Dzogchen Seminars and Retreats 2009

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ISRAEL
March 18th-26th

Tel Aviv: Evening Lecture

The Dakini Conundrum
The symbolism of the Dakini (the female buddha) and her relationship with the world elaborates our experience of mind in a poetic and evocative manner that puts us at once firmly on the ground and flying in the sky. 

Sangha House, Wed. 18/3  19:30-21:30 

Galilee: Seminar and Retreat

Perfection of Passion 

Dzogchen is the ultimate secret of Mind and of the Tibetan Lamas. Zen-like in its uncompromising insistence upon the middle way and upon our Buddha-potential, it nevertheless allows us to incorporate our humanity, in all its multifarious facets, into a spiritual praxis. The aim of this seminar is to focus upon the nitty-gritty of Dzogchen praxis, upon the aspects of the vision that we are encountering in every minute of the day that can bring us immediately to the meditation, that act as the constant and unfailing initiatrix into the nature of mind. The perfection of passion refers to the emotional side of life that is always with us, too frequently abused as obstruction to out enlightenment, or demonised conventionally by dualistic religion. This seminar and retreat seeks to assimilate all our experience to The Great Perfection -- a vision, a meditation and a lifestyle that can remove obstructions to spacious personal freedom: to resolve confused emotion, to embrace sexuality, to develop compassionate Buddha-mind, to cultivate an acceptance of death, and to create a personal mandala of integration and clear purpose

The Retreat will allow us time in peaceful seclusion to practise the vision and meditation of Dzogchen which always requires attention. We will also look at the Semdzins of Longchenpa which provide support to that endeavour.

A Dzogchen event always (always!?) evokes the awareness, serenity, humour, compassion that  is the nature of being.  This is because  -- rather than in spite of -- the lack of any vow, samaya, discipline, vinaya, rules of  behaviour.      

Place: Tuval
Time: Seminar: Friday March 20th Saturday March 21st
             Retreat: Sunday March 22nd Thursday March 26th 

Contact 
Gilia Bar Levi giliabar@yahoo.com
Mobile: 972-50-6711930

website: tovana.co.il (in Hebrew)
registration: mirigreenstein@gmail.com 

AUSTRIA: Gutenstein
 April 3rd - 5th 
Radical Dzogchen Seminar 

again in Gutenstein 

Primordial Yoga: The Deep Heart's Core

All the vast literature of Dzogchen, all its instruction in view and meditation can be essentialised in the introduction to the nature of mind and that pointing finger puts us in the place out of which the Great Perfection blooms. We will use Mipham's Voice of Vajra Awareness and Vairocana's slokas.

Place: Maitreya Institut Gutenstein

Time: Friday April 3rd - Sunday April 5th 

Contact:
Sylvester and Li Lohninger
sequoyah@nextra.at
Fon: +43-2634-7417
Web: www.maitreya.at 

Blättertal 9, A-2770 Gutenstein

HUNGARY: BUDAPEST

Seminar April 10th -12th 

Dzogchen Download
This seminar provides an introduction to the heart of Dzogchen. 
The Dzogchen view and meditation are presented here.

Introduction to the Nature of Mind
April Fri 10th 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Vajrasattva's Vast Space
April Sat 11th 10:00am - 12:00pm and 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Dakini Conundrum
April Sun 12th 10:00am - 1:00 and 3:00pm - 6:00pm

Place: Sambhala Tibet Center, Budapest
1068 Budapest, Szófia u.7. (00361)266 8084, 06 70 944 0260

Rushen Retreat April 13th-20th 
All who have an introduction to the nature of mind are welcome 

Topic: The Four Bardos
At best the bardo teaching prepares us for life
At worst Dzogchen is a passport through the bardos 

Veranka Island, near Baja, 
In the Danube 130km  south of Budapest.

Contact: 
Tibor Hendry 
email: sambhala@elender.hu   
website: www.tibet.hu
Tibetet Segítõ Társaság Sambhala Tibet Központ 
Tibet Support Association Sambhala Tibet Center

GERMANY: BERLIN

Urban Yogi Update and Download

Dzogchen Seminar and Retreat
Seminar: Friday 24 April - Sunday 26.April 
Retreat: Monday 27th April - Wednesday 29.April

German Dzogchen 
We need to make our twenty-four hour experience identical to the nature of mind. Integrating samasara with contemplation -- tweaking life out of pain -- is the praxis between sitting sessions (the seminar Fri-Sun) ) where we may also use tantric methods; and resting in the nature of mind is the praxis of sitting sessions (the retreat Mon -Wed)


Place: Theksum Tashi Chöling Berlin
 c/o Bodhicharya e.V.
 Kinzigstraße 25-29
 10247 Berlin - Friedrichshain
 (Near U5-Samariterstrasse, TRAM 23 Wismar Platz)

Contact:
Anne Gabler: yontan@gmx.net
Anna Aly:  +491637423869
Olaf : Olaf@khordong.de
www.khordong.net

For Accommodation
 contact Anne Gäbler
 

ENGLAND:  LEWES 

Seminar: May 16th - 17th

The Bones of Dzogchen
 Dzogchen stripped down to its original unelaborated quintessence, the vision as the twenty-four hour meditation, non-cultural Buddhism, introduction to the nature of mind. 
[Based on Patrul and  Mipham's texts].

Contact;
Huw on
01323 871836 or 07771 646 575
or email at
dharmawheel@hotmail.com

MEXICO

Espacio Dzogchen México

June 3rd-July 6th

Conferencia 

Place: Yoga Espacio
Time: June Wednesday 3rd 7:30pm

Dzogchen: Mexican Dzogchen
Let's get rid of the Asian cultural intrusion
Place: Allende 110 Col. Del Carmen, Coyoacán, D. F.
Tel.- 56 58 12 50 / 56 58 07 43

Conferencia 
Espacio Interbudista  
Place: (Loseling)  Centro Area
Time: Friday June 5th 7:30 pm  
Dzogchen: NON-ACTION 
We don't like pressure. Exertion is non-productive. Non-action works for us! 

 

Conferencia
Place: Casa de Red, Cuernavaca 
Time: Monday June 7th 7:30pm
Dzogchen for Failures
If we search for a key  we confirm the prison. 
Yet here is the chance for ultimate success, 
where the prison becomes a pureland. 

Chihuahua
Introduction to Dzogchen: Conference and Retreat

Conferencia:
Time: Tuesday 9th June 7:30
Place: Torreòn  city
Samsara and/or Nirvana
The non-dual Buddhist option that subsumes all our lives

Introductory Retreat
Time: Thursday June 11th - 14th
Place: Jimenez
Introduction to the nature of mind
The Inner rushen exercises are enough to give us the entire Dzogchen mandala. Dzogchen praxis is for everyone at all times.  

Tepoztlan,
Time: Thursday 18th - Sunday 21st
Place:  Werica
 Radical Dzogchen: Introductory Retreat:
The Pointing Out Instruction
This introduction based upon the Vajra Voice of Mipham Rinpoche and The Three Incisive Precepts of Patrul take us immediately to the centre of the Mandala and allows us to describe the topography and psychology of experience from the buddha's perspective.

Acapulco
Time: June Friday 26th-Sunday 28th
Place: Bambuddha
Seminar 
The Dakini Conundrum
It is not only the Dakini but the Daka also who we can never pin down as a lover or mentor. We are looking for the mysterious home of the Dakini. 

ContactVistara
Carretera Barra Vieja no. 37
Tel.- 01( 744 )444 64 06 & 07 
Nextel  01 (744) 1000 457 ID 198858 *1
   papalotzin@aol.com          www.bambuddhacapulco.com         

Real de Catorce. S.L.P
Time: July Friday 3rd- Sunday 5th 
Seminar
The Four Bardos
At best, the teaching upon the gap between 
death and rebirth enlightens our lives;
At worst, Dzogchen is a passport to cross all borders. 

Morelia, Michoacan
All-day Sunday July 12th
Samsara is Nirvana
If we search for a key  we confirm the prison. 
Yet here is the chance for ultimate success, 
where the prison becomes a pureland. 
Contact: Dea Garcia

 All enquiries to: Rosa Veronica Gomez:
Espacio Dzogchen México: www.espaciodzogchen.org
Informes e inscripciones: 
email: espaciodzogchenmexico@yahoo.com

USA: Colorado 

Boulder
Shambhala Center
Thursday, July 16,  7:00 pm
 The Bones of Dzogchen
Radical Dzogchen is the root dharma of 8th century Tibet before it was hidden by the monastic veneer. Strip away the cultural flesh and its the bones of Dzogchen that momentarily renew the world. 

Crestone
Weekend Seminar: July Saturday18th - Sunday 19th
Yeshe Khorlo: Gangten Rimpoche's Gompa
Vairotsana's Vast Space of Vajrasattva
This early radical Dzogchen text deals with the principal issues 
of the Dzogchen view.
 Semdzins will augment the Dzogchen meditation 
Contact Chris Chandler on 719-256-4892  
or christinechandler102@gmail.com  

Boulder: Gold Lake Resort
Talk: Monday 20th evening
Spacious Mind: Buddhist Dzogchen as the core of the Spiritual Path.
contact: Charlotte Rotterdam
czrotterdam@gmail.com

USA: New Mexico: Santa Fe

Dzogchen in Brief
July Friday 24th
Pointing Out at the Dudjom Stupa Sanctuary at Upaya Center
7:00 - 9:00pm


July 25th-26th
The Great Garuda in Flight
Radical Dzogchen update and download 

The Garuda hatches fully fledged and immediately spreads its wings and soars endlessly on the natural wind currents with complete mastery of the elements. The Great Garuda in Flight is one of the first Dzogchen tantras to be translated into Tibetan and remains a vital transmission in the radical Dzogchen tradition and takes us from the centre of the Dzogchen mandala to the nitty-gritty of attention to the minutiae of everyday experience.  

16 Espira Court,  Eldorado
Contact: Jeremiah Weser
jeremiahweser@yahoo.com
tel: +505-466-8006

MONGOLIAN PILGRIMAGE 
AND RETREAT

Lapis Sky Camp, Bunkhan Valley, Arkhangai, Mongolia

August 5^th – August 22^nd 2009

The dream of a Dzogchen retreat under the vast Mongolian skies is indeed to be realised. The essence of the retreat will be the view and meditation enshrined in Longchenpa’s Treasury of Natural Perfection and Dzogchen sky-gazing. The natural environment though will be the raw elemental forces of the Mongolian steppes, the human environment will be the shamanic and buddhist horsemen of the steppes, and the spiritual environment will be the vast spaces of mind. 

The entire interlude in Mongolia should be envisioned as a Dzogchen retreat wherein all the movements of body, speech and mind, are experienced as non-action. But we shall have pilgrimage in Ulaan Baatar to gompas and shamans; in Karakhorim to Ghengis Khan’s monastery (Edene Zhu); and by horse to the geomantic features in the shamanic environment of the Bunkhan Valley where we will sit (the shaman mountain, springs and nomad villages).

Our hosts in Mongolia are Carroll Dunham and Tom Kelly old friends and neighbours from Kathmandu who have spent summers in a gher camp in central Mongolia for the past ten years. See below for their bio.

We have kept the basic land cost down to $3000 (or the euro equivalent -- currently €2400) by making the three day horse trek to the sacred shaman mountain at the end of the retreat a voluntary extra. This Mongolian  pilgrimage differs from the great and magnificent Kailash pilgrimage of 2007 in that we will not cut corners with costs and creature comforts and run the best cheapest tour on the web in 2009, rather  we will pay for the best accommodation and transport possible at the heart of one of the last great wildernesses on the planet according to Carroll and Tom ’s high professional standard. Mongolian gher camp with yurt accommodation is the style.

Flights to Ulaan Baatar

From US or Mexico via L.A. or S.F. on Korean or Air China $850 on last count.

From Europe : Nothing is certain, perhaps €1000, subject to change. If anyone can find a cheap and good direct flight to Ulaan Baator please let me know. The Trans-Siberian Express is the other option.

I advise an early arrival by a couple of days in Ulaan Baatar for those who suffer from excessive jetlag.

Please contact me for any personal communication at keith.dowman@gmail.com

Contact 

Contact Carroll Dunham for registration and visa information, equipment list, weather forecast etc at carroll@wildearthnepal.com  

See also www.wildearthjourneys.com (full final upload delayed for a couple of days)

Payment will be made directly to Carroll.

The primacy of Dzogchen vision and meditation can never be in doubt. 

CARROLL DUNHAM AND TOM KELLY

Our hosts will be the nomads of the Bunkhan Valley and the Kelly Family.  Tom Kelly is an award-winning photographer (www.thomaslkelly.com), and his wife Carroll Dunham is an anthropologist and herbalist.  They have called the Himalayas --  mostly in Kathmandu -- home for over twenty years. This is their 9th summer season in the beloved Bunkhan Valley with Lapis Sky Camp.

Their books include: Tibet : Reflections from the

Wheel of Life, The Hidden Himalayas, and Sacred Landscape and Pilgrimage in Tibet (Abbeville Press.) They have produced award-winning films on the Himalayas for BBC, PBS, ITV, Channel 4, National Geographic and CBC. They love nothing more than drinking deep with kindred spirits the spacious inner winds of meditation, combined with riding fast horses in vast spaces of wilderness with the wind on their cheeks.

There will be time for Yoga practice with Carroll and magnificent Mongolian horses are available for long rides through this varied terrain of wilderness between practice sessions. 

Carroll's Invitation to the Bunkhan Valley 
(go www.wildearthjourneys.com for full text and photos)

Join us on this once in a lifetime journey deep into the wild sacred terrain of the earth and mind,  to one of the last spacious wildernesses left on the planet.  Horses outnumber people 8 to one in a country the size of western Europe with only 2. 5 million people, the largest nomadic civilization left on the earth. Witness the incredible resiliency of the human spirit, with the revitilization of both Buddhism and Shamanism.  70 years of communist rule attempting to eradicate Buddhism from the steppes proved debilitating but not successful. Now urban Mongols struggle with the seductive influx of consumer goods antithetical to a nomadic lifestyle in a capital teeming with growth.

For thousands of years, Mongolian shamans have traditionally retreated in the summer months to the mountains with offerings, to revitalize and become recharged with spirit offered from the terrain and sky. Nomads have worshipped the sky for at least 6000 years, relying on their animal herds for survival. Like the shamans before us, we will journey deep into the heartland of this country, to taste the raw elements which have supported a profound spiritual view, deeply linked to the environment. We will live as nomads in cozy rustic ghers with nomad neighbors and the deep crystaline Tamir river roaring beside us, with a herd of horses to ride through this varying terrain where forest meets steppe in the Khangai mountains, rich with 3000 year old archeological burial sites.  We will discover a deep sense of renewal of spirit and view in the marrow of our bones, being and vision, meeting the living Mongolian tradition along the way.

This pilgrimage begins in Ulaan Baatar, the capital of Mongolia. We will visit key monasteries and join the khandromas of the Narkhajid temple, witnessing the vitality of post Soviet Buddhist revitilization traditions. A shamanic ceremony gives insight into this rich legacy so deeply a part of Mongolian spiritual worldview. We will travel the vast expanse and space of the steppes visiting Erdene Zhu, the largest monastery in Mongolia where Ghengis Khan's descendants ruled the world before continuing our pilgrimage to the Bunkhan valley in Arkhangai, the Buddhist heartland of Mongolia and home to Scythian civilizations 3000 years ago. Bunkhan is a charnel ground of ancient burial remains, kings and queens lay below the soil with their beloved gold adorned steeds marked with stones, and the larch studded sacred Bayondur mountain rests above the camp, with the vital Tamir river curling and roaring beside the yurts. Yoga practice is available and magnificent Mongolian horses- "the dragon herd" are available for long rides through this varied terrain of wilderness between practice sessions along with art, archery and wrestling.

For more information contact:
carroll@wildearthnepal.com
keithdowman@gmail.com

DAILY ITINERARY:

Day 1 (Aug 4th)
Depart for Ulaan Baatar. Can come overland through Moscow on Trans-Siberian express, but need to book ahead. From US most commonly fly through Korea is recommended, or through Beijing.  

Day2 (Aug 5)
Arrive in  Ulaan Baatar. Met at airport and driven one hour beyond the city into the wilderness of Terelej to a ger camp. TERELEJ

Day 3 (Aug 6)
Breakfast Relax if jetlagged or we travel to visit Ganden monastery, the seat of Buddhism in Mongolia. Although Buddhist monastereis were either destroyed or converted into museums during hte Stalinist purges of the 1930s, Ganden Monastery continued to operate as a showpiece for government officials and today is a thriving monastic center, We travel on to visit the Khandomas of Narkhajid monastery, married Chod practitioners. Chod is a traditional wilderness practice for cutting through fear. After lunch, we travel to a sacred spot near the Tuul River and Bogd Khan mountain for a shamanic ceremony, providing insight into the revilitization of urban shamanism. Back to camp for dinner. TERELEJ

Day 4 (Aug 7)
Depart in the morning for Kharakorim. Like ships in the esert, we will sail through the vast sea of the steppes to the ancient capitol of Kharakorim, After breakfast we travel by comfortable AC bus through the sweeping Mongolian grasslands as if a boat on the rolling sea of the steppes, arriving by evening in Kharakhirin, where we will stay at a traditional ger camp. KHARAKORIM

Day 5 (Aug 8)
We start our day with a visit to Erdene Zhu monastery. The great Ghengis Khan and his son created the beautiful and legendary city of Kharakhorim in the 13th century to serve as the heart of his monolithic Mongol empire. There are only a few traces  left of this once great city, but Mongolia's largest monastery, neighboring Erdene Zhu, was reputedly constructed from the ruins of Kharakorim in the 16th century.  Erdene Zhu has been a place of Buddhist activity for more than 500 years. We will explore the monastery grounds and meet with the head lama. We continue driving west, passing the capitol of Arkhangai, Tsetserleg, "the Garden City", before reaching Bunkhan valley. Walking down Princess Pass where once a Princess in a palanquin is said to have stopped to enjoy the view, we walk near sunset down to our gers, welcomed by our local nomad staff. Settling into our ghers before supper. LAPIS SKY CAMP

Day 6-12 (Aug 9-15)
Having drunk the deep spaces of the steppes on our journey down, we now settle into Longchenpa's "Old Man Basking in the Sun" teachings and wilderness retreat with Keith Dowman, exploring the precepts of nonaction and wild mind. Wood stoves crackle in our gers, and late at night lone lover nomads can be heard singing on horseback, returnining from a summer visit to a lover up valley. Horses and herds of yak wander by.  Morning practice in the Cottonwood forest, optional yoga. Our neighbor Gamboldt's shaggy white yak will pull the cart he usually carries the ger on, carrying supplies for a traditional Mongol Barbeque picnic. One afternoon Tsering Kunchok, a 78 year old Mongol medicinal healer comes to talk and gather and identify medicinal plants. Checking pulses, he examines how the elements flow in each being.  Our Mongol grandfather  nomad Namkha shares Mongol horse riding wisdom, and horse riding practice occurs in the vast valley of Teel, until one feels the fire in the belly to thunderhoof with ease, fearlessly, like a bird.  We can swim in the bracing river or enjoy forest solitude with a mountain peak in every direction. Nomads beckon for those who wish interaction to learn the 6000 year old nomadic horse arts of steppe survival in this land made so sweet for such a brief time before the northern winds sweep through with bitter cold. Day 12 Keith Dowman gives open teachings translated to nomads and monks who come from Tsetserleg monastery. LAPIS SKY CAMP

Day 13 (Aug 16)
We host a mini Nadam, horse racing, wrestling and rodeo events topped with an evening concert by the river with bonfire, traditional Mongol throat singing and horse fiddle. LAPIS SKY CAMP

Day 14 (Aug 17)
"I ride a stallion,
the foal of a barren mare.
Unborn, all-pervading
Absolute space. 
I sit in a saddle without
Meditation, without tampering
Mind occurs naturally.
–Shabkar

(Chassez le natural au revient gallop)
Riding a horse has always been used as a metaphor in Vajrayana Buddhism for how to work skillfully with the mind. We offer an optional horse pilgrimage to the base of sacred Bayondur Mountain offering a different view moving through landscape. Those who prefer can stay at Lapis Sky Camp for further personal retreat, practice, painting, mind and body at ease. 

Murindo! echoing Ghengis Khan's battle cry for "saddle up"! Enthused by local festivities, to increase our windhorse, called hiimor in Mongolian, lungta in Tibetan, we spend a leisurely day in the saddle,  riding through this extraordinary landscape, stopping and visiting nomads along the way.   According to Mongol belief a  strong windhorse allows one to see with clarity and act decisively--critical skills in a warrior culture as well as in modern life. We set up a tented camp at the base of a mountain venerated by shamans since the time of Ghengis Khan, if not before.  BAYONDUR MOUNTAIN BASE CAMP (tents)/ LAPIS SKY CAMP

Day 15 (Aug 18)
The second day of our windhorse pilgrimage to Bayondur for recharge, men traditionally ride up to circle the ovoo (stone cairn) making white (dairy product) offerings to the sky and Mountain spirits, asking for blessings for the horse, the herd, the community, the family, and increase of one's own windhorse vitality. Because women are symbolically conceived as nature- the mountain itself, they rest at ease, at the base of the mountain. BAYONDUR MOUNTAIN BASE CAMP (tents) LAPIS SKY CAMP

Day 16 (Aug 19)
Horseback return to Lapis Sky Camp, Reunion, Keith gives an evening talk on Longchenpa translated into Mongolian for nomad friends. Farewell dinner, traditional singing. LAPIS SKY CAMP

Day 17 (Aug 20)
Drive from camp to Kharakorim.

Day 18 (Aug 21)
Catch early morning flight from Kharakorim to Ulaan Baatar. Free afternoon explore city, visit Mongolian artist ateliers. Lunch and dinner on your own. Depart for home on evening flights.

TRIP COST:
US $3000 deposit $500
optional 3 day horse pilgrimage $500

PRICE INCLUDES:
Dzogchen retreat  teacher Keith Dowman; translator, yoga and resource guide Carroll Dunham; transport in Mongolia, all meals except on 21st, lodging in gers, double occupancy ( single occupancy $500 extra supplement) ger retreat living in Bunkhan, horses, horsemen, saddles, airport transfers, museum entrance fees, The price does not include airport tax, offerings to lamas, alcohol drinks or tips to the horseman and staff, flights to UB. 

Cancellation Policy: Final payment is due May 1st. In the event of cancellation within 31-70 days prior to departure date, there will be a refund of 50% of the land portion of the trip fee, In the event of cancellation within 40 days prior to the departure date, there will be a refund of 35% of the land portion of the trip fee. 

 Sarva Mangalam!

Dzogchen Seminars and Retreats 2008

ISRAEL

Evenings

Thursday, 24.4 - 19:30-21:30 , t.a
Tel Aviv 
In the Tovana sangha house
'No meditation, meditation and non-meditation' 

Saturday, 26.4 20:00 - 22:00,  
Jerusalem
'Maga',  shiatsu school
'Dzogchen and healing'  
Dzogchen and Healing: Dzogchen View and Meditation provides the optimal conditions for healing by any system of medicine. It also allows the ideal  state of mind for the healer. An introduction to Dzogchen in the context of healing.

Saturday, 3.5 19:30-21:30,
Jerusalem
'Reidman' holistic medicine college

Seminar and Retreat 
The Masks of Nirvana

Place: Touval, Galilee
Time: Seminar: Thursday May 8th to Saturday May 10th
             Retreat: Thursday May 15th to Thursday May 22nd

The tradition of Dzogchen is unique in many ways but perhaps the most
exciting is the method of instruction that takes the starting point as the
goal. The path begins with an assumption of its completion, with a
recognition of our ordinary mind as perfect in itself. Our highest
existential realisation thus forms the foundation of that path. In this 
seminar and retreat we cultivate the Dzogchen perspective that gives entry 
to that path and the meditation that is the corollary of that understanding.

The natural state of mind, which we can call buddhahood, is cloaked
only by an evanescent veneer of conceptual cloudiness and its varieties  
we may call the masks of nirvana. Recognise the masks for what they 
are and each one becomes a skilful means of attainment. The seminar 
employs a basic Dzogchen text to introduce the nature of mind and thereafter 
we explore together the basic masks of existence – embodiment, survival, 
 passion and death.

There are no requirements for attendance to the seminar. But those who 
have a background in buddhism will find its terminology familiar, and particularly, anyone who has practised buddhist vipasyana or samatha meditation will find themselves well grounded and is especially welcome. 
The substance of this seminar is the complete fundamental Dzogchen transmission which should be received over and over again. It is 
recommended that anybody intuitively convinced of the nonduality 
of all experience receive this transmission repeatedly.

Some participants in this inner and outer environment of tranquillity and awareness may gain an immediate recognition of the Dzogchen view 
(or perhaps they already possess it) but still that recognition comes and 
goes and the means of a constant relaxation escapes us. The retreat offers 
the skilful means of attaining that relaxation beginning with discussion and precepts of guru-yoga and continuing with instruction in the simple yogas of ati-yoga (the inner ruzhen) and the focal points of attention that act as windows and then doorways into the nature of mind (semdzins).

This retreat may provide the occasion for a communion of minds enjoying 
the universal truth at the heart of Buddhist revelation. It is open to all who 
have received an introduction through the Masks of Nirvana seminar 
or formal pointing out instructions from any Dzogchen Lama.

Contact 
Gilia Bar Levi giliabar@yahoo.com
Mobile: 972-50-6711930

website: tovana.co.il (in Hebrew)
registration: giliabar@yahoo.com

GREECE

Rhodos

Dzogchen in Essence
Fri May 30^th 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Guru Yoga 
Sat May 31^st 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Beyond Suffering
atiyoga and some semdzins
Sun June 1^st 10:00am – 1:00pm

Place: Yoga Centre 

Contact
Ifigeneia Xalkia 
email: ixalkia@12ne.gr

Tel : 6945 374 109
Home tel 2241 0 90290 after 16.00

Athens

The Dzogchen Imperative
an introduction to Dzogchen 
Place: Shambhala Center
Time: Monday June 2nd 7:00 pm

Dzogchen Retreat

Six days of immersion in the Dzogchen ethos 
Guru Yoga on Dzogchen
The Five Early Tantras of Vairotsana

Place: Myrinounda Retreat Place, Markolpoulo Attikis
Time: Tuesday June 3^rd – Sunday June 8th 

The theory for the Outer Ruzhen retreat which will be held in 
Transylvania at the end of June will be given during this retreat.


Contact
 Fani Xenou: fanixenou@yahoo.com

Organized by the Urban Yogis.
May all beings be happy!

HUNGARY: BUDAPEST

Dzogchen Download
This seminar provides an introduction to the heart of Dzogchen. 
The Dzogchen view and meditation are presented here.

Introduction to the Nature of Mind
Friday June 13th 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Magical Illusion of Dzogchen
Saturday June 14th 10:00am - 1:00pm and 3:00pm - 6:00pm

The Wheel of Life Revisited
Sunday June 15th 10:00am - 1:00 and 3:00pm - 6:00pm

The theory of the Outer Ruzhen retreat, which will be held in 
Transylvania the following week (please see below), will be 
given during this last day.
 
Time: June 13th - 15th 
Place: Sambhala Tibet Center, Budapest
1068 Budapest, Szófia u.7. (00361)266 8084, 06 70 944 0260

Contact: 
Tibor Hendry 
email: sambhala@elender.hu   
website: www.tibet.hu
Tibetet Segítõ Társaság Sambhala Tibet Központ 
Tibet Support Association Sambhala Tibet Center

TRANSYLVANIA, ROMANIA

Outer Ruzhen Retreat
Date: June 18th - 28th
Place: Prajd, Transylvania, Romania

Outer Rushen is unique to Dzogchen praxis. It may provide the opening 
up that years of conventional Buddhist meditation cannot deliver. It is 
designed to give us immediate access to the here and now where the 
nature of mind resides. This second Rushen retreat with the Hungarian 
Dzogchen communion will, finally, take us to Transylvania, in Romania. 
We expect that this sacred land of the Hungarians will provide an ideal 
environment for the Rushen experience.The Tibetan tradition demanded 
that individuals or couples lived out in the mountain wilderness alone for 
weeks or months. Although this is still the ideal mode of practice, the 
difficulties of finding secluded wilderness and a solitary place in 
Europe have resulted in the type of Outer Ruzhen Retreat in a controlled 
area where we are free to express ourselves without inhibition and without interference. Transylvania would seem to offer these special conditions. 

The qualifications for Outer Ruzhen practice are simply an unconditional 
commitment to Dzogchen that implies receptive initiation into the nature of 
mind. For those who have this qualification but find the Outer Ruzhen 
practice beyond their capacity, the Inner Ruzhen practices may be done 
instead in this secluded environment. The theoretical background for the 
Outer Ruzhen will be presented in the Tuval (Israel), Athens and Budapest 
seminars. The schedule for each day at the Transylvanian place of practice 
will consist of a Dzogchen presentation and meal in communion and as 
much secluded practice, including the night time, in the individual 'seat' as 
much as each individual participant is capable of. The environment in 
Nagyforrás (Great Spring) near Parajd, on a plateau, by a forest ranch, is 
wild and woolly so be prepared for primitive conditions.

 We will meet in Budapest at Sambhala Tibet Center on June 17th at 9:00am,
where a bus will be provided for the ten hour journey to Prajd. Visas for
 Romania are not required for EU passport holders but better check with your
 Romanian Embassy. Full logistical information and further details will be
 available on the Sambhala web site www.tibet.hu or click on this link:
  http://www.tibet.hu/reszletek.php?backpid=44&oid=15

If you need to communicate with me about any dharma questions please 
email Keith.dowman@gmail.com

Contact: 
Tibor Hendry 
Tibetet Segítõ Társaság Sambhala Tibet Központ 
Tibet Support Association Sambhala Tibet Center
1068 Budapest, Szófia u.7. 
Tel: (+361)266 8084, 
06 70 944 0260

email: sambhala@elender.hu   
website: www.tibet.hu

GERMANY: BERLIN
Urban Yogi Update and Download


Dzogchen Seminar and Retreat
Friday July 4th - Sunday 13th 

Dzogchen in Essence 
the Introduction
Dzogchen view and ruzhen praxis 
Friday July 4th evening - Sunday 6th 

Friday and Saturday at Lotos Vihara Meditationszentrum
Neue Blumenstr.5
10179 Berlin-Mitte l
S-Bahn Jannowitzbrücke
U-Bahn Schillingstr. oder Straussberger Platz

Sunday atTheksum Tashi Chöling Berlin
 c/o Bodhicharya e.V.
 Kinzigstraße 25-29
 10247 Berlin - Friedrichshain
 (Near U5-Samariterstrasse, TRAM 23 Wismar Platz)

Chilling Out in Magical Illusion
Longchenpa's Gyumai Ngalso
a Dzogchen atiyoga practice
Monday July 7th - Wednesday July 9th
Afternoon and evening sessions:
15:00 hrs and 19:00hrs    
 
Guru Rinpoche in Dzogchen
with commentary on the Big Rigdzin 
Friday 11th evening - Sunday13th 

Dzogchen Pilgrimage in Tibet 
a slideshow of the 2007 Kailash Pilgrimage
Saturday evening 19:00hrs 

Place: Theksum Tashi Chöling Berlin
 c/o Bodhicharya e.V.
 Kinzigstraße 25-29
 10247 Berlin - Friedrichshain
 (Near U5-Samariterstrasse, TRAM 23 Wismar Platz)

Contact:
Anne Gabler: yontan@gmx.net
Anna Aly:  +491637423869
Olaf : Olaf@khordong.de
www.khordong.net

For Accommodation
 contact Anne Gäbler
 

GERMANY: SCHWARZWALD

Rangshar Ling
Tibetisches Zentrum Ngakpa e.V. /Lahr

The Dzogchen Imperative
An Introduction to the Nature of Mind 
Thursday July 17th 20:00hrs

Contact
http://www.tibet-lahr.de/

Seminarhaus "Alpensicht": 
Saig/Südschwarzwald

Radical Dzogchen:
The Tantras of Vairotsana and Dzogchen Trekcho Praxis
Time: Friday July 18th 19:00 hrs - Sunday July 20th 

Contact at Alpensicht
 Khoji, k.grossler@zayt.de, 
ph: +49 (0)7653 960094
For info contact: Fritz, fritz.sperr@web.de

Espacio Dzogchen México

One Day Seminar: 

Dzogchen: Primordial Yoga
and The Dzogchen Mandala
Dzogchen provides an all-inclusive foundation for all 
spiritual disciplines and lifestyles : this is the Dzogchen Mandala
Buddhism in Mexico.
Place: Espacio Interbudista (Loseling)
Time: Saturday August 2nd  10:00 am - 6:00 pm  

Conferencia: Constant Renewal
Dzogchen fulfils our need for constant access to the source
 of freshness, vitality, inspiration. Dzogchen and Christianity.

Place: Yoga Espacio
Allende 110 Col. Del Carmen, Coyoacán, D. F.
Tel.- 56 58 12 50 / 56 58 07 43
Time: Monday August 4th, 19:00hrs

 
Introduction to Dzogchen: Seminar and Retreat
The Essence of Dzogchen
This seminar with its inner ruzhen yogas should be taken 
again and again and again
Date: Thursday August 7th - Sunday August 10th 
Place: El Márquez Hacienda  Hotel. Guanajuato-Irapuato Road Km 11

Seminar/Retreat 
This World is Magical Illusion
In his Gyumai Ngalso Longchenpa gives us
the key to the vision and meditation of the Great Perfection
(for the first time in Mexico).
In proximity to the happy hunting grounds of the Huicholes
Place: Real de Catorce, S.L.P
Date: Friday August 15th - Sunday August 17th
 

Ruzhen Retreat 
Outer and Inner Ruzhen Retreat
Place: 
El Gosco  Ranch 
Tenango de  Doria in Hidalgo  State.
Dates: Friday August 22nd - Friday August 29th 

Seminar/Retreat
Dzogchen and Tantra: Skilful Means in Opening up to Spontaneity:
Renunciation and Rock 'n' Roll, Sex and Drugs
Place: Bambuddha, Acapulco
Date: Friday September 5th - Sunday September 7th

Carretera Barra Vieja no. 37
Tel.- 01( 744 )444 64 06 & 07 
Nextel  01 (744) 1000 457 ID 198858 *1
   papalotzin@aol.com          www.bambuddhacapulco.com         

    
Espacio Dzogchen México: www.espaciodzogchen.org
Informes e inscripciones: 
email: espaciodzogchenmexico@yahoo.com

USA 2008

New Mexico

Albuquerque
Copper Mountain Institute
Radical Dzogchen
Vairotsana's Five Tantras
Saturday and Sunday September 27th-28th
Contact: David Boaz
www.coppermount.org

Santa Fe
Ark Bookshop
The Dzogchen Imperative
Friday October 3rd 5:30 -7:00pm

Santa Fe 
Seminar/Retreat
The Heart of Dzogchen 
Saturday and Sunday October 4th and 5th
Contact: Jeremiah Weser
jeremiahweser@yahoo.com
tel: +505-466-8006

Colorado: Tara Mandala
Tues Oct 7th: 7:00pm
Radical Dzogchen: Book talk
Contact: 

Colorado:Crestone
Weekend Seminar
Masks of Nirvana
 Dzogchen Samayas from Longchenpa
Saturday/Sunday  Oct 11th-12th 
 243 Baca Grant Way, Crestone, CO
Contact Chris Chandler on 719-256-4892  
or christinechandler102@gmail.com

New York
Woodstock Mothership
Radical Dzogchen 7:00pm
 

Dzogchen Seminars and Retreats 2007 

Espacio Dzogchen México
February 18th - April 4th


The Wheel of Life
Conferencia
The wheel turns but there is always freedom in the here and now
and awareness in life and death:
and where goes Mexican Buddhism? Clarity and delusion in the dharma.
 Place: Yoga Espacio
Allende 110 Col. Del Carmen, Coyoacán, D. F.
Tel.- 56 58 12 50 / 56 58 07 43

Time: Tuesday Feb 20th, 19:00hrs

  A Bundle of Loose Blades
Introduction to Dzogchen: Seminar and Retreat
Place: Centro de Retiros Shambhala
Zitácuaro, Mich.
Date: Thursday Feb 22nd - Sunday 25th

      Under the Volcano V
Outer and Inner Ruzhen Retreats
Place: Iztac, Edo de México
Dates: Friday March 2nd - Sunday March 11th

Unlimited Space
The key to the vision of the Great Perfection
In proximity to the happy hunting grounds of the Huicholes
Place: Real de Catorce, S. L. P
Dates: Thursday March 16th - Sunday March 18th


Freedom Here and Now
Place:  Salòn Ejecutivo del Hotel Grand Plaza, La Paz, Baja California
Dates: Friday March 23rd to Sunday 25th
Contact:  Liduvina Perezgòmez 
612 1522143 ò 1210831 de 16:00 en adelante

A Priceless Key for Sale
Dzogchen and Tantra: Skilful Means in Opening up to Spontaneity
Place: Bambuddha, Acapulco
Date: Thursday March 29 to Sunday April 1st

Carretera Barra Vieja no. 37
Tel.- 01( 744 )444 64 06 & 07 
Nextel  01 (744) 1000 457 ID 198858 *1
   papalotzin@aol.com                                 www.bambuddhacapulco.com         

    
Espacio Dzogchen México: www.espaciodzogchen.org
Informes e inscripciones: 
email: espaciodzogchenmexico@yahoo.com
tel.- (52 55)  55 64 99 07 / 55 23 37 38

cel.-  044 55 56 01 75 89        

GREECE
April 20th - 29th

Radical Dzogchen
Vision and meditation based on
Vairotsana's "Five Original Transmissions"
Place: Shambhala Centre, Athens
Dates: Friday April 20th - Sunday April 22nd
Time: 19:30 - 21:30

Public Talk and Book Signing
Freedom of Mind:
Dzogchen in the Buddhist Tradition
and in the universal context
Time: 19:00hrs
Place and date to be announced

Retreat in the vast Clear Space
Four days of immersion in the Dzogchen ethos based on
"The Vast Space of Vajrasattva"
The theory of the Outer Ruzhen practice will be given during this retreat
Place: to be announced
Thursday April 26th- Sunday 29th

Contact: Fani Xenou: fanixenou@yahoo.com

Organized by the Urban Yogis.
May all beings be happy!

AUSTRIA
 First time seminar in Austria! May 11th - 13th

The Heart Core
 An Exposition of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection

Dzokchen is the ultimate secret of the Tibetan Lamas. Zen-like in its uncompromising insistence upon the middle way and upon our Buddha-potential, it nevertheless allows us to incorporate our humanity, in all its multifarious facets, into a spiritual praxis. The aim of this seminar is to introduce you to a vision, a meditation and a lifestyle that can remove obstructions to spacious personal freedom: to resolve confused emotion, to embrace sexuality, to develop compassionate Buddha-mind, to cultivate an acceptance of death, and to create a personal mandala of integration and clear purpose.

Place: Maitreya Institut Gutenstein

Time: Friday May 11th - Sunday May 13th

Contact:
Sylvester and Li Lohninger
sequoyah@nextra.at
Fon: +43-2634-7417
Web: www.maitreya.at 

Blättertal 9, A-2770 Gutenstein

HUNGARY: BUDAPEST

Dzogchen in Life and Death
Dzogchen and Mahamudra - Tilopa's Mahamudra Instruction,
and Bon and Buddhist Dzogchen - with reference to Lopon Tenzin Namdak's "Dzogchen Bonpo Teachings" 

The theory of the Outer Ruzhen retreat which will be held in Transylvania at the end of June will be given during this seminar. Please see below.

Time: Weekend May 18th -20th
Place: Sambhala, Budapest

Contact:
sambhala@elender.hu
www.tibet.hu

GERMANY: BERLIN

Urban Yogi Update and Download
Dates: May 25th -31st

Dzogchen Seminar

Friday evening, May 25th, 7:00pm
Introduction to Dzogchen through the Three Incisive Precepts of Garab Dorje

Saturday to Monday, May 26th-28th, 10am- 6pm
Dzogchen and Tantra: Skilful Means in Opening up to Spontaneity
The vajrayana tradition offers innumerable skilful means in breaking down the obstacles to an open and receptive mind:  
*joy, love, appreciation and gratitude*
*confidence and faith*
*the mandala of passion*
*the evocation of buddha archetypes*
*integration of sexual praxis*
*the issue of psychotropic support*
and much more!


Ruzhen Praxis
Dates: Tuesday to Thursday, May 29th-31st
There's no one to do it and nothing to do, but...freshen up the view and the meditation, and hone the aspiration by way of Vairotsana's early transmissions and some short Dzogchen texts.

The theory of the Outer Ruzhen retreat which will be held in Transylvania at the end of June will be given during this seminar. Please see below.

Place: Theksum Tashi Chöling Berlin
 c/o Bodhicharya e.V.
 Kinzigstraße 25-29
 10247 Berlin - Friedrichshain
 (Near U5-Samariterstrasse, TRAM 23 Wismar Platz)

Contact:
Andreas Ruft
andreas@khordong.net
+49-30-2833276
www.khordong.net

Accommodation:
 Anne Gäbler
 Fon: 030-534 25 08
 eMail: Yontan@gmx.net

Germany: Freiburg

Radical Dzogchen:
The Tantras of Vairotsana and Dzogchen Trekcho Praxis

Place: "Alpensicht": Saig/Schwarzwald
Dates: Monday 4th June - Wednesday 6th June
Contact: Khoji +49 7653 960094
Info contact: fritz.sperr@web.de:  Tel. +49 7633 929259

SWITZERLAND
Schweibenalp

The Keys to Radical Dzogchen
 a seminar on the nature of mind
based on Longchenpa's Treasury of Natural Perfection (Neluk Dzo)
a revelation through the Dzogchen samayas:
come straight to the heart of Dzogchen:
3/4 days of vision and meditation.
The seminar will begin with the introduction to the nature of mind
by way of Garab Dorje's Three Incisive Precepts

Place: Zentrum der Einheit, Schweibenalp
Dates: Thursday evening June 14th to Sunday June 17th

TRANSYLVANIA, ROMANIA

Outer Ruzhen Retreat
June 22nd - 30th/July 2nd (to be confirmed)

"The Transylvanian retreat will be the first Dzogchen Outer Ruzhen retreat offered in Europe. The Tibetan tradition demanded that individuals or couples lived out in the mountain wilderness alone for weeks or months. Although this is still the ideal mode of practice, the difficulties of finding secluded wilderness and a solitary place in Europe have resulted in the type of Outer Ruzhen Retreat in a controlled area where we are free to express ourselves, acting out the six realms, without interference. Transylvania would seem to offer these special conditions. The qualifications for Outer Ruzhen practice are simply an unconditional commitment to Dzogchen that implies receptive initiation into the nature of mind. For those who have this qualification but find the Outer Ruzhen practice beyond their capacity, the Inner Ruzhen practices may be done instead in this secluded environment. The theoretical background for the Outer Ruzhen will be presented in the last day of the May seminars in Budapest and Berlin. The schedule for each day at the Transylvanian place of practice will consist of a Dzogchen presentation and meal in communion and as much secluded practice, including the nighttime, in the individual 'seat' as each yogi and yogini is capable of."

Contact:
 sambhala@elender.hu
 www.tibet.hu
or kdowman@compuserve.com

DZOGCHEN PILGRIMAGE
Central Tibet and Mt Kailash
August 14th to September 6th

Dear Friends,
I have made a fine itinerary for a Tibet pilgrimage that combines the main Dzogchen destinations in Central Tibet with a pilgrimage to Kailash. The twenty-four days is enough to bath luxuriously in the amrita of the Tibetan plateau. For the first three days we are based in Lhasa; the next six days take us to the main places of Dzogchen pilgrimage in Central Tibet, with a night of camping in Chimphu, above the great monastery of Samye as the highlight. Then the drive to Kailash takes four days arriving for the great August fullmoon festival (which includes both Hindus and Buddhists); we are on the Kailash circumabulation (korra) for three days, a day at the hot springs at Manasarovar lake, then high-tailing back to Lhasa.

The dates of the schedule are set by the need to be at Kailash for the August fullmoon festival on the 28th of August. For such a long pilgrimage (24 days) the cost estimate is excellent, a price that should exclude no-one.

I am circulating this to the Dzogchen communities internationally so that we may have a group, a sangha, that has Dzogchen view and meditation in common. Please understand that this itinerary demands much from the pilgrims in terms of physical and mental constitution. It gives us the opportunity of investing optimal aspiration and energy with generosity, and bringing back the great blessings of the Tibetan power places home with us. Of course there will be an opportunity to meditate at our destinations, but the entire venture should be entered into as a ruzhen, a dzogchen pilgrimage meditation.

This is a provisional itinerary to describe an overview of the pilgrimage in order to discover the interest it may provoke. A full description of the destinations will follow later. The final cost will depend upon the number of pilgrims.

See you there, all best, kuntuzangpo,

Keith Dowman

AUG 14 - 6th SEPT 2007
Day 1 (14 Aug) Arrive in Lhasa and transfer from Gongkar airport to Kyichu Hotel in downtown Lhasa (bed/breakfast)
Day 2 (15 Aug) Visit am Jokhang, pm Potala stay Kyichu Hotel BB
Day 3 (16Aug) Visit gompas (Drepung or Sera or Ganden) around Lhasa, stay Kyichu BB
Day 4 (17 Aug) Visit Shai Lhakhang and Shoto Tidro and overnight hotel/guest house BB
Day 5 (18`Aug) Drive to Gangri Tokar (via Nyephu Shugsep?) and overnight lodge/guest house? BB
Day 6 (19 Aug) Drive to Derong, (south-east of Dingboche,Longchenpa's birthplace and then Samye and camp (meet Nepali Sherpa support group)
Day 7 (20 Aug) Visit Samye am and walk to Chimphu pm and camp
Day 8 (21 Aug) Camp at Chimphu
Day 9 (22 Aug) Return to Samye and drive to Yarlung and visit Vairotsana's Cave, Tsering Jong etc and stay in Tsetang hotel BB
Day 10(23 Aug) Drive to Tashi Lumpo (Shigatse) and stay at Shigatse Hotel (visit Gyantse enroute).BB
Day 11 (24 Aug) Drive to Ngamring and camp
Day 12 (25 Aug) Drive past Saga and camp at Thorsang.
Day 13 (26 Aug) Drive to Lheru, camp (before Mayumla pass).
Day 14 (27 Aug) Drive over the Mayumla Pass and camp at Tarpoche (camp)
Day 15 (28 Aug) Tarpoche for full moon festival and camp.
Day 16 (29 Aug) Start trek to Diruphuk and camp.
Day 17 (30 Aug) Stay at Diruphuk Gompa and camp.
Day 18 (31 Aug) Trek to Zutulphuk cave / monastery and camp (cross Dolmala pass).
Day 19 (01 Sept) End trek and drive to hot springs at Chiu gompa by Manasarovar and camp by lake.
Day 20 (02 Sept) Drive back to Mayumla and continue to Paryang, camp
Day 21 (03 Sept) Drive to Saga, camp
Day 22 (04 Sept) Drive to Shigatse, overnight hotel Manasarovar (long drive on this day) Hotel Shigatse BB
Day 23 (05 Sept) Drive to Lhasa , overnight Kyichu BB
Day 24 (06 Sept ) Fly out.

Enquiries: kdowman@compuserve.com

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2006

ISRAEL

Seminar: Introduction to Dzogchen
The Heart of the Matter

Time: Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th March
Place: Touval

This seminar opens the door to Dzogchen vision and meditation through the Three Incisive Precepts of Vajra Delight, the final testament of Garab Dorje, adiguru, founder of the lineage, given according to Patrul Rimpoche's interpretation: initiatory experience, the snowball effect and immediate liberation.

Dzogchen Retreat:
You Are the Eyes of the World:

Time: 28th March to April 6th
Place: Touval

The unique feature of Dzogchen meditation is an absence of any technique, by nonmeditation. The method, therefore, is recognition of the nature of mind, just as it, without any mental contrivance. The door to this vision is opened through an exposition of the wheel of life and the perception of its intrinsic nature. This retreat may provide the occasion for a communion of minds enjoying the universal truth at the heart of Buddhist revelation. Open to all who have received an introduction through the Heart of the Matter seminar or formal pointing out instructions.

Other Activities In Israel

Wed 22nd March: Hebrew University
lecture: 6:30pm

Thurs 23rd March: Jerusalem: Tovana Centre
evening meditation

Fri 24th March: Body Mind Centre: Ramat Hasharon
seminar 10:00-4:00pm
Bhavana House, Tel Aviv: dharma-talk, evening

Sat 25th March: Dharma Day at kfar Monash

Contact: Channa Sorek
hsorek@netvision.net.il
registration: www.dharma.org.il

GREECE

Dzogchen Evenings
and book launching
Place: Athens
Time: April Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th

Dzogchen Retreat
April Thursday 13th- Sunday16th

Contact: fan99@in.gr

Organized by the Urban Yogis.
May all beings be happy!

HUNGARY: BUDAPEST

Seminar/Retreat
Time: Weekend April 21st-24th
Place: Sambhala

Seminar

Dzogchen Reload: The Heart of the Urban Yogi:
The Essence of Dzogchen and Daily Praxis

The Dzogchen view applied to work and play, sex and marriage, abortion and sexwork, war and terrorism, drugs and addiction.

 "Old Man Basking in the Sun: Longchenpa's Treasury of Natural Perfection" and "Eye of the Storm: Bairotsana's Original Transmissions", essential Dzogchen texts translated by Keith Dowman, hot from the press, will be introduced at this seminar.

A Short Retreat: The Feast of Dzogchen: the Dzogchen Menu from top to bottom: recollection of the view, confirmation of the praxis, certainty of natural  perfection.

Contact:
sambhala@elender.hu
www.tibet.hu

GERMANY: BERLIN

Urban Yogi Update and Download

Weekend Seminar: Dzogchen in Reality (public)
Time 28.4. 19:30 Public Speech
29./30.4. 10-18 h Seminar

Intensive seminar: Inner ruzhen six realms purification practice.
10-18 h Intensive seminar (for people who have done at least on weekend seminar with Keith Dowman)
1.-3.5.2006:

Place:
Theksum Tashi Chöling Berlin
 c/o Bodhicharya e.V.
 Kinzigstraße 25-29
 10247 Berlin - Friedrichshain
 (Near U5-Samariterstrasse, TRAM 23 Wismar Platz)

Contact:
Christian Birkner
 eMail: christian@khordong.de
 Fon: 030-533 77 94

Accommodation:
 Anne Gäbler
 Fon: 030-534 25 08
 eMail: Yontan@gmx.net

MEXICO

June 1st - August 30th
Dzogchen Seminars and Retreats

Eye of the Hurricane
Freedom in the here and now and awareness in life and death
and where goes Mexican Buddhism? Clarity and delusion in the dharma.
 Place: Mexico City: to be announced
Time: Wednesday June 7th

Seminar in San Miguel
 (to be confirmed)
June Friday 9 to Sunday 11

  Radical Dzogchen: Being Here and Now
Introduction to Dzogchen: Seminar and Retreat
Place: Morelos, near Cuernavaca
Time: Thursday June 22nd -- Sunday June 25th

Acapulco
June Thursday 29 to July Sunday 2: seminar-retreat

      Under the Volcano IV
Outer and Inner Ruzhen Retreats
Place: Iztac
Time: Friday July 21st - SaturdayJuly 28th
Saturday July 28th - Sunday August 6th
if possible please attend both

    
Contact: Pablo Anguiano:
astillero_paf@hotmail.com

CANADA

Vancouver

Dzogchen Seminar and Retreat
Time: to be arranged
Place: to be arranged

Dzogchen Seminars and Retreats

2005

GREECE

Seminar: Dzogchen at First Sight
The Keys to Radical Dzogchen

Time: Thursday 5th, Friday 6th, Saturday 7th May
Place: Milinda Dharma Center - Athens.

The Retreat: Urban Yogis in Paradise
Seven Day Dzogchen Meditation Praxis Retreat

 View: The Four Dzogchen Samayas from
the Way Of Natural Perfection
Meditation: Dzogchen Unstructured with
Inner Rushen and semdzin windows
Conduct: Without parameters.

Time: 8th - 15th May 2005
Place: The seaside resort of Galaxidi, 
on the north side of the Gulf of Corinth
near Delphi

Organized by the Urban Yogis.
May all beings be happy!

GERMANY

Berlin 2005: Urban Yogi Reload

Radical Dzogchen: The Snowball Effect
An Introduction to Dzogchen and the Four Samayas;
the actuality of buddhahood and
how we can use tantra (vajrayana) in the context of Dzogchen

Weekend Seminar in Berlin
Place:  Wamos, Hasenheide 9, U7/8 Bhf. Hermannplatz
Time: June Friday 3rd - Sunday 5th

Seven Day Dzogchen Meditation Praxis Retreat
 View: The Four Dzogchen Samayas from
the Way Of Natural Perfection
Meditation: Unstructured with Inner Rushen and semdzin windows
Conduct: Without parameters.

Place: Karma Tengyal Ling, Menz, north of Berlin.
Time: June Monday 6th - Sunday 12th

 
Contact:
Andreas Ruft
telephone: +49-(0)30-283 32 76
email: andreas@khordong.net

or Anne Gäbler
telephone: +49-(0)30-534 25 08
email: yontan@gmx.net

ENGLAND

Seminar
Radical Dzogchen: The Snowball Effect
an introduction to Dzogchen by way of the
The Three Incisive Precepts of Patrul Rimpoche

Time: Friday-Sunday, 17th-19th June
Location: Kandro Ling, Macclesfield.

Contact: Gordon Ellis
gordon-ellis@lineone.net

SCOTLAND

Edinburgh

The Dance of the Dakini
Place: to be announced
Time: June: 23rd (to be confirmed)

MEXICO

July 15th - August 30th

The Dance of the Dakini 
a conference on the nature of mind
 Place: Mexico City
Time: Saturday July 23rd

Radical Dzogchen: The Snowball Effect
Introduction to Dzogchen for New and Old Comers
Seminar and Retreat
Place: Tonalli
Time: Thursday July 28th -- Sunday July 31

      Under the Volcano III
Outer and Inner Ruzhen Retreats
Place: Iztac
Time: Friday August 12th - Saturday August 20th
Saturday August 20th - Sunday August 28th
if possible please attend both

Contact: Pablo Anguiano:
astillero_paf@hotmail.com

CANADA

Vancouver
Seminar (to be confirmed)

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Teaching Tour 2004

GERMANY

Berlin 2004: Urban Yogi Reload

14th May 19:30 Public Address
The Pleasure Principle in Dzogchen
Dzogchen as the Buddhist way for the 21st Century

Public Speech and Seminar in Berlin: Buddhistisches Zentrum Kreuzberg, Wrangelstr. 30-32, D-10967 Berlin-Kreuzberg, U-Bhf Görlitzer Bahnhof or Schlesisches Tor (U1)

15th-16th May Seminar
The Way of Natural Perfection:
The Four Dzogchen Samayas


17th-23rd May Countryside Dzogchen Retreat
7day Intense Praxis-Seminar
Dzogchen Praxis:
The 24 Hour a Day Meditation

Karma Tengyal Ling, Neuruppiner Str. 6, 16775 Menz,
see: http://www.karma-tengyal-ling.de
between Gransee and Rheinsberg, ca.1,5 h drive northern from Berlin.

For further question and registration:
Info: Andreas Tel. +49-(0)30-283 32 76 or andreas@khordong.net

All information:
http://www.khordong.net/Engl/Events/2004/keith_berlin.html

GREECE

May/June 2004

THE HEART OF THE DZOGCHEN YOGI
Seminar & Dzogchen Meditation Retreat


The Seminar

Monday 31st of May - Wednesday 2nd of June 2004:
Three urban sessions

"An introduction to Dzogchen and the Retreat
through view and meditation"
Method: Lecture, explanations, questions/answers, meditation.
Time: 19:30 p.m.
Place: Milinda Dharma Center - Athens.

The Retreat

Friday 4th - Sunday 13rd of June 2004:
Meditation retreat

"The Heart of the Dzogchen Yogi / The Four Dzogchen Samayas"
Meditation: Internal rushen and dzogchen meditation praxis
Texts: Shabkar's "Flight of the Garuda" & Longchenpa's "Neluk Dzo" verses.
Place: Hedda's Gardens - Kokkoni, Gulf of Korinth, Peloponissos, Greece.


Further info:
<http://www.dzretreat2004.up2u.gr/>


Organized by the Urban Yogis - May all beings be happy!

MEXICO

June 19th - Oct 7th

Mexico D.F.

México D.F. Foro Coyoacanense  June 25th
Public Talk:
"Buddha In the Palm of the Hand: Don't Blow Him Away!"
(date and place to be confirmed) 

Tonalli Retreat July 1st - 4th
"The Heart of the Dzogchen Yogi/Yogini"
Introduction to Dzogchen for New and Old Comers

Torreon

July 20th -25th

Tuesday 20th: Public Conference
"Alternatives on the Budhist path:
Mahayana, Tantra or Dzogchen"  

Wednesday 21st: Meeting with the Sangha  
Thursday 22nd - Sunday  25th
Dzogchen Retreat

      Iztac Retreats

August 13th -21st
August 21st - 29th
"Under the Volcano"
Outer and Inner Ruzhen and Semdzin Praxis

Also Retreats at: Valle de Bravo, Oaxaca
[to be confirmed]

Contact: Pablo Anguiano:
astillero_paf@hotmail.com

Teaching Tour 2003

GERMANY
Berlin, May 16th-20th, seminar, 
The Eyes of the Dzogchen Yogi/Yogini  
Contact : Andreas Ruft 
on andreas@khordong.net

MEXICO
Mexico City: Long Weekend Tonalli retreat 
The Eyes of the Dzogchen Yogi/Yogini
Date: June 5th -- 8th
Contact: Bruno Flores 
on bflores@aforeallianz.com.mx

Torreon: Dzogchen Retreat
The Eyes of the Dzogchen Yogi/Yogini
Date: June 12th -- 15th
Contact Bruno Flores 
on bflores@aforeallianz.com.mx

Iztac: 
Secret Rushen Retreat
Date: June 20th-- 29th
Contact: Bruno Flores 
on bflores@aforeallianz.com.mx

Iztac  Second Rushen Retreat
Date: July 12th-20th
Contact: Bruno Flores 
on bflores@aforeallianz.com.mx

HUNGARY
Budapest: Sambhala: August 29th
Lecture: Introduction to Dzogchen
on sambhala@elender.hu

Uzso Dzogchen Retreats: 
Dates: September 1st - September 7th
September 8th -14th  
Contact: Tamas Agocs 
on agocs@lycos.com 
or Sambhala
on sambhala@elender.hu

GREECE
Introduction to Dzogchen : evenings of Mon 22nd - Wed 24th September in Athens (venue to be announced).
Dzogchen Retreat: from Fri 26th to Sun 28th in the countryside
(venue to be announced).

Registrations: Mrs Phanie Xenou
               ph: 0030 9677-630540(mobile)
               daily from 10:00 to 13:30
Organizing: "Urban Yogis"
More info: 0030 210-9215901 (c/o: Liber)
E-mail:   libero@otenet.gr

DIARY 2002

Pilgrimage to
Kang Rimpoche, Tise, Mount Kailash

We are on pilgrimage to Kang Rimpoche, the abode of Chakrasamvara, to Lake Manasarovar, to Pretapuri Vajra Yogini and to Guge for 22 days leaving Kathmandu on May 13th.
If you wish to join please leave a message for further information

This is a preliminary itinerary for the route:

please email kdowman@compuserve.com for further infomation

       

Retreat, Seminar and Lecture  Schedule  2002  GERMANY  Bollschweil Seminar and Retreat: Dzogchen Samayas       June 28th - July 7th  For booking and information contact Krishna Beutel:  krishna@freenet.de HUNGARY  Uszo Summer Retreat: Aug 4th -11th  Contact: Tamas Agocs:  agocs@mailcity.com             MEXICO  Sept. 1st Arrival in Mexico City. Sept. 3rd Monterrey      Sept. 4th Public Conference: Masters of Mahamudra      Sept. 5th - 7th Introduction to Dzogchen  Sept. 9th Guadalajara      Sept. 10th Public Conference: The Great Stupa      Sept. 11th - Sept.13th Introduction to Tantra  Sept. 14th Mexico City      Sept. 20th Public Conference:         Power Places and Pilgrimage Yoga     Sept. 21st - 22nd Intensive Seminar:         The Wheel of Passion      Sept. 23rd - 29th Dzogchen retreat in Tonalli.  Sept. 30th Oaxaca       Oct 3rd - 4th Public Conference: Tantra        Contact: Alfonso Acosta Gutierrez at Casa Tibet Mexico: <casatibet@adetel.net.mx> HAWAII October 30th  - November 5th Friday Nov 1st Public Talk: The Sacred Life of Tibet Saturday Nov 2nd: Seminar - Tantra/Dakini Sunday Nov 3rd: Seminar - Introduction to Dzogchen  Contact Kathleen Bryan MAUI  Maui Dharma Center Nov 9th The Nature of the Dakini  contact Georgiana <mauidharmacenter@maui.net> THAILAND Nov 26th -- Dec 6th.

         
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      Sarwa Mangalam!

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