November 2014

Tonpa Shenrab Birthday Celebration

Sunday, March 1, 2015 –  11 am to 2:30 pm – The birthday celebration of Tonpa Shenrab, founder of the precious Bon tradition, is one of the most important and auspicious ceremonies for the Tibetan New Year.   Blessings are multiplied during such holy occasions.   This ceremony will begin with a short blessing service led by Chaphur Rinpoche and monks concluding in a Tsok offering.  A light lunch will

Geshe Chaphur Rinpoche

March 28th and 29th – 10 am to 4:30 pm – Many Dzogchen masters wrote experiential songs which depict and describe the Dzogchen view.  These songs manifested spontaneously after enlightenment was achieved and the masters rested in the Natural  State.  For Je Rinpoche (Nyamed Sherab Gyalshen), the spontaneous arising of song connected him with the wisdom protectors. For other masters, the Bon Tantra view was sung.  For the great Dzogchen

Introduction to the Tibetan Bardo བར་དོའི་རྣམ་བཞག With Geshe YongDong

May 30-31, 2015 — 10:00 am to 4:30 pm “The Book of Natural Liberation through Hearing” (Tibetan Book of the Dead) suggests methods of preparation for death to practice while we are still living and the main preparation is the development of a clear picture of what to expect!  Whatever your religion or beliefs, there are countless books and information on what the afterlife, heaven, or nirvana will be like.  Who

Three Enlightened Bodies Are Within You: རྫོགས་ཆེན་ཉམས་རྒྱུད་ལས་འབྲས་བུ་རང་ས་བཟུང་བའི་ཁྲིད། With Chaphur Rinpoche

  June 27-28, 2015 — 10 am to 4:30 pm The Result: Guidance on Coming to Complete Certainty that the Three Enlightened Bodies Are Within You. This weekend will focus on the instructions from Drugyalwa’s Practice manual for the Aural Tradition of Zhang Zhung for the realization of the results. These teachings include instructions for pointing out through examples, pointing out the dynamic energy of natural appearances, and pointing out