H.E. Menri Ponlop Rinpoche’s U. S. 2024 San Francisco Bay Area Retreats Dzogchen Retreats May 31-June 2, 2024: 8 am-2 pm (Pacific Time) June 5- 9, 2024: 8 am-2 pm (Pacific Time) In-person and on Zoom With His Eminence Menri Ponlob Rinpoche and Chaphur Rinpoche. We at Gyalshen Institute are thrilled to invite you to join us in a deep exploration of Dzogchen, the “Great Perfection,” the pinnacle of spiritual practice
Mark Your Calendars for H.E. Menri Ponlop Rinpoche’s U. S. and Costa Rica 2024 Visit! Chaphur Rinpoche will join the five retreats. West Coast: San Francisco Bay Area, hosted by Gyalshen Institute, Dzogchen Retreats With His Eminence Menri Ponlob Rinpoche and Chaphur Rinpoche. Event Details: There will be one 3 day weekend teaching and one 5 day teaching. The Zhang Zhung Meri Initiation will also be included on
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 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
