Nyung Nay Retreat May 31 - June 16, 2011
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Event : Nyung Nay Retreat
Date : May 31 - June 16, 2011
Venue : Tushita Meditation Centre, McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala,Kangra District
Himachal Pradesh, 176219, India
Website : http://www.tushita.info/program/group-retreats/nyung-nay
Check In Day
1.00 – 3.00pm Check in at Tushita Reception Office
(except check in for first Nyung Nay: 9.30-11pm)
6.00pm Dinner
Day 1
3.30am 1st Session take precepts to eat only lunch (drinks and talking permitted)
8.30am 2nd Session
11.00am Lunch
3.30pm 3rd Session
Day 2
4.00am 4th Session take precepts to not eat, drink, or speak for 24 hours
8.30am 5th Session
3.30pm 6th Session
Check Out Day
4.00am 7th Session your final session (join the session after precepts ceremony)
7.30am Breakfast
9.30 – 11.30am Check out in the Tushita Reception Office
Nyung Nay (or "Fasting Retreat" in English) is a Vajrayana practice from the Kriya ("Action") class of Tantra. It is a powerful, quick and effective method to purify a lot of negativities and at the same time collect a vast amount of merit. Meditators of the past have been known to purify such diseases as leprosy through this practice. However, the principal purpose of the practice is the attainment of supreme Enlightenment for the benefit of all living beings.
Annually before Saka Dawa (the anniversary of Shakyamuni Buddha's birth, enlightenment and paranirvana - for exact date of Saka Dawa please see Calendar of Events) Tushita offers a series of eight Nyung Nays. Participants may join one or more Nyung Nays.
A Nyung Nay retreat consists of 7 sessions spread over 3 days. In each session we practice the sadhana ("method of accomplishment") of Chenrezig, the Buddha symbolizing compassion. The sadhana involves meditating on bodhicitta (the aspiration to attain enlightenment in order to help all beings), visualizing Chenrezig, reciting prayers and mantras, and performing prostrations. Each session lasts approximately 3 hours.
Nyungne is the most effective course of practices to purify both environmental pollution and our own faults. The practice was revealed by Bhikshuni Phalmo, a practitioner who suffered from leprosy. She performed this practice for 12 years in conjunction with Chenresig (Avalokitesvara) practice and become a great siddhi, attaining the Celestial Body. The retreat course involves powerful practices of purification such as periods of fasting, prostrations, and silence. Practitioners will also recite the six syllable Mani Mantra (Om Mani Peme Hung). This mantra purifies the six seeds of the six realms within oneself and, furthermore, has the effect of pacifying the suffering of all beings. In this way, the practice brings peace to the entire world and can be a cause for World Peace, very appropriate to these degenerate times. The purification practices increase positive energies and so in and of themselves are causes for happiness and harmony. -
