Drupchen
Nepal is truly a Shambala for me. In Nepal, you see dharma, you feel dharma, and you hear dharma all the time. Every day you are inspired to practice dharma by being around so many physical representations of the enlightened body, speech, and mind of the Buddha. One of my favorite experiences here has been attending drupchen , which means “great accomplishment.” Drupchen is a Vajrayana Buddhist practice in which the entire Sangha, including both monks and lay practitioners, gets together to read an important sadhana. The drupchen that I recently attended was called the Ngakso drupchen . In this drupchen, we read a sadhana that is a terma (treasure) hidden by Guru Rinpoche and revealed by the Great Terton Dechen Chogyur Lingpa. During the drupchen, while everyone is reciting the sadhana , the monks play a rich symphony of religiously inspired music with a variety of instruments...