Shitro translates as peaceful and wrathful deities and is associated with purification of the skandhas or aggregates of form, perception, feeling, mental formations and consciousness. At the moment of our death these aggregates dissolve into their pure and impure qualities, and may be experienced as dream-like imagery or visions.


In the practice of Shitro, we learn to recognize this, so that as we transmigrate through the intermediate state after death, weíre not propelled by karmic propensities into lower rebirths. Rather, weíre able to abide in the Nature of Mind. This journey of compounded and uncompounded awareness is the central theme in the Prayer of Kungtuzangpo.



This Shitro Empowerment, Lung, and Teaching will be held on Friday afternoon, 12/4 from 2-6pm at the Benedictine Convent. This event is associated with the following weekend’s teaching on the Prayer of Kungtuzangpo.