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		Every third day
		morning		White Tara
		afternoon		Five Dakinis
		Every eighth day
		morning		Red Chenrezig
		afternoon		Milarepa guru yoga
		Every tenth day - Padmasambhava Day
		afternoon		Lion-faced male and female dharmapalas associated with Padmasambhava
		Every thirteenth day		Fire puja
		Every fifteenth day
		3:00 a.m.		Confession
		morning		Chakrasamvara
		afternoon		Thang lha (local deity in Tibet)
		Every eighteenth day		One of the Four Guardian Kings, Namse rik sum, combined with Mahakala
		Every twenty-third day
		morning		Green Tara (long-form)
		afternoon		Varjrayogini (short form)
		Every twenty-fifth day
		morning		Guru Rinpoche
		afternoon		Vajrayogini (long form)
		Every twenty-ninth day
		all day		Mahakala
		At the new moon:
		3:00 a.m.		Confession
		morning		Kunrik (purification practice)



		(Dates can vary depending on other activities taking place at Dharma Chakra Centre.)
		1st lunar month
		9th-15th day		Long-life practice for His Holiness Karmapa
		23rd-27th day		Vajrayogini*
		28th & 29th day		Green Tara
		2nd lunar month
		3rd-9th day:
		morning		White Tara
		afternoon		Five Dakinis
		22nd-28th day		Hevajra*
		3rd lunar month
		9th-15th day		Kalachakra*
		26th day (one-day practice)		Parinirvana of the Fifteenth Karmapa
		4th lunar month
		(alternates each year)		Padmasambhava or Vajrakilaya* with dances
		For Padmasambhava
		3rd-10th day		Tsechu: 8 aspects of Guru Rinpoche
		For Vajrakilaya*
		1st-3rd day		Various practices to prepare for Vajrakilaya
		4th-10th day		Actual Vajrakilaya practice
		11th day (morning)		The practice concludes
		15th day, until		Saga Dawa
		mantras are concluded		Dungdrup puja - 100 million mantra recitations (monks and lay sangha)
		5th lunar month
		9th-15th day		Chakrasamvara*
		23rd-27th day (5 days)		Cho
		6th lunar month
		15th day		Summer retreat begins and lasts for 45 days. It includes two seven-day practices.
		23rd-29th day		Chos cho
		7th lunar month
		9th-15th day		Rain of Wisdom
		8th lunar month
		8th-14th day		Red Chenrezig* (At the end of this practice the sand from this and all the previous sand mandalas is emptied into a nearby river)
		9th lunar month
		9th-13th day (5 days)		Shi tro or Pema Benza (Guru Rinpoche), alternating each year
		10th lunar month
		23rd-27th day (5 days)		Kunrik (purification)
		30th-31st day		Mitrukpa (purification)
		11th lunar month
		7 days, at the		Four-armed Mahakala
		winter solstice
		12th lunar month
		23rd-29th day		Great Mahakala*; ends with sacred dances on the 29th, and is followed by Losar (the New Year)
		*sand mandala associated with this practice