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| morning | White Tara | |||||
| afternoon | Five Dakinis | |||||
Every eighth day |
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| morning | Red Chenrezig | |||||
| afternoon | Milarepa guru yoga | |||||
Every tenth day - Padmasambhava Day |
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| afternoon | Lion-faced male and female dharmapalas associated with Padmasambhava | |||||
Every thirteenth day |
Fire puja |
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Every fifteenth day |
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| 3:00 a.m. | Confession | |||||
| morning | Chakrasamvara | |||||
| afternoon | Thang lha (local deity in Tibet) | |||||
Every eighteenth day |
One of the Four Guardian Kings, Namse rik sum, combined with Mahakala |
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Every twenty-third day |
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| morning | Green Tara (long-form) | |||||
| afternoon | Varjrayogini (short form) | |||||
Every twenty-fifth day |
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| morning | Guru Rinpoche | |||||
| afternoon | Vajrayogini (long form) | |||||
Every twenty-ninth day |
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| all day | Mahakala | |||||
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| 3:00 a.m. | Confession | |||||
| morning | Kunrik (purification practice) |
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1st lunar month |
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| 9th-15th day | Long-life practice for His Holiness Karmapa | |||||
| 23rd-27th day | Vajrayogini* | |||||
| 28th & 29th day | Green Tara | |||||
2nd lunar month |
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| 3rd-9th day: | ||||||
| morning | White Tara | |||||
| afternoon | Five Dakinis | |||||
| 22nd-28th day | Hevajra* | |||||
3rd lunar month |
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| 9th-15th day | Kalachakra* | |||||
| 26th day (one-day practice) | Parinirvana of the Fifteenth Karmapa | |||||
4th lunar month |
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| (alternates each year) | Padmasambhava or Vajrakilaya* with dances | |||||
For Padmasambhava |
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| 3rd-10th day | Tsechu: 8 aspects of Guru Rinpoche | |||||
For Vajrakilaya* |
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| 1st-3rd day | Various practices to prepare for Vajrakilaya | |||||
| 4th-10th day | Actual Vajrakilaya practice | |||||
| 11th day (morning) | The practice concludes | |||||
15th day, until |
Saga Dawa |
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| mantras are concluded | Dungdrup puja - 100 million mantra recitations (monks and lay sangha) | |||||
5th lunar month |
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| 9th-15th day | Chakrasamvara* | |||||
| 23rd-27th day (5 days) | Cho | |||||
6th lunar month |
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| 15th day | Summer retreat begins and lasts for 45 days. It includes two seven-day practices. | |||||
| 23rd-29th day | Chos cho | |||||
7th lunar month |
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| 9th-15th day | Rain of Wisdom | |||||
8th lunar month |
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| 8th-14th day | Red Chenrezig* (At the end of this practice the sand from this and all the previous sand mandalas is emptied into a nearby river) |
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9th lunar month |
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| 9th-13th day (5 days) | Shi tro or Pema Benza (Guru Rinpoche), alternating each year | |||||
10th lunar month |
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| 23rd-27th day (5 days) | Kunrik (purification) | |||||
| 30th-31st day | Mitrukpa (purification) | |||||
11th lunar month |
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| 7 days, at the |
Four-armed Mahakala | |||||
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12th lunar month |
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| 23rd-29th day | Great Mahakala*; ends with sacred dances on the 29th, and is followed by Losar (the New Year) | |||||
*sand mandala associated with this practice |
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