Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s Worldwide Teaching Schedule in 2025
Here is Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s upcoming teaching schedule so far for 2025.
Updates will be provided on Ligmincha International’s website and the organizers’ website as they become available.
January 9, 2025. Curitiba, Brasil –Public Talk: Sleeping, Dreaming, and Healing – Ligmincha Brasil
January 10-12, 2025. Curitiba, Brasil – Retreat: Dream Yoga – Ligmincha Brasil
February 17-21, 2025. Esalen, California – Workshop: Dream Yoga – Esalen Institute
March 6-9, 2025. Valle de Bravo, Mexico – Retreat: Five Wisdoms, Part 2 – Ligmincha Mexico
March 28-30, 2025. Houston, Texas – Retreat: TBA – Ligmincha Texas
April 4-6, 2025. Berkeley, California – Retreat: Twenty-One Nails, Part 6. – Ligmincha Berkeley
April 9-13, 2025. Shipman, Virginia – Retreat: 2025 Spring Wellness Retreat – Serenity Ridge Retreat Center
April 25-27, 2025. Vienna, Austria – Retreat: Six Lokas – Ligmincha Austria
May 9-11, 2025. Amsterdam, Netherlands – Retreat: TBA – Ligmincha Netherlands
May 30-June 1, 2025. Bulle, France – Retreat: TBA – Ligmincha France & Suisse Romande
July 12-26, 2025. Shipman, Virginia – Retreat: 2025 Summer Retreat TBA – Serenity Ridge Retreat Center
August 11-17, 2025. Buchenau, Germany – Retreat: TBA – Ligmincha Germany
August 19-24, 2025. Wilga, Poland – Retreat: Experiential Transmission of Zhang Zhung, Part 1. – Ligmincha Poland
August 30-31, 2025. Bourg-en-Bresse, France – Retreat: TBA – Ligmincha France & Suisse Romande
October 7-12, 2025. Shipman, Virginia – Serenity Ridge Dialogues: Powa – Serenity Ridge Retreat Center
November 3-7, 2025. Esalen, California – Workshop: TBA – Esalen Institute
December 27, 2025 – January 1, 2026. Shipman, Virginia – Retreat: WinterRetreat TBA – Serenity Ridge Retreat Center
International news
Join Rinpoche in Crestone, Colorado in September for Part 2 of A-Tri Dzogchen
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will return to Crestone, Colorado September 23–25 to continue his teaching on the dzogchen text, The Stages of A-tri Meditation. The A-tri is an essential meditation guide to one of the three main dzogchen lineages in the Tibetan Bon tradition.
Rinpoche will present these teachings at the beautiful Colorado College campus in Crestone, Colorado, and simultaneously with our worldwide sangha via Zoom. We invite you to attend these special teachings in the physical presence of our teacher in the inspirational setting of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado.
Written by the 13th century master Drugyalwa Yungdrung, based on even earlier teachings, this step-by-step guide introduces preliminary practices, the nature of mind, and how to deepen one’s practice and understanding until ultimate liberation. A book on the A-tri, based on Rinpoche’s teachings in the Netherlands over a seven-year period, was published recently by the Netherlands sangha and is now being revised for publication in the United States by Sacred Sky Press.
This retreat is the second in a three-part series that Tenzin Rinpoche began in September 2021. All are welcome, whether or not you attended Part 1. As part of the registration package, all who register will receive video recordings from last year, which can be reviewed before this fall’s retreat. The third teaching in the series is planned for September 2023, both in person and online. The retreat is sponsored by Chamma Ling Colorado, with the support of Ligmincha International.
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Chamma Ling Colorado
Join Us for the Newly Combined 2022 Fall Retreat and Serenity Ridge Dialogues in October
For the first time this fall, Fall Retreat and Serenity Ridge Dialogues will merge! The retreat, titled The Five Elements and Serenity Ridge Dialogues, will be held October 11–16, both at Serenity Ridge Retreat Center in Virginia and online via Zoom.
In the mornings, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach on the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space—fundamental aspects of a living universe—with special emphasis on the cleansing and healing power of the five tsa lung exercises and the nine breaths of purification. He will be supported by Geshe YongDong Losar, who is joining us from Vancouver, Canada.
The afternoons will bring presenters together with Rinpoche and Geshe YongDong around specific areas of scientific investigation. Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo, founder of the American Tibetan Medical Association and the international director of the Shang Shung School of Tibetan Medicine, will be one of three special guests. Dr. Sat Bir Singh Khasla, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard University and a specialist in body-mind medicine and yoga therapy, and Lonny Jarrett, an expert scholar, teacher and practitioner of East Asian medicine, also will join us.
For much of the past decade, Serenity Ridge has offered a program known as the Serenity Ridge Dialogues, which has brought scientists, health care professionals, and practitioners and teachers from many different lineages into conversation about aspects of practice.This year, by merging it into the Fall Retreat, the goal is to deeply shift the conversation toward practice. Rather than just engaging in intellectual conversation about practice, we will follow Tenzin Rinpoche, Geshe YongDong and presenters into an exploration of how practice works and how we can inform it through contemporary and traditional understandings of breath, movement and the five constituent elements.
This event will be both in person at Serenity Ridge and online. However, in the past years, much of the event takes place in conversations between sessions in the dining hall, on walks and sitting outdoors. We strongly encourage everyone who can to come in person for this special inaugural event!
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New Book by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: The Seven Mirrors of Dzogchen
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s newest book, The Seven Mirrors of Dzogchen: Teachings and Commentary on an Ancient Dzogchen Text, is now available in the Ligmincha Bookstore and Tibet Shop. The book is based on teachings that Rinpoche gave during his 2020 summer retreat.
The teachings and commentary in this book are based on a profound text on the nature of mind called The Seven Mirrors of Dzogchen by Drenpa Namkha. He was a great Tibetan master in the late seventh/early eighth century from the ancient land of Zhang Zhung, which later became part of Tibet. It is one of the essential texts of dzogchen, the highest teaching in the Tibetan Bon tradition and some Tibetan Buddhist lineages. Dzogchen, known as the “great perfection,” points out the nature of one’s mind as clear and open, aware, and the source of all positive qualities in life.
With his ability to bring the deep teachings of ancient texts into the modern world and make them relevant and engaging for his students, Tenzin Rinpoche, through commentary and meditations, brings these ancient teachings to life. He shows how the mirrors, which are the reflection of our highest potential, are as applicable today as they were in the past. The book focuses in particular on the first four mirrors of dzogchen: the view, meditation, result and conduct. Exploring these teachings and applying them in our lives can help us open to our true nature.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha International, is an accomplished author as well as a highly respected and beloved teacher to students around the world. The Seven Mirrors of Dzogchen is published by Sacred Sky Press, a division of Ligmincha International committed to making the sacred teachings and practices of the Tibetan Bon Buddhist tradition more widely available.
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