Past Events

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

Silent Retreat and Zhang Zhung Meri Empowerment སྨྱུང་གནས་དང་མེ་རིའི་བཀའ་དབང་།

July 15th-19th, 10am 4:30pm, 2015 – Gyalshen Institute will host a silent  retreat and the Empowerment of the Zhang Zhung Meri bestowed by the supreme Yangton Lama Tashi Gyaltsen Rinpoche.  This empowerment, from both tantra and dzogchen, is uncommon among the inner, secret tantras.  It is a cycle of teaching from the Yungdrung  Bön of Ancient Zhang Zhung and has powerful blessings.  The lamas of this unbroken lineage continue to

Transference of Consciousness (Phowa) འཕོ་བ་འཇའ་གུར་མ།

September 26-27, 2015 – 10 AM – 4:30 PM At the request of students again, Chaphur Rinpoche has generously agreed to give instructions on the practice of Phowa, or Transference of Consciousness. Although the ultimate benefit of this practice is to steady your mind at the time of your own death, the practice can also be used to assist others in the same way.  Phowa is also performed by lamas on

Dzogchen Transmission and Five Elements Practice Retreat in Connecticut:  With Chaphur Rinpoche རྫོགས་ཆེན་ཁྲིད་ལུང་དང་འབྱུང་ལྔའི་ཉམས་ལེན།

October 21 – October 25, 2015 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Registration deadline October 6, 2015 Chaphur Rinpoche will give the main transmission from the Dzogchen Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyu. Receiving the Dzogchen transmission is very important if you wish to perform Dzogchen practice, because receiving the transmission supports your practice energetically and powerfully strengthens your connection to the lineage of previous Dzogchen practitioners and teachers. Chaphur Rinpoche will also teach the