Tergar Shrine Hall
1 February 2024
སྤྱི་ལོ་2024 ཟླ་བ་1 སྤྱི་ཚེས་31 ནས་ཟླ་བ་ 2 སྤྱི་ཚེས་ 1 ཉིན་བར། སྐབས་བརྒྱད་པའི་འཕགས་མ་བདེ་བྱེད་མའི་དཔྱིད་ཆོས་ལ་ཕེབས་པའི་བཙུན་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས། རང་ཅག་རྣམས་ཀྱི་མེ་ཏོག་གང་ལ་ཕོག་པའི་ལྷ་སྐལ་༧རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་མཆོག་གི་སྐུ་རིམ་རྒྱལ་བའི་བཀའ་འགྱུར་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དག་སྒྲོག་དང་སྒྲོལ་མ་གསུང་བཞིན་པ་དགེའོ། །
Not all the nuns attending the annual Arya Kshema are involved in debate. Many senior nuns did not have the opportunity for extended study when they were younger. They are, however, able to make a significant contribution to the Arya Kshema through the accumulation of merit. Their effort centres around two activities.
On January 31st they assembled in the shrine hall of Tergar monastery and began a complete reading of the Kangyur—the Buddhist scriptures which have been translated into Tibetan.. The nuns are not sure how long this will take, perhaps four days, but if more time is necessary, they will continue until they have finished.
Also on January 31st, they began the recitation of the Homage to the 21 Taras. They have offered this in previous years and the practice will continue throughout the Arya Kshema.
The merit from these two activities is dedicated to the long life of the Gyalwang Karmapa, to the removal of obstacles impeding him, and to the flourishing of his activity.