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Riwo Sangchö – Mountain Smoke Offering 🌿🔥Join us at this beautiful spot for a Riwo Sangchö (mountain smoke offering) practice, led by SI Instructor Jakob Leschly.
The Himalayan Incense Ceremony is a traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves offering fragrant incense to purify negativity and cultivate auspicious conditions within oneself and the surrounding environment. During the ceremony, a carefully prepared mixture of woods, incense, and other natural substances is burned to produce aromatic incense. This incense is symbolically offered to enlightened beings, ancestral guardians of the Banks Peninsula area, including the local Taniwha, and to all beings facing difficulties or hardship. It is also dedicated to the flourishing of enlightened values such as compassion, wisdom, and peace. The combination of the making of symbolic offerings with the cultivation of positive aspirations for the environment leads to improved mental and spiritual harmony, with ongoing benefits to balance and harmonise the environment and all forms of life. The ceremony centres around a small fire. Various natural substances are placed on the embers to produce incense. Participants can either follow the text or simply observe the ceremony.
The meditative and contemplative ceremony will take place at the top of the hill at Godley Head Track carpark.
Jakob will kindly give an introduction to this wonderful practice, enjoyed throughout the Himalayas – a lovely way to offer, purify and connect with the natural world around us.
🧺 Please bring
- Picnic brunch to share
- Your own plate, utensils and cup
- A camping chair, cushion or something to sit on
- You can download on your device or print the Riwo Sangchö text https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QPRVSF3hSqubDBXQ53Ds3d5aWaxwiUUd/view?usp=sharing
- Come dressed weather appropriately for the day, there is no shelter at the site
There will be a cash donation box to contribute towards Jakobs travel expenses with remaining as donation to the teacher.
Be sure to arrive at least 15 mins early to give yourself a chance to settle in, we will start promptly at 9 am.
Everyone welcome – we look forward to seeing you there! 🙏
About Jakob Leschly:
Jakob took refuge with Ven. Kalu Rinpoche in Denmark in 1974. In the mid-and late 1970s, he travelled to India and Nepal, studying with his root teacher Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as well as other great lamas, including Dudjom Rinpoche, Tulku Pema Wangyal Rinpoche, Chagdud Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Khamtrul Rinpoche, Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.
Jakob completed a three-year retreat at Chanteloube in France, 1980-1984, and lived in Dordogne until 1990. Since 1993, he has primarily served and studied with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and has translated various sadhanas, works on philosophy, and practice instructions. Since 1998, he has worked as an instructor in Buddhist theory and practice for Siddhartha’s Intent, also completing a BA in Tibetology at the University of Copenhagen. Jakob has spent years in France, Italy, India, Nepal, the United States, Australia, and his native Denmark, and has also travelled in Bhutan and Tibet. He presently lives in Switzerland. In his Dharma presentations, Jakob seeks to ensure that practitioners can understand the various Buddhist teachings and be able to proceed with their practice without hesitation.
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Godley Head Car Park, Christchurch, New Zealand
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