Takla Mebar Five Days Retreat 

Takla Mebar Five Days Retreat 

Takla Mebar Retreat 

December 27- 31 2019
10 am-4:30 pm

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.

Every Saturday 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 on the deity, accumulating mantras, and engaging in other Takla Mebar practices. At the conclusion of Rinpoche’s personal retreat, he will lead a five day teaching and practice retreat at Gyalshen Institute. There he will also give the tantric empowerment for Takla Mebar.

Please note: you may still participate in the online sessions and practice from home through Zoom, if you are unable to attend the concluding 5-day retreat

Here is a short description of Takla Mebar:

    In order to overcome negative forces and the personal, negative emotions and obstacles they create, Tonpa Shenrab Miwo manifested as Takla Mebar (Flaming Tiger Deity) and subjugated those evil forces through his compassionate wisdom mind, transforming them into compassionate and peaceful beings.

            Takla Mebar heals the outer poisons by transforming them into wisdom and positive aspects.  The inner negativities are transformed into the clarity of the Five Wisdoms: the wisdom of emptiness,  mirror-like wisdom, wisdom of equality, discriminating wisdom, all-accomplishing wisdom.

The Chaphur family have been lineage holders of this yidam since the very beginning of their recorded family history.

Please go to this link to register for the 5 day retreat ☛ LINK

(For those who have registered for Saturday Zoom sessions, there is no need to register again.)

Lunch will be provided during the 5 day retreat

Location:

1608 Bonita Road, San Pablo CA  94806
 

      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: HERE