Hello, Maybe you know this Friday, June 5 is the auspicious Sakadawa. According to Tibetan Buddhism, Sakadawa is the day Buddha was born, reached Enlightenment, and died....
Hello, Maybe you know this Friday, June 5 is the auspicious Sakadawa. According to Tibetan Buddhism, Sakadawa is the day Buddha was born, reached Enlightenment, and died. Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche cites the Vinaya text, Treasure of Quotations and Logic, as saying all our actions on this auspicious day - positive and negative - are multiplied by 100 million. Rinpoche kindly suggests beneficial practices to do including reading sutras: //fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/advice/sakadawa/
Many of the people on this forum don't live near dharma centres so the sutras may seem lengthy if reading alone. Because of this, I wanted to share about a global sutra reading group that divides the sutras by chapters and pages. These reading assignments are sent out the night before a reading (Japan time), and are usually read the following day or shortly thereafter. It's usually about a 45-60 minute commitment. Because of the many translations, international participants can read chapters assigned in their native language while others read in another. And by doing it in a group, even as borderless as ours, a synergy is created, not to mention the group merit.
