The Vital Point of Mind: Pith Instructions on the Vital Point of Mind that Reveal the Buddha Right in the Palm of Your Hand
by the Great Master Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche
Taught by Nyingma Scholar & Meditation Master Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Webcast Live from Padma Samye Ling
January 16 – 23 (Saturday to Saturday) – Times are EST
10:00 am – 12:00 noon — Instructions & Practice
3:30 – 6:00 pm — Healing Practice & Dzogchen Meditation
As a way to continue our Annual PBC Florida Winter Retreat, Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche will confer special Dzogchen teachings by Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche on the importance of relying on lineage masters to fully discover and realize the Dzogchen view of self-liberated awareness. Once you’re introduced to your true nature through the blessings of the lineage and your root teacher, in combination with your buddha-nature and its radiant qualities, those with opportunity and great fortune to put these pith instructions into practice will break through the delusions of samsara and nirvana.
During the 2021 Winter Dzogchen Retreat webcast live from Padma Samye Ling, Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will impart the heart essence of Dzogchen Pith Instructions according to the stainless wisdom lineage of the great master Mipham Rinpoche. These are direct pointing out instructions on how to discover enlightened awareness this very moment.
Mipham Rinpoche’s root text will be available to participants as a free download.
Mipham Rinpoche (1846-1912) was a great Nyingma scholar, meditation master, and author of the 20th century. Blessed by Manjushri, he became one of the greatest scholars of his time, and was a devoted student of Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo Rinpoche, and Patrul Rinpoche. Mipham Rinpoche had an enormous impact in re-awakening a deep reverence and interest in the Nyingma and Dzogchen teachings. Three hundred and twenty-two of his Dharma texts have survived. In addition to these, he composed more than thirty-five books on a range of subjects including medicine, poetry (particularly the Gesar epics), logic, cosmology, astrology and divination, alchemy, painting and sculpture, engineering, and both extensive and pithy commentaries on the Sutras and Tantras of Buddha Shakyamuni and Guru Padmasambhava.
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche brings these teachings vividly to life with practical, pithy advice that goes straight to the heart and inspires us all to use this precious opportunity for the great and lasting benefit of all beings.
Registration is required to access this retreat.
Suggested Donation: We humbly request everyone participating in this retreat to help sustain Padmasambhava Buddhist Center during these challenging times. All donations are graciously accepted.
New Year 2021
Guru Yoga Practice with Tsok Ceremony
Commemorating the Anniversary of the Mahaparinivana of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche
Jan 1, 2021
10:00 am – 1:00 pm EST
New Year’s Day 2021 coincides with the anniversary of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche. Join us in celebrating and honoring the mandala of enlightened blessings, realization, and activities still abounding from this great master of our time.
Shower of Blessings from Mipham Rinpoche will be our main practice.
We will also be using:
Devotion of the Summer Feast, a Prayer That Remembers the Great Teacher with Yearning.
Prayer of Kuntuzangpo, the All-Good Buddha.
If you would like to make an offering toward the feast, please click on the button below.
If you would like to make a donation in support of Ven. Rinpoche’s online activities, please click the button below.
Buddha of Degenerate and Difficult Times
Thursday, December 24
3:30 – 6:00 pm EST
Thursday, December 24, is the tenth day of the waxing moon. This is a very special day for practice in the Vajrayana Sangha.
Please join us for this special practice on Guru Padmasambhava led by Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche.
Times are Eastern Standard Time. A time zone converter can be found at this link.
Shower of Blessings from Mipham Rinpoche will be the main practice. Please click here to purchase from Chiso.
If you have the Stainless King, it would be good to also have that handy. Please click here to purchase from Chiso.
We will include our other daily healing practices as well. They can be downloaded by clicking on the link in the previous sentence.
If you would like to contribute to the feast offering, please use the button below.
If you would like to contribute in support of Rinpoche’s online activities, please use the button below.
We are very excited to announce opportunities to practice with Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche in December and January!
On Thursday, December 24, Ganachakra of Guru Padmasambhava from 3:30 – 5:45 pm EST.
On Friday, January 1, Guru Yoga Practice with Tsok Ceremony, commemorating the Anniversary of the Mahparinirvana of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche 10:00 am – 1:00 pm EST.
On Saturday, Jan 23, Concluding Teachings and Dedication Tsok Ceremony for our annual Winter Dzogchen Retreat 10:00 am – 1:00 pm EST
Thursday December 10, is the tenth day of the waning moon and a very special day for practice in the Vajrayana Sangha.
Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will lead our monthly Dakini practices via live stream webcast from Palden Padma Samye Ling.
We will begin at 3:30 pm EDT and continue until about 5:45.
(If you are in a different time zone, this link will take you to a time zone converter.)
Prayers and Practices with links
The main sadhana practice will be Khandro Thugtig (Heart Essense of the Dakini) revealed by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche. If you need to obtain a copy, it can be purchased at our online Dhama store, Pemai Chiso.
We will also use the Stainless King.
Our daily healing practices will be included and are available for download.
We will also be reciting the Prayer to the Guru Dakini – Clouds of Heaps of Siddhis, a prayer to the Great Wisdom Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal composed by Khachab Dewa Dorje, the Fifteenth Karmapa. This prayer is available for download.
If you would like to make a donation in support of Rinpoche’s online activities, please click on this button.
If you would like to contribute to the feast offering, please click on this button.
Friday Nov. 6, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
Saturday Nov. 7, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
We are overjoyed to announce that Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will continue his teachings on His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice for the Fortunate Ones.
As many of you know, Rinpoche kindly gave in-depth commentary oj these heart instructions this past spring and early summer.
On these two days Rinpoche will summarize and conclude these precious teachings from His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche.
In addition, November 7 marks one of the four special Buddhist festivals that relate to the life of Buddha Shakyamuni. Lha Bab Duchen commemorates Buddha Shakyamuni’s return to the human world after teaching his mother in the god realms, where he spent three months imparting teachings and repaying her kindness.
During these days, it is said that the effects of positive and negative actions are multiplied 10 million times, so practice is strongly encouraged!
Please click here for a complimentary download of Heart Advice for the Fortunate Ones.
Please click here for the list of practice texts available for download or purchase. (Please note that more texts are available at our online store, Pemai Chiso).
Suggested Donation
Our sincere gratitude to everyone who has sent donations in support of this year’s webcast retreats!
We humbly request everyone participating to help sustain Padma Samye Ling during these challenging times. All donations are gratefully accepted.
Please click on the button below to make a donation in support of the webcast retreat.
Lha Bab Duchen Practice
Saturday Nov. 7 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
The center of this practice will be Buddha Shakyamuni. The main text will be the Buddha Sadhana. We will also recite the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha, and partake in a white (vegetarian) tsok.
Practice Texts:
Extended Buddha Sadhana (The Buddha Sadhana plus additional prayers recalling and praising the Three Jewels, Arhats, and Bodhisattvas).
Regular Healing Practices, many of which are available for download.
If you would like to make a contribution toward the feast offering, please click on this button.
The PSL Stupas Have Been Installed!
As Buddha Shakyamuni told in the Sutra teachings, if you build a temple or stupa that represents the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, it will bring tremendous merit. Even when it is gone, the dust of this place will continue to generate merit and benefit to all those connected to this project. According to that, we dedicate this merit.
By this merit may all obtain omniscience.
May it defeat the enemy, wrong-doing.
From the stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness, and death,
From the ocean of samsara, may I free all beings.
Monday, October 12, is the tenth day of the waning moon and a very special day for practice in the Vajrayana Sangha.
Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will lead our monthly Dakini practices via live stream webcast from Palden Padma Samye Ling
We will begin at 3:30 pm EDT and continue until about 5:45.
(If you are in a different time zone, this link will take you to a time zone converter.)
Prayers and Practices with links
The main sadhana practice will be Khandro Thugtig (Heart Essense of the Dakini) revealed by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche. If you need to obtain a copy, it can be purchased at our online Dhama store, Pemai Chiso.
We will also use the Stainless King.
Our daily healing practices will be included.
We will also be reciting the Prayer to the Guru Dakini – Clouds of Heaps of Siddhis, a prayer to the Great Wisdom Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal composed by Khachab Dewa Dorje, the Fifteenth Karmapa. This prayer is available for download.
If you would like to contribute to the feast offering, you can make a donation here.
Arising almost instantly!
In a little over a week, a new Stupa Garden has been erected at Padma Samye Ling!
Ven. Khenpo Rinpoche and his brother, Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, had planned for years to build a stupa garden in the lower meadow at our Catskills monastery and retreat center. The carved stone blocks arrived from Indonesia this year, but assembling these massive pieces required special equipment and skills.
Through the generosity of a sangha friend, a talented crew who usually work on installations of monumental sculptures arrived the last week of September. Eight days later, the stupas are built!
Members of the PSL community and Dharma Skills Program pitched in and worked alongside the sculpture artists. Lama Lorraine, with Lama Laia and Lama Dragpa, led a group who worked long, hard hours to prepare treasures from all over the world that are now stored inside the stupas. Khenpo Rinpoche oversaw the entire project, and was very happy with the results.
Here is a collection of photos and short videos to help give a sense of the work. Sangha members and friends from around the world helped make this a reality through prayer and donations, so it is only right that everyone be able to participate a little in the event.
Thank you all!
“El esfuerzo gozoso, el coraje, el compromiso, la alegría y el aprecio vienen naturalmente cuando tenemos atención plena”
– Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Querida Sangha,
Mientras anticipamos con esperanza la llegada de Rimpoché en el otoño, haremos una pausa en nuestras classes virtuales de los sábados en español. Las grabaciones de la serie completa de charlas sobre la mente amplia (mindfulness) están disponibles en nuestra pagina de web, junto con dos sesiones de la práctica de la Meditación en Calma.
Por lo pronto únete a nosotros seguiendo las enseñanzas en vivo del venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche que se llevan a cabo regularmente de manera virtual a través de Padmasambhava.org, y suscríbete a nuestro boletín informativo para mantenerte informado tan pronto como reanudemos las prácticas y charlas en vivo en nuestro Centro local. Por el momento, continúa siguiendo las pautas locales sobre prácticas seguras de distanciamiento social.
Para ver las charlas anteriores, haga clic en los enlaces en la parte inferior de esta página.
Las charlas y meditaciones