December 2014

John Reynolds
Past Events

Past Events

December 7, 2014 – 10 AM – 4 PM – Unlike the other traditions of Dzogchen found within Bön, the Zhang-zhung Nyän-gyüd represents a continuous and unbroken transmission from earliest times of the precepts of Dzogchen coming down to our own time. These teachings and practices were transmitted by the enlightened master Tapihritsa to his disciple Gyerpung Nangzher Lödpo at the Darok Lake in the 8th century in Zhang-zhung, or

Takla Mebar Retreat སྟག་ལའི་བསྙེན་སྒྲུབ།
Past Events

Past Events

Saturday, January 3, 2015 – 6 pm to 8pm The Bön wisdom deity Takla Mebar, blesses the practitioner with the power to heal.  This healing power has been transmitted in an unbroken manner through the ages to the Chaphur lineage of which Chaphur Rinpoche is a lineage holder.  Chaphur Rinpoche is embarking on a month long retreat in December to meditate on Takla Meabar with the focus on the healing aspect.

Guidance on the Training in Dynamic Energy, Taking Conditions into the Path: རྫོགས་ཆེན་ཉམས་རྒྱུད་ལས་རྩལ་སྦྱོང་སྤྱོད་པའི་ཁྲིད། With Chaphur Rinpoche
Past Events

Past Events

Saturday, January 31 and Sunday, February 1, 2015 — 10 am to 4:30 pm The Aural Transmission of Zhang Zhung is the most esteemed of Bon’s Dzogchen traditions. For over 700 years, Drugyalwa’s practice manual (phyag khrid) has been the principal practice manual for the practice of this tradition. The practice manual consists of a section on preliminary practices, a section on actual practices, and four supplemental sections.  In 2015, Chaphur

Losar (Tibetan New Year) Celebration ལོ་གསར་དགའ་སྟོན།
Events

Events, Past Events

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 — 5 pm to 8 pm – Losar is a celebration of the Tibetan New Year wherein we send off all the negativities of the previous year and welcome the positive possibilities of what is to come in the new year.  As the lunar calendar begins on February 19th, we will be gathering to usher in this new year on February 18th, Losar-eve.  Please join us