Sat, Apr 16
|Kadampa Meditation Center North Carolina
Nyungne Purification Retreat: Buddha’s Enlightenment Day Celebration
Ritual Practice for Purifying Negative Karma (In-Person Only)


Time & Location
Apr 16, 2022, 6:30 AM – 3:15 PM EDT
Kadampa Meditation Center North Carolina, 528 East Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28203, USA
About the event
You must attend and take Precepts to attend any of the sessions
Free - Everyone welcome: However, make sure you are comfortable with the requirements of this activity
What is Nyungne?
A special fasting and purification practice performed in conjunction with Eleven-faced (or Thousand-armed) Avalokiteshvara. This is a very powerful method for purifying negativity of body, speech, and mind, and for pacifying strong delusions such as desirous attachment and hatred. It is also a special way of receiving blessings and for improving our minds of love, compassion, and bodhichitta. This practice is done annually at Kadampa Buddhist centers throughout the world in a retreat - called the Nyungne Purifying Ritual Practice - to celebrate Buddha’s Enlightenment Day.
When we take the eight Mahayana precepts, we explicitly promise to abstain for twenty-four hours from eight actions:
- Killing
- Stealing
- Sexual activity
- Lying
- Taking intoxicants
- Eating after lunch (meaning we only eat lunch: no other food before or after, until the next morning)
- Sitting on high or luxurious thrones or seats
- Wearing ornaments, perfume, etc, and singing and dancing, etc
Schedule
45 minutesPrecepts
1 hour 15 minutesSession 1