The Music of Great Bliss which is a Dance of Ling – VENUE CHANGE

A special Tibetan ritual Dance for Peace called Lingdro Dechen Rolmo addresses these challenging times. It was received in a meditative vision by the great Tibetan scholar and mystic, Mipham Rinpoche, with the intent to avert war, overcome negativity, bring balance to the world and the environment; and engender positive circumstances and prosperity.

 

You are invited to celebrate the lunar New Year of the wood snake with the Lingdro dance troupe of western meditation students. We will focus on healing the world, as the dancers stamp out negativity and stamp in bliss. The performance will culminate in a Dance of Good Luck, in which you will be invited to participate.

 

Lingdro Dechen Rolmo, “The Music of Great Bliss which is a Dance of Ling”, is a mind terma (dak nang) of the great nineteenth century mystic and scholar, Mipham Rinpoche, which is considered particularly effective in mitigating these times of war, and climate upheaval. The dance is a powerful moving meditation in which male and female dancers representing Gesar, his warrior/ministers and their wives (emanations of Tara), invoke Gesar of Ling, the great king and warrior, an activity emanation of Padma Sambhava and an emanation of the Rig Sum Gonpo (Manjusri, Vajrapani, and Avalokiteshvara).

 

As they sing his praises, they receive the blessing of recognizing their own minds. The dancers offer their beautiful movements (body), their melodious voices (speech) and their fervent devotion (mind) to Gesar, as they stamp out negativity and stamp in bliss. The activity of the dance consecrates the ground, overcomes obstacles, and brings merit and blessings to all. Through the enlightened view of the Great Perfection, which permeates the text, all obstacles and obscurations are naturally liberated.

 

Lin Lerner, PhD, director of the troupe, learned this sacred dance cycle in 1974-5 in a refugee camp in Odissa, India.