Schedule (each day)

6:30-7:15am: Precepts (Required)

7:30-8:45am: Session 1

10:30-11:45am: Session 2

2-3:15pm: Session 3

 

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 (Any eating or drinking on Day 2 if we do both days)

• Sitting on high or luxurious thrones or seats

• Wearing ornaments, perfume, etc, and singing and dancing, etc.