New Year 2009 Universal Prayers for all,
from Menri Monastery !
Dearest friends,
We hope this message finds you all well and very happy.
We wish you all a Wonderful New Year 2009 !
With prayers for your good health, wealth, love,
and for compassion and peace in all the existing worlds.
Please see attachments.
Yours sincerely,
Abbot of Menri
&
Yungdrung Tenzin (Dominique TROULAY),
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email:
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Abbot Menri Trizin private secretarial office
fixed telephone: +91 (0)1799 25 31 16
fax/ telephone: +91 (0)1799 25 30 43
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MENRI Monastery
P.O. Kotla Panjola, Oachghat 173223
near Solan, SIRMOUR District,
Himachal Pradesh, INDIA
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Menri Guesthouse for visitors: Tel: +91 (0)1799 25 30 69
Guestmaster: Geshe Sonam Gyaltsen – Cellular: +91 (0)9816 33 66 59
Guestmaster Secretary: Dhondrup – Cellular: +91 (0)981 63 27 333
Guestmaster
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from Menri Monastery !
Dearest friends,
We hope this message finds you all well and very happy.
We wish you all a Wonderful New Year 2009 !
With prayers for your good health, wealth, love,
and for compassion and peace in all the existing worlds.
Please see attachments.
Yours sincerely,
Abbot of Menri
&
Yungdrung Tenzin (Dominique TROULAY),
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email:
Skype: domtroulay
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Abbot Menri Trizin private secretarial office
fixed telephone: +91 (0)1799 25 31 16
fax/ telephone: +91 (0)1799 25 30 43
email:
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MENRI Monastery
P.O. Kotla Panjola, Oachghat 173223
near Solan, SIRMOUR District,
Himachal Pradesh, INDIA
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Menri Guesthouse for visitors: Tel: +91 (0)1799 25 30 69
Guestmaster: Geshe Sonam Gyaltsen – Cellular: +91 (0)9816 33 66 59
Guestmaster Secretary: Dhondrup – Cellular: +91 (0)981 63 27 333
Guestmaster
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JANUARY 1st, 2009
RépondreSupprimerPrayers for Universal Peace and Happiness
Yungdrung Bon Monastery of Menri
Happy New Year 2009 to all !!
Many warm greetings and Tashi Delek from the Redna Menling nuns, and the Menri Monastery lamas, monks and children.
On January the 1st, 2009, a special yearly event will take place at the Yungdrung Bon Monastery of Menri.
Early morning, on this New Year's Day, His Holiness Menri Trizin Abbot, the geshes and senior meditation monks, the Dialectic School monk students, the nuns, the boys from the Bon Children Welfare Centre, the girls and boys from the Bon Children Home, and our Tibetan people from the Dolanji Camp shall all gather on the hillside overlooking the valley and the monastery, by the prayer flags and Bonpo family arrow poles.
They will recite powerful universal prayers for peace and happiness for all the sentient beings in all the existing worlds (these prayers were composed by the Zhang-Zhung masters, many thousands of years ago).
We shall all pray for the health and wealth of all our friends and benefactors who have helped us so kindly.
May these prayers bring energy and success in all their activities, fulfill all their wishes, and develop universal compassion, happiness, love and peace.
During this ceremony we shall make plentiful offerings to the world deities, to the local gods and the Nagas of all the existing worlds for universal peace and happiness and for the good success of the coming New Year 2009.
As sound offerings, we shall play music, blow conch shells and long Tibetan trumpets (dungchen), and beat drums, cymbals and Bonpo flat bells.
We shall offer barley and wheat dough cake sculptures (tor-ma), together with wonderful offerings of delicacies like sweets, pure butter, cheese and milk, roasted barley (tsampa), popped barley, popped wheat and corn, puffed rice: ten thousand white ones and one thousand black ones.
We shall make offerings of fine nectars: gold liqueur (serkyem: a precious medicinal tea in which a gold ingot is steeped) and turquoise liqueur (yukyem: a precious medicinal beer in which a big virgin turquoise gem is steeped), silver and jewels nectars, tea, wine, whiskey, Tibetan beer (chang) and many more, and we shall multiply all their amounts by prayer, visualization and meditation.
On an open fire, we shall make aromatic offerings, burning incense, scented juniper branches and medicinal herbs, and all of us gathered will joyfully throw printed paper fliers (lungta) above the fire, in the hot rising air.
New prayer flags will be stretched across the hillside.
There will be a happy tea party with tasty Indian sweets (the ball-shaped ‘ladu’) offered to everyone attending the ceremony, followed by a New Year meal.
Thank you so much for supporting our Monastery of Menri and helping to preserve the Bon culture and religion.
You will be in our thoughts during these universal prayers !
With many Tashi Delek to you all,
Menri Abbot,
Menri Bon Monastery, P.O. Kotla Panjola, Oachghat, near Solan, Sirmour District, 173223, (H.P.), INDIA. e-mail: menritrizin@rediffmail.com