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Make your Life and Practice One

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

… taking your own mind as witness, make your life and practice one, and at the time of death, with no thought of anything left undone, do not be ashamed of yourself. This itself is the pith instruction of all practices.

Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice
translated by Ron Garry
Teaching on The Accumulation of Merit Through Mandala Offerings

May 7th 11:00 am ~ 1:00 pm Pacific Time

Livestream Monthly Ngondro Teaching and
Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Lung with
Lama Sonam Rinpoche

Here is your YouTube livestream link:
https://youtu.be/F4cbwTeghpo

Here is the Library of the Monthly Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Teachings with Lama Sonam Rinpoche
July, 2020 to current
https://youtu.be/F4cbwTeghpo

May 8th 11:00 am ~ 1:00 pm Pacific Time

Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Program
Monthly Q & A with Lama Sonam Rinpoche

For Ngondro Program Participants only:
Look in your email for the log on information.

May 21, 2022 09:00 AM ~ 10 AM Pacific Time

May Group Ngondro Accumulation with Choying Wangmo

For Ngondro Program Participants only:
Look in your email for the log on information.

2022 Ngondro Retreat Closing Words

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

📸 Lama Sonam Rinpcohe @ Pema Osel Ling Guru Rinpcohe Day during the 2022 Annual Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Retreat

This is a video clip excerpt of Lama Sonam Rinpcohe’s closing Words where Rinpoche speaks in English without Rinpoche’s translator, Cy Kassoff. To view the whole video replay, contact the Vajrayana Foundation  for the April 17th 10:30 am Session Streaming link, which includes in whole, Rinpcohe’s advice in Tibetan with English translation, the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Lung (must be received in real time) and the Celebratory Shower of Blessings Tsok.

Here is the list of Lung received April 11th  and on April 17, 2022
(Some of these prayers are in the Ngondro texts.
Rinpoche used the General Prayers Book ~ out of print.
We have included links to prayers that are not in the Ngondro texts
and are available  online at Vajrayana.org)

Here is the link to the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro website Ngondro Texts
both FREE download or purchase.

On Full Moon Day, Lama Sonam Rinpcohe conferred the Guru Rinpoche Empowerment of the Collection of Seven Treasure complied by Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje.To have received the initiation, you had to have attended in person, in front of Lama Sonam Rinpoche. It was also streaming online as a great blessing for those who attended. 

The upcoming 33rd Annual Summer Retreat at Pema Osel Ling June 4 – July 9th will include the Guru Rinpcohe Collection of Seven Treasures Drupchen July 1st-9th. Check out the Schedule at Vajrayana Foundation.


We close with  a quote from the Ngondro Retreat
by Lama Sonam Rinpoche.

With mindfulness and compassion, you will be king and queen.

 

 

 

 

2022 Vajrayana Foundation Annual Ngondro Retreat

~ DudjomTersarNgondro


2022 Vajrayana Foundation
Annual Ngondro Retreat
April 9th ~ 17th

In~Person at Pema Osel Ling and by LiveStream
Covid vaccination is required for in-person attendance.

The Oral Reading Transmission (Lung) will be given by Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche on April 11th and 17th and the Refuge Ceremony on April 11th. Mark your calendar.

 Both the Lung and Refuge Vows must be received
in real time and in its entirety.

2021 Livestream Refuge Ceremony from  Pema Osel Ling

The Refuge Ceremony has generally be given once a year during the Ngondro Retreat. If you have not received the Refuge Vows or would like to refresh your Refuge Vows, please don’t miss this opportunity.

Sam Bercholz 2016 Annual Ngondro Retreat
Samuel Bercholz returns to Pema Osel Ling on April 9th & 10th for the first weekend of the Ngondro Retreat with featured lecture on:

“Understanding the Student-Teacher Relationship”

and will include commentary on Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche’s
A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar. Sam will also share his personal dharma stories enjoyed and loved by everyone. All Ngondro Retreat participants are requested to have a copy of A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar which is available through the Vajrayana Foundation Bookstore, the Dharma Treasures as well as from the publisher, Shambhala Publications.

If you order A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar  from Dharma Treasures online and plan to attend the Ngondro Retreat in person, you can arrange to pick up the book when you arrive.

2021 Ngondro Faculty – Livestream from Pema Osel Ling
We welcome back our Ngondro Faculty, Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche,
Amy Green, Drubpon Pema Rigdzin, Stefan Graves and Choying Wangmo
and also welcome Lama Sonam Rinpoche’s translator, Cy Kassoff.

In addition to the Lung and the Refuge Ceremony, we will receive teachings, advice and instructions for practice, participate together in group Ngondro practice and group practice with accumulations, our own private practice session and Questions and Answers with Lama Sonam Rinpoche. During the retreat, we offer daily tsok and butterlamps with Daily Practice and on the Holy Days of the Medicine Buddha – Saturday April 9th, Guru Rinpoche Day – April 11th and on Full Moon Day – Saturday April 16th.  If you wish to make tsok, butterlamp offerings or offerings for the Ngondro Retreat, there will be opportunity during the registration process or you can make it here.

To register and for additional information
https://www.vajrayana.org/events/219/

If you are a current Ngondro Program Participant of the Vajrayana Foundation and attend the Ngondro Retreat in-person at Pema Osel Ling, remember to get you 10% discount on the registration fees. (No discount is offered for food or lodging.) 

See the Ngondro Retreat Schedule here.