For the first time ever, the
Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation is organizing a one-month long ritual
course which will concentrate on the sadhana practice of Trinley
Nyingpo, one of the most well-known sadhanas in the Chokling
Tersar. This course will be the first in a series of annual courses
which will be designed to teach participants all aspects of ritual
practice from the meaning of the sadhana to the actual chant
melodies, visualisations, mudras, instruments, tormas and so on.
Each year, we will concentrate on different sadhanas. Our objective
is for non-Tibetan practitioners to be able to master these
Vajrayana rituals, and thus come to practice and uphold the
Vajrayana in an authentic way.
The Chokling Tersar (the New Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa) is the
collection of the treasure teachings of the great treasure
revealer, Chokgyur Lingpa (1829-1870), one of the greatest masters
and treasure revealers in Tibetan history. His teachings are now
widely practiced by both the Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Tibetan
Buddhism. The Trinley Nyingpo pertains to one of the main cycles of
teachings in the Chokling Tersar known as Lamey Tukdrub Barchey
Kunsel, (the Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All
Obstacles).
His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche said about this treasure
teaching:
The Barchey Kunsel is the heart
essence of the accomplished master Padmasambhava, who perceives the
three times in their entirety. It is the quintessence of one
billion heart sadhanas of the Guru, the most unique terma buried in
the land of Tibet, and it is the first among the Four Cycles of
Guru Sadhana. This Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All
Obstacles contains in completeness all the profound key points of
the view, meditation, and conduct of the Three Inner Yoga
Tantras.
This pure and perfect teaching, which effortlessly bestows, in
accordance with one’s wishes, the all-encompassing supreme and
common siddhis, temporarily and ultimately, was an unprecedented
diffusion of the gemstones of the profound meaning, like opening up
the treasury of the universal monarch.
Translation by Rangjung Yeshe Publications.
This year’s one-month long ritual course will concentrate on the
Trinley Nyingpo sadhana, teaching the participants the chanting,
visualisations, and mudras for the practice as well as how to play
the different ritual instruments, make the related tormas, and
perform the feast offering and so on. Classes will be taught by one
of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery’s senior lamas and translated
into English. The participants will also perform the practice
together each day.
At the beginning of the course, His Eminence Tsikey Chokling
Rinpoche will kindly bestow upon all participants the Trinley
Nyingpo empowerment and oral transmission. At the end of the
course, participants will perform the practice together with
Rinpoche at one of Guru Rinpoche’s holy sites in Nepal.
The cost for the month-long course will be USD 300, inclusive of
all necessary practice texts, and tea and snacks.For more
information and to register, please email us at [email protected]. Registration
deadline is 30th September, 2010.