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Retraite d’hiver Ripa international du 27/12/2014 au 03/01/2015 With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche Bern Switzerland.

Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
Retraite d'hiver Ngöndro RIPA International / 27.12.2014 - 03.01.2015


Ngöndros - Tsa Lung


La pratique des Ngöndros, ou pratique préliminaire, regroupe l’essence des Trois Véhicules – Theravada, Mahayana et Vajrayana. Du fait de cette dénomination, 
« pratique préliminaire », nous pourrions imaginer à tort que ce n’est qu’une pratique d’introduction, une étape nécessaire pour atteindre un niveau plus élevé qui suivrait ce premier degré préliminaire. Cependant, selon les enseignements de Patrul Rinpoché dans « Paroles de mon Maître parfait », il est tout à fait possible d’atteindre l’Éveil par la seule pratique des Ngöndros. Cette méthode se compose des préliminaires ordinaires et non ordinaires, qui couvrent complètement l’ensemble de la voie du Dharma, de l’intention initiale d’abandonner les souffrances du cycle de l’existence, ou « samsara », jusqu’au but ultime de la réalisation effective de la reconnaissance de la vraie nature de l’esprit et des phénomènes. La première partie des préliminaires ordinaires est aussi appelée « les quatre pensées qui tournent l’esprit vers le Dharma » ; elle nous incite à réfléchir sur la nature de l’existence cyclique afin de nous en détacher. La deuxième partie concerne les Refuges qui représentent l’entrée dans la voie bouddhiste, et la Bodhichitta – l’esprit d’éveil pour le bien d’autrui et de soi-même, qui est la racine de la pratique Mahayana. Elle est suivi par la pratique de Dorjé Sempa ou Vajrasattva – qui purifie les pensées et les actions négatives ou karmas, ainsi que les obstacles et l’ignorance primordiale. Afin d’éliminer les conditions adverses, vient ensuite l’offrande du Mandala, destinée à l’accumulation des mérites qui permettront de créer les conditions favorables pour la pratique. On termine par la pratique du Guru Yoga – dans laquelle nous recevons les bénédictions du maître qui nous aideront ainsi à reconnaître rapidement la nature de Bouddha.

Durant cette retraite d’hiver, nous aurons la chance de recevoir ces merveilleux enseignements de Dungsey Lhuntrul Détchen Gyurmé Rinpoché, en accord avec les instructions profondes de Son Éminence, le Tertchen Namkha Drimé Rabjam Rinpoché, détenteur de la Lignée Ripa.

Visit to Europe of Taklung Matrul Rinpoche 2014-2015.

Visit to Europe of Taklung Matrul Rinpoche.

Taklung Matrul Rinpoche.
Tenzin Kunzang Jigme Rinpoche is the seventh Taklung Matrul Rinpoche. He is one of the main teachers of the Taklung Kagyü lineage of the Tibetan Buddhism, and head lama of the Taklung Yarthang monastery. Our teachers are very close to this lineage, and are among the holder of its teachings. Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche studied extensively with Taklung Kagyü teachers, mainly Jedrung Rinpoche from Riwoche, whom he considered as his root teacher. It is his fifth visit to Europe, at the invitation of Pema Wangyal Rinpoche.

BRITANNY
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 December 2014
Lannion
For information on place, time and cost, please contact : messagerdominique@gmail.com

DORDOGNE
From Friday 12 to Sunday 14 December 2014
Salle polyvalente 24580 FLEURAC
The teachings will be from 9:30 to 12:00 AM and from 2:30 to 5:00 PM
Cost : 20 € per day – Registration on site

BORDEAUX, FRANCE
Friday 19 December 2014
Salle du Grand Parc Place de l’Europe 33000 BORDEAUX
Teaching at 8:30 PM
Cost 10 € – Registration on site

THE NETHERLAND
Greonterp
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 January 2015
Us Thús, De Rijp 6, 8658 LL Greonterp
For information on time and cost, please contact : info@usthus.nl

FINLAND
Helsinki
17 & 18 January 2015
For information on place, time and cost, please contact : Songtsen—Finland
ttlehto@kolumbus.fi Tel : +358 50433 1009 ou +358 44581 4474

SWITZERLAND
Romainmotier
24 & 25 January 2015
For information on place, time and cost, please contact : m.foetisch@bluewin.ch

UNITED KINGDOM

Canterbury
31 January & 1 February 2015
For information on time, place, and cost, please contact :
caroline@tibet.clara.co.uk

Brighton
Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 February 2015
Thistle Hotel, Kings Road, Brighton
For information on time and cost, please contact : info@maitrikara.org.uk

PARIS, FRANCE
Forum 104
Saturday 14 February 2015
at 2:00 PM 104 rue de Vaugirard 75006 Paris
Cost : voluntary contribution – Registration on site

Initiations Guhyagarbha Poland conferred by HE Tulku Rinpoche Gangteng, from 4 to 7 December in Warsaw Poland.


Gangteng Rinpoche
Guhyagar­bha tan­tra (Tan­tra of Secret Essence) is con­nec­ted with Nyingma tradition and is con­sidered to be the most impor­tant Mahayoga tan­tra. Eigh­teen great Mahayoga tan­tras and the prac­tice ful­filling Eight Herukas are inc­luded in it. It is also the source of Vaj­rasat­tva sadhanas and Shitro teachings.
The initial source of Mahayoga tan­tras is Bud­dha Saman­tabhadra who gave trans­mis­sion of these teachings to unseparable from him Bud­dhas of the Five Families and sam­bhogakaya bud­dhas. The teachings reached then Man­jusri, Avalokitesvara and Vaj­rapani who taught them in nagas’, yak­shas’, gods’ worlds, as well as in the world of humans, on Malaya moun­tain (Sri Lanka). After having been writ­ten down and hid­den in the space, they fell onto the roof of king Dza’s palace of Zahor in India together with big statue of Vaj­rapani. The king prac­ticed in front of this statue and after seven mon­ths he saw the face of Vaj­rasat­tva who gave him the trans­mis­sion of primor­dial wis­dom. Due to this he was able to fully assimilate in his mind the meaning of all Guhyagar­bha texts. After having gone through the lineage of many teachers, the tan­tra came to Bud­dhaguya, Vimalamitra and Pad­masam­bhava. They trans­mit­ted it to their Tibetan disciples.
Both, in India and later on in Tibet, a num­ber of com­men­taries to this tan­tra were created. Omniscient Long­chenpa wrote: "Guhyagar­bha tan­tra is the peak of all vehic­les, the source of all texts, the fastest, the greatest, the most secret way of realisation amongst the vehic­les explained by bud­dhas of three times". Accor­ding to Mipham Rinpoche’s com­men­tary, it explains eleven impor­tant topics which create the tantra’s classification:
1. the view of reality, 2. unmoved meditation absorp­tion, 3. deter­mined action, 4. man­dala, 5. initiation, 6. unbroken samaya, 7. diligent prac­tice, 8. direct offerings, 9. manifestation of the activity, 10. tying with mudra, 11. man­tra recitation.
Guhyagar­bha initiation is given rarely. It is also required for the students of 3rd year online shedra Long­chen Rabjam which is run by H. E. Gang­teng Rin­poche.

Amitayus Drubchen in a retreat center Кunsangаr in Moscow with His Eminence Gangteng Rinpoche

Amitayus Drubchen 

Buddha Amitayus
19 - 30 of November 2014 in a retreat center Кunsangаr
His Eminence Gangteng Rinpoche
  will run drubchen of Buddha Amitaus of Pema Lingpa tradition
 Drubchen is an exceptionally powerful buddhist group practice which includes all skillful methods of Dharma. It is unique and rare event. Participation in Drubchen is a big success and exceptional possibility! 
His Eminence Gangteng Rinpoche will run a Drubchen in Russia for the third time.
 The first Drubchen, devoted to practice of Guru Padmasambava – Lama Norbu Gyatso – took place in Kunphenling in 2011.
In 2012 Rinpoche conducted Vajrakilaya Drubchen together with Lama Karma Puntsok.
This time Rinpoche will run Buddha Amitaus Drubchen.
Amitayus is Buddha of long life, special form of Buddha Amitabha – Buddha of Boundless Light.  Amitayus is being prayed to for long and happy life, health and wealth, diminishing or destroying all situations that endanger life force or long life, as well as for achieving success in worldly matters.
However, the basic frame for all this practice is realisation of the state “beyond birth and death” which in Vajrayana is being called “vidhyadhara of immortal life”. 
A practice of Amitaus is particularly important and auspicious in Pema Lingpa tradition, because the great terton Pema Lingpa manifested long life siddhis by his practice.
 Together with Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche are coming above 10 attendants: musicians, dancers, umze (leading practices), chopon (ritual man). They are all outstanding and masters in Rinpoche's monasteries; many of them accomplished 3 – year – long retreat and they have gone through long buddhist education and training. We are also expecting arrival of Khenpo Karma Wangyal.
 During Drubchen a special pills of long life will be prepared.
 Participation in Drubchen is for everybody, regardless knowledge and Dharma experience.

The place of the event and for the accommodation

  The Drubchen will be run in Kunsangar retreat center (former Kunphenling) near Moscow.

  About drubchen

 Тibetan word "drub" is translated as "siddhi", "achievement", "fulfilment", whereas "chen" means "big" or "vast". Thus, drubchen should be understood as a praktcise in which great achievements are realised.
Drubchen is a unique and rare event. Participation in drubchen is a big success and exceptional possibility!
 This exceptionally powerful buddhist group practise includes all skilful methods of Dharma.
 During this practise its participants make offerings to all sublime beings, make visualisation, mudras, sing Dharma songs and dance. Within ten or seven days mantras are being recited 24 hours a day. The ritual goes on unbroken. It helps in overcoming obstacles and obscurations and developing pure vision.

About blessings of the practise

 Participation in drubchen fruits with great accumulation of merit and purifying all obscurations, sicknesses and obstacles.
 It is believed in Tibet that few days of drubchen practise equals few years of silitary retreat.
 Great blessing goes to all participants, all people connected with the event and to the country where the event takes place. Drubchen establishes peace, serves up in picking up the fruition, wealth and all good qualities. Bad conditions pacify, good conditions accumulate and multiply. Drubxchen's participants purify obscurations and gather accumulations: it brings them closer to the achieving of buddha's state.
Even people not connecxted directly, like sponsors and helpers, those who are not participating actively – all of them gather as many blessings as those who take active part from the beginning till the end.
 We are in the period of Kaliyuga now. This time appears to be the very dark period for humanity. Things typical for such an epoque are ecological lack of balance, wars, degradation of beings on many levels. To overcome dark period and influences of Kaliyuga and to practise Dharma we need skillful means. For this very reason on our Earth methods of Vajrayana widespread. It appears to be swift path, full of rich and various methods. Drubchen is one of these methods.
1200 years ago Padmasambhava said that drubchen would be the best protection at the time of wars, hunger, volcanos erruption, earthquakes and such.

Sakya Trizin Madrid May 2014.

His Holiness Sakya Trizin
May 24, 2014- Medicine Buddha empowerment and commentary of the sadhana
May 25, 2014- Conference: How to work with afflictive emotions
                     The Bardo and The Amitabha Powa transmission.

For further information   www.SakyaTrizinMadrid.com

Dharma centres, please help spread this good news to friends and members who may be interested in attending His Holiness' programs, as well as other dharma centers.  Thank you.

Organizing Committee
Any inquiries please write to:

madrid@paramita.org

Centro Internacional de Enseñanzas Budistas
Avda. del Comtat, 1 Bis,
3750 Pedreguer (Alicante), España

HIS HOLINESS THE SAKYA TRIZIN 2014 TEACHING TOUR.

2014 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
North Americans are delighted that His Holiness Sakya Trizin has accepted their requests to return in the spring of 2014 to give teachings in the United States and Canada.

Programs in the United States & Canada include:  
A very special and extensive set of Vajrayogini teachings and initiations at Tsechen Kunchab Ling | Ribbon cutting for a Tibetan and Himalayan Cultural Center at Tsechen Kunchab Ling | Bestowal of the Kalachakra initiation in New York City at the invitation of Sakya Tsechen Tsopa | Long life initiation, Ngondro teachings and Refuge in Minneapolis | Establishment of a new Dharma Center and Three Bodhisattvas initiation in Santa Fe | White Tara initiation and teachings, Refuge and Bodhisattva vows, Phowa transmission in New York City at the Palden Sakya Center | 1000-Armed Avalokiteshvara initiation and teaching at Seattle Sakya Monastery | Chakrasamvara empowerment and public talk in Vancouver | Green Tara and Guru Rinpoche Empowerments in Toronto | Chenrezig Mahamudra empowerment and teaching, Vajrakilaya torma empowerment in Toronto |Vajrakilaya torma initiation and teaching in Montreal

UNITED STATES


March 30-April 22Tsechen Kunchab Ling - Walden New York
www.sakyatemple.org

April 7-8Sakya Tsechen Tsopa - New York City
www.tsechen.org

April 26-27Vikramasila Foundation - New York City
http://vikramasila.org

May 3-4Sakya Thubten Dhargye Ling - Minneapolis MN
http://mnsakyacenter.org

May 5-6Tsechen Namdrol Ling - Santa Fe NM
http://tsechennamdrolling.wordpress.com/

May 8-9Sakya Monastery - Seattle WA
http://www.sakya.org

CANADA

May 10-12Sakya Tsechen Thubten Ling - Vancouver Canada
http://sakyatsechenthubtenling.org/

May 17-19Toronto Canada
Mhttp://www.sakyatoronto.com

May 20-21 Montreal Canada
http://sakyatsechenthubtenling.org/


Programs in Europe include:
Hevajra teachings and initiations and guidance into retreat at Fundación Sakya in Spain | Vajrayogini teachings and initiations at Sakya Gephel Ling in Spain | Major Initiations at Sakya Tsechen Ling in France | Vajrayana Cycle of Teachings in France

SPAIN
May 24-25Madrid
www.fundacionsakya.org

May 28-29Sakya Drogon Ling, Denia
www.sakyadrogonling.com

May 31 - June 16Fundación Sakya, Denia
www.fundacionsakya.org

June 19-26Sakya Gephel Ling, Barcelona
www.sakyagephelling.wordpress.com

Jun 28-29Sakya Kunga Ling, Paris
(email): sakya.kunga.ling@outlook.com

HUNGARY
July 1-3Sakya Tashi Choling - Budapest
www.sakya.hu/english/index.htm

BELGIUM
July 5-6Antwerp
(email): sonam_peace2002@yahoo.com

FRANCE
July 8-12Sakya Tsechen Ling, Kuttolsheim
www.sakyatsechenling.pagespro-orange.fr

July 14-16Terre de Bodhisattvas, Mont-de-Marsan
www.ccb-cergy.com

July 18-28Centre d’Etudes de Chanteloube
www.songtsen.org

July 30- August 3Lerab Ling, Montpellier
www.lerabling.org

http://hhthesakyatrizin.org/schedule_2014_all.html

Programme de Khandro Rinpoche en Europe 2014.

L'Association Samten Tsé France a pour but de soutenir les activités et les projets caritatifs de S.E Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoché.

Europe - Printemps 2014

Nous avons le plaisir de vous communiquer les dates du programme de Rinpoché en Europe. D'autres dates et lieux sont susceptibles d'être ajoutés ultérieurement.
19 – 21AvrilDag Shang Kagyu, Espagne
dagshangkagyu@yahoo.es
www.dskbudismo.com
25 - 27 AvrilPalden Shangpa La Boulaye - France
accueil.temple@orange.fr
29 Avril – 4 MaiGerman Spring Retreat (at Oberlethe) - Allemagne
samtentse.germany@web.de
www.samtentse.de
7, 8 MaiDharma Mati Rigpa
Berlin, Allemagne
info@rigpa-zentrum-berlin.de
www.rigpa.de
10,11 MaiKamalashila Institute, Allemagne
www.kamalashila.de
13-18 MaiDachang Vajradharaling, France
www.vajradharaling.org
20, 21 MaiKagyu Dzong, Paris
www.kagyu-dzong.org
27-29 MaiSamten Tse
Danemark, Copenhagen
info@samtentse.dk
www.samtentse.dk
31 Mai – 2 JuinGomde Danemark
www.gomde.dk
7,8 JuinPalpung Changchub Dargyeling
Wales, UK
www.palpung.org.uk
10,11 JuinRigpa London
www.rigpa.org.uk
13-15 JuinBenchen Karma
Kamtzang Pologne
http://www.benchen.org.pl
17,18 JuinKarma Ratna Dargye Ling
Budapest, Hongrie
www.buddha-tar.hu
Les Centres et Associations intéressés pour recevoir Rinpoché sont priés de prendre contact à cette adresse : samtentseretreat@gmail.com.

Dzogchen Monastery Retreat. Clarity at the Moment of Death.

Dzogchen Monastery, South India
3rd to 12th January 2014
"The fruition is the manifestation of the four kayas."
His Eminence the 7th Dzogchen Rinpoche, Jigme Losel Wangpo
In the Dzogchen view death is not something to be afraid of, instead it is an opportunity to have a direct experience of wisdom.
Realising that all things are impermanent and that death can happen at any time can inspire us to 'wake up' and not waste this precious human life.
During this 10-day retreat His Eminence Dzogchen Rinpoche will continue guiding students through the Dzogchen instructions on the bardos [the intermediate state], explaining that if we prepare in this life, clarity can be experienced at the moment of death.
Dzogchen Rinpoche will also introduce the secret Vajrayana instructions of the Great Perfection lineage, the skilful method particularly suited to the lay practitioner, that brings the fruition of the spiritual path, the manifestation of the four kayas.
This retreat continues a cycle of teachings on The Abhisamayalankara, the Knowledge of All and Sherchin Gom Rim [Stages of Meditation in Dzogchen].
For an application form and further information: