Rime Buddhist Center

achieving peace through compassion

Newsletter & Email Signup
Contact

Search

Main menu

Skip to primary content

Home
About
Programs
Community
Media
Donate
Rime Temple Project
- Temple Project Updates
Members
- Members Portal
- Sangha Care

Instagram Gallery

rimecenter

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

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.

#RimeCenter #kcbuddhists #RimeSanghaShrines

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.

#rimecenter #kcbuddhists #RimeSanghaShrines

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

The Rime Board and Ven. Geshe Thinley went over th

The Rime Board and Ven. Geshe Thinley went over the new Rime Center temple concept designs with sangha member Raj. Join us tomorrow for our Sunday service on Zoom at 10:30 am. Lama Matt and Raj will go over the concept designs with the Sangha and are looking forward to hearing from you.

#RimeCenter #kcbuddhists #NewTemple

The Rime Center Board out of a concern for our San

The Rime Center Board out of a concern for our Sangha’s health and well-being have decided postpone all in person gatherings and instead move many of our programs online using Zoom. Click on the link to find out more about the Rime Center's plans for the next few weeks. http://ow.ly/xw5W50yLuNy

#RimeCenter #kcbuddhists #Coronavirus

Join us March 18th at 7:45 pm as the Rime Center h

Join us March 18th at 7:45 pm as the Rime Center hosts a film screening of A Prayer for Compassion as part of our 108 Day Bodhisattva Challenge. This is an interfaith event and is free and open to the public.

#RimeCenter #kcbuddhists #APrayerForCompassion #KCInterfaith #Interfaith

“Self-love is the foundation of our loving pract

“Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail.” - #bellhooks #ReclaimLove #ValentinesDay #RevolutionaryLove @thedreamcorps @RevLoveProject reclaimlove.us

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.

#rimecenter #kcbuddhists #rimethangkaoftheweek #thangkasofinstagram

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.
#rimecenter #kcbuddhists #rimethangkaoftheweek #thangkasofinstagram

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.

#rimecenter #kcbuddhists #rimethangkaoftheweek #thangkasofinstagram

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.

#rimecenter #kcbuddhists #rimethangkaoftheweek #thangkasofinstagram

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.

#rimecenter #kcbuddhists #rimethangkaoftheweek #thangkasofinstagram

This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Warning: The account for needs to be reconnected.
Due to Instagram platform changes on March 31, 2020, this Instagram account needs to be reconnected to allow the feed to continue updating. Reconnect on plugin Settings page

RIME BUDDHIST CENTER

700 West Pennway, Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Telephone: (816) 256-4956‬

Social Media

Facebook
Instagram
Twitter

Proudly powered by WordPress