Vajra Kilaya Drubchen, 2005

It is said in Tibet that participation in a single week’s drubchen practice generates as much merit and potential realization as a year’s retreat due to the gathered merit, wisdom, and intention of the participants. The various aspects of this ceremony are rich and complex and it is certain that participants intuitively feel the depth of blessing.

As usual, the Grand Kilaya Drubchen was performed at the monastery in December.  This year, the drubchen was conducted in late December, coinciding with the Sungbum Wang.  It is done intensively for a period of seven to ten days. Literally, Drubchen means great accomplishment, a concentrated form of retreat.  It is a group retreat to accumulate a great number of mantra repetitions. The blessing is quick and powerful as each individual benefits from the total mantra accumulation of the whole group instead of himself. Thus, attending drubchen could really boost up one's practice and clear up obstacles otherwise would take months to achieve.

Vajrakilaya is the wrathful manifestation of Vajrasattva and specialized in removing inner and outer obstacles to enlightenment.  This ignites the five poisons of individual practitioners, thus creating inner obstacles to practice which in turn manifests outer obstacles in life. Therefore, Vajrakilaya practice is suitable in this critical time, and especially helpful in removing obstacles to world peace.

Sungbum Wang

The long awaited Sungbum Wang is now about to take us by storm.  Dungse Garab Dorje Rinpoche is going to perform the 25 volumes of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche's Collected Works (Sungbum) commencing on the 26th of November 2004. 

In general, the "Lineage" of a "Tersar" tradition comes from those new "treasures" (termas) of an individual terton, and should include the initiations (wang), scriptural transmissions (lung), and oral teachings (tri) of all the important practices and sadhanas of that particular tradition.  Dudjom Tersar literally means the new treasure of Dudjom Lineage.  H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche was the major terton, the revealer of hidden treasures.  The teachings of Dudjom Tersar are widely practiced.  The treasures revealed by H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche together with its connected teachings are contained in The 25 Volumes Collected Works (Sungbum).  The 25 volumes of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche's Collected Works (Sungbum) include both his Tersar as well as his other writings.

The "Dudjom Tersar" as a Lineage forms a whole system by itself, and thus it does not include the works or termas of other Masters. However, there are cases that the works and termas of other great Masters are also included simply because of the realizations of the terton himself, such as Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, that he felt it to be more beneficial to all sentient beings by either having some of the long termas of other tertons to be condensed, or by elaborating on some of the more concise termas of other tertons, or both. In any case, the terton himself had done so with a pure intention to benefit all others through his own realizations. For example, there are two important practices on the Khandro Thugthig which was written by Kyabje Chadral Rinpoche that has been included in the Vol.16 of the Dudjom Sungbum by Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche himself. Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche had done so when he was still in Lhasa, as he thought this to be most appropriate and beneficial to all sentient beings.