Sunday, September 26, 2010

Khandro Rinpoche Closing Comments at the Künzang Gongpa Zangthal

I am working on doing a write up about the Künzang Gongpa Zangthal event that concluded at Lotus Garden a few weeks ago. In the meantime, here's some footage from the end, when Her Eminence Mindrolling Jestun Khandro Rinpoche gave her closing talk and thank-yous that she has done in the past at the very end of the Annual Retreats. It's good advice for any practitioner of any level, so I think it should be ok to share.

Künzang Gongpa Zangthal!, Part 1

(or, What We Did on Our Holidays).

I got back from spending a couple weeks down at Lotus Garden for an event known as the Künzang Gongpa Zangthal.


For a description of the 'what', I'm going to defer to the text of
"On August 28th, Kyabje Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche (pictured at left) began bestowing the entire Künzang Gongpa Zangthal empowerments and continued until 12th September. Rinpoche is one of the greatest Nyingma teachers alive today and the foremost and principal holder of these highest Dzogchen transmissions which were discovered by the tertön Rigzin Gödem (1337-1408) as part of the Northern Treasures Tradition."

Now, unless you are schooled in Himalayan/Vajrayana buddha-dharma, you likely have no idea what the hell half of this preceeding paragraph was saying.