Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism Sponsors Two Special Events at the Tara Meditation Center at Earth Sanctuary On Saturday, July 8, 2006
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING A RETREAT – H.E. Dagmo Kusho Sakya
Saturday, July 8, 2006, 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Location: Tara Meditation Center Retreat House at Earth Sanctuary on Whidbey Island, 2235 Newman
Road, Langley, WA. Directions can be found at the bottom of this web page:
http://www.earthsanctuary.org/r_ratesDirections.php
Cost: $30 Public; $25 Sakya Monaster Members. All are welcome
To be covered: What is retreat? The meaning and importance of retreat. How retreat relates to one’s spiritual practice and spiritual growth and development. When, how, and why you do a retreat.
BLESSING & CONSECRATION CEREMONY OF EXPANDED COTTONWOOD STONE
CIRCLE AT EARTH SANCTUARY – H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya
Saturday, July 8, 2006, 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: Cottonwood Stone Circle, a short walk from the Tara Meditation Center at Earth Sanctuary,
Whidbey Island. If you are coming for just the consecration ceremony directions can be found at the
bottom of this web page: http://www.earthsanctuary. org/p_directions.php. When you get to the visitor
parking lot, allow 15 minutes to walk to the Cottonwood Stone Circle.
Cost: $12 Public; $10 Sakya Monastery Members. All are welcome. Attendees of the Retreat Talk can attend for no
additional fee.
The Cottonwood Stone Circle has over 40 new standing and recumbent stones and is now the tallest stone
circle in the world. Dagchen Rinpoche will bless and consecrate the stone circle.
H.H. Dagchen Rinpoche was raised and trained to assume the position of “throne holder†of the Sakya
school, a role third in rank to H.H. the Dalai Lama. Dagchen Rinpoche is Head Lama of Sakya Monastery
of Tibetan Buddhism in Seattle. H.E. Dagmo Kusho Sakya, Dagchen Rinpoche’s wife, is an
accomplished female Tibetan Buddhist lama. The inspiring story of her life in Tibet and India is vividly
recorded in her autobiography, Princess in the Land of Snows.
The Tara Meditation Center is a joint project of Sakya Monastery (www.sakya.org) and Earth Sanctuary (www.earthsanctuary.org).
Sakya Monastery, 108 NW 83rd Street, Seattle WA 98117 Call: 206 789-2573 Email: monastery@sakya.org
