November 1st — Offered by Dana (Donation) Online & In Person
Registration and details below
The Role of a Ngakpa or Ngakma 🧘♂️
A Ngakpa (male) or Ngakma (female) is a householder Vajrayana practitioner who has taken the Pratimoksha, Bodhisattva, and Vajrayana vows.
Unlike monastics, Ngakpas and Ngakmas live in the world — with families, professions, and responsibilities — while maintaining daily tantric practice.
Their role is to embody and transmit the Ngakpa lineage through meditation, mantra, ritual, and yogic discipline, bringing Dharma into everyday life. They serve as teachers, healers, and ritual specialists, sowing the seeds of bodhicitta wherever they go.
Ngakpas and Ngakmas bridge the monastery and society, showing that awakening is possible within ordinary life. Through their vows and conduct, they protect samaya, preserve lineage integrity, and act as living links in Vajrayana’s unbroken chain.
The Three Vows
Pratimoksha Vows – Foundation of Ethics
These vows establish ethical discipline and compassion.
Householder Ngakpas take the lay form — committing to avoid harm while living in the world.
The Five Lay Vows:
• Not killing
• Not stealing
• Avoiding sexual misconduct
• Not lying
• Avoiding intoxicants
These vows anchor tantric practice in clarity and compassion.
Bodhisattva Vows – Awakening for All Beings
The Bodhisattva vows open the heart to universal compassion.
You commit to awaken for the benefit of all beings, keeping bodhicitta alive in thought, word, and action.
They remind us to be the enlightened you, not the you you think you are.
Vajrayana Vows – The Sacred Samaya
These vows safeguard the power and purity of the Vajrayana path.
They preserve the relationship with your teacher, lineage, and vajra siblings, ensuring that your practice remains potent and authentic.
After ordination, Rinpoche and Ngakpa Vajra will guide you through each vow practically — helping you embody their essence in modern daily life.
Living as an Ordained Yogi
Ordination is both transmission and initiation — permission to walk the Vajrayana path as a lineage holder.
To be ordained is to honour tradition while expressing it authentically in modern times.
Daily Practice
A Ngakpa or Ngakma follows a steady rhythm of sadhana, mantra, and meditation, keeping lineage blessings alive and embodied.
Service to Community
Ngakpas and Ngakmas offer rituals, healing, and ceremonies that bring Vajrayana blessings into homes, families, and communities.
Embodiment of Vajrayana
Practice is not only what you do but who you become.
The vows and samaya commitments shape a life rooted in bodhicitta and wisdom.
Special Empowerments
During this ordination, Rinpoche will bestow two extraordinary empowerments:
Guru Rinpoche Five Buddha Families Empowerment
• Vairocana – Clarity and pacification
• Ratnasambhava – Equality and enrichment
• Amitabha – Compassion and magnetism
• Amoghasiddhi – Fearless accomplishment
• Akshobhya – Unshakable clarity and transformation
This empowerment completes ritual and meditation practice, awakening balanced wisdom and compassion.
Eight Manifestations of Guru Rinpoche
- Tsokyé Dorje – The Lotus-Born Vajra
- Shākya Sengé – The Lion of the Śākya Clan
- Padmasambhava – The Lotus-Born Teacher
- Loden Choksé – The Supreme Seeker of Knowledge
- Nyima Özer – The Rays of the Sun
- Senge Dradrok – The Lion’s Roar
- Pema Gyalpo – The Lotus King
- Dorje Drollö – The Wrathful Vajra Subduer
Together, they grant access to the complete spectrum of enlightened activity — pacifying, enriching, magnetising, and subduing obstacles.
Rinpoche requests each practitioner to complete 100,000 mantra recitations for Sukhasiddhi, Kurukullā, or Padmasambhava.
This number signifies:
• Purification and accumulation of merit
• Energetic entrainment with the deity’s frequency
• Transformation through repetition until mantra, practitioner, and deity are inseparable
Silent recitation throughout the day counts.
Each moment of recollection connects you deeper into the deity’s mindstream.
“The more we recite, the more the practice becomes a natural part of our mindstream.”
— Ngakpa Vajra
Mantra Accumulation
Preparation for Ordination
Please bring:
• Robes – Tibetan Handloom Robes
• Conch Earrings
• White shirt and skirt/trousers
(Not compulsory)
Language and Lineage
As practitioners sharing these teachings across many languages, our responsibility is to transmit essence, not just words.
Kharchen Rinpoche’s academic mastery of linguistics ensures precision and accessibility, allowing students across cultures to experience the heart of Vajrayana practice.
To become a Ngakpa or Ngakma is to step into service — carrying lineage integrity with clarity, humility, and respect.
Ordination is not an end but a beginning, a shared journey supported by sangha and guided by the blessings of those who came before.
Registration & Dana Offering
To Register:
Your dana offering confirms your place for the Ngakpa/Ngakma Ordination (online or in person).
Please make your dana to:
👉 PayPal.me/kharchenling
Suggested dana:
£108 for practitioners from developed countries.
If your circumstances differ, please give from your heart — no one is turned away.
Dana is a gesture of generosity and gratitude for Rinpoche’s transmission, not a fee.
If PayPal is unavailable in your region, please reach out directly and we will arrange another way to ensure your dana reaches Rinpoche.
With devotion and appreciation,
Kharchen Ling International Sangha
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