Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, November 7-9
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche joins us to share the teachings of dream yoga according to the Dzogchen (Great Perfection) view of Vajrayana Buddhism. Dream yoga is an ancient Tibetan practice that fosters lucid dreaming and the realization of luminous clear light awareness from the ignorant state of sleep. This timeless awareness (Rigpa) can then be maintained in a continuous cycle of day and night, sleeping and waking, this life and the next, and the bardo in between. Once preserved through secret oral transmissions, these instructions are the basis for Enlightenment in one lifetime. Friday’s lecture will provide an overview of dream yoga and Dzogchen; the weekend will combine teaching and practice, including how to integrate dream yoga with the realization of one’s true nature in everyday life.

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche is a Dzogchen (Great Perfection) master of Vajrayana Buddhism. He is the tenth lineage holder of the Repkong Ngakpas. This is a family lineage of yogis, or householders, and was the largest community of non-monastic practitioners in Tibet.  Rinpoche was trained in His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche's monastery, engaged in five years of solitary retreat and then completed the three year retreat with three others under Dudjom Rinpoche.  As a householder with two sons, Rinpoche has a wonderfully kind and wise approach to working with Western students.  His embodies a living expression of the wisdom and compassion of the Buddhadharma, and holds a vast knowledge of Tibetan ritual arts, music and dance, as well as the philosophical basis of the Vajrayana teachings.