Guru Yoga and Bodhichitta Teachings with Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche
2025-05-10 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-11 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | Red Tree Meditation & Yoga Center, 1234 E 16th St., Tucson, AZ, 85719, United States
Guru Yoga and Bodhichitta Teachings with Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche
May 10th & 11th, 2025

Location + Registration
The teachings will be held at Red Tree Meditation & Yoga Center in Tucson and simultaneously broadcast online via Zoom. We strongly encourage you to attend in person.
All are welcome, no previous experience necessary.
The suggested donation for each weekend day is $45, or whatever amount you can donate to support this and future teachings in the Old Pueblo. Registration is not required, and can be done on day of teachings, but pre-registration helps us to know estimate total attendance and plan accordingly:
REGISTER for How to Live in Happiness with Khenchen Gyaltshen Konchog

To Join Via Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87086119096

Red Tree Meditation & Yoga Center
1234 E 16th St.
Tucson, AZ 85719

Achi Chokyi Drolma Meditation Practice
2025-09-10 19:00 - 2025-12-31 20:00, 2025-09-17 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-24 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-01 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-22 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-29 19:00 - 20:00 and 14 more dates | Virtual Event
Achi Chokyi Drolma is chief Dharma Protectress of the Drikung Kagyu, and the revered great-grandmother of Lord Jigten Sumgon, founder of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage.
As a protectress, she vowed to guard the Buddha’s teachings, and in particular the Drikung Kagyu lineage and its practitioners, removing inner and outer obstacles to practice and laying the groundwork for progress along the path. Those who practice her meditation and recite her mantra are certain to be protected from obstacles and hindrances.
In her right hand she holds a silver mirror in which she sees the 3 times, and in her left, a wish-fulfilling jewel with which she fulfills the wishes of those who earnestly pray to her. During this practice we will aspire not only to benefit all sentient beings, to remove the obstacles of war, disease, and afflictive emotions, but also to establish the Buddha-dharma and our dharma center in Tucson.
“When Achi was born, numerous auspicious signs, such as flowers, parasols, and rainbows, appeared in the sky,” teaches H.E. Garchen Rinpoche. Such are her miraculous qualities, which continue to manifest to this day.
This practice was written by Lord Jigten Sumgon and translated into English by Virginia Blum.
We encourage a participatory style of practice, in which everyone has an opportunity to take part and to learn how to do the practice, and beginners are welcome.
To join the practice via Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85718559928

A Concise Daily Practice of Achi (sadhana)
Musings of a Practitioner
World Peace Prayer
Tara Wartime Prayer
How Achi Chokyi Drolma Acquired Her 3 Names (invocation)
Khenchen Gyaltsen Chanting the Achi Mantra (mantra with melody)

Sand Mandala Creation with Venerable Lama Losang Samten - Opening Ceremony
2025-10-12 11:00 - 18:00 | Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona, 1502 E Mabel St., Tucson, 85719, United States
Sand Mandala Creation with Venerable Lama Losang Samten
sponsored by our dear friends
Arizona Friends of Tibet
Arizona Friends of Tibet is honored and delighted to welcome Venerable Lama Losang Samten to Tucson in October, when he will create his Kalachakra design — the same sand mandala he built in 1988 at the Museum of Natural History in New York, the first sand mandala ever built in the West. The mandala event will take place at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine on the University of Arizona campus.
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Sand Mandala Creation with Venerable Lama Losang Samten
2025-10-13 09:00 - 2025-10-18 18:00 | Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona, 1502 E Mabel St., Tucson, 85719, United States

Teachings on the Holy Smoke Offering
2025-10-18 09:00 - 12:00 | Drikung Ratnashri Institute, 1038 E Lester St, Tucson, 85719, United States
Learn an ancient Himalayan Buddhist method for bringing peace, happiness, harmony, health and wealth into the lives of yourself and others through the use of traditional herbal incense.
with
Venerable Khenpo Tenzin
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Bardo Teachings with Drupon Thinley Ningpo - Amitabha Empowerment
2025-11-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Red Tree Meditation & Yoga Center, 1234 E 16th St., Tucson, AZ, 85719, United States
Our Beloved Drupon Thinley Ningpo
Please join us and our beloved teacher, Drupon Thinley Ningpo, for this special weekend of Bardo Teachings, November 22nd and 23rd, 2025 (10am-12pm + 2pm-5pm MST), preceded by an Amitabha empowerment on Friday, November 21st (6:30pm-8:30pm MST).
LINK TO ZOOM
Bardo Teaching Text [PDF]
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The term, Bardo, commonly refers to the transitional or “intermediate states” that occur during the period between death and rebirth. The Bardo teachings help us to understand what happens when the mind separates from the body at the time of death, where it goes, what to expect, and how to prepare for the transition.
In a broader sense, Bardo also refers to 6 key transitional experiences, moments when gaps appear, not just in the afterlife, but also in everyday life, including the bardos of dreaming and meditation.
Drupon Thinley Ningpo will explore these 6 Bardo states and why it’s crucial to understand them and the opportunities present in each for liberation from samsara and the cycle of suffering.
Location + Registration
The teachings will be held at Red Tree Meditation & Yoga Center in Tucson and simultaneously broadcast online via Zoom. We strongly encourage you to attend in person.
All are welcome, no previous experience necessary.
The suggested donation for each weekend day is $40, or whatever amount you can donate to support this and future teachings in the Old Pueblo. Registration is not required, and can be done on day of teachings, but pre-registration helps us to estimate total attendance and plan accordingly:
REGISTER for Bardo Teachings with Drupon Thinley Ningpo

Bardo Teachings with Drupon Thinley Ningpo
2025-11-22 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-23 10:00 - 17:00 | Red Tree Meditation & Yoga Center, 1234 E 16th St., Tucson, AZ, 85719, United States
