Takla Mebar Winter Retreat
December 1st -31st, 2024
With Chaphur Rinpoche
Zoom sessions will be on Sunday, December 1st, and Saturdays:
December 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th, 2024.
8am to 9am (Pacific Time)
December 1st 8am to 9am PT, Rinpoche will give instructions regarding the preparations for the retreat as well as beginning the actual retreat in your home. This will include how to make the offering tormas, the initial Takla Mebar mantra to recite, and the beginning visualization practice.
Chaphur Rinpoche will be in personal retreat for the month of December. During that time, his practice will be focused on his personal Yidam, Takla Mebar. Rinpoche has been deepening his connection with his family lineage Yidam each December for many years. This year all sangha members are warmly invited to join Rinpoche in doing these powerful, healing practices from home or a chosen personal retreat location.
On Sunday, December 1st and on Saturdays, December 7th,14th, 21st and 28th, Rinpoche will give teachings via Zoom on the generation and completion stages of the Takla Mebar practice and their relation to tantric practice in the larger Bön Buddhist context. Students will be encouraged to practice their own retreat focusing on the Deity, accumulating mantras, and engaging in other Takla Mebar practices.
December 1st 8am to 9am PT, Rinpoche will give instructions regarding the preparations for the retreat as well as beginning the actual retreat in your home. This will include how to make the offering tormas, the initial Takla Mebar mantra to recite, and the beginning visualization practice.
Chaphur Rinpoche will be in personal retreat for the month of December. During that time, his practice will be focused on his personal Yidam, Takla Mebar. Rinpoche has been deepening his connection with his family lineage Yidam each December for many years. This year all sangha members are warmly invited to join Rinpoche in doing these powerful, healing practices from home or a chosen personal retreat location.
On Sunday, December 1st and on Saturdays, December 7th,14th, 21st and 28th, Rinpoche will give teachings via Zoom on the generation and completion stages of the Takla Mebar practice and their relation to tantric practice in the larger Bön Buddhist context. Students will be encouraged to practice their own retreat focusing on the Deity, accumulating mantras, and engaging in other Takla Mebar practices.
Recordings will be made available shortly afterward. Please register by Saturday, November 25th and you will receive the materials to print in advance of the teaching.
The Gyalshen Store has ordered several beautifully rendered Takla Mebar thangkas from Tibet. If you would like to order one as a support for your practice, please click on the following link:
