The Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation’s Second
Annual
Sadhana Ritual
Course
Trinley Nyingpo & Zabtik Drolma
October 17 – November 17 2011
From Oct 17 – Nov 17 2011, the Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation will
be hosting its second one-month long Sadhana Ritual course. This
year, the course will concentrate on the sadhana practices of
Trinley Nyingpo and Zabtik Drolma. (For more information on these
practices, see below.)
Aim
The aim of the course is to provide students with an opportunity to
learn in detail about both the meaning and practical aspects of
Vajrayana ritual practice.
Content
During the course, students will be instructed on the meaning of
development stage practice in general and the visualisation stages
of these two sadhanas in particular. Students will also be taught
the different melodies and mudras for the practice; how to make the
related tormas; play the vajra and bell, damaru, and drum; how to
perform the feast offerings; and how to act as the shrine master
and chant master.
Teaching
The teachings will be given in Tibetan by Lama Tenpal Gyatso, one
of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery’s senior monks, and translated
into English. Teachings will be held at Pal Kagyu Shedrup Tashi
Dhargay Phuntsok Ling monastery (aka Riwoche monastery), Tinchuli,
Kathmandu, which is just five minutes walk from the Boudhanath
stupa.
Classes will be held for approximately five hours a day, six days a
week, and all of the participants will also have the chance to
perform the practices together each day. Aspects that are common to
the two sadhanas will be taught together in the same class, while
those that are particular will be taught in separate classes.
At the beginning of the course, His Eminence Tsikey Chokling
Rinpoche will kindly bestow upon all participants the necessary
empowerments and oral transmissions. At the end of the course,
participants will perform the practice together with
Rinpoche.
Materials
All necessary practice texts, as well as tea and snacks, will be
provided as part of the course.
Cost
The cost for the month-long course is USD300. To pay click here. All proceeds will go directly
towards the Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation’s projects. There is a
concession rate for ordained sangha of USD50. To pay click here.
Registration
To register, please fill out this form and email it to [email protected].
Registration deadline is 30th September 2011.
For more information, please email us at [email protected]
* To read about last year’s course, click here.
* For more information about the Chokling Tersar
lineage and these two sadhanas, click here.
Lama Tenpal Gyatso has been a monk at Ka-Nying
Shedrub Ling monastery in Boudhanath, Kathmandu for almost thirty
years. He has successfully completed a traditional three-year
retreat under the guidance of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and has
also served Phakchok Rinpoche as his attendant for more than twenty
years. He taught the Sadhana Ritual Course in 2010 and also teaches
occassionally in various Rangjung Yeshe Gomde and other dharma
centres around the world.