Maha Parinirvana Anniversary of Jettsun Sherab Singey, Tsok Offering and Gyue Tsung Puja ༸རྗེ་བཙུན་ཤེས་རབ་སེངྒེ་མཆོག་གི་དགོངས་རྫོགས་དུས་དྲན་ཉིན་རྒྱད་གཞུང་དང་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པའི་སྒོ་ནས་ཚོགས་མཆོད། 至尊協饒僧格圓寂紀念日 July 01, 2024

It celebrates the day when the Buddha is said to have achieved Parinirvana, or complete Nirvana, upon the death of his physical body. Jetsun Sherab Senge, an outstanding scholar of the great tantric treatises, was one of Tsongkhapa’s six closest disciples. Tsongkhapa instructed him to propagate his tantric teachings and gave him a skullcup full of nectar, a bronze statue of Guhyasamaja Tantra, a copy of the two great commentaries on it as well as a mask and costume of Yama. He thereby made him successor to his tantric tradition and asked him to go to Tsang to spread the teaching of the tantras, prediction that he would find good students there.On arriving there Jetsun Sherab Senge first performed a Vajrabhairava retreat during which he was served by a spirit woman. He then established Se Gyu Tantric Monastery) and a little later established Gyudme Monastery in Lhasa. He saw to it that the tradition of tantric teachings flourished in both monasteries. Among Jetsun Sherab Senge’s many em