At the request of many Mahamudra students, Guru Vajradhara has now kindly agreed to bestow the remaining sections of the Mahamudra Ocean of Definitive Meaning transmission—including the pointing out the nature of mind instructions, concluding topics, and supplementary teachings—which he hasn't transmitted during any previous English-language transmissions.

Topics:
- Pointing Out the Nature of Mind (Teaching Chapter 44 & Practice Chapter 37 – Teaching Chapter 58 & Practice Chapter 45)
- Concluding Topics and Supplementary Teachings (Teaching Chapters 59–98)
 

Discovering the Buddha Within Program Summary

This three-year curriculum, designed by Guru Vajradhara His Holiness the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa, is an experiential learning program of the Buddha Dharma. Created in response to requests from Palpung Dharma Centers, its goal is to make the essence of the Buddha's teachings accessible and comprehensive for any audience.

Program Structure & Methodology

• The program follows the Buddha’s teachings on the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma and the Four Tantras, corresponding to three gradual levels of discovering the nature of mind and phenomena.
• It is designed for a foreign audience, with a strong emphasis on direct experience through meditation, including practices like Shamatha (calm abiding) and Vipashyana (advanced insight).
• Each level of the curriculum covers three core aspects according to the Shravakayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana perspectives:
  • View: Intellectual understanding.
  • Meditation: Experiential understanding.
  • Application: Integrating understanding into daily life.

Commitment & Support

• Commitment:
  • For newcomers: A minimum of 10 minutes of daily practice for 30 consecutive days.
  • For existing practitioners: Their current practice fulfills the commitment.
• Support:
  • Students have access to monthly review classes led by an appointed kyorpön (teaching assistant), available both online and in person.
  • An online study platform is provided to further strengthen understanding.
  • A practice guideline is available for students who wish to use the program as their main daily practice.

This program is open to everyone, Buddhist and non-Buddhists, who can join and benefit from it regardless of their prior experience, as its teachings are rooted in universal values.

 I have received the 1000 armed Chenrezig Empowerment.
(If you haven't received the empowerment, a senior Lama from the monastery will bestow it on April 21)

I accept to follow the Retreat Rules that will be announced at the begining of the retreat.

To know more about the Practice of Nyugne, you are welcome to listen to the teaching given by Rinpoche in April 2019. The audio file is titled ‘Nyugne Transmission’.

Nyugne Transmission Online Audio  

Among the vast array of enlightened forms that appear for the benefit of beings,
White Tara — known in Tibetan as Drolma Karmo— is particularly important.
She is the embodiment of compassionate activity in its most tender and
immediate expression: the activity of protecting life, dispelling illness, and
granting longevity to those who aspire to use their precious human existence in
the service of the Dharma.

Tara herself is said to have arisen from the tears of Avalokiteśvara, shed at the
sight of the boundless suffering of sentient beings. From Avalokiteśvara’s tears
of unbearable compassion, she took form, vowing to act swiftly and tirelessly
for the liberation of all. Where Green Tara embodies swift, dynamic
compassionate action, White Tara expresses the deeper stillness of that same
compassion — vast, serene, and all-pervading.
During these five days of transmission, Guru Vajradhara, His Holiness the 12th
Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa, will bestow upon us, through his profound
teachings, the wisdom of White Tara. On the sixth and final day, he will
empower us to practice her sadhana — opening the door for each of us to enter
her wisdom and to carry her blessings into our daily practice.

Following this precious transmission, we are offered the rare opportunity to
immediately put these teachings into practice through a seven-day White Tara
retreat, led by a senior lama of Palpung Sherabling Monastery.
This retreat will provide the ideal conditions to deepen our connection with
White Tara — allowing the empowerment and instructions we have received to
take root in our mindstream through sustained practice, recitation of her mantra,
and meditation on her form.
The senior lama will guide us in detail through the visualisations of the sādhana,
ensuring that each practitioner gains a clear and confident understanding of how
to actually engage in this practice.
Held in an atmosphere of silence, simplicity, and devotion, these seven days
offer a space to step back from the busyness of ordinary life and genuinely apply
ourselves to the path.
Such an opportunity — to receive a complete transmission and immediately
enter into retreat under qualified guidance — is truly exceptional. We are invited
to approach these days with wholehearted commitment, knowing that the merit
and realizations generated in retreat do not remain for ourselves alone, but
radiate outward for the benefit of all sentient beings.