In the two morning meditations we were encouraged to stop distractions, listen only to the words of the meditation and forget everything else as we meditated on not wasting our precious opportunity for spiritual practice in meaningless activities & making a determination to cherish only others. Perfect preparation for the empowerment. 



Then thousands of practitioners deepened their connection with their Spiritual Guide by receiving the Guru Sumati Buddha Heruka Empowerment of Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of the New Kadampa lineage of Buddhism who clarified Buddha’s teachings of sutra and tantra