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Winter course 2025

27dec(dec 27)10:3006jan(jan 6)13:00Winter course 2025ALSO IN STREAMING Place: Main Gompa Level: Open to all(December 27) 10:30 - (January 6) 13:00

Event Details

Winter course

This year, Lama Michel Rinpoche will guide us in the mornings through the exploration of Buddhist philosophy, while in the afternoons, Lama Caroline will offer the opportunity to deepen the teachings and practice of Vajrayoghini. A unique journey of knowledge and spiritual experience not to be missed.

The Very Wholesome Questions Expressed with an Extraordinary Attitude by the incomparable Dharma King Lama Tsongkhapa and The Melody of a Noble-Minded Proposal by Panchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen, as an Answer to the Very Wholesome Questions Expressed with an Extraordinary Attitude by Lama Tsongkhapa.

Lama Michel Rinpoche will guide us through the precious works: The Very Wholesome Questions Expressed with an Extraordinary Attitude by the incomparable Dharma King Lama Tsongkhapa and The Melody of a Noble-Minded Proposal by Panchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen, as an Answer to the Very Wholesome Questions Expressed with an Extraordinary Attitude by Lama Tsongkhapa.

These special texts are profound instructions for the practice of conduct, meditation, and vision, essential elements of the path revealed by the Buddha, the path that leads to liberation from suffering and to the realization of a buddha’s state of profound love, peace, and wisdom.

The booklet integrates the two volumes, presenting Panchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s answers to each of the questions of the incomparable Dharma King Lama Tsongkhapa.

Sky dance of great bliss
NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing practice

The eleven yogas of the  outer, inner and secret body mandalas  of Venerable Vajrayogini

Lama Caroline will introduce us to the NgalSo practice of Vajrayogini transmitted by Lama Gangchen Rinpoche. Through this practice we learn to recognise and awaken the vajra points of our body, which correspond to the Vajrayogini mandala, allowing us to deeply heal our body, speech and mind. The practice includes the traditional eleven yogas of Vajrayogini in a concise manner.
The practice of Vajrayogini is extremely powerful, allowing us to realise the clear light of bliss by transforming sleeping, dreaming and awakening into the three buddha bodies.

Book meals: https://shimbu.ngalso.org/

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Programme 

Program

Saturday, December 27

10:30 AM-12:30 PM Guru Puja with Lama Michel Rinpoche, geshes and monks (main gompa)

3:00 PM-4:45 PM Teachings with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

5:15 PM-7:00 PM Teachings with Lama Michel Rinpoche  (main gompa)

Sunday, December 28

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Guided breath meditation and NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

10:30 AM-11:00 AM Guided meditation, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

11:15 AM-1:00 PM Teachings with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

3:00 PM-5:00 PM Vajrayoghini empowerment with Lama Caroline (main gompa)

5:00 PM-7:00 PM Guru Puja (Dharmapala gompa – not streamed)

Monday, December 29

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Guided breath meditation and NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

9:00 am Yamantaka ritual to “cut” negative influences with Zava Damdin Rinpoche (main gompa)

11:15 AM-1:00 PM Teachings with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM Teachings with Lama Caroline (main gompa)

5:30 PM-6:30 PM Guided meditation: NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing of Vajrayoghini – The dance of great bliss, with Lama Caroline

5:00 PM Guru Puja (Dharmapala gompa – not streamed)

Tuesday, December 30

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Guided breath meditation and NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

9:00 AM Kurukulle Fire Puja of the Power of Influence with Zava Damdin Rinpoche (outdoors)

11:00 AM-1:00 PM and 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Dharmapala Puja, the protectors of the Dharma, dedicated to the elimination of interferences from the concluding year.

Includes the Guru Puja and tsog offering with Lama Michel Rinpoche, Zava Damdin Rinpoche, Lama Caroline, geshes and monks  (main gompa)

8:00 pm Classical Notes – special edition of Music and Spirituality (main gompa)

Wednesday, December 31

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Guided breath meditation and NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

10:30 AM-11:00 AM Guided meditation, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

11:15 AM-1:00 PM Teachings with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM Teachings with Lama Caroline (main gompa)

5:30 PM-6:30 PM Guided meditation: NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing of Vajrayoghini – The dance of great bliss, with Lama Caroline

5:00 PM Guru Puja (Dharmapala gompa – not streamed)

8:00 PM-10:00 PM New Year’s Eve dinner and lottery (restaurant)

11:00 PM-12:30 AM Meditation for the conclusion of the year and good wishes for the new year with Lama Michel Rinpoche, Zava Damdin Rinpoche and Lama Caroline (main gompa)

followed by Light offerings at the Stupa

Thursday, January 1

9:30 AM-10:00 AM Water and flower offerings at the Stupa

10:00 AM-11:00 AM Guru Puja with Lama Michel Rinpoche, Lama Caroline, geshes and monks (main gompa)

11.00 PM-1:00 PM White Tara initiation and practice with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

3:30 PM-4:30 PM Guided meditation: NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing of Vajrayoghini – The dance of great bliss, with Lama Caroline

5.00 PM – 6.30 PM Tsog offering

Friday, January 2

10:30 AM-11:00 AM Guided meditation: NgalSo practices of astrological purification (Tashi Tsepa) with and Lama Caroline (main gompa)

11:15 AM-1:00 PM Teachings with Lama Caroline (main gompa)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM Astrological roundtable with Lama Caroline and expert astrologers (main gompa)

5:30 PM-6:30 PM Guided meditation: NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing of Vajrayoghini – The dance of great bliss, with Lama Caroline

5:00 PM Guru Puja (Dharmapala gompa – not streamed)

 Saturday, January 3 

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Guided breath meditation and NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

9:00 AM Vajrayoghini Fire Puja of the Power of Influence with Zava Damdin Rinpoche (outdoors)

11:15 AM-1:00 PM Refuge ceremony with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM Teachings with Lama Caroline (main gompa)

5:30 PM-6:30 PM Guided meditation: NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing of Vajrayoghini – The dance of great bliss, with Lama Caroline

5:00 PM Guru Puja (Dharmapala gompa – not streamed)

Sunday, January 4

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Guided breath meditation and NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

10:30 AM-11:00 AM Guided meditation, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

11:15 AM-1:00 PM Teachings with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM Teachings with Lama Caroline (main gompa)

5:00 PM Guru Puja and farewell grretings to Zava Damdin Rinpoche (main gompa)

Monday, January 5

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Guided breath meditation and NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

10:30 AM-11:00 AM Guided meditation, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

11:15 AM-1:00 PM Teachings with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM Teaching with Lama Caroline  (main gompa)

5:30 PM-6:30 PM Guided meditation: NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing of Vajrayoghini – The dance of great bliss, with Lama Caroline

5:00 PM Guru Puja (Dharmapala gompa – not streamed)

Tuesday, January 6

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Guided breath meditation and NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing, with Lama Michel Rinpoche (main gompa)

10:30 AM-1:00 PM Course closing and Guru Puja with Lama Michel Rinpoche, Lama Caroline, geshes and monks (main gompa)

 

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To help us better organise the course and prepare all the necessary materials, we kindly ask you to fill out the following form
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To buy the study materials:

https://shop.ngalso.org/products/wholesome-questions-and-noble-minded-answers-1?_pos=1&_psq=whole&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Wholesome Questions and Noble-Minded Answers

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Sky dance of great bliss

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Vivere con le dakini

https://shop.ngalso.org/products/seven-eyes-white-tara-1
Seven Eyes White Tara Sadhana 

 

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

 

 

Masters for this event

  • Lama Caroline

  • Lama Michel Rinpoche

  • Zava Damdin Rinpoche

  • Zava Damdin Rinpoche

Time

December 27, 2025 10:30 - January 6, 2026 13:00

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