Past Events

Introduction to the Tibetan Bardo བར་དོའི་རྣམ་བཞག With Geshe YongDong

May 30-31, 2015 — 10:00 am to 4:30 pm “The Book of Natural Liberation through Hearing” (Tibetan Book of the Dead) suggests methods of preparation for death to practice while we are still living and the main preparation is the development of a clear picture of what to expect!  Whatever your religion or beliefs, there are countless books and information on what the afterlife, heaven, or nirvana will be like.  Who

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