Most deity yoga practices require that practitioners receive an initiation or empowerment prior to doing the practice. The empowerment ritual confers authority upon the practitioner to engage in the practice of the particular deity for which the empowerment is given.

There are four stages to the empowerment ritual: the vase empowerment, which purifies the obscurations of the body; the secret empowerment, which purifies the obscurations of speech; the knowledge or wisdom empowerment, which purifies our mental obscurations; and the word empowerment, which purifies the subtle habitual tendencies which give rise to dualistic perception.


Gape Lama will teach us about the meaning of empowerment and how empowerments can help us transform our ordinary, habitual tendencies into enlightened activity. This will be a good introduction to the White Tara Empowerment which he will be bestowing on Friday night, March 20th.



Gape Lama will also be leading White Tara Practice on Wednesday night, March 18th at 7:30pm at Little Chapel of All Nations, 1401 E. First Street, Tucson.

Matthew and Rachel’s House

3935 North Country Club Road, #36A

Tucson, Arizona 85716

(Click here for a map)


Directions (Central Tucson)

ï N on Country Club Rd past Grant, Ft.Lowell and Prince Rds

ï Left at Racquet Club Ranch #3935, before Tucson Racquet & Fitness

ï Pass 1st drive on right. Event entry at next driveway, #36A, adobe house with prayer flags

ï Park to left in large dirt lot with palm trees