Shower of Blessings Tsok

Join us on Wednesday, November 22  to offer Tsok! Set up is at 5:30 p.m. /  Practice begins at 6:30 p.m. We will practice the Shower of Blessings feast offering (Tib. tsok) for the tenth day of the first lunar month which falls this year on Wednesday, November 22, 2023. The tsok (feast offering) practice is offered to celebrate each tenth day, Guru Rinpoche Day, in every lunar month. Each Guru Rinpoche day commemorates a particular episode from Padmasambhava's life as support to practitioners who wish to deepen their relationship with him, the buddha of our troubled age. 10th month: Arriving in Central Tibet, the Guru subdues all negative and hostile forces. He found the great monastery of Samye and lights the lamp of the Dharma, teaching sutra and tantra. He leads his twenty-five disciples and King Trisong Detsen to liberation and is known as Guru Padmasambhava, "the Lotus-Born Guru." Excerpt extracted from Tibetan Astrology, in which Phillipe Cornu summarizes Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche's explanation of each month's tenth day. Read more here. Please join us early to set up if you're able to help. If you would like to make a donation to support this practice at PMC, please donate online by clicking here, and selecting "Offering Ceremonies"  or send checks to "PMC" at PO Box 3734, Boulder, CO 80307 and email treasurer@pmctr.org with your pledged donation amount no later than  Friday, November  17th.