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October 14-15: Heart Essence of Dakinis

Heart Essence of Dakinis With Chaphur Rinpoche October 14-15, 2023 9am to 12pm (Pacific Time) In Person in San Francisco Bay Area and on Zoom The Bonpo teachings are deep like the ocean, particularly Dzogchen teachings. Many students of Bon are familiar with Dzogchen teachings from male lineage holders and may not be aware of the many female Dzogchen practitioners who have achieved enlightenment. These female enlightened beings are known

Tibetan Learning Classes - Fall Semester 2023

Basic Tibetan Learning Class – Fall Semester 2023 With Yungdrung Norbu Tuesday, Sept 12 to Nov 28th Pacific Time 7am-8am The Basic Tibetan Learning class for this semester consists of lectures over a three-month period. Each lecture is one hour long. Students will learn basic Tibetan. This class will provide an opportunity to learn reading of a Tibetan text, grammar, building vocabulary and the structuring of simple sentences. We are

Weekly Dzogchen Teaching and Practice: Mondays from 7 am to 7:45am  (Pacific Time) 

Weekly Dzogchen Teaching and Practice  With Chaphur Rinpoche  Mondays from 7 am to 7:45am  (Pacific Time)  Chaphur Rinpoche offers a weekly online Dzogchen Teaching and Practice  covering the Chaktrid by Dru Gyalwa Yungdrung.  Dru Gyalwa’s practice manual (Chaktrid) is quite extensive and contains instruction on the Dzogchen preliminaries (Ngondro),  and actual practices ( Ngozhi) about the following:  sky-gazing, sun-gazing  and  dark retreat.  In addition,  Rinpoche is  teaching from  the  four auxiliary sections which provide even  deeper instruction on the  view, meditation, action, and the

August 30th: Nagas and Naga Mantra

Full Moon Practice: Smoke Offering to  the Nagas and Naga Mantra August 30th at 9 am – 10 am  PT and 6 pm  – 7 pm CET   On  August 30th, 2023, at 9 am – 10 am PT and 6 pm – 7 pm CET,  Chaphur Rinpoche will give our monthly  Full Moon teaching on the Naga Mantra as well as an introduction to the Smoke Offering to the Nagas (Lu