July 12th through the 17th.
This was our second visit to Yachats on this tour and we were thrilled to be back again so soon. Our precious organizers Ri and Renee put together a great schedule of events starting with a screening of the film Dalai Lama Renaissance. They received permission for us to show it from the producer/director Khashyar Darvich in order to help our monastery. Khashyar has been kind enough to let us continue to show it as we travel throughout the tour. Our main event was creating a sand mandala of the Buddha of Compassion at the Green Salmon. By the way, some of the best coffee in the world! He roasts it himself and people were driving from 40 miles away to get some. We also did a Medicine Buddha empowerment, Vajravidaran healing, a Chay Drol ritual, and a question and answer night. So we were kept pretty busy. In addition to all the kindness of Ri and Renee (by the way, they are also hosting this blog for us), Precious Claire came down to help us out and we meet a new organizer, Colette, who was brave enough to take up the task of bringing us to Moab. More on that in the Moab post later.
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It is always such a pleasure to have the Monks visit. We often laugh about they’re being “The best house guests we ever have!”.
The blessings your work bestows on our community is not missed by anyone in our village. We can’t wait to see you again.
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[...] The current tour started in December, 2007 and will probably finish around May, 2009. The tours have been lead for 19 years by Venerable Lobsang Wangchuk. He has selflessly devoted the last 19 years of his life in service of the monastery and these tours have helped rebuild Gaden Shartse, feed and house the monks, and bring the precious Dharma to the United States.I joined the tour in July of 2008 to assist Venerable Lobsang and train to become the next tour leader. So, though they have been here much longer, the blog will start when I joined them on our visit to beautiful Yachats, Oregon. [...]