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Summer Teaching Event
June 23rd - 25th 2017. "Taking the Five Poisons Onto the Path", The Completion-Phase of the Three Roots, from "The Teachings of the Dark Maroon Folio of Agate" Drupon Rinchen Dorjee will be in Albuquerque to deliver instruction and commentary on this precious Dzogchen text. Click the link below for more information. Fall Teaching Event
October 2017 Chakrasamvara Empowerment and Teaching with Lama Thupten Nima. Always check our Calendar page for details on events. The center offers many other events monthly that are of interest, and open for beginners and experienced practitioners. Additional upcoming center events and teachings are under development. Stay tuned to this page for updates.
Short announcements of teachings and special events at our affiliate Drikung Kagyu centers. Scroll down for more information or click the link below to jump to information on the events.
July 21st - 23rd, 2017 Drikung Jamtse Choling Retreat Center
Drikung Jamtse Choling Retreat Center is hosting a three-day intensive Vajrayogini retreat with Drupon Thinley Ningpo Rinpoche. August 12th - 13th, 2017 Gar Drolma Buddhist Center Gar Drolma Buddhist Center is hosting a teaching with Khenchen Tsultrim Lodro Rinpoche. "Turning Happiness and Suffering into Enlightenment" and transmissions for Gurkhukma Kilaya and Vajrasattva. October 27th - 28th, 2017 IDKC in Dera Dun India The International Drikung Kagyu Council has announced the International Drikung Kagyu Meeting in Dehra Dun, India. Representatives of monasteries and centers are invited to attend. Summer 2018, Milarepa Retreat Center in Schneverdingen Germany The Milarepa Retreat Center in Schneverdingen Germany announced the next Drikung Kagyu Three Year Retreat to begin the summer of 2018. Click the link below to learn more on what's happening at Drikung Kagyu Centers around the world. |
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RigDzin Buddhist Center offers teaching events, sadhana and meditation practices and other special events throughout the year. The public is invited to attend. Check our Calendar for dates and times of monthly practices.
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Summer Teaching Event
June 23rd - 25th 2017 "Taking the Five Poisons Onto the Path, The Completion-Phase of the Three Roots, from The Utterly Profound Enlightened Intention of the Holy Dharma, The Teachings of the Dark Maroon Folio of Agate" RigDzin Dharma Foundation is pleased to announce, Drupon Rinchen Dorjee will be in Albuquerque, June 23rd through the 25th, providing teaching and commentary on the precious Dzogchen text and practice of, "Taking the Five Poisons Onto the Path, The Completion-Phase of the Three Roots, from The Utterly Profound Enlightened Intention of the Holy Dharma, The Teachings of the Dark Maroon Folio of Agate", a Terma teaching from Padmasambhava. |
Statue of Padmasambhava 123 ft. (37.5 m) high in mist overlooking Rewalsar Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India.
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Schedule of Events
Friday, June 23rd 6:30 PM - 8 PM Dharma Cafe with Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Suggested Donation: $10 Saturday, June 24th 10 AM - 12 PM and again 2 PM - 5 PM Instruction and commentary on the text Suggested Donation: 1/2 Day $25 or full day $45 Sunday, June 25th 10 AM - 12 PM and again 2 PM - 5 PM Instruction and commentary on the text Suggested Donation: 1/2 Day $25 or full day $45 Full Weekend Pricing Suggested Donation: $90 |
Registration
Register any time the center is open prior to the event, or at the door before the event or call: 505-401-7340 for assistance. No one is turned away for lack of funds. |
Information on the Lama and this precious teaching
The Lama
Drupon Rinchen Dorjee entered Tana Monastery in 1984, receiving his vows as a novice monk from Tulku Nyendrak Gyaltsen Rinpoche. While helping with the reconstruction of the monastery, he received teachings on the Fivefold Path of Mahamudra and Kunsang Lama's Words of Profound Instruction, Dzogchen's Great Completion Parting from Samsara and Nirvana, Pointing Out the Nature of Mind, and other teachings from Tulku Nyendrak Gyaltsen Rinpoche. Drupon currently is the resident lama for Chicago Ratna Shri and the three-year retreat master at the Garchen Buddhist Institute in Chino Valley, Arizona. To learn more about Drupon go to the "Our Teachers" tab above.
The Teaching
Padmasambhava, also known as Guru Rinpoche, was an 8th century Indian Buddhist master who traveled to Tibet at the bidding of King Trisong Detsen. A historic figure of great prominence and legend, Padmasambhava assisted in building the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet at Samye, and is considered the founder of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Guru Rinpoche and his two consorts, Mandarava and Yeshe Tsogyal, are famous for leaving Termas during that time in Tibet, for later discovery by Tertöns, tantric adepts who reveal the hidden treasures. The text, "The Teachings of the Dark Maroon Folio of Agate", is an example of such, a Terma that was left by Guru Rinpoche himself, and discovered later in Tibetan history.
This text is considered an important Dzogchen instruction of the "Great Perfection" cycle of teachings from the Nyingma school of Tibet. Dzogchen, practiced throughout the centuries by many masters of the different schools of Tibetan Buddhism as their innermost practice, is considered an ultimate teaching and ranks with Mahamudra instruction.
Drupon Rinchen Dorjee will comment and teach on the text titled, "Taking the Five Poisons Onto the Path, The Completion-Phase of the Three Roots, from The Utterly Profound Enlightened Intention of the Holy Dharma, The Teachings of the Dark Maroon Folio of Agate".
The Lama
Drupon Rinchen Dorjee entered Tana Monastery in 1984, receiving his vows as a novice monk from Tulku Nyendrak Gyaltsen Rinpoche. While helping with the reconstruction of the monastery, he received teachings on the Fivefold Path of Mahamudra and Kunsang Lama's Words of Profound Instruction, Dzogchen's Great Completion Parting from Samsara and Nirvana, Pointing Out the Nature of Mind, and other teachings from Tulku Nyendrak Gyaltsen Rinpoche. Drupon currently is the resident lama for Chicago Ratna Shri and the three-year retreat master at the Garchen Buddhist Institute in Chino Valley, Arizona. To learn more about Drupon go to the "Our Teachers" tab above.
The Teaching
Padmasambhava, also known as Guru Rinpoche, was an 8th century Indian Buddhist master who traveled to Tibet at the bidding of King Trisong Detsen. A historic figure of great prominence and legend, Padmasambhava assisted in building the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet at Samye, and is considered the founder of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Guru Rinpoche and his two consorts, Mandarava and Yeshe Tsogyal, are famous for leaving Termas during that time in Tibet, for later discovery by Tertöns, tantric adepts who reveal the hidden treasures. The text, "The Teachings of the Dark Maroon Folio of Agate", is an example of such, a Terma that was left by Guru Rinpoche himself, and discovered later in Tibetan history.
This text is considered an important Dzogchen instruction of the "Great Perfection" cycle of teachings from the Nyingma school of Tibet. Dzogchen, practiced throughout the centuries by many masters of the different schools of Tibetan Buddhism as their innermost practice, is considered an ultimate teaching and ranks with Mahamudra instruction.
Drupon Rinchen Dorjee will comment and teach on the text titled, "Taking the Five Poisons Onto the Path, The Completion-Phase of the Three Roots, from The Utterly Profound Enlightened Intention of the Holy Dharma, The Teachings of the Dark Maroon Folio of Agate".
From the introduction of the text:
May I myself and those like me
Receive into their hands this perfectly concealed and absolutely secret quintessence
Of all the outer, inner and secret means of attainment, tantras
And pith instruction concerning the creation and dissolution phases of the Guru Padmasambhava of Uddiyana,
A synopsis of the key points of the factors entailed
In the path of realizing conflicting emotion as supreme primordial awareness,
Which is like an ambrosial medicine for the swarming host of sickness and disease,
And may the hostile spirits and demons of obstruction sprung from the five poisons of myself and others
Be liberated into ultimate space.
SAMAYA GYA GYA GYA - Such is the triple-sealed commitment.
EMAHO
May I myself and those like me
Receive into their hands this perfectly concealed and absolutely secret quintessence
Of all the outer, inner and secret means of attainment, tantras
And pith instruction concerning the creation and dissolution phases of the Guru Padmasambhava of Uddiyana,
A synopsis of the key points of the factors entailed
In the path of realizing conflicting emotion as supreme primordial awareness,
Which is like an ambrosial medicine for the swarming host of sickness and disease,
And may the hostile spirits and demons of obstruction sprung from the five poisons of myself and others
Be liberated into ultimate space.
SAMAYA GYA GYA GYA - Such is the triple-sealed commitment.
EMAHO
International and national news of events from our affiliated Drikung Kagyu centers.
July 21 - 23rd, 2017 Drikung Jamtse Choling Retreat Center
Drikung Jamtse Choling Retreat Center is hosting a three-day intensive Vajrayogini retreat with Drupon Thinley Ningpo Rinpoche. Looking for a cool getaway to beat the summer heat? The Drikung Jamtse Choling Retreat Center, nestled in the cool mountains in Idaho Springs, Colorado is an hour outside of Denver. The cost of the retreat, including meals and shared housing are included in the weekend package. For more details visit the Jamtse Choling Retreat Center website at: http://www.drikungjamtsecholing.com or call 1-303-567-4767.
August 12 - 13th, 2017 Gar Drolma Buddhist Learning & Meditation Center
Gar Drolma Buddhist Learning & Meditation Center in Dayton, Ohio, is hosting a special teaching with Khenchen Tsultrim Lodro Rinpoche. Rinpoche will teach an incredible text on mind training by the great master Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima titled "Turning Happiness and Suffering into Enlightenment". Transmissions for the Gurkhukma Kilaya and Vajrasattva: "Wish-Fulfilling Jewel" will also be given. Advanced registration is required. For more information visit the Gar Drolma website: https://gardrolma.org or phone: 1-937-252-2220.
October 27 - 28th, 2017 International Drikung Kagyu Council, Dera Dun India
Dera Dun India - The International Drikung Kagyu Council has announced the International Drikung Kagyu Meeting in Dehra Dun, India. Representatives of monasteries and centers of the Drikung Kagyu lineage are invited to take part in a grand commemorative offering at Jangchubling, the seat of the Drikung Kagyu lineage in exile in Dehra Dun India. For information on the Council and the event visit their website: http://jigtensumgon800th.com.
Summer 2018 Milarepa Retreat Center, Schneverdingen Germany
Milarepa Retreat Center in Schneverdingen Germany announced the next Drikung Kagyu Three Year Retreat to begin the summer of 2018. Retreats are essential to deepening our Buddhist practice and meditation, and a three-year retreat is the wish of many serious practitioners. Enjoy the peaceful beauty at the Milarepa Retreat Center. Visit their website for information: http://www.milareparetreat.org.
Drikung Jamtse Choling Retreat Center is hosting a three-day intensive Vajrayogini retreat with Drupon Thinley Ningpo Rinpoche. Looking for a cool getaway to beat the summer heat? The Drikung Jamtse Choling Retreat Center, nestled in the cool mountains in Idaho Springs, Colorado is an hour outside of Denver. The cost of the retreat, including meals and shared housing are included in the weekend package. For more details visit the Jamtse Choling Retreat Center website at: http://www.drikungjamtsecholing.com or call 1-303-567-4767.
August 12 - 13th, 2017 Gar Drolma Buddhist Learning & Meditation Center
Gar Drolma Buddhist Learning & Meditation Center in Dayton, Ohio, is hosting a special teaching with Khenchen Tsultrim Lodro Rinpoche. Rinpoche will teach an incredible text on mind training by the great master Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima titled "Turning Happiness and Suffering into Enlightenment". Transmissions for the Gurkhukma Kilaya and Vajrasattva: "Wish-Fulfilling Jewel" will also be given. Advanced registration is required. For more information visit the Gar Drolma website: https://gardrolma.org or phone: 1-937-252-2220.
October 27 - 28th, 2017 International Drikung Kagyu Council, Dera Dun India
Dera Dun India - The International Drikung Kagyu Council has announced the International Drikung Kagyu Meeting in Dehra Dun, India. Representatives of monasteries and centers of the Drikung Kagyu lineage are invited to take part in a grand commemorative offering at Jangchubling, the seat of the Drikung Kagyu lineage in exile in Dehra Dun India. For information on the Council and the event visit their website: http://jigtensumgon800th.com.
Summer 2018 Milarepa Retreat Center, Schneverdingen Germany
Milarepa Retreat Center in Schneverdingen Germany announced the next Drikung Kagyu Three Year Retreat to begin the summer of 2018. Retreats are essential to deepening our Buddhist practice and meditation, and a three-year retreat is the wish of many serious practitioners. Enjoy the peaceful beauty at the Milarepa Retreat Center. Visit their website for information: http://www.milareparetreat.org.
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