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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
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