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Shitro Teaching LTR 2012

Shitro is a powerful accumulation practice dedicated to world peace that benefits all living and deceased beings. It helps transform impure energy, increase longevity for teachers, and remove obstacles to enlightenment by purifying defilements. The Shitro ceremony connects practitioners to true wisdom deities that pervade everywhere, including within our body and chakras. Recognizing these deities during the bardo after death can help one attain awakening in the pureland. Shitro also specially benefits those who have passed away, as the wisdom and compassion it generates can reach any realm.

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Shitro Teaching LTR 2012

Shitro is a powerful accumulation practice dedicated to world peace that benefits all living and deceased beings. It helps transform impure energy, increase longevity for teachers, and remove obstacles to enlightenment by purifying defilements. The Shitro ceremony connects practitioners to true wisdom deities that pervade everywhere, including within our body and chakras. Recognizing these deities during the bardo after death can help one attain awakening in the pureland. Shitro also specially benefits those who have passed away, as the wisdom and compassion it generates can reach any realm.

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Short Teaching on Shitro by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

Shitro is an incredible and powerful accumulation that is dedicated to world peace and brings
great benefit to all sentient beings whether dead or living, and especially those who are directly
connected with it through participation and sponsorship. Shitro helps transform impure energy
and increases long life for our teachers because it removes obstacles from damaged samaya in
the sangha and purifies defilements that cause obstacles to enlightenment

When we do Shitro ceremony we all connect to true wisdom deity. We are doing this practice
because all inconceivable wisdom deities truly pervade everywhere – including our own body.
There are 42 peaceful deities in our heart chakra and 58 wrathful deities that reside naturally in
our crown chakra but we are not aware of this. Shitro practice brings us recognition of theses
deities that are the ultimate wisdom deity. In the bardo after death, when the body and mind
separate, you will see the mandala of deities in front of you. If you recognize them as your own
wisdom phenomena you will wake up in the pureland.

Shitro is a special practice for all present and future bardos. It is especially good to dedicate to
beings that have died. People ask me “What if someone has died a long time ago?” Because
wisdom deity is non material wisdom and compassion, this practice and our pure intention can
penetrate to any realm. Loved ones and all beings will receive benefit wherever they are,
whether in the bardo or another life or realm. This wisdom and compassion pervades
everything and everywhere like the sky.

I will pray that we will all reach enlightenment together and that peace and happiness will
pervade for all beings.

With much love,


Your heart friend, Lama Tharchin

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