We would like to invite you all to our powerful Nyungnay Purifying Ritual Practice.
This practice is done annually at Kadampa Buddhist centers throughout the world in a two-day retreat—called the Nyungnay Purifying Ritual Practice—to celebrate Buddha’s Enlightenment Day. To give more people the chance to do this retreat we have scheduled it in the weekend of 12.-14. April 2023.
This special practice, where we take the eight Mahayana precepts two days - and fast completely (no water or food, if we can) on day two- is done in conjunction with Eleven-faced Avalokiteshvara.
It is very powerful for purifying negative karma of body, speech, and mind, and for pacifying strong delusions such as desirous attachment and hatred .It is also a special method for receiving blessings and improving our experience of love, compassion, and bodhichitta.
You will need these two prayer booklets for this retreat:
A Pure Life:
The practice of taking and keeping the eight Mahayana precepts is a special practice of moral discipline that is performed with bodhichitta, the compassionate wish to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.
The essence of this practice is taking eight precepts and keeping them purely for twenty-four hours. We first need to receive these precepts from a qualified Preceptor, and then we can take them on our own as often as we wish. Instructions on both these methods are included in this prayer booklet.
Because this practice is motivated by bodhichitta it is especially powerful for purifying negativities, accumulating merit—a positive strength of mind—and creating the cause for us to attain the unsurpassed happiness of enlightenment. This booklet contains a brief explanation of the practice of keeping the eight Mahayana precepts.
Drop of Essential Nectar
A special fasting and purification practice performed in conjunction with Eleven-faced (or Thousand-armed) Avalokiteshvara.
This is a very powerful method for purifying negativities of body, speech, and mind, and for pacifying strong delusions such as desirous
attachment and hatred. It is also a special way of receiving blessings and for improving our minds of love, compassion, and bodhichitta.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the ritual aspect of this retreat, all of the sessions for this retreat will only be available live and not for replay.
Time-table:
Friday
18:30-19:30 - Introduction to the Nyungnay retreat, where Gen Dragpa will explain the benefits of Nyung Nay purification retreat and how to do the retreat correctly.
Saturday
07:30 Precepts
08:00-09:30 Session 1
10:45-12:00 Session 2
12.15 Precepts lunch
14.00-15.15 Session 3
Sunday
07:30 Precepts
08:00-09:30 Session 1
10:45-12:00 Session 2
12.15 NB. No precepts lunch
14.00-15.15 Session 3
P.S Participants need to take the precepts on both days in order to do the Nyungnay practice. You cannot be flexible with the precepts times and lunch, precepts need to be taken at 07:30 and lunch finished before 13:00.
Gen Kelsang Dragpa
is the Resident Teacher at Kadampa meditasjonssenter Oslo, and National Spiritual Director for the Nordic Region. He has been practising and teaching Kadampa Buddhism for many years and has been an ordained monk since 1993. His way of teaching is very practical and easy to understand.