Description
Lake-Born Vajra Empowerment Registration
To celebrate the New Moon and Guru Rinpoche Day we will share the video of the Lake-Born Vajra empowerment originally offered by Lama Alan during the 2022 8-week retreat. The video will remain available from the New Moon on, November 20th until Guru Rinpoche Day, November 30th, 2025.
You are welcome to take the empowerment again, and if you would like to receive this empowerment for the first time, please join us.
The empowerment will be available to view from Thursday, November 20th, at 6:00 a.m. (EST), until Guru Rinpoche Day, Sunday, November 30th, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. (EST).
Prior to November 20th you will receive additional information about the empowerment, including how to access it.
This empowerment will be open to all who sincerely wish to receive it, whether or not you have participated in all of the 8-week retreats since 2017.
Please read all of the information below about receiving an empowerment if you have not received this empowerment from Lama Alan before.
For those who have not attended the 8-week retreats in 2020, 2021 or 2022, and wish to receive the empowerment, you must commit to listen to at least one of the full 8-week retreats offered from 2017 onwards by Santa Barbara Institute. Alternatively, you may attend at least one Wisdom Academy online course with Lama Alan Wallace, specifically on Dzogchen. You do not need to have listened to the entire retreat or course prior to receiving the empowerment, but you do need to make this commitment.
If you have not already received extensive teachings on the samayas and vows of the Vajrayana, it is strongly encouraged that you listen to Yangchen’s teachings from the 2019 8-week retreat on the Shower of Blessings as a practice of Guru Yoga, and on the Samayas and Vows, soon before or after receiving the empowerment. If you wish to receive extensive teachings on the Lake-Born Vajra sadhana, you can register for the entire 2019 8-week retreat, or else follow the entire sequence of the 2020-2023 Vajra Essence retreats.
We will also have Portuguese, Italian, and Russian translations of the empowerment available.
Lama Alan’s Long-Life Prayer and the Long Mandala Offering to Request the Teachings will be available in English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Italian on the media site, as well as other material.
Também teremos disponível uma tradução da Iniciação para o português. Enviaremos um link para a iniciação em português e inglês.
A Prece de Longa Vida do Lama Alan e a Oferenda de Mandala Longa para Solicitar os Ensinamentos já estão disponíveis em português no site de mídia.
La Preghiera di Lunga Vita di Lama Alan e l’Offerta del Mandala Lungo per Richiedere gli Insegnamenti saranno disponibili in Inglese, Portoghese, Russo, Spagnolo e Italiano sul sito dei media, così come altro materiale.
Запись посвящения также будет доступна в русскоязычном переводе. К вечеру воскресенья мы разошлем отдельную ссылку на Vimeo для тех, кто хотел бы посмотреть видео на русском языке. “Молитва о долгой жизни Ламы Алана” и “Длинное подношение мандалы с просьбой об учениях” теперь доступны на нашем медиа-сайте на русском языке.
On Receiving An Empowerment
In his root Dzogchen text Extracting the Vital Essence of Accomplishment, Kyabjé Düdom Rinpoché writes that these pith instructions are intended as an entrance to the Path of Great Perfection “for those fortunate individuals… who have heartfelt trust in the profound, secret Dharma of the Great Perfection and in the guru who reveals it; and for those who are intent on pursuing this practice to its culmination.”
Similarly anyone who wishes to receive this empowerment of the Lake-Born Vajra, Tsokyé Dorjé, should have heartfelt trust in the teachings on Dzogchen revealed by the Lake-Born Vajra to Düdjom Lingpa and in the spiritual mentor who is granting this empowerment with the authorization of his root Dzogchen lama, the Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoché.
While there is no formal daily practice commitment associated with this empowerment—such as a sadhana or mantra commitment—taking the empowerment definitely constitutes committing to all the samayas and vows of the Vajrayana, so it is important that you know what these are, and believe that you can and will keep them purely.
We ask that you consider all of this deeply before making the commitment to receive the empowerment.
