Dzokden USA

10/01/2026

🌺 GURU RINPOCHE EMPOWERMENT 🌺
Live from the Sacred Caves of Pharping, Nepal

✨ Receive the blessings of Guru Padmasambhava from one of the most sacred places connected with his enlightened activity.

On October 4, 2026, Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoche will bestow a precious Guru Rinpoche Empowerment, live from Pharping, Nepal.

Depending on the final pilgrimage arrangements, the empowerment will be offered from either the sacred Asura Cave or Yangleshö Cave, places deeply connected with Guru Rinpoche’s realization and enlightened activity.

🙏 The empowerment is especially associated with:

• Removing inner and outer obstacles
• Overcoming obstructing forces
• Increasing wisdom and compassionate activity
• Transforming adversity into the path
• Protecting the Dharma and its practitioners
• Strengthening the causes for realization

🌏 Join In-Person or Online

📅 October 4, 2026
⏰ 3:00–5:00 PM Nepal Time
📍 Pharping, Nepal Caves
👤 Khentrul Rinpoche

Whether you have relied upon Guru Rinpoche throughout your life or are establishing this connection for the first time, this is a rare opportunity to receive his blessings from one of his own sacred places of accomplishment.

✨ Join us for this extraordinary Guru Rinpoche Empowerment.
https://dzokden.org/events/guru-rinpoche-empowerment-en/

09/29/2026

🙏 THE ROOT OF ALL ATTAINMENTS

Lama Chopa Puja & 50 Verses of Guru Devotion
An 8-Session Online Course on the Heart of the Vajrayana Path — Guru Devotion

What is the role of the Guru on the Vajrayana path?
Why is guru devotion considered the root of all attainments?
And how can devotion become more than faith—becoming a way of recognizing and sustaining awakened awareness?

At the request of Khentrul Rinpoche, this training is being offered again for both new and existing students to deepen their understanding of guru devotion within the Jonang Kalachakra tradition.

🌿 THE HEART OF VAJRAYANA

Guru devotion is not blind belief. It is a practice of discernment, transformation, and ultimately, recognition.
As practice deepens, devotion moves from respect and inspiration into the way we practice, perceive the path, and relate to our own mind. At its deepest level, guru devotion becomes inseparable from the recognition of awakened awareness itself.

📖 WHAT YOU WILL EXPLORE

Across 8 weekly sessions, we will study and practice:
• The Fifty Verses of Guru Devotion by Ashvaghosha
• The 7 Limb Prayer
• The Jonang Kalachakra Guru Puja
• Practical ways to integrate devotion into daily life and meditation
• The gradual development of guru devotion—from its careful beginnings to its deepest realization

🎥 ONLINE COURSE
• 8 weekly live sessions
• All teachings recorded and available through the Dzokden Learning Center
• Recordings available for ongoing review and contemplation
• Each session includes a 15-minute private live Q&A, creating a space for candid questions, concerns, and personal reflection

📅 STARTS OCTOBER 24, 2026
Every Saturday | 10:00 AM–12:00 PM West Coast USA Time
8 sessions through December 12, 2026

💻 ONLINE ONLY

📚 Recommended Reading:
Unveiling Your Sacred Truth, Book 2: The Internal Reality
https://www.tantrictreasures.com/collections/books/products/unveiling-your-sacred-truth-through-the-kalachakra-path-book-2-the-internal-reality-ebook

The course will also include the 50 Verses of Guru Devotion and the Jonang Guru Puja text.

🙏 Whether you are new to the Vajrayana path or returning to deepen your practice, this course offers an opportunity to revisit, clarify, and cultivate one of its most essential foundations.

REGISTER HERE:
https://dzokden.org/events/the-root-of-all-attainments-lama-chopa-puja-50-verses-guru-devotion/?occurrence=2026-10-31

The Guru is the Path. Devotion is keeping the view.

09/29/2026

🌿 SECRETS OF TARA 🌿

Twenty-One Taras: Empowerment & 6-Month Course
Discover the Hidden Meaning of the Twenty-One Taras through the Jonang & Kālacakra Traditions

✨ A rare opportunity to receive empowerment, oral transmission, teachings, meditation, mantra, sacred music, and six months of guided practice — all online.

For more than a thousand years, practitioners have turned to Tara for protection, wisdom, healing, fearless compassion, and the swift removal of obstacles. But within the Jonang tradition, the Twenty-One Taras reveal something far deeper.
They are understood not simply as twenty-one separate deities, but as twenty-one manifestations of one enlightened Mother—one awakened wisdom expressing itself through twenty-one compassionate activities.

🌙 Like a single moon reflected in many lakes, Tara appears in many forms while never departing from her enlightened nature.

🌺 A RARE JONANG LINEAGE TRANSMISSION

Receive precious teachings directly from Vajra Master Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoche, including:
• Twenty-One Taras Empowerment
• Authorization to practice the Twenty-One Taras
• Oral Transmission (Lung) of the Long Highest Yoga Ta**ra Tara Tsok
• Oral Transmission (Lung) of the Concise Highest Yoga Ta**ra Tara Tsok
• Song of Tsok Celebration
• Commentary on Jetsun Tāranātha’s Hidden Meaning of the Twenty-One Taras
• Teachings on the profound relationship between Tara and the Kālacakra path

🧘‍♀️ SIX MONTHS OF LIVING PRACTICE

With Yeshe Wangmo, explore each of the Twenty-One Taras through:

🌿 Guided teachings
🧘 Meditation and contemplative practice
📿 Mantra practice
🙏 Devotion and daily practice
💚 Practical ways to embody Tara’s enlightened qualities in everyday life

You won't simply study Tara—you'll be invited to experience her qualities through sustained practice.

🔱 TARA & THE KĀLACAKRA PATH

Within the Jonang tradition, Tara's enlightened activity is deeply connected with the complete path of Kālacakra.

Jetsun Tāranātha's extraordinary commentary reveals symbolic connections between the Twenty-One Taras and the Six Vajra Yogas, offering a rare glimpse into how Tara practice illuminates the profound completion-stage path of the Jonang tradition.

This makes the course especially meaningful for practitioners who have received—or aspire to receive—the Kālacakra Empowerment.

🎶 SACRED MUSIC & PRACTICE RESOURCES
The course also includes chant-along mantra recordings for each of the Twenty-One Taras, along with inspirational songs designed to help you connect with and remember the qualities of each Tara.

🌸 WHO IS THIS FOR?
Anyone who feels called to Tara.
Whether you are encountering Tara for the first time or have practiced the Twenty-One Praises for years, this course offers a rare opportunity to enter a deeper relationship with Tara through authentic Vajrayana practice and a living Jonang lineage.

📅 BEGINS: October 17, 2026
🗓️ 26 Live Online Sessions
⏰ Saturdays | 7:30–9:30 PM IST
💻 ONLINE ONLY

Every teaching session is recorded so you can revisit the teachings and practice at your own pace.

Please note: The empowerment and oral transmissions are not recorded.

🌿 Receive the transmission. Discover the hidden meaning. Cultivate Tara's enlightened qualities in your own life.

🙏 REGISTER HERE:
https://dzokden.org/events/secrets-of-tara-empowerment-and-6-month-course-en/

26 sessions. Six months. Twenty-One Taras. One journey into awakened compassion and wisdom

09/18/2026

09/16/2026

✨ Embodied Dharma Tour of Nepal ✨
Dzokden Kalachakra Yoga Level 1 • Sacred Pilgrimage Retreat
September 29 – October 11, 2026

https://dzokden.org/events/nepal-2026/?nocache=1

Join Yeshe Wangmo for a rare pilgrimage-retreat through the sacred landscape of Nepal—where Guru Rinpoche and Mandarava attained realization, where the Jonang lineage continues to preserve the Kalachakra tradition, and where pilgrimage becomes embodied spiritual practice.

This is not ordinary tourism.

This is a living journey into mantra, meditation, chanting, sacred movement, devotion, and Kalachakra Yoga practiced in some of Buddhism’s most holy sites.

🌸 Khentrul Rinpoche will join us for the opening days of the pilgrimage in Kathmandu to bestow special Kalachakra blessings and Guru Rinpoche prayer transmissions that we will carry throughout the journey. After these opening transmissions, the pilgrimage retreat will be led by Yeshe Wangmo.

Throughout the tour, Yeshe Wangmo will guide participants in Dzokden Kalachakra Yoga Level 1 — a gentle, restorative system inspired by the foundations of Tibetan Trul Khor while intentionally not teaching any of the restricted or secret Vajrayana yogas. These practices are designed to help practitioners:
• Relax the nervous system and enter “rest and digest”
• Prepare the body for meditation and vajra posture
• Restore balance through breath, movement, and awareness
• Build a foundation for deeper yogic and spiritual practice
Accessible for all body types, ages, and levels of experience.

🎶 Joining the pilgrimage is Renee Saggar, offering devotional bhakti chanting and sacred singing practices to help participants open the heart and discover their authentic sacred voice. Through chanting together in holy places, devotion becomes a living experience of connection, joy, and inner transformation.

🙏 During our time in Pharping, Jonang monks will join us to offer instruction in traditional chanting, mudras, and ritual practice. Together, we will practice in the sacred caves of Guru Rinpoche where great masters attained realization. These sessions are a rare opportunity to experience Vajrayana not only as philosophy or ritual, but as a fully embodied path where body, speech, and mind become integrated through practice in powerful pilgrimage sites.

✨ Pilgrimage Highlights Include:
• Opening blessings and transmissions from Khentrul Rinpoche
• Guru Rinpoche sacred caves in Pharping
• Maratika / Halesi long-life cave
• Boudhanath, Swayambhu & Namo Buddha
• Jonang monk chanting and mudra instruction in sacred caves
• Daily yoga, meditation, chanting, and devotional practice
• All meals, accommodations, and transportation included

In these sacred places, the body becomes mudra.
Speech becomes mantra.
Mind becomes meditation in motion.

Come practice Vajrayana as a living, embodied path surrounded by sacred sites, spiritual community, and the blessings of pilgrimage.

🌿 Open to all levels of practitioners.
https://dzokden.org/events/nepal-2026/?nocache=1

08/16/2026

Save the Dates — USA 2027

We are delighted to announce that the Wensum and 1st Vajra Yoga + Higher Empowerment Retreat will be offered in the United States in 2027.

This special 10-day retreat with Khentrul Rinpoche is planned for approximately November 18–28, 2027, in the beautiful redwood forests of Los Gatos, California.

This will be the first time we have offered a 10-day retreat with Khentrul Rinpoche in the USA, making it a particularly precious opportunity for practitioners. We last offered the Higher Empowerment in 2023 and have never been able to offer the 1st Vajra Yoga.

Space will be limited. Please save the dates and watch for registration details and additional information coming soon.

08/16/2026

We already chant all of the Divine Ladder regularly in Tibetan with the lineage tune at all our advanced retreats and Monday to Friday in our morning online practice session. In order to help people memorize the words in other langauges we have been making music.

Offering is a musical adaptation of the Brief Mandala Offering from Jetsün Tāranātha’s Divine Ladder, part of the Jonang Kālacakra Ngöndro.

This extraordinarily short practice is worth memorizing. It provides a simple yet profound way to accumulate mandala offerings: imagining the entire universe—the ground strewn with flowers, Mount Meru, the four continents, the Sun and Moon—and offering everything throughout the three times and ten directions as a pure Buddha-field for the benefit of all beings.

Nothing is held back. Every beautiful thing, every possession, every world, every source of virtue and abundance—the whole universe becomes an offering.

May this music help practitioners memorize the Brief Mandala Offering and joyfully accumulate offerings for the benefit of all beings.

Offering is a musical adaptation of the Brief Mandala Offering from...

08/15/2026

Secrets of Tara: A Six-Month Journey into the Hidden Meaning of the Twenty-One Taras

Discover Jetsun Tāranātha’s profound explanation of the Twenty-One Praises to Tara as a path of enlightened activity, including their connection with the Kālacakra completion-stage teachings.

Receive the Twenty-One Taras Empowerment, Jonang Highest Yoga Ta**ra Tara Tsok transmissions, and commentary on the hidden meaning with Khentrul Rinpoche, then deepen the practice through six months of meditation, mantra, visualization, Tsok, singing, and chant with Yeshe Wangmo and the Dzokden sangha umzes.

Begins October 17, 2026 | Live Online

Class Time:
West Coast USA: 7:00–9:00 AM
East Coast USA: 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
UK: 3:00–5:00 PM
Sydney/Melbourne: 1:00–3:00 AM Sunday

👉 Learn more & register: https://dzokden.org/events/secrets-of-tara-empowerment-and-6-month-course-en/