Dharma Online: Tergar Announces Global Streaming Event to Mark Mingyur Rinpoche's Birthday

The Tergar Meditation Community, founded by revered Dharma teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, has announced a “Global Community Day of Meditation and Celebration” on November 20 to mark Mingyur Rinpoche’s birthday.

“We are excited to invite you to a special one-hour community event in honor of Mingyur Rinpoche’s birthday on Wednesday, November 20,” Tergar said in a message shared with BDG. “This celebration will be livestreamed on YouTube, bringing together students from around the world.”

The event will be co-hosted by Eliza Cheung of Tergar Asia and Cortland Dahl of Tergar International, who will share more information about the Tergar Mandala for practitioners around the world.

“During the event, we will hear Rinpoche’s heartfelt aspirations for the year ahead, inspiring us for our individual and collective practice,” Tergar noted.

“We are also delighted to introduce Tulku Tashi, a tulku et lopon in the lineage of Mingyur Rinpoche from Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu, currently studying in Madison, Wisconsin. Tulku Tashi will lead us in meditation.

Born in the Nubri Valley of Nepal, like Mingyur Rinpoche, Tulku Tashi moved to Kathmandu at the age of three. His family then traveled to India, to Sherab Ling Monastery and Tso Pema, where Mingyur Rinpoche’s grandfather, Lama Tashi Dorje, recognized the young Tashi as the reincarnation of his cousin Lama Rigzin Namgyal. At age seven, Tulku Tashi entered Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu, where he underwent 21 years of training in Buddhist philosophy and monastic studies. He is currently studying Abhidharma and modern psychology while pursuing a master's degree in family psychology at Edgewood College.

“This will be followed by a live performance by the Tergar Institute at Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu featuring Sonam Dhonyoe, Joanie Bones and the Buddha Band. They will sing “A Yearning for the World,” a practice that embodies our shared wish for peace and well-being in every corner of the world.

This event is free and open to all. No registration is required. It will be streamed live at the following times:

Auckland: 3 a.m., Thursday, November 21
Canberra: 1 a.m., Thursday, November 21
Seoul, Tokyo: 23 p.m., Wednesday, November 20
Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei: 22 p.m., Wednesday, November 20
Bangkok, Jakarta: 21 p.m., Wednesday, November 20
New Delhi: 19:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 20
Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm: 15 p.m., Wednesday, November 20
London: 14 p.m., Wednesday, November 20
Montreal, New York: 9 p.m., Wednesday, November 20
Los Angeles, Vancouver: 6 p.m., Wednesday, November 20

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Mingyur Rinpoche, founder of the Tergar Meditation Community, which has centers and practice groups around the world, is a renowned teacher and best-selling author whose books include: The joy of living: discovering the secret and the science of happiness (2007); Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom (2009); And Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Fundamental Practices of Tibetan Buddhism (2014)

Born in 1975 in the Himalayan border region between Tibet and Nepal, Mingyur Rinpoche received extensive training in the meditative and philosophical traditions of Tibetan Buddhism from his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920-1996), considered one of the greatest modern Dzogchen masters, and then at Sherab Ling Monastery in northern India. After only two years, at the age of 13, Mingyur Rinpoche entered a three-year meditation retreat, then completed a second one immediately afterward, as a retreat master. At the age of 23, Rinpoche received full monastic ordination.

Mingyur Rinpoche undertook a four-year solitary wandering retreat through the Himalayas in 2011-2015. In recounting how he came to terms with the realities of his ambition to practice as a wandering yogi, Rinpoche revealed that he faced many personal and spiritual challenges, including, at one point, his own mortality. Rinpoche described the years he spent wandering in the Himalayas as “one of the best times of my life.”*

Meditation is actually a very simple exercise of resting in the natural state of your current mind and allowing yourself to simply and clearly be present to whatever thoughts, sensations or emotions arise. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

* Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche returns from four-year nature retreat (BDG) and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche releases video offering insight into his retreat (BDG)

References

Mingyur, Yongey. 2007. The joy of living: discovering the secret and the science of happiness. New York: Harmony.

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