Takla Mebar Winter Retreat
December 1st -31st, 2026
With Chaphur Rinpoche
Zoom sessions will be on Tuesday, December 1st, and Saturdays:
December 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th, 2026
8am to 9am (Pacific Time)
December 1st 8am to 9am PT, Rinpoche will give instructions regarding the preparations for the retreat as well as beginning the actual retreat in your home. This will include how to make the offering tormas, the initial Takla Mebar mantra to recite, and the beginning visualization practice.
Chaphur Rinpoche will be in personal retreat for the month of December. During that time, his practice will be focused on his personal Yidam, Takla Mebar. Rinpoche has been deepening his connection with his family lineage Yidam each December for many years. This year all sangha members are warmly invited to join Rinpoche in doing these powerful, healing practices from home or a chosen personal retreat location.
Rinpoche will give teachings via Zoom on the generation and completion stages of the Takla Mebar practice and their relation to tantric practice in the larger Bön Buddhist context. Students will be encouraged to practice their own retreat focusing on the Deity, accumulating mantras, and engaging in other Takla Mebar practices.
Daily/weekly schedule: Each day, starting December 2nd, will begin with the 4 Generosity Practices from 7am-7:45am, Pacific Time, and from 6pm to 6:30 pm, PT in the evening, led online by Gyalshen’s Udzhes.
Recordings will be made available shortly afterward. Please register by Saturday, November 28th and you will receive the materials to print in advance of the teaching.
Registration link
The Gyalshen Store has ordered several beautifully rendered Takla Mebar thangkas from Tibet. If you would like to order one as a support for your practice, please click on the following LINK
