Accomplishment of Dzambhala:  
a One-Day Retreat with Ven. Lama Konchok Sonam

Sunday, May 31st 2015

For Success, Abundance, Protection and Transformation: decrease misfortune and obstacles and help increase all good fortune and happiness. 

Join Ven. Lama Sonam and spiritual friends for a special one-day retreat on the Accomplishment of Dzambhala.

Holding a jewel-spitting mongoose, the Dzambhalas grant longevity and prosperity. Impoverishment is lifted on a mental and material level. We are helped to have stable and happy lives, free from anxiety. 

Lama Sonam will introduce both White and Golden Dzambhala. White Dzambhala is the compassionate manifestation of Chenrezig.  He can remove the suffering of poverty and sickness, purify karma and obstacles, avert disaster and sickness, and increase all positive qualities to benefit oneself and others. 

Golden Dzambhala is the emanation of Ratnasambavha. He can remove poverty, increase virtue, life span and wisdom. He is also an emanation of Vaisravana, one of the "Four Great World-protecting Heavenly Kings" who grants fortune and protection.

This is a Tibetan Buddhist practice for oneself and others while on the path to enlightenment.
All are welcome to attend!

Venerable Lama Konchok Sonam was born in Tibet and began his Buddhist training when young within the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. At the age of 18, Lama Sonam took full ordination and became a monk (Gelong). Lama Sonam then went on to complete a retreat on Ngondro (Common and 

Extraordinary Preliminaries)  and the Five-Fold Path of Mahamudra under H.H. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and Gelong Yeshe. Lama Sonam received teachings and blessings from more than twenty-five great masters, including Nyedak Rinpoche, his beloved main teacher, and the Most Venerable Pachung Rinpoche, the renown scholar and retreat master at Drikung Thil monastery. Lama Sonam served as disciplinarian at Jang Chub Ling monastery, in Dehra Dun, India. This difficult position required an extremely vast knowledge of the Dharma, and inspirational        deep inner qualities.  Lama Sonam has also served as the personal attendant to H.H. Chungtsang Rinpoche, H.E. Drubwang Rinpoche, Tongkar Tulku, and H.E. Thritsab Rinpoche, and tutored American tulku Thadag Rinpoche (Jack Churchward). On June 9, 2003, Lama Sonam arrived in Boston to be the Resident Lama at the Drikung Meditation Center. Lama Sonam has shown himself to be expert in both the theoretical and practical aspects of training the mind through meditation and Vajrayana methods for awakening our Buddha Nature. In the fall of 2005, Lama Sonam started the Jowo Rinpoche Statue Project to benefit the Boston area, the United States, and the world. Lama Sonam began to realize his vision of bringing the blessings of Buddhism, from Buddha Shakyamuni and countless other enlightened masters from the East- India, Nepal, and Tibet, to the United States by creating a pilgrimage site. Arriving in May of 2008, the centerpiece of the pilgrimage site is an eight foot tall gilded, jewel-encrusted bronze, the U.S. Jowo Rinpoche Statue.  The magnificent U.S. Jowo Rinpoche statue is a replica and spiritual emanation of the most revered Jowo Rinpoche statue that was made at the time of the historical Buddha and brought to Lhasa, Tibet in 641 AD. 

Currently, Lama Sonam is the Spiritual Director of the Drikung Mediation Center in Arlington, MA, Katsel Dharma Center in Tampa, FL and Drikung Katsel Las Vegas Dharma Tara Meditation Center, Henderson, NV.  Lama Sonam continues tirelessly to bring the blessings of Buddhism to the West.