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

This week’s Rime Sangha shrine comes from Christ

This week’s Rime Sangha shrine comes from Christy Markham. She says that her shrine table was handmade for her by her son, Ethan. She love it just how it is so she has yet to pick out a stain color for it. A couple of the items were gifts. The offering bowls took her several months to find since she was looking for some that weren't very large, and these fit perfectly! She plans to add a couple more smaller statues eventually. The little plant stem has been on it for a little over a year. She had flowers in the jar and once they died a little stem of leaves began growing, she is not sure if it will ever grow flowers but thinks it's pretty amazing so it stays! In the prayer hands of the Buddha statue is a tiny girl worry doll, it represents her daughter and the Buddha keeping her safe and in good hands and prayers always.
If you would like to share your home shrine, submit your shrine photo to Lama Matt at info@rimecenter.org.

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This week’s Rime Sangha shrine comes from Dr. No

This week’s Rime Sangha shrine comes from Dr. Nora Quiason. She says that her shrine that is in her apartment in Fairbanks Alaska was crafted from repurposed materials. The Buddha sits on a plank on top of a printer box. The Tara Mandala sacred texts lay on used USPS boxes. Her seat was crafted from the foam inside the printer box.

If you would like to share your home shrine, submit your shrine photo to Lama Matt at info@rimecenter.org.

#RimeCenter #KCBuddhists #RimeSanghaShrines

Join us during our online Sunday Service, June 14t

Join us during our online Sunday Service, June 14th at 10:30 am, as we are joined by Lama Aria Drolma. She will be giving a special Dharma talk on Tonglen meditation. http://www.rimecenter.org/

#RimeCenter #KCBuddhist #LamaAriaDrolma

This week's Rime Sangha shrine comes from Sergio M

This week's Rime Sangha shrine comes from Sergio Moreno. He says that his shrine has grown and flourished over the years and he's very grateful for the ways it encourages his practice and develops his appreciation for precious human life and mother sentient beings. One thing that means a lot to him is that so many of the elements in his shrine have been given to him by mentors, teachers, and dharma family. That makes him feel connected to his sangha and all his spiritual friends.

If you would like to share your home shrine, submit your shrine photo to Lama Matt at info@rimecenter.org.

#RimeCenter #KCBuddhists #RimeSanghaShrines

One of the meritorious acts that you can perform d

One of the meritorious acts that you can perform during Saga Dawa is to read about the life of the Buddha. In this blog Matthieu Ricard discusses Kusinagar, where the Buddha passed into Parinirvana. http://ow.ly/oLuT50zZMEF

#kcbuddhists #rimecenter #sagadawa #parinirvana

One of the meritorious acts that you can perform d

One of the meritorious acts that you can perform during Saga Dawa is to make offerings to support monks and nuns. If you would like to help support Ven. Geshe Thinley while he is staying at the Rime Center you can by visiting the Rime Center website. http://ow.ly/Beai50zZMix

#kcbuddhists #rimecenter #sagadawa #supportamonk

One of the meritorious acts that you can perform d

One of the meritorious acts that you can perform during Saga Dawa is making offerings. A popular form of offering in the Tibetan traditions is the water bowl offering. Check out Yowangdu's article about making water bowl offerings. http://ow.ly/IRs150zZLSK

#kcbuddhists #rimecenter #sagadawa #waterbowlofferings

One of the meritorious acts that you can perform d

One of the meritorious acts that you can perform during Saga Dawa is reading Sutras. Ven. Geshe Thinley will be reading the Bhadrakalpika Sutra throughout the day. The title of this text means the Fortunate Aeon Sutra as it includes the names of the 1002 Buddhas of this Fortunate Aeon. Unfortunately, it is not yet translated into English, but you can go to https://read.84000.co/ and read other Sutras that have now been translated.

#kcbuddhists #rimecenter #sagadawa #readasutra

One of the meritorious acts that you can perform d

One of the meritorious acts that you can perform during Saga Dawa is to be a vegetarian/vegan for the day. Here is a wonderful article, Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard: Veganism is the Key to Lasting Happiness. http://ow.ly/LHjL50zZMaV

#kcbuddhists #rimecenter #sagadawa #donteatmeat

Today is Saga Dawa Duchen. It celebrates Buddha Sh

Today is Saga Dawa Duchen. It celebrates Buddha Shakyamuni’s enlightenment and parinirvana. Some good actions that are commonly taken to accumulate merit during Saka Dawa, specially on the 15th day, are:

Refraining from eating meat
Offering donations to monasteries/nunneries, or to individual monks/nuns
Praying and reciting mantras (such as the refuge prayer, for one example, the om mani padme hung mantra, or the Buddha Shakyamuni mantra).
Giving money to those in need.
Lighting butter lamps.
Buying all kinds of animals they are going to be killed and releasing them. (Fish, for example)

This week's Rime Sangha shrine comes from Jill Sau

This week's Rime Sangha shrine comes from Jill Saunders. She says that her shrine is in a repurposed entertainment armoire. It is special to her because she has collected different pieces over the years that have meaning to her. She has lights to use as an alternative to incense/candles when she has a headache. The lights are touch lights and sometimes come on all by themselves like a ghost turned them on. She also has a tara print made at the rime center during Losar and a torma made at the torma class. She got the Vajrasattva thangka in Madison, Wisconsin when she went to a teaching of His Holiness. She has a picture of Phakyab Rinpoche which she sponsored his sister for a while.
If you would like to share your home shrine, submit your shrine photo to Lama Matt at info@rimecenter.org.

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Today is Tampei Duchen, Anniversary of Buddha Shak

Today is Tampei Duchen, Anniversary of Buddha Shakyamuni's birth.

When you were born, chief among human beings,
You took seven steps on this earth and said:
“In this world I am supreme.”
To you, O wise one, I pay homage!

#rimecenter #kcbuddhists

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Rick Goo

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Rick Goodvin. He says in its current state the arrangement and contents are fluid and change frequently. One of his favorite features is the glass bowl that contains small trinkets and milestones from precious places and time periods such as the red string from his refuge vow, objects that represent teachings received and river rocks from times that he had visited his daughter, Lotus, in California and Montana.
If you would like to share your home shrine, submit your shrine photo to Lama Matt at info@rimecenter.org.

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Thank you to Santikaro for spending the morning wi

Thank you to Santikaro for spending the morning with the Rime Sangha talking on “Compassion with our fears”. #kcbuddhists #rimecenter #santikaro

Working on cleaning up the Rime Center’s meditat

Working on cleaning up the Rime Center’s meditation garden. Thank you to all the volunteers who came out to help. #kcbuddhists #rimecenter #meditationgarden

The most important month in the Tibetan lunar cale

The most important month in the Tibetan lunar calendar is Saga Dawa, the 4th month. This year Saga Dawa starts on May 23rd and runs until June 21st.

Saga Dawa is known as the month of merits. Tibetan Buddhists make extra efforts to practice more generosity, virtue, compassion, and conduct, in order to accumulate greater merit. Tibetans believe that during this month, the merits of one's actions are multiplied. The 15th day of this lunar month, the full moon day, is called Saga Dawa Düchen. Düchen means “great occasion” and this day is the single most holy day of the year for Tibetan Buddhists. This year, Saga Dawa Düchen falls on June 5th. Saga Dawa Düchen commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of Buddha Shakyamuni.

Meritorious acts include:
Reciting the Sutras
Joining virtuous activity at your local sangha
Performing the Guru Shakyamuni Buddha puja
Reciting the names of the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas, with prostrations
Reciting Vajrasattva mantras
Taking the eight Mahayana precepts
Meditating on bodhichitta, emptiness, and dependent arising
Reciting OṂ MAṆI PADME HŪṂ with bodhichitta
Tonglen
Liberating animals, and
Refraining from eating meat

#kcbuddhists #rimecenter #sagadawa

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Vickie C

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Vickie Cumberland. She says that this Shrine is special because, other than the three statues, most of the items are remembrances of retreats, teachers, and other spiritual friends. She likes to hold each of those relics and remember the time that made it special.
If you would like to share your home shrine, submit your shrine photo to Lama Matt at info@rimecenter.org.

#rimecenter #kcbuddhists #rimesanghashrines

This summer the Rime Center will be sharing images

This summer the Rime Center will be sharing images of Sangha member's home shrines on Instagram to help us feel more connected to each other due to social distancing. Submit your shrine photo to Lama Matt at info@rimecenter.org. Include a brief description of what makes your shrine special to you. This is a photo of Lama Matt's shrine when he first started practicing.

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བསྐལ་བཟང་སངས་རྒྱས་སྟོང་ལས་ཁྱད་པར་དུ། །
Among the thousand buddhas of this fortunate age,
ངོ་མཚར་ཨུ་དུམ་ཝཱ་ར་ལྟར་འཕགས་ཤིང༌། །
You are the most wondrous and majestic, as rare as an uḍumbara flower,
རྩོད་པའི་དུས་འདིར་ཞིང་ཁམས་ཡོངས་བཟུང་བ། །
You who care for our world during this age of conflict,
ཐུབ་མཆོག་དོན་ཀུན་གྲུབ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
Mighty sage, Siddhārtha, to you I pay homage!

#rimecenter #kcbuddhists

Thank you @h.e._tulku_yeshi_rinpoche for sharing y

Thank you @h.e._tulku_yeshi_rinpoche for sharing your time and wisdom with us this morning. #rimecenter #kcbuddhists

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