Monday, August 3, 2020

Join a One-Week Online Vajrasattva Retreat with Yangsi Rinpoche and Geshe Tenzin Loden

Vajrasattva, www.melodiousdharma.wordpress.com.

A Dharma center in France, Institut Vajra Yogini, is holding a one-week Vajrasattva Retreat with teachings by Yangsi Rinpoche and Geshe Tenzin Loden.

Vajrasattva Retreat

The retreat is being held online and has already begun. Sorry for not posting it sooner.

The Event

The Institut Vajra Yogini website says, "Yangsi Rinpoche is currently Director of Maitripa College, a Buddhist university affiliated with the FPMT, in Portland, USA. For nearly 20 years, he has given us the great joy of coming to teach at the Institute every summer.

"Because of restrictions on flights from the United States, there is little chance that Rinpoche will be able to attend the Institute this year. For his part, he hopes to return as soon as possible, but for the moment we are obliged to adapt the usual programme in order to maintain this important practice time of the summer.

"In consultation with Rinpoche and Geshe Tenzin Loden, we have decided to continue the retreat."
Vajrasattva Retreat, Institut Vajra Yogini Facebook.

Schedule

August 1 - August 8, 2020

Yangsi Rinpoche is leading one session per day via Zoom. Rinpoche's session will be translated into English.

Session times:
6:30 AM CET - led by Geshe Tenzin Loden (Tibetan to French translation only)
10:00 AM CET - led by Geshe Tenzin Loden (Tibetan to French translation only)
4:30 PM CET - free time (Tibetan to French translation only)
8:00 PM CET - led by Yangsi Rinpoche (Tibetan to French and English translation)

(Yangsi Rinpoche's session is 11:00 AM PT)

Sessions led by Yangsi Rinpoche available with English translation:
Aug 3, 2020 11:00 AM PT
Aug 4, 2020 11:00 AM PT
Aug 5, 2020 11:00 AM PT
Aug 6, 2020 11:00 AM PT
Aug 7, 2020 11:00 AM PT
Aug 8, 2020 11:00 AM PT

Join the Retreat

The retreat is livestreaming in French only on the Institut Vajra Yogini YouTube channel and Institut Vajra Yogini Facebook page. The recordings posted are also only in French.

Register through Maitripa College to watch Yangi Rinpoche's sessions with Tibetan to English translation. These sessions are being held on Zoom.

Texts to download for the retreat in English:
Long long life prayer - Yangsi Rinpoche
Short long life prayer
Solitary Vajrasattva
Vajrasattva Retreat 2020
Wheel of Sharp Weapons Translation

The retreat is being offered by Institute Vajra Yogini to all of us by donation only. Please offer what you can via their website.

Vajrasattva

"Vajrasatva (Sanskrit: वज्रसत्त्, Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ། Dorje Sempa, short form is རྡོར་སེམས། Dorsem, Монгол: Доржсэмбэ)[1] is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana, Mantrayana/Vajrayana Buddhist traditions. In the Japanese Vajrayana school of Buddhism, Shingon, Vajrasatva is the esoteric aspect of the bodhisattva Samantabhadra and is commonly associated with the student practitioner who through the master's teachings, attains an ever-enriching subtle and rarefied grounding in their esoteric practice. In Tibetan Buddhism Vajrasatva is associated with the sambhogakāya and purification practice."

Continue reading on www.wikipedia.org.

Yangsi Rinpoche, www.institutvajrayogini.fr.

Yangsi Rinpoche

"Yangsi Rinpoche (President) was recognized as the reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun, a renowned scholar and practitioner from Western Tibet, at the age of six. Rinpoche trained in the traditional monastic system for over 25 years, and practiced as a monk until the age of 35.

"In 1995 he graduated with the highest degree of Geshe Lharampa from Sera Je Monastery in South India. He then completed his studies at Gyume Tantric College, and, in 1998, having the particular wish to benefit Western students of the Buddhadharma, Rinpoche came to the West to teach and travel extensively throughout America and Europe.

"Rinpoche served as a resident teacher at Deer Park Buddhist Center (Madison, Wisconsin) for five years, and is currently the Spiritual Director of Ganden Shedrup Ling Buddhist Center (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Dharma Friendship Foundation (Seattle, Washington), and Tara Buddhist Center (Nashville, Tennessee).

"He founded Maitripa College in 2005 in Portland, Oregon. Rinpoche is the author of Practicing the Path: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo, published in 2003 by Wisdom Publications."

Continue reading Yangsi Rinpoche's biography on www.maitripa.org.

Geshe Tenzin Loden, www.institutvajrayogini.fr.

Geshe Tenzin Loden

The Institut Vajra Yogini website says, "Geshe Tenzin Loden, the new resident teacher at the Institute, was born in Bylakuppe, in southern India in 1961. He entered Sera Je Monastery at the age of nine and continued his studies until he obtained the title of Geshe in 1994. He then spent six years in strict retreat.

"From 2003 to 2006, he occupied the post of chant master (omze), still in Sera Je, which he left at the end of 2007, at the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, to succeed Geshe Tenzin Dorje."

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