Lama Tharchin Rinpoche used to tell me: “One day we’ll visit Brazil together, I really want to get to know that land and establish a connection.” How about that? I can teach Ngondro! “. Unfortunately with his passing in 2013, this wish cannot be fulfilled in that lifetime.

However, a little more than two years ago the winds of Karma and aspirations prompted a group of Brazilians, now 62 people, to begin their journey in Ngondro under the blessings of Lama Sonam Rinpoche through the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Program of the Vajrayana Foundation.

We had the merit of studying Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s commentary together and now we are studying A Nectar Waterfall at Dungse Thinley Norbu Rimpoche Waterfall. We usually meet on Fridays and drink from the nectar of the teachings of the New Treasure of Dudjom tradition. On Wednesdays the group practices together, all online via Zoom.

Next week we will be meeting or live for the first time in the city of Rio de Janeiro for four ceremonies:

Tchangbu gyatsa e tchö: healing ceremony related to the cycle of dākinī irada Throma Nakmo.

Nedren: ceremony to direct the dead to the pure lands

La tse guk: a ceremony bringing back the vitality and protective energy of the body and mind

Yang guk: a ceremony driving away the embodiment of poverty and bringing prosperity.

Lama Sonam Rimpoche will open our session on the 14th at 10:00 a.m.(California Time) for the first official event of the Vajrayana Brazil Foundation. We hope that this is the beginning of many activities related to the tradition of the New Treasury of Dudjom in Portuguese.

A big hug

Pema Rigdzin