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"When we practice Mahamudra Vipashyana, we investigate appearances as mind, the mind as empty, and emptiness as radiant, spontaneous presence."
Please join Nalandabodhi’s Chancellor Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen in Boulder CO for the first Mahamudra Vipashyana pointing out instruction on the Nature of Appearances.
The program is open to everyone. However, it is recommended that participants have a daily meditation practice plus some understanding of Buddhist teachings and Vajrayana.
We are always experiencing appearances. Â What are they and how is that we experience them? Â Â
Join us to receive pointing out instructions on the Nature of Appearances!
The Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St. (and online)
Friday Evening, August 23, 7:00 to 8:30 MT, Panel Discussion
Saturday August 24, 9:00 to 5:00 MT
Sunday 25, 9:00 to 2:00 MT
Go to the Resource page to see the detailed schedule and more information. Â Recordings will be available for 3 months.
If attending both Friday night and the weekend, you will need to register twice as shown below.
Thank you for your interest in joining us on Friday night at the Boulder Shambhala Center for a panel discussion.
Thank you for your interest in joining us online for a panel discussion on Friday night.
Thank you for your interest in joining us for the onsite weekend retreat at the Boulder Shambhala Center. Â
Thank you for your interest in joining us online for Mahamudra Vipashyana: The Nature of Appearances.
Go to the Resource Page to see a detailed schedule, bio’s of the teachers, and access to the recordings. Â The recordings will be available for 3 months.
The Tour of Your Mind is a series of interconnected retreats guided by Lama Tenpa. The next two retreats will be held online and onsite in September—see below. Recordings will be available for three months after the program ends.
We talk about having a mind, but when we look for it, where is it? What is it? How does that fresh experience feel, and how is it different from analysis or conceptual thinking?
Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was born in Nepal and entered the monastery at age thirteen. In 1981, Lama Tenpa and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche enrolled in the first class of Rumtek Monastery’s Karma Shri Nalanda Institute in Sikkim, India. Lama Tenpa completed his studies with an Acharya degree in 1991. Following his graduation, he taught Buddhist philosophy at the institute for two years. Under the guidance of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, he then entered a three-year retreat in Pullahari, Nepal.Â
From 1997 to 2004, Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was the resident teacher at H.H. the 17th Karmapa’s Theksum Tashi Chöling Center in Hamburg, Germany.
He has also served as a faculty member of the Religious Studies Department at Naropa University, where he specialized in teaching graduate courses in Tibetan tradition.  Since 1998, Lama Tenpa has also been one of the main teachers at Nitartha Institute and teaches regularly at Nalandabodhi centers around the world.
