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Archive for the ‘Retreats’ Category
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Rinpoche continued his intensive travel and teaching schedule throughout the last six months of 2009. Here are some highlights:
August 16 -22, Crestone, CO: Empowerment–Transmission and Practice
 In an unprecedented teaching demonstration, Rinpoche gave three empowerments and practice instructions for Green Tara, Vajrasattva and Guru Rinpoche during this week. Additionally, participants had an opportunity to circumambulate the Jangchub Chorten Stupa (Stupa of Enlightentment) with Rinpoche prior to his blessing the newly almost-completed Dorje Yudronma Shrine on the Yeshe Rangsal land. (This week also served as the first week of the Monthlong retreat in Crestone.)
August 16-September 13, Crestone, CO: Monthlong–The Precious Garland of the Sublime Path (The Teachings of Gampopa) One hundred participants from over 14 countries attended the Monthlong this year, which was held in the teaching tent on the Yeshe Rangsal retreat land in Crestone. Rinpoche gave daily morning teachings, as well as small group interviews in the afternoon, along with group instructions on ngondro, yidam practice, and dzogchen practice. The retreat closed with a fire puja and bountiful tsok. Retreatants were also invited to visit Rinpoche’s new home that borders the retreat land.
 Monthlong 2009 Please click below for photos of the Empowerment Retreat and 2009 Monthlong:
Tony Barrs’ Picasa Web Album/ Monthlong 2009
Richard Timan’s Picasa Web Album/Monthlong 2009
Jim Gritz Gallery (password: Gampopa)
October 2-4, San Francisco, CA: Wisdom for Difficult Times: What the Buddhists Teach Sylvia Boorstein, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche co-chaired this discussion sponsored by the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Asia Society of California at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco.
October 8-9, Washington, D.C.: The Heart of Change (The Mind & Life Conference with H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama) To learn more about this event, please visit: www.jamesgritz.com/blog/
 The Lady Yeshe Tsogyal October 10-15, Tara Mandala, Pagosa Springs, CO: Songs of Yeshe Tsogyal Rinpoche taught the nature of mind using one of the dohas (songs) of Yeshe Tsogyal who chronicled the teachings of Guru Rinpoche for the sake of future generations.
October 16-22, Garrison, NY: The Bardo Teachings The description of the six bardos, or major intermediate states occurring in our existence, provide us with great opportunities for liberation while living and dying. Particularly useful are the instructions on the bardo of death and the following states, because we learn how to deal with these extreme situations and use them to reach enlightenment.
October 23-25, Kripalu Yoga Center, Lennox, MA: Rinpoche taught on the topic of Finding Fearlessness in Difficult Times
November 21: Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche arrived at Kathmandu airport, accompanied by his parents, Neten Chokling Rinpoche and Khandro Tendzin Choyang Gyari. Tsoknyi Rinpoche then escorted the Yangsi and his family along with Namdol Gyatso Lama and two attendants to Nepal. For more information, please visit www.Shedrub.org and see “The Return of Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche” dated Sunday, November 22, 2009.
 Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
ANNOUNCING the inauguration of the new monastic college at Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal!
Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche recently announced that Mingyur Rinpoche will be taking responsibility for Osel Ling Monastery beginning in early 2010. Osel Ling was originally given to both brothers by their late father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. In recent years, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has overseen the activities of the monastery and guided its community of monks, in addition to creating space for his non-Tibetan students to stay and practice. Under Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s guidance, the monastic community has thrived and grown into a mature sangha of dedicated practitioners.
In planning for the future development of the monastery, both Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinoche agreed that it would be beneficial to the monastery’s monastic population to have a fully ordained monk as abbot. Therefore, they agreed that it would be appropriate for Mingyur Rinpoche to take responsibility for the monastery’s operations. While Mingyur Rinpoche will oversee the activities of the monastery from this point on, Tsoknyi Rinpoche will remain intimately involved and retain his spiritual link to the community.
Mingyur Rinpoche plans to establish a monastic college at Osel Ling and make its programs the focal point of the monastery’s activities. In addition, he also plans to have courses available for Westerners to study Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy. The monastic college will be inaugurated on February 17th, 2010. All are invited to attend. To celebrate the opening of the college, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche will also offer a two-day seminar entitled Cultivating Joyful Wisdom & Compassion on February 18th-20th.
On behalf of the Pundarika and Tergar communities, we would like to express our support for the community of Osel Ling Monastery and the vision of Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche. May the monastery continue to grow and thrive, bringing benefit to countless beings!
Tashi Delek!
Esteban Hollander (Director/Pundarika Foundation)
Cortland Dahl & Edwin Kelley (Directors/Tergar International)
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
 Tsoknyi Rinpoche held the first initial retreat considering the matter of devotion this summer in Crestone, Colorado. Krishna Das attended with musicians from his band–tabla player Arjuna and bass player Patrick Hammond–supplementing the retreat with juicy devotional kirtan (call and response) chants throughout the week.
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
In August 2009, just prior to the beginning of the Devotion Retreat, Crestone received an exquisite new Rupa for its retreat shrine.
After installation, the new Rupa presided over the two Crestone retreats and Month-long.
Here is Brady Hogan transporting the statue en route to his new home.
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
ADVANCED DZOGCHEN RETREAT
(as reported by Ilya Natanzon)
Shuny Hollander presents the mandala offering to Tsoknyi Rinpoche during the concluding ceremony, requesting the teacher to remain as the Vajra Body, Speech, and Mind.
The Advanced Dzogchen Retreat took place in Kibbutz Kadarim, where Rinpoche taught two open retreats in previous years. Rinpoche does not teach every year in Israel, so this year the participants were especially motivated to study and practice what they had already learned, knowing that Rinpoche (more…)
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Rinpoche began his South American teachings with a lovely, informal talk on Sunday, April 26th at a regular weekly evening meeting at Dongyuling Center in the Abboud home in Buenos Aires. Gerardo, Juani, and their daughter Sofia were generous hosts to Tsoknyi Rinpoche during his stay. (more…)
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
In a very spacious and lovely retreat center overlooking Monterey Bay near Watsonville, California, Rinpoche taught in part from a beautiful letter called A Letter in Praise of Emptiness, which his teacher Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche wrote to his mother on the nature of emptiness.
Mt. Madonna Retreatants
The profound Dzogchen teachings help us to directly discover our primordially pure nature, allowing our confused concepts and emotions to be naturally liberated. (more…)
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
The Bardo Retreat
March 28–April 3, 2009
Rinpoche’s teachings on the Bardo marked the 10th anniversary of Pundarika U.K. and the 8th year since their first retreat took place. In honor of Carole Bishop’s hard work over the years, attendees presented her with a thank you gift, which greatly moved her. There was a real sense of commitment among the 120 participants, and 15 people who had been practicing for years took refuge. (more…)
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
Dzogchen: The Nature of Mind
March 21–27, 2009
With greetings from Switzerland by Fred von Allmen
“Rinpoche arrived at the Zurich airport where Serena and I picked him up and took him to an apartment at a Buddhist center in Bern, so that he could rest. (more…)
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
Here are a few personal letters from three of Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s students who are in three-year retreat in Dordogne, France, and that he wanted to share with the sangha:
Dear Rinpoche,
I hope you are well. I am happy to say that all is well here. I feel so fortunate to have this opportunity. Tulku Pema Rinpoche is very generous with his time and has given us a lot of instruction and teachings. We have excellent conditions, and the group is strong. (more…)
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