Mandala Offering Retreat

Offering mandalas, a powerful practice of visualizing and offering pure universes, is an important method for building positive merit throughout many Buddhist traditions. Great practitioners such as Atisha and Tsongkhapa are renowned for the vast numbers of mandala offerings they made. In many traditions, accumulating 100,000 short mandala offerings is a prerequisite for tantric practice.

Demo Rinpoche will offer brief daily talks about the purpose, function and background of mandala offerings. Participants will receive hands-on instructions on how to make these offerings in simple and more elaborate forms, followed by group sessions for offering mandalas together. The schedule will also include time to individually focus on accumulating many short mandala offerings.
This retreat is open to all.

How to make a mandala set

Retreat Elements

Online and Onsite participation (depending on covid conditions)
Brief daily talks by Demo Rinpoche with various mandala offering instructions
Group guided practice sessions with Jewel Heart Instructors
Discussion included during guided instruction and practice sessions
Individual sessions to accumulate the Seven Heaps mandala offerings
If you have questions about this retreat, contact programs@jewelheart.org

DATES/TIMES:
Tuesday – Friday, December 27 – 30, 2022
10:00am – 5:00pm Eastern Time

COVID GUIDELINES

About Demo Rinpoche

COST
COST – $65 Jewel Heart Members / $80 Non-Members
Pay What You Can – No one is turned away

Registration lets us know you will be attending and provides the zoom link via this web page or the registration confirmation email. Newcomers to Jewel Heart will receive instructions about their account in their registration confirmation email.

Please contact registration@jewelheart.org for questions about registration.

Also: NEW YEAR’S EVE LAMA CHOPA & TSOH AND VIRTUAL PARTY
Saturday, December 31, 3:00 – 5:00pm Eastern Time
Click here to register.

Mandala Sets

Mandala offering sets are available to order from the Jewel Heart store through Ujjen Tsewang (ujjen@jewelheart.org). Order early to allow time for shipping.

You can also opt to create a temporary cardboard mandala set for this retreat’s practice purposes.

2022 MANDALA OFFERING RETREAT TENTATIVE SCHEDULE – Schedule updates will be posted closer to the retreat
Tuesday, December 27 – Friday, December 30

Friday – Saturday, October 7 – 8

Mandala Offering Retreat	Tuesday, December 27	Wednesday, December 28	Thursday, December 29	Friday, December 30
Topic
10:00 – 11:00am	Demo Rinpoche	Demo Rinpoche	Demo Rinpoche	Demo Rinpoche
11:30am – 12:30pm	Instruction Session: Set & Materials; How to build temporary set	Instruction Session: 37 Heap Mandala	Instruction Session: 23 Heap Mandala	Instruction Session: 7 Heap Mandala; Repeat 37 and 23 Heap Mandalas
12:30 – 1:30 pm	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break
1:30 – 2:30 pm	Instructor / Practice Session: 7 Heaps; Discussion	Instructor / Practice Session: 37 Heaps; Discussion	Instructor / Practice Session: 23 Heaps; Discussion	Instructor / Practice Session: 37 Heaps; Discussion
2:30 – 3:15 pm	Individual Session: 7 Heap Mandala	Individual Session: 7 Heap Mandala	Individual Session: 7 Heap Mandala	Individual Session: 7 Heap Mandala
3:15 – 3:30 pm	Break	Break	Break	Break
3:30 – 5:00pm	Individual Session: 7 Heap Mandala	Individual Session: 7 Heap Mandala	Individual Session: 7 Heap Mandala	Individual Session: 7 Heap Mandala

Note: While 100,000 of the 7 heap mandala offerings constitute a Mandala Offering Retreat, in this short retreat, any number is okay. This retreat’s purpose is to learn the practice and become familiar with it.

Materials For Download