Rabne Chenmo ritual

Rabne Chenmo ritual

Borobudur Temple of Heaven on Earth: International Inauguration and ‘the Rain of Blessings’ Festival

with the assembly of lamas, geshes and monks

Programme 

Friday 28th July

9.00 am -12.30 am and 2.30 pm – 7.00 pm

from Saturday 29th to Monday 31th 

8.00 am -12.30 am and 2,30 pm – 7.00 pm

Tuesday 1st August

9.00 am -12.30 am and 2.30 pm – 7.00 pm

The Ritual of Rabne Chenmo, is a great ceremony of purification of the natural environment, blessing, healing and consecration of the place and sacred objects. Through mantras, rituals, concentration, visualisations, offerings and, in particular, with the construction of the Yamantaka sand mandala, it helps us to reconnect positively with Mother Earth. Yamantaka Tantra offers us a key to understanding and harmonising the energies of the body and mind with those of the world in which we live.

Rabne Chenmo will be celebrated by the assembly of lamas, geshe and over fifty monks from the main monasteries – of the NgalSo Ganden Nyengyu tradition – in the East and Europe. The lamas and monks will be guests of the Centre at all the spiritual inauguration and consecration ceremonies of the Temple.

When the mandala is completed, tradition dictates that it is destroyed to symbolise the transitory nature of phenomena. The mandala sand is used to reconsecrate the earth and its inhabitants. 

Special events during Rabne Chenmo

Saturday 29 July 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Increase fire puja

Tuesday 1 august 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Pacification fire puja