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
the Lotus Garden site:
"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.
