Events

Losar Eve and Morning events

Losar Eve Dokpa & Losar Morning Sang Rituals Losar Eve Dokpa: February 17th,  6pm – 7:00pm,  (PT) in Person and on Zoom Losar Morning Sang:  February 18th,   9am – 10am,  (PT) in Person and on Zoom Losar Eve is one of the important celebrations of the Tibetan New Year festival. It is a time to purify and send off all the negativity from the previous year and to welcome

February 28-March 1st: Tummo, Inner Fire Teaching 

Tummo, Inner Fire Teaching  By Chaphur Rinpoche February 28-March 1st,  2026 9am – 12pm (PT) Via Zoom/Zoom/Webinar Join Gyalshen Institute’s sangha for the Tummo Instruction and  Practice.   Chaphur Rinpoche will lead practitioners in the preliminary and  core breathing practices from Shardza Rinpoche’s Tummo Text, “Self Arising Inner Kayas”. Tummo is a breathing practice central to Tantra practice and very helpful for Dzogchen practitioners in achieving  enlightenment, according to Shardza

May 29-31, “The Heart Essence of the Dakinis” and The Long Life  Empowerment

The Dzogchen teaching “The Heart Essence of the Dakinis” and The Long Life  Empowerment May 29-31, 2026, 9am-12pm, PT  San Francisco Bay Area In Person and Online  Gyalshen Institute is very happy to announce that His Holiness Lungtok Dawa Dhargyal Rinpoche, the 34th Menri Trizen, will be visiting us  May 29-31, 2026. His Holiness is the spiritual leader of Bön and the Abbot of Menri Monastery, Dolanji, India. Rinpoche  will

Weekly Atri Dzogchen Teaching and Practice 

. Weekly Atri Dzogchen Teaching and Practice . With Chaphur Rinpoche  Mondays from 7 am to 7:45 am (Pacific Time) As many of you know, Chaphur Rinpoche has taught us  Dru Gyalwa’s Dzogchen practice manual (Chaktrid), instruction on the Dzogchen preliminaries  and actual practices, for about two years. Rinpoche has also given us the empowerment for these powerful practices. This year Rinpoche will be teaching Dru Gyalwa’s Atri Dzogchen. The