Bon A Khrid Dzogchen Transmission and Practice Part II 2020

Saturday April 18 and Sunday April 19 – live via Zoom

Prerequisite: Attendance of the A Khrid Year 1 Teachings and Transmission (offered previously in fall 2019, fall 2015, and fall 2013). If you have not attended the Part I teachings, please do not register. If you received Part I elsewhere, please email Iris at iris@olmoling.org.

Tempa Lama will continue offering the transmission and instruction of the Heart Essence of the A Khrid Dzogchen teachings. For this second Retreat in the A Khrid Cycle, Tempa Lama will focus on giving instructions on spontaneous presence and continuity of meditative absorption without an object. This is also known as “meditation on essential nature” or ngang sgom.

The Bon Dzogchen teachings are the highest teachings of Bon as they offer a means to directly recognize the true nature of the mind and further attain stabilization of this recognition. Bon has three distinct Dzogchen lineages: the lineage of A Khrid, the lineage of Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyud, and the lineage of Dzogchen. The present A Khrid lineage is also called the experiential Dzogchen transmission. It has been transmitted without interruption from master to student over many centuries, dating back from His Holiness 33rd Menri Trizin (who gave this teaching to Tempa Lama) to the Great Master rMe’u dGongs-mdzod (1038-1096), and before him to Tonpa Shenrab, the founding teacher of Bon.

Tempa Dukte Lama is an ordained Tibetan Bon lama. He studied in Menri Monastery, India, from the age of six under the close, personal guidance of His Holiness 33rd Menri Trizin, the spiritual head of Bon. Tempa Lama is the founder and spiritual director of Olmo Ling Bon Center in Pittsburgh, PA. He is an artist and poet and author of four books with Olmo Ling Publications, the first Bon publishing house which he founded in 2011. Tempa Lama is dedicated to making the ancient teachings of Bon available and accessible in the West, helping people bring a practice of compassion, healing and happiness into their lives.

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Teaching schedule

Saturday April 18

9:30am – 12:30pm	A Khrid Part II teaching
	Instructions for bringing mindful attention to your lunch break
12:30pm -2:00pm	Lunch break
2:00pm – 4:00pm	A Khrid Part II teaching continued
	Questions & answers
	Instructions for individual contemplation
4:00pm –	Individual contemplation

Sunday April 19

9:30am – 12:00pm	A Khrid Part II teaching conclusion
12:00pm -12:30pm	A Khrid Part II transmission

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Registration

Fees: $63 (Olmo Ling members), $70 (non-members).

To attend, you will need to download zoom, which is free and the installation is an easy, quick procedure. You do not need a zoom account, simply click on the zoom link to open the live streaming.

This retreat is for those who have attended the Bon A Khrid Dzogchen Transmission and Practice Year 1 with Tempa Lama (offered in fall 2019, fall 2015, and fall 2013). If you have not received part I, please do not register. If you received A Khrid Part I elsewhere, please email Iris at iris@olmoling.org.