Celebrate Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche’s 90th Birthday
In Practice, Song, & Movement with Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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NOTE: This program is being postponed given Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso's passing June 22. The cremation ceremony is on August 19th in Nepal. We will find new dates for this program and post them here when we do.
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Tuition is $990 when
you pay by July 14.
Price increases to
$1175 after that date.
Instructors:
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Jim Scott
Scott Wellenbach
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Location:
On-Land
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Generosity Price - $1400
Tuition - $990
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NOTE: This program is being postponed given Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso's passing June 22. The cremation ceremony is on August 19th in Nepal. We will find new dates for this program and post them here when we do.
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Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche will be present on-site for the concluding weekend. He requests that this retreat be attended in its entirety.
Please join us for a very special celebration of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche's 90th birthday! This 8-day long Vajrayana event will feature the Sadhana of Mahamudra written by Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso and will be led by Khenpo's students Jim Scott, Birgit Scott, Scott Wellenbach, Sukhi Barber, Alexander deVaron, and others. The lung of the sadhana will be given at the beginning of the retreat.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche's principal student will give teachings on the Sadhana of Mahamudra during his weekend residence. The practice will include singing, dancing and lujong (Tibetan yoga) as has been taught by Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso in his well known 13 retreats at Karme Choling.
More details will be available later; please check our website regularly.
Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche is a beloved teacher and scholar-yogi from the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Known for his direct and experiential approach to the Dharma, his teachings are often infused with humor and poetry. He is especially well known for singing the songs of realization, both his own and those of Milarepa, and introducing lujong (Tibetan yoga) to his Western students.
"In their true nature, all phenomena are equal.
Therefore, recognize that anger and no anger are equal,
Recognize that meditation and no meditation are equal,
Recognize that recognition and no recognition are equal.
May your samadhi of equality increase!"
Prerequisite: Vajrayana students who have received pointing out instructions.
Hevajra Gathering: Additionally, after the Celebration week, there will be a gathering of students who studied the Hevajra track at Karmê Chöling during the years 2002 - 2006.
Note: A 50% deposit is required to reserve your accommodation.
Pricing
Karmê Chöling values its commitment to making programs affordable and available to all who wish to study with us. To support this commitment we provide two program price options.
Generosity Price: $1,400.00
You're able to help us with this commitment by choosing the "Generosity Price". The money above the basic tuition cost goes into a scholarship fund for those who might not be able to attend a program otherwise.
Tuition: $990.00
This is the price of the program, it does not include housing options or material fees.
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Price does not include accommodations, which will be added during the registration process.
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Instructors
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Main Teacher: Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is a widely celebrated Buddhist teacher and the author of Emotional Rescue, Rebel Buddha, and other books. A lover of music, art and urban culture, Rinpoche is a poet, photographer, accomplished calligrapher and visual artist, as well as a prolific author. Rinpoche is the founder, president, and spiritual director of Nalandabodhi, an international community of Buddhist centers.
Rinpoche is acknowledged as one of the foremost scholars and meditation masters of his generation in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He is known for his sharp intellect, humor, and easygoing teaching style, for launching the kindness initiative #GoKind and for his outreach to communities internationally.
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Jim Scott's life has, from its earliest years, been dedicated to the pursuit of the contemplative life, originally as a Christian monk at a Trappist monastery, then as a student of philosophy at St. John's College, and finally as a student and practitioner of the Kagyu lineage following Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche around the globe of this earth for some thirty years.
When Khenpo Rinpoche first came to the West in 1977, at the request and in the company of His Holiness Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa, Jim was fortunate to be in the original group of students to receive and follow Rinpoche.
At H.H. the Karmapa's bidding, Rinpoche started and taught the first Kagyu Shedra for westerners with the intention, as expressed by H.H., to provide westerners with the same basic formal education in the classical Indian and Tibetan texts of Buddhadharma as in Tibet, and to train translators who could then be instrumental in communicating these teachings at the Dharma centers then springing up around Western Europe, North America and around the world.
In 1986, though continuing to teach around the planet, Rinpoche moved the main locus of his activities to Nepal and, in the early 1990's, at the request of His Eminence Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, he began to teach the Winter Philosophy Program and the Spring Meditation Retreat at Pullahari, Jamgon Rinpoche's main seat.
It was primarily from here that Rinpoche encouraged representatives of Dharma centers worldwide to invite senior students to share with others what he had so carefully taught them.
Following Rinpoche's example, the programs Jim pilots have the characteristic feature of being closely linked with the texts of the tradition, though at the same time seen through the eyes of an ordinary person from a western background.
All who have had the great good fortune of meeting Khenpo Tsultrim know that a special feature of his blessing transmission is his expression of the teachings in song. Jim Scott has played a central role in helping to make this possible in English. His dearest wish is to do whatever he can to help fulfill Rinpoche's vision of song as a path of awakening heart.
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Scott Wellenbach has been practicing and studying the dharma for over half a century. He has studied Mahamudra with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen. He is a member of the Nalanda Translation Committee and serves as one of the directors of Nitartha Institute.
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