Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, September 23-26,
2010
We are pleased to announce that Tenzin Wangyal Ripoche has
graciously agreed to teach from the Pith Realizations of the
Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü Masters for the next three years,
beginning in 2010. The Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü (Oral
Transmission from Zhang Zhung) is the oldest and most important
dzogchen text in the Bon-Buddhist tradition. All of the masters who
are described in this text achieved the rainbow body, where they
dissolved into light at the end of their life, signifying the
highest level of realization.
Of the vast number of profound teachings of the Bon-Buddhist
tradition, dzogchen is the highest, and this series of teachings
contains some of the most subtle explanations within the dzogchen
tradition. The Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü was
traditionally very closely held, and passed from only one master to
one disciple for 25 generations. As each of of the masters
approached the end of his life, his disciple would ask for him to
relate a brief biography and the essence of his lifetime of
practice and realization. The result is a series of poetic pith
teachings that point out the subtlest of all
realizations.
We are fortunate to have Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche to explain
these rare essential teachings, for he has a special gift to make
teachings clear and understandable, and relate them to our everyday
lives. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche began studying the Zhang Zhung
Nyen Gyü with his master Lopon Sanghe Tenzin when he
was only a boy, and has continued to make them a central focus of
his practice and teachings in the West.
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