:: Phowa Retreat 2009 - Press Conference

By His Eminence 4th Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche & His Holiness 7th Phakchok Rinpoche

from Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery, PO Box 1200, Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Excerpts held on Thursday June 4 2009 at Rangjung Yeshe Buddhist Society Penang, Midlands Centre

from December 2 to 6 2009, at the Copthorne Hotel, Tanjong Bungah, Penang, His Eminence will be teaching for the first time in a large public setting in Malaysia the special Phowa practice. Phowa in Tibetan or Transference of Consciousness Upon Death is one of the most renowned skillful method employed by Buddhist practitioners to be reborn in Amitabha's Western Pure Land of Great Bliss.

Concise introduction in simple question & answer format

Q. Does Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Great Bliss really exist?

Q. When we arrive at Amitabha Buddha's Pure Land what happens to our bad karma & obscurations?

Q. How can we go to Amitabha Buddha's Pure Land?

Q. What is Phowa & how to practise it?