Dharma Online: Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche to Lead “The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen” Retreat

The famous Tibetan tulku and Dzogchen meditation master Ponlop Rinpoche will lead a three-day retreat from May 3-5 titled “The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen.” Ponlop Rinpoche, along with Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen, will offer an informal, down-to-earth examination of two of Tibetan Buddhism's most profound traditions of teaching and practice. The retreat can be taken online or in person in Taiwan.

"Considered the culmination of all practices and studies by the new translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the experience of Mahamudra, or 'great symbol,' is an overwhelming feeling of extraordinary clarity, totally open and non-dualistic," he said. declared the retreat organizer. , the Nalandabodhi Buddhist community, said in a statement. “Dzogchen, or “great perfection,” is the ultimate teaching according to the Nyingma tradition and also represents the pinnacle of spiritual development. (Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche)

Born in Trakar, Nepal, near the border with Tibet, Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen entered monastic life at the age of 13. He completed 10 years of traditional study and training at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, India, and graduated in 1991 in the same class as Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche as Acharya. After graduating, Lama Tenpa taught Buddhist philosophy for two years, before undertaking a three-year retreat in Nepal under Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche.

From 1997 to 2004, Lama Tenpa was resident professor at His Holiness the 17th Karmapa's Theksum Tashi Chöling Center in Hamburg. Lama Tenpa is professor of Buddhist studies and Tibetan language at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches regularly at Nalandabodhi centers around the world.

“Both lineages (Mahamudra and Dzogchen) of meditation practice emphasize the ultimate state of inner consciousness and the clear and luminous nature of the mind,” the organizers explained. “By applying these practices, we can all experience our world more directly. » (Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche)

“The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen Retreat” is open to all practitioners and will include teachings and guided meditation sessions, with simultaneous translation into English and Chinese. Participation is online via Zoom or in person in Taiwan.

Time (US Pacific Time):

Friday May 3

18-19 p.m. – Meditation
19:30 p.m. – 21 p.m. – Teaching by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Saturday May 4

12:30 – 2:00 – Teaching by Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
4:30 a.m. – 6:00 a.m. – Teaching by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
18-19 p.m. – Meditation
19:30 p.m. – 21 p.m. – Teaching by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Sunday 5 May

12:30 – 2:00 – Teaching by Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
4:30 a.m. – 6:00 a.m. – Teaching by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
18-19 p.m. – Meditation
19:30 p.m. – 21 p.m. – Teaching by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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Born Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen in 1965 at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, northeast India, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is the seventh Dzogchen Ponlop and abbot of Dzogchen Monastery in what is now the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garzê in the Chinese province of Sichuan. A senior tulku A member of the Nyingma lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism and an accomplished holder of the Karma Kagyu lineage, he gained renown as a Dharma teacher, Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditation master.

Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Nalandabodhi, an international community of Buddhist centers, and the founder of the Nitartha Institute of Higher Buddhist Studies. He is known as a poet, calligrapher, visual artist and author of several books, including Emotional rescue (Pengouin Edition 2017) and Rebel Buddha: A Guide to a Revolution of Mind (2011 Shambhala).

When we recognize that the apparently object nature of reality is nothing different from the subject nature of the mind, which is Rigpait's called enlightenment. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

The references

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. 2006. Penetrating Wisdom: Samantabhadra's Aspiration. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications.

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