Mantra - Khenpo Ngawang Sangye

Service Description

The expansive nature of Mantra and its use in Meditation – Khenpo Ngawang Sangye Session via Zoom Synopsis: Tibetan Buddhist mantras are words originally spoken by a Buddha while deep in meditation. Reciting them helps to replace the endless, internal chatter of the mind with calming syllables that purify karmic imprints, bring beneficial energy, focus the concentration, and offer protection and blessings. Chanting a mantra cannot by itself liberate a person from cyclic existence. While chanting, one also must transform and focus one's thoughts. To engage the mind in this way requires skill in meditation practice. In some sense Chanting is neither active nor passive—it’s receptive. Although Buddhist chanting can have a melody, overall, it’s more monotonic, which is why for the most part Buddhist contemplative practices are based in equanimity and repose. The power of chanting arises from deep within, as one slowly learns to let go of the dualistic mind’s desire to control reality. Bio: Venerable Khenpo Ngawang Sangay was born in 1976 in Cherem Village, in the district of Solukhumbu in Nepal, and he received his early education in the local school, Kailash Prathamik Vidhyalaya. Later, he joined the famous Guru Padmasambhava’s Maratika Cave Monastery in Khotang Diktel Halesi. There he began his monastic training in Buddhist liturgies and completed his preliminary practices under the tutelage of His Holiness Trulshik Rinpoche and other Rinpoches. In 1998, he joined Karma Shri Nalanda Institute, the principle monastic college of His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa. During his stay at the Institute, apart from the eleven years of courses in Buddhist philosophy, logic, grammar and basic Sanskrit, Hindi, and English language, he also served the Institute in various capacities. He was sent as one of the annual Tsenshab (debating assistants) of the present 17th Karmapa in 2003. H.E Goshjir Gyaltsab Rinpoche appointed him Disciplinarian Master of Karma Shri Nalanda Institute from 2007 to 2008, and he has currently been working as Lopon (lecturer) in the Karma Shri Nalanda Institute, Rumtek. In 2008, Khenpo graduated from Karma Shri Nalanda Institute for Higher Buddhist studies at Rumtek, Sikkim India and attained his Acharya (M.A.) degree. In accordance with the request of Venerable Lama Tenpai Gyaltsen Rinpoche in 2009, H.E. 12th Goshir Gyalstab Rinpoche appointed and sent him as the Khenpo (abbot) of Karma Drubchen (KDC) Monastery