Dechen Choekhor Mahavihara

03/10/2026

THIS IS TRUE PRACTICE

If what we learn and practice is not applied in life,
Dharma and life become two separate things.

Reading and reciting in a peaceful environment, everything may go smoothly.
But dealing with people and relationships—that is the real challenge.

Therefore, it is essential to bring practice
into every part of daily life.

In everyday life, treating others with kindness is a tremendous challenge—far more difficult than recitation.

Each day, make this resolve:
“I will do my very best to get along well with everyone.”

This requires repeated training.
The harder it is, the more we should keep trying.

Through such effort, we accumulate greater merit.

This is true practice.

— Choekyi Gonpo

SOURCE & ARTWORK
Dharma content drawn from the teachings of Drukpa Choegon Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s authentic photograph is incorporated into AI-assisted artwork.

01/10/2026

26/09/2026

OFFER BEYOND MEASURE

— A SKILLFUL MEANS TO GATHER MERIT —

Before eating, first recite the Food Offering Verses,
and offer the food to the Guru and the Three Jewels.

FOOD OFFERING PRAYER

སྟོན་པ་བླ་མེད་སངས་རྒྱས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
TÖNPA LAMÉ SANGYÉ RINPOCHÉ
The precious Buddha, the unsurpassable Teacher;

སྐྱོབ་པ་བླ་མེད་དམ་ཆོས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
KYOPPA LAMÉ DAMCHÖ RINPOCHÉ
The precious Dharma, the unsurpassable Protector;

འདྲེན་པ་བླ་མེད་དགེ་འདུན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
DRENPA LAMÉ GENDÜN RINPOCHÉ
The precious Sangha, the unsurpassable Guide;

སྐྱབས་གནས་དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ལ་མཆོད་པ་འབུལ།
KYAPNÉ KÖNCHOK SUM LA CHÖPA BÜL
To the Three Jewels, the supreme sources of refuge, I make this offering.

Do not offer only what lies before you.

Visualize all the food in the entire restaurant—
multiplied beyond measure, abundant, pure and delightful— and offer it all with devotion.

Likewise, whenever you receive or use something new—
clothing, a phone, a pen, a computer, or any possession—
first offer it in your mind, multiplied without limit.

Through this simple and skillful means, every meal, every new possession,
and every moment of enjoyment becomes an opportunity to gather vast merit—
swiftly and effortlessly.

— Choekyi Gonpo

SOURCE & ARTWORK
Dharma content drawn from the teachings of Drukpa Choegon Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s authentic photograph is incorporated into AI-assisted artwork.

19/09/2026

TURN BEAUTY
INTO
MERIT AND WISDOM

MANDALA OFFERING

Whenever beauty touches the mind,
do not grasp it as “mine.”
Transform it into offering.

Recite Mandala Offering verses.

ས་གཞི་སྤོས་ཆུས་བྱུགས་ཤིང་མེ་ཏོག་བཀྲམ།
SA ZHI PÖ CHÜ JUK SHING MÉ TOK TRAM
I anoint this ground with perfumed water and strew it with flowers.

རི་རབ་གླིང་བཞི་ཉི་ཟླས་བརྒྱན་པ་འདི།
RI RAB LING ZHI NYI DÉ GYEN PA DI
Adorned with Mount Meru, the four continents, the sun and the moon,

སངས་རྒྱས་ཞིང་དུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་དབུལ་བ་ཡི།
SANG GYÉ ZHING DU MIK TÉ ÜL WA YI
I visualize it as a Buddha-field and offer it.

འགྲོ་ཀུན་རྣམ་དག་ཞིང་ལ་སྤྱོད་པར་ཤོག །
DRO KÜN NAM DAK ZHING LA CHÖ PAR SHOK
May all beings enjoy this pure realm.

གུ་རུ་ཨི་དམ་མཎྜལ་ཀཾ་ནིརྱ་ཏ་ཡ་མི།
GURU IDAM MANDALA KAM NIRYATAYAMI
I offer this mandala to the Guru.

Visualize it multiplying beyond measure—
vast, vivid, pure, and complete—
filling countless universes.

Offer all to the Guru,
inseparable from the Three Jewels
and the Three Roots,
for the awakening of all beings.

Dedicate the merit.
Rest free from
giver, receiver, and offering.

Then whatever delights the mind
becomes a cause of awakening.

— Choekyi Gonpo

SOURCE & ARTWORK

Dharma content drawn from the teachings of Drukpa Choegon Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s authentic photograph is incorporated into AI-assisted artwork.

12/09/2026

GATHERING MERIT AND WISDOM
FOR BUDDHAHOOD

To realize the true nature of mind and attain complete and perfect Buddhahood, we must accumulate the two accumulations: merit and wisdom.

The accumulation of merit with reference gives rise to the Form Kāyas (Nirmanakāya and Sambhogakāya), while the accumulation of wisdom beyond reference gives rise to the Dharmakāya—both are indispensable on the path to enlightenment.

Mandala offering is a supreme method for gathering vast merit.

Through visualization, we offer the entire universe and everything beautiful and precious—without the limitations of material possessions.

This trains the mind in boundless generosity and gathers immeasurable merit—as vast as space itself.

— Choekyi Gonpo

SOURCE & ARTWORK

Dharma content drawn from the teachings of Drukpa Choegon Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s authentic photograph is incorporated into AI-assisted artwork.

05/09/2026

OFFERING EVERYTHING CALLED “MINE”

MANDALA OFFERING

To the Guru, inseparable from the Three Jewels and the Three Roots:

With the hands, we offer grains.

With the mind, we offer countless universes—
vast, vivid, pure, and complete.

With the heart, we offer everything we cling to—
our body, possessions, virtues, and happiness.

Mandala Offering gathers vast merit and wisdom.

Through this practice,
clinging becomes offering,
miserliness becomes generosity,
and the grip of “mine” loosens
into the wish to awaken for all beings.

Vajrasattva purifies what obscures the path.

Mandala Offering gathers what supports the path.

One removes the stains.
The other gathers the causes for realization to arise.

— Choekyi Gonpo

SOURCE & ARTWORK

Dharma content drawn from the teachings of Drukpa Choegon Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s authentic photograph is incorporated into AI-assisted artwork.

29/08/2026

THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF
VAJRASATTVA

According to the tantras, if one
sincerely recites Buddha Vajrasattva's
Hundred-Syllable Mantra 21 times—
or 108 times—each day, while
upholding the Four Powers of Purification
with pure mindfulness and sincerity,
even the gravest karmas can be
completely purified.

Even after completing Vajrasattva
Ngöndro, continue the practice daily.
Recite the mantra before sleep to
purify the negativities accumulated
throughout the day.

Another skillful method is to recite
it while showering, visualizing nectar
entering through the crown, washing
away all negative karma, sickness,
and obscurations, which then
dissolve into emptiness.

In this way, even ordinary moments
become the path of purification.

— Choekyi Gonpo

SOURCE & ARTWORK
Dharma content drawn from the teachings of Drukpa Choegon Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s authentic photograph is incorporated into AI-assisted artwork.

22/08/2026

THE FOUR POWERS
OF PURIFICATION

Buddha Vajrasattva is the embodiment of the purity of all Buddhas and the supreme Buddha of purification.

No negative karma is beyond purification.

Through sincere confession and the Four Powers of Purification, even the gravest negativities can be completely purified.

The Power of SUPPORT — Take refuge in Buddha Vajrasattva.

The Power of REGRET — Deeply regret all harmful actions of body, speech, and mind.

The Power of ANTIDOTE — Apply the antidote through the practice of Vajrasattva.

The Power of RESOLUTION — Resolve never to repeat the same negativity again.

The moment you recognize a fault, confess and purify it.

Immediately is best. Otherwise, purify it within one day, three days, seven days, or twenty-one days.

After three years, purification becomes exceedingly difficult.

Never allow negative karma to ripen.

Confess early. Purify often.

— Choekyi Gonpo

SOURCE & ARTWORK
Dharma content drawn from the teachings of Drukpa Choegon Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s authentic photograph is incorporated into AI-assisted artwork.

15/08/2026

VAJRASATTVA
PURIFYING THE VESSEL

After taking Refuge and generating Bodhicitta,
the next step is to purify the vessel.

Dorje Sempa is the supreme purification practice
for cleansing negative karma, obscurations,
habitual tendencies, and all obstacles to the path.

We have already found the path.
Now we must remove whatever
prevents us from walking it.

— Choekyi Gonpo

SOURCE & ARTWORK
Dharma content drawn from the teachings of Drukpa Choegon Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s authentic photograph is incorporated into AI-assisted artwork.