PMC hosts a preliminary practices (ngondro) practice group for those who are doing (or have completed) the Dudjom Tersar ngondro practice and the requisite accumulations. The benefits of this beautiful, profound, and supportive practice are immediate and far-reaching.

Requirements:

One needs to have received the transmission of these practices from a qualified teacher in order to offer this practice. You may attend any session you like, however, attending from the beginning of the session to the end is requested.

Host: Tara Roberts has been a student of His Eminence Chhoje Rinpoche’s since 1986 and is deeply familiar with this practice.

Dates and Time: Wednesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. MT / 6:00 p.m. PT through the summer of 2021.

Practice Session Length and Description: The session will last for one hour. It will include recitation of 21 Vajrasattva mantras and 300 Vajra Guru mantras. We will recite both the Tibetan and the English. To minimize the audio disruption, participants will be muted during the actual practice.

Texts: We will be using the Yeshe Melong translation of the basic preliminary practice text. We will also begin with opening prayers and conclude with dedication prayers. We will distribute copies of the texts we plan to recite, including the specific translations of opening and closing prayers to those who RSVP above.

Reference Reading: A review of A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom, the Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje is recommended. His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche taught that the realization of the Great Perfection depends entirely on these preliminary practices. Detailed instructions for how to do the practice are contained in this reference book.

Access: We will host this program via Zoom conferencing software. To join us, please click the link below. Before the session, make sure your device is running the most updated Zoom software.  

Please only RSVP one time–each time you click the RSVP button, you are added to our list. If you click multiple times thinking perhaps you didn’t get registered, it adds another entry to the database. If you’ve received the email communication for one week, you have all the information for the subsequent weeks and there is no need to sign up again each week.  

If you are newly registered for the event, you will receive an email with the Zoom link and any needed information on Wednesday afternoon of the week in which you are joining. Your patience is much appreciated!

Offerings

This event is offered freely for those who are qualified to attend. If you would like to make an offering in support of these gatherings, please visit our donation page.

PMC is delighted to announce a new teaching series on a foundational and classic text: Finding Rest in the Nature of Mind, by Longchen Rabjam (b.1308 – d.1364). 

Known as the “Omniscient One”, Longchenpa was a consummate scholar and adept of the Natural Great Perfection. His most well-known writings, including the Seven Treasures, the Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness, and the Trilogy of Rest, distill the key points of the entire Buddhist path and elucidate, unlike others, the most subtle and profound instructions for taking wisdom as the path as found within the Great Perfection tradition. 

Longchenpa’s brilliant teachings provide Buddhist practitioners a complete manual for practicing the entire spiritual path, starting from the four traditional contemplations that prepare the mind to enter the gateway of refuge to precise guidance on highly advanced meditation techniques. The first book of his Trilogy of Rest, Finding Rest in the Nature of Mind, contains thirteen chapters of beautiful and evocative verse that present the most important teachings from both sutra and mantra perspectives for the Buddhist practitioner interested in pursuing the goal of liberation. 

This introductory session will introduce this multi-year teaching, and students will begin by engaging the first four chapters of the text, which cover the four important “mind-turning” reflections: the freedoms and advantages of a human birth, impermanence, suffering, and karma. 

Since the text is best studied and practiced sequentially, participation in subsequent teachings depends upon joining the class from the beginning.  Future teaching blocks are anticipated in late fall 2021, and early spring, 2022, and will be announced progressively. To learn more about the teaching, please join us for this informational session with the teacher, Christina Monson.

Christina Monson has over thirty years of study, translation, and practice experience in traditions of Buddhism. Immersion in the study of eastern religions as a college student led her to Nepal in 1989 where she met her root guru, Chatral Sangye Dorje, under whose principal guidance she studied and practiced for the next three decades. Additionally, she lived and studied closely with other great masters including Soktse Rinpoche and Chhoje Rinpoche who guided her through many intensive retreats and clarified her understanding of the pith practice instructions. Christina focuses her practice and translation on the lineages of the Dudjom Tersar and of the dakini Sera Khandro. Her joy is to partner with students on journeys of internalizing the teachings of Buddha through practical, lived experience.

PMC hosts a preliminary practices (ngondro) practice group for those who are doing (or have completed) the Dudjom Tersar ngondro practice and the requisite accumulations. The benefits of this beautiful, profound, and supportive practice are immediate and far-reaching.

Requirements:

One needs to have received the transmission of these practices from a qualified teacher in order to offer this practice. You may attend any session you like, however, attending from the beginning of the session to the end is requested.

Host: Tara Roberts has been a student of His Eminence Chhoje Rinpoche’s since 1986 and is deeply familiar with this practice.

Dates and Time: Wednesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. MT / 6:00 p.m. PT through the summer of 2021.

Practice Session Length and Description: The session will last for one hour. It will include recitation of 21 Vajrasattva mantras and 300 Vajra Guru mantras. We will recite both the Tibetan and the English. To minimize the audio disruption, participants will be muted during the actual practice.

Texts: We will be using the Yeshe Melong translation of the basic preliminary practice text. We will also begin with opening prayers and conclude with dedication prayers. We will distribute copies of the texts we plan to recite, including the specific translations of opening and closing prayers to those who RSVP above.

Reference Reading: A review of A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom, the Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje is recommended. His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche taught that the realization of the Great Perfection depends entirely on these preliminary practices. Detailed instructions for how to do the practice are contained in this reference book.

Access: We will host this program via Zoom conferencing software. To join us, please click the link below. Before the session, make sure your device is running the most updated Zoom software.  

Please only RSVP one time–each time you click the RSVP button, you are added to our list. If you click multiple times thinking perhaps you didn’t get registered, it adds another entry to the database. If you’ve received the email communication for one week, you have all the information for the subsequent weeks and there is no need to sign up again each week.  

If you are newly registered for the event, you will receive an email with the Zoom link and any needed information on Wednesday afternoon of the week in which you are joining. Your patience is much appreciated!

Offerings

This event is offered freely for those who are qualified to attend. If you would like to make an offering in support of these gatherings, please visit our donation page.

PMC is delighted to announce a new teaching series on a foundational and classic text: Finding Rest in the Nature of Mind, by Longchen Rabjam (b.1308 – d.1364). Known as the “Omniscient One”, Longchenpa was a consummate scholar and adept of the Natural Great Perfection. His most well-known writings, including the Seven Treasures, the Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness, and the Trilogy of Rest, distill the key points of the entire Buddhist path and elucidate, unlike others, the most subtle and profound instructions for taking wisdom as the path as found within the Great Perfection tradition.

Longchenpa’s brilliant teachings provide Buddhist practitioners a complete manual for practicing the entire spiritual path, starting from the four traditional contemplations that prepare the mind to enter the gateway of refuge to precise guidance on highly advanced meditation techniques. The first book of his Trilogy of Rest, Finding Rest in the Nature of Mind, contains thirteen chapters of beautiful and evocative verse that present the most important teachings from both sutra and mantra perspectives for the Buddhist practitioner interested in pursuing the goal of liberation. 

This will be a multi-year teaching, and students will begin by engaging the first four chapters of the text, which cover the four important “mind-turning” reflections: the freedoms and advantages of a human birth, impermanence, suffering, and karma. 

Join us for five consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning on Tuesday, June 29 through July 27. These teachings are offered through a sliding scale donation. You can sign up below. 

Since the text is best studied and practiced sequentially, participation in subsequent teachings depends upon joining the class from the beginning. Future teaching blocks are anticipated in late fall 2021, and early spring, 2022, and will be announced progressively.

Click here to purchase the text from Shambhala Publications.

Click here to purchase an downloadable, electronic EPUB version of the text.

Christina Monson has over thirty years of study, translation, and practice experience in traditions of Buddhism. Immersion in the study of eastern religions as a college student led her to Nepal in 1989 where she met her root guru, Chatral Sangye Dorje, under whose principal guidance she studied and practiced for the next three decades. Additionally, she lived and studied closely with other great masters including Soktse Rinpoche and Chhoje Rinpoche who guided her through many intensive retreats and clarified her understanding of the pith practice instructions. Christina focuses her practice and translation on the lineages of the Dudjom Tersar and of the dakini Sera Khandro. Her joy is to partner with students on journeys of internalizing the teachings of Buddha through practical, lived experience.

PMC hosts a preliminary practices (ngondro) practice group for those who are doing (or have completed) the Dudjom Tersar ngondro practice and the requisite accumulations. The benefits of this beautiful, profound, and supportive practice are immediate and far-reaching.

Requirements:

One needs to have received the transmission of these practices from a qualified teacher in order to offer this practice. You may attend any session you like, however, attending from the beginning of the session to the end is requested.

Host: Tara Roberts has been a student of His Eminence Chhoje Rinpoche’s since 1986 and is deeply familiar with this practice.

Dates and Time: Wednesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. MT / 6:00 p.m. PT through the summer of 2021.

Practice Session Length and Description: The session will last for one hour. It will include recitation of 21 Vajrasattva mantras and 300 Vajra Guru mantras. We will recite both the Tibetan and the English. To minimize the audio disruption, participants will be muted during the actual practice.

Texts: We will be using the Yeshe Melong translation of the basic preliminary practice text. We will also begin with opening prayers and conclude with dedication prayers. We will distribute copies of the texts we plan to recite, including the specific translations of opening and closing prayers to those who RSVP above.

Reference Reading: A review of A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom, the Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje is recommended. His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche taught that the realization of the Great Perfection depends entirely on these preliminary practices. Detailed instructions for how to do the practice are contained in this reference book.

Access: We will host this program via Zoom conferencing software. To join us, please click the link below. Before the session, make sure your device is running the most updated Zoom software.  

Please only RSVP one time–each time you click the RSVP button, you are added to our list. If you click multiple times thinking perhaps you didn’t get registered, it adds another entry to the database. If you’ve received the email communication for one week, you have all the information for the subsequent weeks and there is no need to sign up again each week.  

If you are newly registered for the event, you will receive an email with the Zoom link and any needed information on Wednesday afternoon of the week in which you are joining. Your patience is much appreciated!

Offerings

This event is offered freely for those who are qualified to attend. If you would like to make an offering in support of these gatherings, please visit our donation page.

Join us Thursday, July 15th, 2020, at 7:00 pm MDT for Thursday evening meditation with Brendan Kennedy! PMC has reopened and you are welcome to join us at the center in person. Please RSVP below to reserve your space if you plan to join us in person.

We are also offering this via live stream on You Tube ! Either way, we look forward to you joining us!

Brendan’s teachings are suited to those who have cultivated a daily meditation practice and are looking to deepen their experiential understanding of the practice. Through practicing together and sharing about our practice in an open forum, Brendan guides us to look at and transcend our habitual blocks to awareness and clarity and to give up preoccupation and distraction from who we truly are. This approach leads each person toward freedom from the trappings of ego.

This event is freely offered to all who have an interest in learning meditation. Click here to join the event.

If you would like to make a donation to support these teachings, please visit PMC’s donation page by clicking here.