Fundraiser dinner – June 23, 2023 Just one day before the summer retreat, Serenity Ridge Retreat Center organized and hosted a fundraiser dinner to support the orphans and semi-orphans of the Bön Children Welfare Center (BCWC) in Dolanji, India. His Holiness, the 34th...
Serenity Ridge Summer Online Auction with special items CONCLUDES JULY 7 AT 2:30 p.m. ET At each summer retreat we organize an auction to help provide needed funds for Serenity Ridge's mission to hold sacred space for practice, to provide educational programs...
Geshe Yungdrung Gyatso, resident lama of Ligmincha Poland, will stay at Serenity Ridge after the summer retreat concludes. He will be available for house blessings and rituals between July 11-23. House blessing rituals – called Rabné – are performed to raise the...
Service as a sacred act can be a powerful tool for self-transformation. At the center, our Residency Program emphasizes service as a spiritual practice in its own right. A limited number of positions are open to those with a sincere interest in the Bön Buddhist...
We are honored to welcome His Holiness, the 34th Gyalwa Menri Trizin Rinpoche, spiritual head of the Bön tradition, back to Serenity Ridge. He will be with us for the full two weeks of our summer retreat, June 24 - July 8 2023. Registration is now open, and you can...
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.
Serenity Ridge Retreat Center, headquarters of Ligmincha International, now has a monthly newsletter!
Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in central Virginia, Serenity Ridge was established in 1998 by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, teacher and meditation master in the Tibetan Bon tradition.
Thanks to a successful start to our 2022 fundraising activities, Serenity Ridge Retreat Center will soon have 15 stunning prayer wheels lining the path between Kunzang Khang and Garuda House. These prayer wheels were gifted to the center by Vicki Wheaton just as covid struck and everything had to shut down. Now, thanks to more than $13,000 raised through the summer auction and the generosity of donors contributing directly, work is now under way to install the wheels.
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.
Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for the annual two-week Summer Retreat at Serenity Ridge in Virginia or online via Zoom. The Seven Mirrors of Dzogchen is an essential text of the Tibetan Bön dzogchen tradition, which directly introduces us to the clear, open awareness that is our true nature and offers methods for maintaining a connection to the natural state.
From March 2025 through April 2027, learn the Du Tri Su Drip Jong, the Yungdrung Bön Ritual for escorting the consciousness of the deceased through the Bardo. This ritual is from the text The Lamp that Dispels Darkness: The Practice Manual of the Du Tri Su that Purifies Defilements and Liberates All Beings from the Depths of Samsara
This teaching and training are important for Bön practitioners who would like to learn the Du Tri Su Drip Jong ritual to offer prayers for the deceased.
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,...