russia.