Update on Fall Retreat in Kathmandu, Nepal October 9-14

Teachings on Chod with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche in Nepal! For the first time in 25 years, Rinpoche returns to offer a retreat in Kathmandu, a city steeped in many ancient spiritual traditions and cultures, including Yungdrung Bon. This retreat will include 5 days of teachings on the practice of Chod and a one-day pilgrimage to the great Bon monastery, Triten Norbutse.

We have good news to share that for those registered for the retreat, Ligmincha will be coordinating visits to His Eminence Yongdzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche on October 15 & 16. Groups will be driven to the place where he is staying and be able to offer their respects from a distance. Details of the additional costs and logistics will be shared with people who have registered as soon as they become available. See the links below for registration, and helpful information about travelling to Nepal and a link for a recent talk on Chod, given by Geshe Denma Gyaltsen.

Chod is a skillful method for transforming the fear, aversion and attachment that obscure our true nature, and the qualities of love, compassion, joy and equanimity. These afflictions give rise to illness, depression, anxiety, addiction, self-recrimination and become our "demons" driving us toward suffering upon suffering. When we nurture the sources of our pain with compassion, we discover the empty nature of our inner enemies and transform them into wisdom. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach us to meet our challenging emotions and experiences, not with anger and judgment, but with a warm embrace, and reconnect to the natural state: open, awake, and fearless.

The retreat will present the chod text composed by the famous Bonpo dzogchen master Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen Rinpoche, who attained the rainbow body in 1934 at the age of 75. Traditionally, parts of the text are sung by the practitioner and accompanied by the chod drum and bell. Tenzin Rinpoche will emphasize the core understanding of the principles and practice.

Along with his wonderful sense of humor, Rinpoche has a gift for making ancient wisdom accessible and relevant today. This retreat is open to everyone and has no prerequisites.

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Useful information for traveling to Nepal

View a recent talk on Chod given by Geshe Denma Gyalsten