TENZHUK - LONG LIFE PUJA FOR GELEK RIMPOCHE

Dear Friends, Due to recent news from India recommending a tenzhuk for Gelek Rimpoche, Rimpoche has agreed - after many years of declining Jewel Heart's requests to offer a long life puja.

The tenzhuk is scheduled for 3:00 pm on New Year's Day, Thursday, January 1
at Jewel Heart located at 1129 Oak Valley Drive in Ann Arbor, MI 48108.

The tenzhuk is offered from all of Jewel Heart - from Jewel Heart Netherlands, Malaysia, Singapore, U.S. chapters, solitary Jewel Heart practitioners, and all who enjoy the rare and fortunate opportunities provided by our generous, kind, and wise guru.

We hope you can join!

There are 3 ways to contribute, please click on the donation button below to donate via paypal or credit card, or mail a check to 1129 Oak Valley Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 or email .
Please designate 'Tenzhuk' on your donation.

TWO UPCOMING JEWEL HEART TRIPS

Oct 2009  "Buddhist Temples and Gardens" - Kyoto, Nara, Hakone/Mt. Fuji, Kamakura, Mt. Koya, Japan.

Oct 2010  "Tsechu Festival" - Sikkim, India and Bhutan

Registration details will follow.

Tibetan Student Scholarship Fund Cards $20.00

Jatson Chumig Welfare Special School in Lhasa is a Tibetan operated, award winning NGO providing housing, training and education for handicapped, orphaned and destitute Tibetan youth. Jatson Chumig's traditional art and crafts classes and cottage industry manufactures wonderful handmade Tibetan paper products, incense and textiles, which are available through the Jewel Heart Store. Jewel Heart has provided lunches and support for the students of Jatson Chumig since 1997.
Of 148 students enrolled today, several are in need of scholarships to continue at the college level. While $600 for one year of study is a bargain by Western standards, it is beyond the reach of these bright young minds. Proceeds from the sale of these cards will contribute to the continued education of three students: Bhomo Namdol, Sonam Dolkar, and Bhomo Chodon.

This five card set of floral photos printed as 6 x 4 greeting cards will bring delight and joy to those who receive them. Inside they are blank. Purchase online from the Jewel Heart store.

Declaration by Gelek Rimpoche

I was surprised to discover my photograph on a Dorje Shugden website as one of the “prominent masters” on that website.

I would like to confirm that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the unquestioned leader of Tibet and all Tibetans inside and outside of Tibet and has my total respect.

I received the initiation of Dorje Shugden from Kyabje Trijang Rimpoche in the 1950s. I was a practitioner from that time until June 20th, 2000 at the Western Buddhist teacher’s conference at Spirit Rock, Woodacre, California. At that conference His Holiness asked me, “What would you like to do?” I answered with folded hands, “Whatever you say.” Then His Holiness said, “Alright, stop practicing Dorje Shugden and tell Dorje Shugden that I told you to stop.” He further said, “And don’t change your mind.” Since then I have stopped the practice completely.

Therefore, to display my picture in a list of Dorje Shugden masters is inappropriate.

Photos from the 2008 Jewel Heart Trip to India and Nepal

Nygare Khamtsen gift cards $50.00

Gelek Rimpoche is the recognized reincarnated Abbott of Nygare Khamtsen College at Drepung Monastic University, one of old Tibet's three great monasteries. After 1959, as the Tibetan Diaspora organized to preserve Tibetan Buddhist teachings in India, a temporary monastic university was established in West Bengal and in 1969 Drepung was relocated to Mundgod in Southern India. Today there are over 3,000 monks at Drepung's various monastic colleges with 155 in residence at Nyagre Khamsten.

Water for the two story Nygare Khamtsen residence hall is supplied by a single well and is not sufficient to supply water to the second floor during the hot summer months. Proceeds from this card will be used towards the $5,375.00 cost to drill a second well. Your purchase will help complete this project and improve the health and living conditions for the monks of Nygare Khamtsen.

This is a 4 pack of Greeting Cards. You may consider $30.00 of this $50.00 purchase as a tax deductible donation to Jewel Heart, a 501 (c)(3) corporation, as permitted by law.
Each blank card contains an insert which conveys that a donation has been made in the recipient's honor for the Nygare Khamtsen Well Project. Purchase online from the Jewel Heart store.

Webcast Schedule

We invite you to view the member webcast schedule of Gelek Rimpoche’s teachings on the Member Webcast Page. The webcasts loop 48 hours beginning Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm and closing 7:30 pm Thursday unless otherwise noted. If you would like to become a JH Member and listen to these broadcasts, please visit our Membership Page to learn more.

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