Special Practice Opportunity with International Mahayana Institute
Chanting the Names of Manjushri Continuously for Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Swift Return
Starting on Lhabab Duchen, November 4th, the IMI would like to initiate a continual recitation of Chanting the Names of Manjushri (Jampal Tshan Jo) for the quick and auspicious return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche—an activity where all students of Rinpoche worldwide can participate!
His Holiness had advised "Please recite Names of Manjushri (Jampal Tshan Jo) continuously for now…” If we take the word “continuously” literally, it could mean a twenty-four hour relay for several months! It could be quite powerful to have the recitation going all the time, and collectively from the whole of IMI and FPMT.
If we each take a 30-minute time slot for the next three months—Nov, Dec, Jan—we would need 3912 students to participate in reciting just one time slot (some students might be happy to do it more than once, and of course you can do more recitations on your own outside of this recitation schedule)
Here is how we envision it:
Chanting the Names of Manjushri Continuously for Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Swift Return
Starting on Lhabab Duchen, November 4th, the IMI would like to initiate a continual recitation of Chanting the Names of Manjushri (Jampal Tshan Jo) for the quick and auspicious return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche—an activity where all students of Rinpoche worldwide can participate!
His Holiness had advised "Please recite Names of Manjushri (Jampal Tshan Jo) continuously for now…” If we take the word “continuously” literally, it could mean a twenty-four hour relay for several months! It could be quite powerful to have the recitation going all the time, and collectively from the whole of IMI and FPMT.
If we each take a 30-minute time slot for the next three months—Nov, Dec, Jan—we would need 3912 students to participate in reciting just one time slot (some students might be happy to do it more than once, and of course you can do more recitations on your own outside of this recitation schedule)
Here is how we envision it:
- We invite all students to sign up for one time slot a week to ensure that we have a continuous stream participation in this collective effort.
- It is fine to have more than one person sign up for a particular time slot, in case the first person forgets or miss the time for recitation.
- Students will need to keep track of the time they signed up for and just recite on their own when it’s time. Only on Saturday it is on Zoom, not the rest of the week. In this way we don’t exclude students who are shy or uncomfortable to do the recitation publicly.
- On every Saturday the person who signed up for that day will be reciting the Chanting the Names of Manjushri aloud on Zoom. Other students are welcome to recite (muted) along with the person who signed up, or just listen. Zoom starts every Saturday at 5 AM India time until 5 AM next day.
- However, if you prefer not to do on Zoom on Saturday, please indicate include (offline) next to your name.
- Everyone can do it in their own language of course!
- Here is the google spreadsheet for time slots sign-up:
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15mIa0nKibvLa8LXnnfG6RqmvKLAoq2MwdUJTq6imaEY/edit?usp=sharing
- If we are able to keep the recitations going for 24 hrs on different continents, until His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers new advice, this would be a FPMT centres-wide group effort for Rinpoche’s swift return and it would certainly be quite powerful.
- Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri
- Join Zoom on Saturdays only here:
- Meeting ID: 878 5810 9055
- Passcode: 956224
- https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87858109055?pwd=2mTG0c9JX7ZCWcXGgJFIaiOAH1hqP7.1
- Thank you in advance, look forward to reading many names of students who signed up.