Programme Albagnano

Retreat of Vajrayogini: The Quick Path to Great Bliss

The practice of Vajrayogini, one of the most important of the Mahanuttara Yoga Tantra, the highest class of Tantra, is considered one of the most powerful of all Buddhist Tantric meditations. Buddha emanated Vajrayogini, a special female enlightened being, 2500 years ago. She is the female counterpart of Heruka, the Lord of the Heroes, and she teaches us how to attain enlightenment through purifying our female essence, our dakini nature. It is an excellent antidote against limitless attachment and greed and the realisations brought about by it’s practice can lead to Enlightenment in a single lifetime. 

Instructions for the Vajrayogini retreat

To do the retreat you must have already received in the past the Vajrayogini empowerment.

Those who wish to participate in the full retreat, in the meditation hall (on the second floor of the Temple), must necessarily attend all four daily sessions for the duration of the retreat.

The retreat will be conducted, in the traditional way, by Lama Michel Rinpoche: the daily sessions to be completed on the same meditation seat. In each session the sadhana will be recited together first and then the mantras individually. The retreat is only considered complete when each participant has recited 100,000 mantras.

Mobile phones are not allowed in the meditation hall.

• To attend the retreat, please complete the registration form by October 1.

• To buy the study materials:

https://shop.ngalso.org/products/vajra?_pos=2&_psq=vener&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Venerable Naro Kachö Vajrayogini -The Quick Path to Great Bliss

Celebration of Lha Bab Duchen

10.30 – 13.00 Guru Puja and Tsog offering

The main meaning of Lha Bab Duchen is to celebrate the return of the Buddha from the celestial abode where he had taught the Dharma to his mother Mahadevi, who, thanks to these teachings, attained arhatship, freeing herself from the cycle of Samsara. On this festival day, meritorious actions are considered multiplied 100 million times, so it is tradition to dedicate the day to virtuous practices and prayers

Guru Puja according to the NgalSo lineage of Lama Gangchen Rinpoche

Meditation and recitation ritual

The Guru Puja is a traditional meditation and recitation ritual of invocation and offerings to the spiritual guide, all the holy beings and all sentient beings. It is one of the most important practices of Tibetan Buddhism. In addition to being a comprehensive and excellent tool for spiritual development, its practise is an excellent method for pacifying negativities and incresing positive qualities and energies. The Guru Puja practice is performed daily in AHMC, and is dedicated to inner and world peace. During the tsog an offering prayer – ghanachakra – is recited 108 times. Lama Gangchen Rinpoche initiated this daily recitation dedicated for world peace right after the events in New York on the 11th of September 2001. Since then, the mantra has been recited over six million times. The Guru Puja a joyful celebration in which everyone can participate; a compendium of teachings of the Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions. Other than the dedication for world peace there are special dedications every day for those who request them and in particular for the particpants of the Generosity Garden. The text is available in the temple or can be purchased from the shop.

The Dharma is precious and has no price. Therefore, in accordance with tradition, an offering can be made for this activity according to each person’s possibilities and choice.
You can make your offering at the reception of the Centre or at the following link

Art and Meditation Workshop
Let’s learn to visualise the symbols of NgalSo Self-Healing by drawing them

Saturday and Sunday
from 11.00 to 13.00 and from 15.30 to 17.30.
Following the path of Lama Gangchen Rinpoche’s NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing, we will draw the mandalas of the five elements corresponding to our five chakras, the five lotus flowers, and then the seed syllables and symbols of the five families of the Dhyani Buddhas, the Supreme Healers.

The course is open to everyone and requires no prior experience in drawing.

Children aged 5 and over, as well as students who have previously attended Duccio’s courses, are also welcome. The teacher will ensure that each student is supported according to their individual abilities.

Items to bring with you:

An A4 sketchbook with semi-textured paper.
Coloured pencils (green, yellow, blue, red, white).
A set square and a ruler.
A compass and an eraser.

Bookings must be made at reception or by emailing: reception@kunpen.it

Leonardo ‘Duccio’ Ceglie

He attended art school and the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and met Lama Gangchen Rinpoche in 1984 at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Pomaia. His Tibetan friend, Pempa Tsering, advised him to try painting a small Chenrezig Buddha and to present it as a gift to Lama Gangchen. The Lama immediately commissioned him to paint another Buddha, and then another, and yet another. Over the years, he became his disciple and continued to paint Tibetan thangkas following his instructions.
He accompanied the Lama on numerous pilgrimages to the main sacred sites of the Buddha and to the great Tibetan monasteries, taking canvases and paints with him and thus deepening his knowledge of Tibetan sacred painting.

Sync with stars

The planets are in constant motion and profoundly influence us. Understanding their transits helps us to consciously take advantage of these influences and use them to our benefit, keeping us in harmony with the stars and the present time.

Astrological Healing Practices
8:30 PM – 10:00 PM

NgalSo Lama Gangchen’s astrological healing practices help us gain awareness of the profound connection between our body and mind actions and the five cosmic elements.

The sutras taught by the Buddha, included in this text, are:

• Offerings to the Seven Lords of the Constellations

• The Great Vehicle Sutra called “The Supreme Dissipator of the Darkness of the Ten Directions”

• The Heap of Auspiciousness – Tashi Tsegpa

According to the Buddha’s teachings, reciting these precious sutras removes life’s interferences, nightmares, ill omens, and mental terror, while bestowing happiness, well-being, and the three perfections of auspiciousness, bliss, and goodness.

link to buy the text of practice:

Ngalso Astrological Healing Practice:   

https://shop.ngalso.org/products/ngalso-astrological-healing-practise 

For meal reservations: https://shimbu.ngalso.org

The Dharma is precious and has no price. Therefore, in accordance with tradition, an offering can be made for this activity according to each person’s possibilities and choice.
You can make your offering at the reception of the Centre or at the following link

Vedic yoga 

At the roots of yogi practice 

10.30 -13.00 e 3.30 pm – 5.00 pm

“90% of yoga practice happens outside the mat”. This is the key mantra of the course conducted by Nabin Giri. You are invited to join a journey of body, mind and lifestyle to balance inner with cosmic energies, raise awareness on your karmic path and prepare body and mind as a vehicle for the inner voyage. 

Through yoga philosophy, Ayurvedic naturopathy, asanas, pranayama, mantra chanting, daily rituals of gratitude and taking care of our diet, you will practice and go at the roots of ancient yoga. 

Biography

Nabin Giri was born in Western Nepal in 1980, grew up with grandparents in a big traditional Sanataan joint family highly rooted in the ancient Vedic civilization. In the neighborhoods, the mystic Fakirs, Yogis and shamans resided in the woods, bank of river and the hills. Graduated in Philosophy of Yoga and Naturopathy from Nepal Sanskrit University and Eastern philosophy and English literature from Tribhuvan University, he considers university education incomparable to the education received from his grandmother. Since 2020 he has lived in Cesena with his wife and two daughters offering individual and group yoga courses. A skilled cook, he also organizes cooking shows and tastings of typical Nepalese cuisine.

In order to register to the workshop, please email us at reception@kunpen.it

Medicine Buddha Puja

A ritual of prayers and offerings to the Medicine Buddha, the one who dwells in the Pure Land like Lapis lazuli, dedicated to healing all manifest and symptomless physical and mental illnesses and to progressing quickly on the spiritual path until enlightenment.

The Dharma is precious and has no price. Therefore, in accordance with tradition, an offering can be made for this activity according to each person’s possibilities and choice.
You can make your offering at the reception of the Centre or at the following link

Refuge in the Sangha – Refuge in Spiritual Friendship

In the Footsteps of The Buddha
The Buddha’s teachings of Liberation and Freedom

Silent Insight Vipassana Meditation Retreat

This silent retreat will offer instructions on mindfulness meditation in the four postures, dhamma talks, inquiry sessions and interviews with the teacher.

The Buddha taught that Friendship with others on the path is the “Whole of the Holy Life. ” Insight Dialogue supports the practice of dharma friendship. In this retreat we will investigate how, practicing the meditation guidelines of Insight Dialogue, can support true refuge in the jewel of sangha and friendship. We will explore how refuge in friendship can lead us forward in our practice for liberation from suffering and the cultivation of wisdom and compassion.

This November Bhante Anuruddha is offering mini retreats on Friendship: What does it mean, as the Buddha stated, that spiritual friendship is the whole of the holy life?

How does friendship relate to taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha? How does this all relate to suffering and the end of suffering?

In November we will contemplate these teachings, practicing with the Insight Dialogue guidelines of Pause, Relax, Open, Attune to Emergence, Speak the Truth and Listen Deeply.

The framework of this investigation is the practice of Insight Dialogue, a relational practice developed by Gregory Kramer and the Insight Dialogue Community. We will practice together to explore the teachings based in the Pali Canon, the collection of sutras in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.

The Dharma is precious and has no price. Therefore, in accordance with tradition, an offering can be made for this activity according to each person’s possibilities and choice.
You can make your offering at the reception of the Centre or at the following link

Programme

26th November 2026

10.30 am – 12.30 am Introduction to the course

1.00 pm lunch
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm walking meditation
3.00 pm – 4.00 pm sitting meditation
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm walking meditation
4.30pm – 5.00 pm Break
5.00 pm – 6.45 pm sitting meditation and question and answer session
7.00 pm – 8.00 pm dinner
8.00 pm – 9.30 pm Dharma Contemplation

27th  November – 28th November 2026

6.30 am – 8.00 am meditation
10.00 am – 10.30 am walking meditation
10.45 am – 12.30 am meditation
1.00 pm lunch
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm walking meditation
3.00 pm – 4.00 pm sitting meditation
4.00 pm- 4.30 pm walking meditation
4.30 pm – 5.00 pm  Break
5.00 pm – 6.45 pm sitting meditation and question and answer session
7.00 pm – 8.00 pm dinner
8.00  pm – 9.30 pm Dharma contemplation

29th November 2026

6.30 am – 8.00 am meditation
10.00 am – 10.30 am walking meditation
10.45 am – 12.30 am meditation
1.00 pm lunch
2.30 pm conclusion of the course