NAMKHA Teaching & Workshop 

with Geshe Dangsong Namgyal & Geshe Yungdrung Kalzang

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JOIN US TO LEARN ABOUT AND MAKE YOUR OWN THREAD-CROSS [NAMKHA]. 

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Saturday, December 21, 2024  10 am-12pm; 1:30-5 pm pacific time

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SCHEDULE: 

10 am Short purification ritual for Solstice

11 am Teaching & Introduction to Namkhas or Thread Cross

12:30 pm -Tibetan style lunch-  by reservation 

2-5 Namkha construction- make your own to take home and/or use in Dra La Mountain Ritual!

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In the Bön and Vajrayana Buddhist traditions, the namkhas are constructed for elemental balance, an offering, or a dwelling for a deity during ritual practice. It’s traditionally made with colored threads symbolic of the elements—blue, green, red, white, and yellow; space, air, fire, water, and earth respectively. (You may have seen similar-looking indigenous works called God’s Eye).

 

In some traditions, the condition of a person’s energy would be assessed in order to harmonize them. The constructed thread-cross can be consecrated with mantras and rituals in the upcoming Dra La Mountain Ritual, to directly transform energies, and to produce protection and auspiciousness.

 

Namkha means space in Tibetan. In the Himalayan regions of Zhang Zhung,

the early biographies of Buddha Tonpa Shenrab tell of how, when traveling

in Tibet to retrieve stolen horses, he taught the construction of

thread-cross or namkha, as a way of making offerings to the deities.

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Registration: 

AM session only: $40

Tibetan style lunch: in person by donation - please RSVP

PM session: $30 + in person $10 materials fee.

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LOCATION: Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz

The Galleria Suite 240 Community Room

730 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA