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Lama Tharchin Rinpoche in Oakland
Saturday May 17th
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche will lead a day-long retreat in Oakland.  He will give teachings on Luminous Peaceful Mind Training at Last Chance Gonpa—East, 303 4th St., Oakland, CA  94607.  More details will be forthcoming but we know there will be a morning and an afternoon session.  Please plan on bringing your own cushions or chairs so that you will be comfortable on the cement floor.

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche at Open Secret
Thursday June 5th at 7pm
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche will give a teaching (topic tba) at Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. Suggested donation is $20.
For more information about either of these events please contact Sheppard at <sheppardp@earthlink.net> or 415.333.3639

Current Release:

Series 17: Advice for Meditators

Available when series is completed

Series 16: Concise Tsok Offering, Ying Kyi Bhendhar, Teaching 1 (January 2008)

This short but incredibly profound tsok offering verse arose as a treasure from the enlightened mind of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoché, beginning with the terma’s symbolic proof of dakini script. As he says in the colophon to the treasure,

This was written by myself, the one known as Jigdral Yeshé Dorjé, from a deluded vision I had when I was 33 years old, in the 1st month, the 17th day of the Fire Rat Year. After the evening that the Dzogchen practitioner, Trulshik Dorjé, did hundreds of tsok fulfillments of the dakini for my health, in the early morning, I had a dream and heard a woman reciting these words clearly, and when I awoke, I remembered them. Later that day, there was an auspicious sign that I had recovered from my sickness.

This tsok offering is unlike any regular tantrayana tsok. It belongs to the highest Clear Light vehicle, which is related to the result, fully awakened buddhahood. The vehicle of Clear Light brings this result to the path in order to make it manifest. Through practicing this tsok offering, we can purify our habit of believing in material phenomena as real. Those of the greatest capacity already know that all phenomena are the display of awareness (rigpa). For those who believe in the reality of apparent phenomena, this practice can purify this delusion into the dharmakaya, pure, stainless great emptiness. Through this practice, we can go beyond our ordinary dualistic mind to inconceivable wisdom mind where all phenomena naturally appear as the three kayas. This practice is more powerful than any done through mental creation’s effort. Because this practice is related to Clear Light wisdom, effortless, beyond mind, one moment of recognition of awareness is equal to doing one eon of practice with mental creation and effort.

Source: “Concise Tsok Offering (Ying Kyi Bhendhar)” by Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche, Dudjom Sung Bum, Volume MA (no.16), page 107. Bero Jeydren Publications, Vajrayana Foundation, 2002/07.

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Series 15: Dharma Protectors

Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

Dharma protectors (dharmapalas) include both wisdom beings as well as those on the path of dharma. Their job is to protect practitioners from obstacles and to aid us on the path in order to bring about good experience and realization. While we practice making offerings to the dharma protectors, our main offering is keeping pure samaya. We request that the protectors outwardly remove all external obstacles, inwardly purify the five afflictive emotions into the five wisdoms, and secretly remove obstacles to receiving the ordinary and extraordinary spiritual accomplishments in order to attain fully enlightened buddhahood for the benefit of all beings. Lama Tharchin Rinpoche will teach on several of the main dharmapala practices commonly done in the Dudjom Tersar tradition.

Teaching 1: Damchen Chyi-tor (released May 2007)
Source: “The Coalesced Essence of the Daily Torma Offering to the Three Roots and the Oath-Bound Ones (Concise Damchen Chyi-tor)”; Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Ma (16), p.109-115

Teaching 2: Concise Offerings to Lhachen, Shenpa, Ekajati, Rahula and Dorje Lekpa (released June 2007)
Source: “Concise Supplications to Lhachen and Nöjin Shenmar”; Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Tsa (17), p.431.5-431.6 and “A Concise Prayer-Offering to Ekajati, Rahula and Dorje Lekpa”; Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Tsa (17), p.428.6-430.1

Teaching 3: Phurba Protectors (released July 2007)
Source: “A Concise Prayer Offering to the Vajrakilaya Guardians (Phur-Sung Sol-Chö Gyun Khyer)”; Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Ba (15), p.531

Teaching 4: Drekpa Dé Gyay (released August 2007)
Source: “Offering Prayer to the Eight Classes of Drekpa (Drekpa Dé Gyay)”; Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Ba (15), p.221-222

Teaching 5: Lion-Faced Dakini (release September 2007)
Source: Seng Dong T’hal-Deb (Lion-Faced Dakini Daily Practice with Hand Clapping); Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Tsha (18), p.304.5-305.4

Teaching 6: Ekajati (release October 2007)
Source: "Essential Torma Offering to the Mamo, Protectress of Mantra, Ekajati" from the Dudjom Sung Bum, Volume Ma (16), p.117-119

Teaching 7: Ekajati, part 2 (release November 2007)

Teaching 8: Dharma Protectors recited by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche (release December 2007)

Series 15 can be purchased when completed in December. If you wish to subscribe now and obtain all shipped DVDs from the current release, please give us a call. (831) 480-5943

The texts from this series (except for Ekajati*) are available in "Dharma Protectors Daily Practices" from HH Dudjom Rinpoche, Bero Jeydren Publications, Vajrayana Foundation. Corralitos, CA: August 2007. They can also be found in the long dharmapalas text "Dharma Protectors" by Bero Jeydren Publications. *Ekajati can be found in the Yeshe Tsogyal Khandro T'huk-T'hik Sadhana & Tsok published by Bero Jeydren Publications, as well as through Lama Yeshe Wangmo at jnanasukha.org.

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