Year: 2016

Acharya Sam Bercholz

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

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Sam is back again this year to inaugurate the
Annual Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Practice Retreat
at Pema Osel Ling starting on ~~~>
MARCH 19TH – 27TH, 2016

Acharya Sam Bercholz, the founder of Shambala Publications, is a senior student and teacher in the Nyingma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. He is an accomplished student of both Trungpa and Thinly Norbu Rinpoches from whom he has received the title of Acharya. He has taught extensively in North America, Europe, and Australasia.

Sam is co-editor with Sherab Chödzin Kohn of the best-selling book
Entering the Stream: An Introduction to the Buddha and his Teachings
(originally titled The Buddha and His Teachings ), which has been translated into numerous languages. He is also author of the forthcoming book – Guided Tour of Hell: A Graphic Memoir  with illustrations by Pema Namdol Thaye.

Lectures with Acharya Sam Bercholz will begin on Saturday at 10:30 and given twice a day on Saturday and Sunday.  

Pre-register ~~~> here. 

Registration at the event begins @10:00am  

Receiving the Blessings of Guru Yoga

~ DudjomTersarNgondro
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Dudjom Rinpoche and Dodrubchen Rinpoche
Sikkim’s Sacred Place Pema Yangtse
ca 1965.

… If there is no devotion for the Lama, even if one completes the requirements of sadhana practice according to the six tantric teachings  of meditation deities, supreme spiritual attainment will never be obtained. Even many of the common spiritual attainments such as long life, prosperity, magnetizing, and so on, will not be accomplished. If by chance there is some minor accomplishment, it requires great hardship and the path will not be profound. If unerring devotion develops in the mind, obstacles on the path will be cleared, advancement will be made, and all common and supreme spiritual attainments will be accomplished without relying on anything else. These are the reasons this practice is called the profound path of Lama’i Naljor. …

A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar
Thinley Norbu
Shambhala Publications
Copyrite 2006

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This rare photo captures the great Master Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje and Dodrubchen Rinpoche at the occasion is the consecration of the famous Zangdopalri carving on the top floor of Pema Jamngtse Gompa in Western Sikkim in the 1960th.

At the side of Dudjom Rinpoche is the young Dzongsar Khyentse Tulku (l) and Gonjung Tulku (r) and in front are Khachö Rinpoche, the chief lama of Sikkim and head lama of Pema Yangtse Monastery (l) and his brother known as Serdup Rinpoche who actually had completed the carving and constructing of the Copper Colored Mountain at the top floor of the Pema Yangtse temple.

 

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Receiving the Blessings of Guru Yoga

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

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Lama’i Naljor, or Guru Yoga, is as follows. The essence of Kuntuzangpo’s inconceivable object of sublime appearances of skillful means as dharmata is the actual empty nature of great prajna, Kuntuzangmo. Unchanging throughout the three times, this limitless sphere of space, which is the source of the manifesting and gathering of all Buddhas, is not from the path of learning and practice. This is the enlightened Lama who has attained the nondual union of Vajradhara, which only means the result of Buddha, the Three Kayas. Therefore, the term yoga is not appropriate in this context. It is for those practitioners who have the joy of devotion and diligence to try to achieve the state of the enlightened Lama. Whatever Dharma is practiced, the subject who is the practitioner is practicing in order to increase and enhance the union of skillful means, or phenomena, and prajna, or emptiness, which is for the benefit of the practitioner. That is why this is called Yoga.

A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar 
Thinley Norbu
Shambhala Publications
Copyrite 2006

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