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Mark Your Calendars for Summer Tummo Retreat with Tenzin Rinpoche and His Holiness the 34th Menri Trizin

Mark your calendars for Ligmincha’s Summer Retreat from June 24–July 3, 2022. The topic is Tummo, Part 3, and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will be joined by honored guest His Holiness, the 34th Gyalwa Menri Trizin Rinpoche, Lungtok Dawa Dhargyal Rinpoche. You can attend either in person or on Zoom.

During the mornings, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach on the topic of Tummo, Part 3. Newcomers are welcome. More information will be coming soon on how to register and prepare for this retreat.

Afternoon teachings will be by His Holiness, the 34th Menri Trizin Rinpoche. More details coming soon. An initiation will take place on July 1.

Join us for one or both weeks.

Registration will open on March 15 at 12 pm New York time.

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Annual Spring Retreat: Heartdrops of Kuntu Zangpo

Annual Spring Retreat: Heartdrops of Kuntu Zangpo

Join us April 13–16 at Serenity Ridge or on Zoom for the Ligmincha’s annual spring retreat on Heartdrops of Kuntu Zangpo, also known as Heartdrops of Dharmakaya.

Heartdrops of Kuntu Zangpo provides methods for introducing the nature of the mind, which remains hidden behind clouds of thoughts and emotions until a master directly points out the source, the essence, the Heart Drop. This is the method of direct introduction to dzogchen, the highest and most subtle path of meditation in Bön. 

Winter Retreat Continues Experiential Transmission Dzogchen Series

Winter Retreat Continues Experiential Transmission Dzogchen Series

The Experiential Transmission of Zhang Zhung is the centerpiece of Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s dzogchen teachings held every December at Serenity Ridge. This year, Rinpoche continues the third year of this five-year cycle. Attendance is possible both in person at Serenity Ridge and online via Zoom. The retreat begins on December 26 at 7 p.m. New York time and concludes around 2 p.m. on January 1, 2023.

Opening Your Heart to the World 3 Doors Retreat with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Opening Your Heart to the World 3 Doors Retreat with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, founder of The Three Doors, September 10–11 for a very special weekend retreat on Zoom. The 3 Doors is an international organization that offers meditation programs with opportunities to meditate in community and integrate meditation into your everyday life for the benefit of self and others. Everyone is welcome!

 Rinpoche will guide participants to connect with the inner refuge of an open heart of wisdom and compassion during two full days of teaching. Practices will be guided by 3 Doors senior teachers

Join Rinpoche in Crestone, Colorado in September for Part 2 of A-Tri Dzogchen

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.

Join Us for the Newly Combined 2022 Fall Retreat and Serenity Ridge Dialogues in October

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. The afternoons will bring presenters together around specific areas of scientific investigation to explore how practices work.

New Book by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: The Seven Mirrors of Dzogchen

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.

Interfaith Prayers for World Peace

Interfaith Prayers for World Peace

Since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, growing numbers of people have lost their homes or their loved ones. This is not the only place of violence, displacement and war in this world. Many others have been injured, and many families have been separated. Toward...

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