THE GRAND CHI RIM སྤྱི་རིམ་ཆེན་མོ། RITUAL at Menri Monastery
Event dates: From 7 June 2020 to 11 June 2020
Event location: 10 Different Temples within Menri Monastery
Starting today, we will be running multiple extensive rituals simultaneously in 10 Different Temples within Menri Monastery to pacify the deadly virus of Covid-19, restoring world peace and order.
Background
Ever since the outbreak of Coronavirus Covid-19, the Ministry of Home Affair, India has imposed the lockdown restricting people from stepping out of their homes. From 4 May 2020, the lockdown was eased with several relaxations in all zones per the guidelines of Ministry of Home Affairs. So from tomorrow onwards, Menri Monastery can perform large scale rituals.
Standing at the delicate juncture of this global health crisis, millions of people are feeling nervous and panic. To date, this pandemic disease has caused 7 million Coronavirus cases and claimed 402,273 lives. During the past lockdown period since 16 March 2020 (83 days), although there have been many restrictions imposed to safeguard health and safety, the monks, nuns and children of Menri Monastery have never stopped praying for world peace as well as for the health and happiness of all the members of Yungdrung Bon community around the world. Due to many restrictions imposed, Menri Monastery wasn’t able to perform big gathering rituals and could only scale down the many rituals and ceremonies performed in the past 83 days.
The 5 Days Grand Chi Rim Ritual སྤྱི་རིམ་ཆེན་མོ།
Coincided with the uplift of the restriction starting from tomorrow, the monks, nuns and children of Menri Monastery will be performing multiple rituals in different groups starting from today.
གསས་མཁར་མཆོག་ལྔ་། (Sé Khar Chok Nga) The Ritual Of Five Supreme Deities.
སྟག་ལའི་ཚོགས་མཆོད། (Tak Lé Tsokchö) Gana Puja Of Takla
ཡུམ་ཆེན་བྱམས་མའི་ཚོགས་མཆོད། (Yumchen Jam Mé Tsokchö) Gana Puja Of The Loving Mother Of Wisdom, Yum Chen Sherab Jamma.
ཆོ་ག་བཅུ་གཉིས། (Choga Chunyi) 12 Kinds Of Ritual
དྲག་སྔགས་དབལ་མོའི་སྦྱིན་སྲེག (Drakngak Walmö Jinsek) Fire Ritual Of Sidpa Gyalmo.
These Rituals will be performed simultaneously in 10 different places: The Protector Temple, Menri Ladrang Temple, Main Temple, Bon Dialectic Temple, Yogi Temple, Redna Menling Nunnery, Stupa Temple, Tro Lhaking, Sorig Bhumshi Medical College’s Prayer Hall and BCWC Prayer Hall.
All the members of the Yungdrung Bon community around the world are kindly encouraged to generate their positive thoughts and energy during these five days and if one feels like connected; you can also recite the Yeshe Walmo prayer or its healing mantra OM A BHI YA NAG PO BE SÖ SO HA.
We urge all the members of the Yungdrung Bon community around the world to adopt precautionary measures at all times as per the advice from your local governments.
COVID-19 is an evolving situation. We will update you as and when there are further developments.
It is hopeful that all these Rituals will help dispelling all karmic obscurations accumulated in the Three Times (Past, Present, Future). May all the sentient beings of the Three realms swiftly attain the Buddhahood. May the pandemic disease situation be over soon and may all of You can get back into normal life as soon as possible.
-From the Office of His Holiness Menri Trizin Rinpoche