Event : Chöd Retreat with Lama Wangdu
Date : November 12-14, 2010
Venue : Nalanda West
Address :3902 Woodland Park Avenue North,Seattle, Washington
98103
Website : http://billhulley.com/chod/
Schedule
Friday, 7PM-9PM
Rinpoche will give a talk on the history and practice of Chöd and
introduce the practice.
Saturday, 9AM-5PM
Teachings, practice and empowerments by Rinpoche.
Sunday, 9AM-4PM
Teachings and practice with Rinpoche.
Lama Wangdu Rinpoche, a Chöd master and a lineage holder of Padampa
Sangye's Shije tradition, will offer empowerments and teachings on
the Chöd practices called Accomplishment on One Seat and Bellowing
Laugh of the Dakinis. This is a rare opportunity to train with a
recognized master and yogi in this ancient teaching of
dismemberment and offering.
A powerful practice for cutting through one's fearful preoccupation
with self, Chöd expresses the heart of the Buddhist Mahayana
teachings on compassion. Chöd is practiced in all of the Tibetan
Buddhist lineages and is especially important in Rinpoche's Nyingma
tradition.In addition to receiving permission to perform the
practice, retreatants will get copies of the texts, be instructed
in the use of the Chöd instruments and learn the melodies sung by
Chödpas since the time of Padampa Sangye and Machik Labdron.
Rinpoche was born in the Tingri region of Tibet in 1936. While in
his teens, he received transmission for Chöd, the Longchen
Nyingthig and other teachings from his root lama, Naptra Rinpoche.
He has completed the traditional 108 charnel grounds retreat and
spent many years practicing Chöd in the wild places of Tibet, India
and Nepal.In 2001, after HH Dalai Lama asked him to preserve the
Chöd and Shije teachings and train a new generation of
practitioners he founded Pal Gyi Dingri Langkor Gonpa in
Kathmandu.Rinpoche is known throughout Nepal, Tibet and China as an
accomplished, compassionate and generous yogi, teacher and healer.
To learn more about him, visit lamawangdu.org or read his
biography, One Hundred Thousand Rays of the Sun.