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Retreat of Vajrayogini

02nov10:3013:00Retreat of VajrayoginiRetreat instructions  Place: Main Gompa Level: Intermediate10:30 - 13:00

Event Details

Retreat of Vajrayogini: the Sky Dance of 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 three daily sessions for the duration of the retreat.

Lama Michel Rinpoche will make a personal Vajrayogini retreat in Albagnano during the same period. His practice will energetically support the retreat even if he will not be physically present.

The retreat will be conducted, in the traditional way, by Geshe Lobsang Puntsok: three 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.

Those who wish to participate only in some sessions and/or only for a few days can do so in the Tara Gompa following the sessions via live video transmission from the meditation hall. In this case, there is no obligation to complete the 100,000 mantras in the period.

You can book for this retreat by filling in the form at this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0jnedlhWxsGIOU4VDTk5sTFwjCjH67UDbm8W7MBHR8DSQ0w/viewform

Programme:

Friday 1 November

10.30am -1.00 pm:  Guru Puja 

3.00pm  – 7.00pm: Teaching on  Vajrayogini Tantra

Saturday 2 November

10.30am – 1.00pm: retreat instructions 

3.00pm – 5.00pm: preparation and first session

8.30pm – 10.00pm: second session

Sunday 3 to Friday 22 November

9.00am -12.30 pm: first session

2.30pm – 5.30pm: second session

8.00pm – 10.30pm: third session

Saturday 23 November

9.00am -10.30am:last session

11.00am – 1.00pm: peaceful fire puja

Sunday 25 November

9.30am – 1.00pm: Dajug Self-initiation of Vajrayogini

Masters for this event

  • Geshe Lobsang Puntsok

    Geshe Lobsang Puntsok

    Geshe Lobsang Phuntsok, was born in 1969 in Darjeeling, India from tibetan parents. Following the direct advice of H.H Trijang Dorje Chan he was sent to the monastery in 1979. From 1982 to 1995 he studied the five major topics of Buddhist philosophy and he competed all the Buddhist studies getting the Geshe degree in the 2001.
    In 2002 Ven. Gonsar Rinpoche invited him to help the young Yangzie Trijang Rinpoche and other students in Tashi Rabten, Austria.
    He followed Kyabe Trijang Chocktrul Rinponche to USA and supported him from 2004 to 2016 in his own center the Trijang Buddhist Institute in Vermont,USA, where he has been also giving teachings to other students.
    In 2020, he completed a 4 years meditation retreat in Italy and since then, he is a resident Geshe at Albagnano Healing Meditation Center.

Time

November 2, 2024 10:30 - 13:00

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