Name: Avalokiteshvara Empowerment Ceremony
Start: 2026-05-30T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-05-30T12:30:00+00:00
Location: Phuntsok Deshe – Tibetan Community Center of NY & NJ

May 2026
Saka Dawa Mani Recitation for Ten Days

Featured May 17 @ 6:00 pm - May 26 @ 8:00 pm

Phuntsok Deshe - Tibetan Community Center of NY & NJ 57-12 Tibet Way, 32nd Ave,, Woodside, NY, United States

Mani Recitation and Maha Guru Bum Tsok will be offered for the benefit of all living beings, with special dedication for the long life & good health of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Om Mani Padme Hum is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, designed to cultivate wisdom, purify negative karma, and […]
Three Days Teaching on Guidance On The Foundation of All Good Qualities

May 27 @ 11:00 am - May 29 @ 12:30 pm

Phuntsok Deshe - Tibetan Community Center of NY & NJ 57-12 Tibet Way, 32nd Ave,, Woodside, NY, United States

His Eminence Kyabje Khenzur Rinpoche, Venerable Lobsang Delek Palzangpo, graciously accepted the earnest request from the New York Sera Jey Center for Buddhist Studies to attend this year's Saga Dawa Mahaguru Bhumtsok Offering. For three days, he will bestow teachings on the "Yönten Zhikgyurma" from the "Jinglab Spungzhü," a renowned preliminary guidance on the common […]
Avalokiteshvara Empowerment Ceremony

Featured May 30 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Phuntsok Deshe - Tibetan Community Center of NY & NJ 57-12 Tibet Way, 32nd Ave,, Woodside, NY, United States

An Avalokiteshvara empowerment (Chenrezig) is a Vajrayana Buddhist ceremony that initiates practitioners into the meditation practice of the Bodhisattva of Boundless Compassion. It ripens Buddha nature, purifies negative karma, and cultivates bodhichitta to benefit all sentient beings, often granted by masters like the Dalai Lama. Avalokiteshvara is the Buddha of Compassion and receiving this rare blessing empowerment will […]

May 2026