Pure Land Farms

05/18/2026

Immerse yourself in the traditions of Tibetan healing, guided by special guest teacher Lobsang Tsering.

The weekend weaves together contemplative art, Tibetan dietary wisdom, healing practice, and meditation in the living mandala of Pure Land Farms.

https://purelandfarms.com/events/the-art-of-healing

Participants may join the full weekend of programs with an optional overnight stay at Pure Land Farms, or participate in any portion of the weekend:

Saturday May 23rd:

10am—Community Practice
Public talk and guided meditation (free and open to all)

2 - 7pm — Food as Medicine: Tibetan Cooking for Your Constitution

A hands-on cooking workshop exploring Sowa Rigpa's dietary principles and how to eat according to one’s individual constitutional typology. Closes with a shared dinner.

More details: https://purelandfarms.com/events/food-as-medicine

(Optional overnight stay at Pure Land Farms)

Sunday May 24th:

9am - 10am — Medicine Buddha Meditation Practice
Pure Land Farms' monthly Medicine Buddha practice, led by Lobsang Tsering and also available via livestream. (By donation, open to all)

11am–5pm — Mandala of Healing: The Art of Medicine Buddha's Botanic Garden

A contemplative drawing workshop to connect with Tanaduk—Medicine Buddha's botanic garden—through healing plants, meditation, and the creation of your own mandala.

More details: https://purelandfarms.com/events/mandala-of-healing

05/11/2026

https://purelandfarms.com/events/the-art-of-healing

A series of events with special guest Lobsang Tsering bringing together Tibetan healing, meditation, and contemplative art in the spirit of Sangye Menla.

Saturday

Morning — Community Practice with Public talk and guided meditation

Afternoon, 2–7pm — Food as Medicine: Tibetan Cooking for Your Constitution

Sunday

Morning, 9am — Medicine Buddha Meditation Practice

11am–5pm — Mandala of Healing: The Art of Medicine Buddha's Botanic Garden

Contemplative Food, Art, Medicine & Meditation with Lobsang Tsering

03/17/2026

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From Root to Bloom:
Tibetan Yoga & Meditation for Spring
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Saturday March 28th, 2026
In-Person only
2 - 5pm

Join us after the Spring Equinox for this in-person workshop to take a rejuvenating pause at the beginning of the season to align with the natural rhythm of renewal and growth. Spring is a time of emergence and blossoming, yet sustainable growth depends on strong roots. Through mind-body practices, we’ll cultivate a steady foundation that allows space for expansiveness and abundance for the season ahead.

Through Tibetan yoga and mindful movement, we’ll gradually open the body, balance the inner winds, and clear stagnation carried over from the previous season. The session will include guided meditation along with reflective journaling and quiet integration for insights to settle and intentions to take shape, grounded in body, energy, and mind.

Drawing on the seasonal wisdom of Tibetan Medicine, we’ll explore accessible self-care principles for spring and ways to nurture physical and mental health through the season.

Led by Liz Sung in the serene natural setting of Pure Land Farms, this workshop is open to everyone.

Register on purelandfarms.com

Image source: National Gallery of Art

03/14/2026

https://nalandainstitute.org/nalanda-events/from-fire-to-light-embodied-wisdom-practice-for-transforming-trauma/

Join us for a retreat with Drs. Nida Chenatsang, Joe Loizzo, and the CPP Embodied Wisdom faculty! Offered hybrid at Pure Land Farms in Tuscany or online via Zoom.

03/11/2026

Thank you 🙏

Repost from • Many Topanga residents have embraced the teachings of the Buddha over the years. Liz Shepherd, David Totheroh, and Kedric Wolfe painted the original Topanga “Buddha on the Wall” on Labor Day in 1982. The mural, designed by Shepherd, has been a serene presence ever since. In 2016, Clare Brown spearheaded the effort to restore the mural and add new color. A decade later, this painted Buddha still greets residents and travelers on Topanga Canyon Blvd., but the canyon is now home to a more substantial Buddhist presence, Yuthok Ling temple at Pure Land Farms. This special place is dedicated to the practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Yuthok Nyingthig spiritual tradition. It is a place of healing, meditation, prayer, and contemplation, and a center for teaching. Join TNT’s Claire Fordham for a visit to this Topanga sanctuary, an island of serenity in an increasingly troubled time. Cover design by Urs Baur

03/01/2026

Thank you to this beautiful group of humans from incredibly diverse backgrounds who just completed our seven day Yuthok Nyingthig ngondro retreat at Pure Land Farms. Some were engaging with ngondro for the very first time, others were experienced dharma practitioners who humbly approached the preliminaries with a beginner’s mind. We were all so gently held within Yuthok’s expansive mandala, like different plants that grow harmoniously together in Medicine Buddha’s botanic garden Tanaduk — nourished by the same soil and water and supported by each other and the light of the sun and the moon.

02/24/2026

Full Moon Sound Meditation
with Micah Sheiner

March 1st 3 - 5pm
In Person at Pure Land Farms California

Meditate in the beautiful Yuthok Ling temple, guided into a resonant field of Himalayan singing bowls, gongs, bells, gentle percussion, & toning. Experience how vibration can create a natural still point, inviting one’s awareness to settle into peace & silence. Relax and receive insight from sound as it guides us to release old patterns & rejuvenate!

This special full moon meditation includes elements from the Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medical) tradition to restore lost life force, and rejuvenate body, energy, and mind by resonating sacred syllables from the Sanskrit and Tibetan alphabet that flow through the body according to the lunar cycle.

02/20/2026

We are getting ready to gather at Pure Land Farms for our annual winter retreat to practice seven days of Yuthok’s Ngondro preliminary practices.

This year we will NOT be streaming online, to allow us all to take some time away from our digital devices and immerse ourselves in practice and nature.

Nevertheless, for all of you near and far who are familiar with the practice, we encourage you to start this fire horse year with a commitment to deepening your practice of the profound preliminaries. If you feel inspired to do a home retreat, or at least to do extended daily practice to start the lunar year, we’ll be with you in spirit February 22 - 28 and sharing the merit of this retreat with our extended international sangha.

Then on March 1st we’ll be back online (but for good reason!) to launch our one year training on Yuthok’s foundational practices following the book “Foundations of Vajrayana Buddhism: A Guide to Yuthok’s Healing Path” by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, published by .publications.

The online training is hosting by the .rigpa.institute. Learn more at sowarigpainstitute,org

02/18/2026

ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས Losar Tashidelek from Pure Land Farms!

May this auspicious year of the fire horse bring vitality, deep transformation, and freedom of body and mind.

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If you’d like to join our February 18th Tibetan new years festivities, in California or online, please visit our website for more information.

02/10/2026

Eliminating Obstacles & Fulfilling Wishes:
A Tibetan New Years Retreat and Ngakmang Gathering

With Lama Gyurme Rabgye, Bair Manzarkhan, and Pure Land Farms Sangha

February 13 - 18, 2026

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The Fire Horse year, which occurs only once every sixty years on the Tibetan lunar calendar, is known as a time of immense spiritual transformative energy and holds particular significance for practices connected to the healing lineage of Yuthok Yönten Gönpo.

Under the guidance of ritual master Lama Gyurme, practitioners will engage in traditional Vajrayana Buddhist methods for clearing obscurations, enhancing protection, accumulating merit, and deepening our connection and training in the key practices of the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition. Retreat practices include Yuthok’s Ngöndro, Kusali Chöd and Ganapuja with training in the proper use of ritual instruments; torma making and offering instruction; and sang smoke offerings to purify karmic debts, pacify local spirits, and protect the environment.

Extensive Shanglon protector practice and group retinue mantra accumulation will be guided daily by Bair Manzarkhan, according to the retreat instruction of Dr. Nida Chenagtsang.

The retreat will conclude with a Losar New Year’s celebration, in which Dr. Nida will stream in online from Italy to offer his annual Losar greeting and astrology teaching on the year of the Fire Horse, sharing practical and spiritual guidance for the year ahead.

Morning sessions will streamed online for our international sangha. Option to join for the weekend only if you are unable to added the complete program.

Learn more and sign up on our website.