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A non-sectarian Tibetan Buddhist center located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Come visit us!

Join us this Sunday January 5th at 10:30 am for ou

Join us this Sunday January 5th at 10:30 am for our kick off for the 108 Day Bodhisattva Challenge. Lama Matthew Palden Gocha will be leading us in a smoke puja called Riwo Sangchö. The purpose of Riwo Sangchö is to realize the perfection of wisdom by accumulating merits through making offerings and purification of karmic impurity and of obstructions. Part of the ceremony will be outside so please wear warm clothes. #RimeCenter #KCbuddhist #overcomingobstacles

On behalf of the Rime Buddhist Center, thank you f

On behalf of the Rime Buddhist Center, thank you for journeying with us throughout last year as we explored the Rime Center's many thangkas. We wanted to end this series by returning to Palden Lhamo, the Rime Center's personal Dharma Protector. May she clear away the obstacles that you might face for the coming year.
Supplication to Palden Lhamo
Sole Mother, Lady Victorious Over the Three Worlds, please pay attention here and now! You overpower the whole apparent world, samsara and nirvana. By heroically guarding the Dharma and Dharma-holders, with the four types of actions, flashing like lightning. You soar up openly, like the full moon in the midst of a garland of powerful Dharma Protectors. Powerful Dakini Protector, I prostrate to your omniscient being.

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Samantabhadra Buddha arises as our true nature, th

Samantabhadra Buddha arises as our true nature, that state of the primordial universal ground, is given the name the 'Primordial Buddha'. In the primordial universal ground, there are neither sentient beings, nor buddhas; neither ignorance, nor enlightenment. It is a state of natural, unchanging perfection beyond conditions and concepts.

He is typically dark blue in color, naked, having the appearance of a Buddha, with the hands in meditation gesture and the legs in vajra posture. He embraces the consort Samantabhadri. She is usually depicted light colored and also naked. This particular thanka has the yidam golden colored.
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Orgyen Menla or Guru Rinpoche of Medicine. Medicin

Orgyen Menla or Guru Rinpoche of Medicine. Medicine Buddha’s primary motivation is to completely remove physical and mental suffering from all sentient beings in general, but primarily mental and physical illness caused through the imbalance of the elements.
His form is that of Guru Rinpoche. He is deep blue like the color of lapis lazuli. His right hand holds a vajra and an arura plant with fruit, the medicinal plant that heals both the sickness of mind and body. His left an alms bowl filled with nectar that pacifies the chronic disease of delusion and the nectar of immortality. The ornate katvanga staff of a Vajrayana mendicant decorated with streamers rests against the left shoulder. He wears gold earrings and necklaces, the head is covered with a lotus hat, a gift of the King of Zahor, of silk brocade topped with a half-vajra and a single vulture feather. Attired in various robes of different colors reflecting the disciplines of the Vinaya, Bodhisattva and Mantra Vehicles.

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Nagarjuna is revered as an unsurpassed master by a

Nagarjuna is revered as an unsurpassed master by all Buddhist schools. His teachings provide the foundation for the Madhyamika School, which propounds the ‘Middle Way’ philosophy, accepted as the highest view within the sutrayana. From the realm of the nagas he brought back the extensive Prajnaparamita scriptures.

He is often depicted in composite form comprising human and naga characteristics. Often the naga aspect forms a canopy crowning and shielding his human head. The notion of the naga is found throughout Indian religious culture, and typically signifies an intelligent serpent or dragon, who is responsible for the rains, lakes and other bodies of water.

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Barefoot Bran is starting his set. There is still

Barefoot Bran is starting his set. There is still time to join us. Tamales sale, 50/50 raffle, and 20% off all items in the gift shop. Our fundraising goal is $5,000. Check out our website to donate. https://www.rimecenter.org/temple-project/

Nelson and From opening the holiday concert. There

Nelson and From opening the holiday concert. There is still time to join us.

Asanga is one of the most famous Indian scholars.

Asanga is one of the most famous Indian scholars. He lived in the fourth century and was the elder brother of Vasubandhu. He received teachings from Maitreya and transcribed them as the ‘Five Treatises of Maitreya’. Together with Asanga's own commentaries, these texts became the basis for the philosophical schools known as Chittamatra.

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The Rime Center will be having an open house and f

The Rime Center will be having an open house and fundraiser to support its endeavor of building the first Tibetan Buddhist Temple here in Kansas City. Learn about the different programs that the Rime Center offers to the community.

There will be a 50/50 raffle, tamale sale, and more. The Rime Gift Shop will have 20% off all non-book items and will be open throughout the day.
The highlight of the event will be Barefoot Bran’s holiday concert. Bran is a folk singer-songwriter, performer, and recording artist based in and around Kansas City. With a healthy dose of tree hugging and dreaming, Bran crafts his unique, down-to-earth folk songs that aim to tell stories that are inspiring, insightful, and ofttimes humorous.

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Maudgalyayana is one of the foremost arhat discipl

Maudgalyayana is one of the foremost arhat disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni, renowned especially for his mastery of miraculous powers. Commonly found in images of Shakyamuni Buddha, Maudgalyayana is standing at the right side holding a monk's staff in the right hand and a begging bowl in the left, attired in red and orange coloured robes, encircled by radiant light.
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Join us on December 31st at 6am for the 34th annua

Join us on December 31st at 6am for the 34th annual World Peace Meditation. The keynote speaker will be Imam Jamal Shakur who is the violence prevention supervisor at Aim 4 Peace. The mission of Aim 4 Peace is to increase the capacity of the community to handle their own disputes non-violently. Their message is simple: Stop Shooting! Start Living! Aim4Peace! #rimecenter #kcbuddhists #worldpeace #kcinterfaith #meditation

Shariputra is one of the foremost arhat disciples

Shariputra is one of the foremost arhat disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni. Commonly found in images of Shakyamuni Buddha, Shariputra is standing at the left side holding a monk's staff in the right hand and a begging bowl in the left, attired in red and orange coloured robes, encircled by radiant light.
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Ven. Geshe Tsewang Thinley leading a puja for Lha

Ven. Geshe Tsewang Thinley leading a puja for Lha Bab Duchen, celebration of the Buddha’s return from Tushia. #rimecenter #kcbuddhists

The Rime Buddhist center will host the 34th Annual

The Rime Buddhist center will host the 34th Annual World Peace Meditation, an interfaith gathering on December 31, at 6:00 a.m. In 1986 Fred Culver of the World Center For Global Community began this tradition here in Kansas City where it has been held each year since. You are asked to participate, not only in global interconnection each December 31st, but actively communicating the concept, a moment of oneness to dissolve the sense of separation and return humankind to wholeness and restoring this world to sanity. #rimecenter #kcbuddhists #worldpeace #kcinterfaith #meditation

Shakyamuni Buddha accompanied by the Six Ornaments

Shakyamuni Buddha accompanied by the Six Ornaments of India (Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Asanga, Vasubandhu, Dignaga, and Dharmakirti) and the Two Supreme Ones (Gunaprabha and Shakyaprabha), and nine additional scholars making a group of seventeen. The seventeen great Indian panditas were associated with Nalanda monastery.
Seventeen Scholars of Nalanda Monastery. Left side: Nagarjuna, Acharya Aryadeva, Gunaprabha, Dignaga, Bhavaviveka, Buddhapalita, Chandrakirti, and Shantideva. Right side: Arya Asanga, Acharya Vasubandhu, Shakyaprabha, Dharmakirti, Simhabhadra, Vimuktisena, Kamalashila, and Shantarakshita. Bottom center is Dipamkara Atisha.

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Shakyamuni Buddha together with Shariputra and Mau

Shakyamuni Buddha together with Shariputra and Maudgalyayana standing at the sides below Shakyamuni. Between them are the eight auspicious symbols. Surrounding Shakyamuni is the elaborate backdrop composed of the 'Six Ornament' design which has two elephants, above them are snow lions, a horse and small boy with a conch shell, a makara, a naga, crowning the top is a single Garuda bird.

The central images are then surrounded by 108 smaller images of Shakyamuni Buddha. These types of paintings with a central peaceful figure and multiples of smaller surrounding figures are generally commissioned for the purpose of generating merit and overcoming obstacles.
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Shri Shmashana Adhipati, Father-Mother. Also known

Shri Shmashana Adhipati, Father-Mother. Also known as Chitipati or Lord of the Charnel Grounds. A protector deity that is usually depicted as two skeletons, one male and the other female. With three round red eyes and wide smiling mouths displaying canine teeth they glare at each other. The Father on the left holds aloft a bone stick with the right hand and in the left a blood filled skullcup held to the heart, wearing a tiger skin, standing on a conch shell. The Mother holds a stalk of grain in the upraised right and a wealth vase in the left, wearing various silks, standing on cowrie shells.

It is important not to confuse the protector deities Shri Shmashana Adhipati, Father & Mother, with the skeleton dancers found in the various systems of Tibetan religious Cham dance. Those skeleton figures are representing worldly spirits, whereas Shri Shmashana Adhipati are enlightened deities categorized as Wisdom protectors. Shri Adhipati is found in the Secret Essence Wheel Tantra and is associated with the Chakrasamvara Cycle of Tantras.

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Lama Aria Drolma teaching at the Rime Center. Even

Lama Aria Drolma teaching at the Rime Center. Event is open to all. #rimecenter #kcbuddhists #lamaariadrolma

Bhavachakra or Wheel of Life is a representation o

Bhavachakra or Wheel of Life is a representation of the samsaric cycle of existence. It is based on the Abhidharma literature of the Theravada and Sutrayana vehicles. The wheel is held in the grip of a wrathful monster representing impermanence. The four wheels represent aspects of samsaric life. The outer wheel represents the twelve links of interdependent origination. The next wheel depicts the six realms of samsara. The third wheel represents positive and negative actions. The inner wheel represents the three poisons.
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Next weekend Lama Aria Drolma will introduce “Ca

Next weekend Lama Aria Drolma will introduce “Calm- Abiding” meditation with techniques to help you directly experience deep peace, harmony and a genuine sense of wellbeing. She will present detailed instruction guiding you through various stages of practice that are suitable to both new and experienced meditators. Calm-abiding meditation is essentially the foundation for all other meditation practices. The methods are simple but the benefits are extremely profound. This event is open to everyone.

Visit our website for more information: http://ow.ly/tHIw50wOGuP

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RIME BUDDHIST CENTER

700 West Pennway, Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Telephone: (816) 471-7073

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