POWA (full cycles)

POWA

Monday, May 12, 2025 through
Sunday, May 19, 2025

Schedule to be announced

Available in-person and via Broadcast

Powa is the profound practice of transferring your own or another's consciousness at the moment of death to arrive in Amitabha's Pure Land. This means that instead of powerlessly falling back into samsara after death, you remain with Amitabha until you fully awaken to freedom there from this swirl.

The practice of Powa (Transferrence) is traditionally described as "Buddahood without Meditation" because you can accomplish it in a single week of retreat.  We will practice four sessions each day together, a tremendous support for everyone involved.  While we offer on-line participation as needed, this is a retreat to attend in person if at all possible.  Experience shows there is nothing like uniting our voices and energies in physical space as we power this practice together to join with Amitabha.

We are aided by Rinpoche's own powerful connection with Amitabha. Not long after founding his monastery in Rege, Adzom Paylo Rinpoche had a vision of Amitabha--the Buddha of boundless light and limitless vision--dancing in space above the sacred land he was then reopening.  These words rang out for him:

May I and my companions, everyone,
In all times be born in the Pure Land (of Amitabha).

This vision inspired him to begin the annual Amitabha Pure Land Festival, and that prayer graces our Powa practice as well. Rinpoche's connection with Amitabha is personal, and we conduct this Powa retreat with his blessings, guided also by Adzom Drukpa's written instructions (recently translated by Lama Rigzin). Under the guidance of Lama Rigzin Drolma, who has sat in five Powa retreats with Rinpoche, together with Lama Namgyal Dorje and with further assistance from Rigzin Sherab Gyatso, we sing sacred words and melody as we train to transfer our consciousness to the Pure Land, the place of our true nature, as Rinpoche indicated for those who took the retreat more than once.

Fee:  This is a part of your Dzogchen Cycles program, but you must register to receive the links.