Venerable Wangdor Rimpoche
Please help bring
Wangdor Rimpoche to the West
by donating to his
2009 travel fund.
Wangdor Rimpoche's travel fund is not a non-profit organization under U.S. tax laws. Donations to the Fund are not tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes. Please be assured however that 100% of all contributions go to paying Wangdor Rimpoche's travel expenses.
Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup is Wangdor Rimpoche's longtime English language translator. She has studied with him for 35 years, the first seven of those years in the yogic cave community above the town of Tso Pema/Rewalsar where she currently resides when she is not off traveling or teaching in the west.
Padmasambhava
Statue Project
The first stage of the statue's construction has been completed! Now the workers are focusing on painting the statue and completing work on the supporting buildings. For more information about Wangdor Rimpoche's Padmasambhava Statue project, check out the statue page, or visit our photo gallery.
Joy Schulenburg is Wangdor Rimpoche’s administrative aide de camp working together with Rimpoche and Lama Lena since 1989. She is a psychic, astrologer, and shamanic practitioner with an international clientele. In addition to Sponsorships, Joy administers the Tso Pema Medical/Emergency Fund.
Wangdor Rimpoche's 2009 U.S. Teaching Tour
For the latest schedule, please view our calendar page. To see how you can help bring him to America, please see the sidebar. To volunteer in the san Francisco Bay Area, please email wangdorrimpoche@customjuju.com
Rigpa Chentong Rangdrol (Calistoga)
At the request of his long time student Phyllis Glanvile Rimpoche has agreed to give the root text on which Flight of the Garuda by Shabkar Lama is based for the first time ever in Calistoga this year! The Rigpa Chentong Rangdrol (Self arisen naked seeing awareness) is a Terma by Guru Rimpoche. This may be the only time this text is given in the West by Wangdor Rimpoche to his heart sons and daughters...don't miss this beautiful teaching.
Flight of the Garuda Teachings (SF/Bay Area)
Continuing on Saturday, July 4 in Berkeley and continuing at various locations around the SF Bay Area through mid-July, Wangdor Rimpoche will be teaching from the complete text of Kaden Sho Lap translated as "Flight of the Garuda," a Dzogchen heart text of the Nyingma lineage. Rimpoche traces the core text back to the words of Padmasambhava himself. He has agreed to do Flight of the Garuda in its entirety, including commentaries and transmission of the Direct View of Mind. He will be teaching this over the course of nine or ten sessions (final number depends upon suitable locations.) Attendance at all sessions IS NOT REQUIRED, but Wangdor Rimpoche sincerely hopes that those of you who are in the Bay Area will try to attend as often as possible to receive the transmission and pointing out and hear this beautiful, poetic text for yourselves. As a Dzogchen Heart Text, Flight of the Garuda prepares the dedicated student of Dzogchen meditation to achieve full realization.
Please look at the calendar page to see the currently scheduled sessions so that you can make plans to attend as much of these precious teachings as you are able. It is highly unlikely that Wangdor Rimpoche himself will offer this series of teachings again in the United States.
We hope to see you at upcoming teachings!
Background
Wangdor Rimpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist monk and teacher (lama). Through decades of solitary meditation, retreats and practices he has achieved the state which Buddhists call realization and is respected worldwide as a venerable teacher and a master of "Direct Mind Perception" (Dzogchen) Meditation. Lama Wangdor has a profound commitment to making Buddhist philosophy and teachings accessible to everyone with a sincere interest. He has taught and given empowerments in Asia, Europe and the United States over the past two decades.
He has spent more than 30 years meditating in the caves first used by the Tibetan saint, Padmasambava, above Lotus Lake (Tsol Pema) in the Himachal Pradesh region of Northern India. In solitary retreat during the early years, he was eventually joined over time by more than 50 cave-dwelling yogis and yoginis who look to him for guidance and support. Beginning in the 1970s, he constructed a monastery near the lake as well as a retreat center on the mountain, available to practitioners of all lineages and nationalities, projects which have taken nearly 20 years to complete.
Wangdor Rimpoche holds both Nyingma and Kagyu Dzogchen/Chagchen lineages and is considered a Remay (ecclectic) teacher. He teaches from heart texts on Dzogchen, the maha-ati and mahamudra yogas which he has received in lineage from Nambla Janchub Dorje, Kunu Rimpoche and Scholars Chonchok Sumon Khenpo of Trungpa Rimpoche's line; Tucksie Rimpoche and Pumdong Key Rimpoche.
Email: Wangdorrimpoche@customjuju.com
Holy Caves of Padmasambhava
Rewalsar/Tso Pema
Himachal Pradesh, North India