Achi Chokyi Drolma Meditation Practice
2016-03-13 10:00 - 12:00, 2016-03-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2016-03-27 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Phoenix) | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
About Achi Practice: There are essentially two types of Buddhist meditation practice, Sutra and Tantra. Achi Chokyi Drolma Meditation Practice is a Tantric meditation practice.
Achi is one of the protectors of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage, but she protects all beings from harm. Those who practice her and recite her mantra are sure to be protected from obstacles and hindrances, especially to Dharma practice.
Achi practice we uses visualization and mantra to facilitate concentration. The practice lasts approximately an hour and a half, and consists of opening prayers for setting the motivation to benefit all others, the body of the practice using visualization and mantra, and finally the dedication prayers where we wish to benefit all sentient beings
The prayers, visualization, and dedication are read from a sadhana (traditional practice text). This particular practice was written by Jigten Sumgon, our lineage’s founder, and translated in to English by Khenchen Gyaltsen Rinpoche.
Beginners are welcome at this practice. For those starting out, the visualization is done a little differently and we are happy to go over that with you. Please feel free to come with questions. We will answer them as best we can. For those we can’t answer, we have many excellent teachers to which we can refer.
* After the practice please feel free to spend time at the center, learn more about it, and perhaps join us in merit-earning karma yoga to benefit all beings. *

Weekly Meditation Practice
2016-03-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2016-03-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Laura Greenlaw Residence, 4051 E. Paseo Grande, Tucson, AZ, 85711, United States
Tara Embodies the female wisdom activity of the mind. She is often called the mother of all the Buddhas. White Tara offers peace, prosperity, health and long life through her enlightened activities. In reciting her mantra and making a connection to her, we draw closer to developing her enlightened qualities in ourselves.
This event is free and beginners are welcome.
4051 E. Paseo Grande
Tucson, Arizona 85711
(Click here for a map)

For More Information:
Pati Stein: 465-1882

Bodhisattva Vow, Refuge and Preliminaries
2016-05-01 10:00 - 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Drupon Thinley Ningpo returns the end of April and will teach the next three Sundays, May 1st, 8th, and 15th.
May 1st, Drupon will offer Refuge and Bodhisattva Vows. He will teach on the foundational Ngondro Practices on these three Sundays. These preliminary practices are precious as they help transform us.
It is sometimes said that:

Prostrations remove the obscurations associated with the body,
Recitation of the hundred syllable mantra removes obscurations associated with speech,
Mandala Offering removes obscurations associated with mind, and
Guru Yoga removes the obscurations of all three: body, speech and mind.

Please join us for a great opportunity to renew your familiarity with the most basic of practices and offerings.
Suggested donation is $30 per day, $75 for all three Sundays

Consecration Ceremony at Drikung Namgyal Ling
2016-05-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States

Loving Kindness and Natural Meditation
2016-07-13 11:30 - 12:30 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
This event is free and is open to all. There will also be a sack lunch fellowship afterwards.

Buddhism 101 - A Deeper Understanding of the Fundamentals.
2016-07-23 10:00 - 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Khenpo Yeshi
Teacher: Khenpo Yeshi Rinpoche
Suggested Donation: $85 for the weekend
Can you name the 4 thoughts that turn the mind, or describe the outer and inner preliminaries and their importance? Whether a new student or seasoned practitioner, clearly understanding the fundamentals of the path dispels confusion and serves as the basis for all stages of the path to enlightenment.
In the 11th century renowned scholar and practitioner, Atisha, produced The Lam Rim, or Stages of the Path, a summary of thousands of disparate sutras and commentaries into a single root text, A Lamp for the Path of Enlightenment. In the twelfth century, Gampopa integrated Atisha’s Lam Rim tradition with Tilopa’s Mahamudra teachings, thereby giving birth to the famous Buddhist treatise, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, and the Kagyu school of Buddhism itself.
Our beloved spiritual friend, scholar, and teacher, Khenpo Yeshi, returns to Tucson July 23rd and 24th to take us back to the beginning again, Tibetan Buddhism 101 if you’d like. New students will find his immense wisdom and warmth a true lamp to light the path, and long term students will have a chance to brush up the basics and gain new insights on old knowledge. A highly trained and accomplished professor of Buddhism (Khenpo), and as current doctoral student at UC Berkeley, Khenpo Yeshi teaches in English and embraces western-style classroom principles. Join us for our version of summer school, where not only will we study the book, The Jewel Ornament of Realization, and engage in lively discussions, but there will also be handouts and take-ways for all attendees.
If you have been looking for a way to get into Buddhism, and start at the beginning, this precious opportunity cannot be missed. Seasoned practitioners have the chance to test and reinforce the “study” aspect of the Buddha’s 3-fold instruction to study, to practice and to contemplate. This year, Khenpo’s 12th year visiting Drikung Namgyal Ling, we will celebrate the dharma by distributing copies of all 12 years of his ultra-concise and one-of-a-kind support materials, including:
single page outline of the entire path
charts of the ten Bhumis
famous dharma quotations
extensive bibliographies
The root text, The Jewel Ornament of Realization, will be available in the bookstore, as well as many other texts that will be cited during the teaching. Pre-reading recommended!

Preliminary Practices - Refuge Practice and It's Benefits
2016-07-30 10:00 - 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
With Drupon Thinley Ningpo
Lord Jigten Summon, the father of our lineage, said: “ The Ngondro is even more important than the higher practices.One must truly understand and practice the simple yet profound foundational teachings before one begins the higher teachings.”
One practices the four extraordinary foundations, or the Vajrayana Ngondro, to purify the negative karma and obscurations of the mind, speech and body and to develop virtues.
Taking refuge, the foundation stone of all paths
The inner preliminaries starts with taking refuge, learning to rely on the Buddha, the Dharma(his teachings) , and the Sangha. Taking refuge is the basis of the other preliminaries and of all Buddhist practices.
This will be a teaching and practice weekend. Please bring your questions as this weekend will be helpful for beginners and experienced practitioners.
Suggested Donation: $85 for the weekend,

Preliminary Practices - Vajrasattva and Purification
2016-08-06 10:00 - 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Drupon Thinely Ningpo
Teachings with Drupon Thinley Ningpo
Meditating and reciting on the teacher as Vajrasattva to cleanse all obscurations
The main obstacles that prevent all the extraordinary experiences and realizations of the profound path from arising are negative actions, obscurations and habitual tendencies. Just as it is important to clean the surface of a mirror if forms are to be reflected in it, so too it is important to eliminate our obscurations so the realization can appear like a reflection in the mirror of the Ground of All.
The Buddha taught countless methods of purification for this purpose, but the best of them is meditation and recitation related to the teacher as Vajrasattva.
Drupon will give us teachings and instructions for practice, lung transmission ( permission to practice for practitioners who did not have the empowerment) and will lead us into the practice itself , getting us ready to practice Ngondro on our own or together in our new center.
We are planing to add to our Sunday meditation schedule, one day a month as Ngondro day, where we can practice together the 4 accumulations for the benefit of our Dharma practitioners and all sentient beings.
Suggested Donation $85

Ngondro - Preliminary Practices
2016-08-21 10:00 - 15:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Lord Jigten Sumgon, Rigdzin Chodrak (1st Chungtsang Rinpoche), and Konchok Ratna (1st Chetsang Rinpoche)
In samsara, there are three types of suffering – suffering in the making, the suffering of change, and the suffering of suffering. Ones should meditate with fierce renunciation in the knowledge that the intrinsic nature of these three is like a building blazing with fire. Having established the difficulty of obtaining the freedoms and advantages, ones should train in the ordinary preliminaries, and then undertake them.
The founder to the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, Lord Jigten Sumgon stated, “Ngondro is even more important than the higher practices.” It has also been said that sincerely practicing only Ngondro will lead to enlightenment since all mind training techniques leading to enlightenment are included within it!
The five Drikung Kagyu Ngondro preliminary practices are:
1. The Practice of Taking Refuge (prostrations with recitations),
2. Practice of Vajrasattva Meditation and Recitation for Purification,
3. Offering the Noble Mandala the Special Method for Perfecting the Two Accumulations,
4. The Guru Yoga that Brings the Blessings of the Lineage
5. Bodhicitta – the practice of truly wishing for eveyones’ enlightenment, no one left behind.
This Ngondro group will meet every third Sunday of each month. We will offer two sessions, first session 10 am to Noon, second session 1 pm to 3 pm. Each session we will practice Refuge and Vajrasattva. All are welcome to attend one or both sessions.
Bring your own sack lunch

Pure View and the Nature of Reality
2016-11-05 10:00 - 2016-11-06 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Pure View is one of the most basic, and yet easily misunderstood concepts in Buddhism. But appreciating it’s true meaning is fundamental to entering the path to enlightenment.
The Buddha taught that the impure view can be experienced as a pure view, that is, confusion can be experienced as pristine wisdom-awareness, where wisdom-awareness is the ascertainment and understanding of the true nature of things.
Drupon Thinley Ningpo will teach us on these and other important concepts to help us gain a greater understanding and experience.

Nov. 5 and 6: 10am – Noon, 2pm to 5pm – Both days
Teaching Fee: $90 for the entire Weekend for non-members. $65 for Sustaining Members or above.
If you would like to attend and this amount is an obstacle, please contact us. Work study is always available, as well as other options.
Pati Stein 520-465-1882
Membership – In October 2015 we moved into our lovely Sahuarita location. The idea of establishment of property was the wisdom of Drupon Thinley Ningpo, Khenpo Ozer, and Garchen Rinpoche. Our ability to sustain this ourselves is directly dependent on the community of practitioners and attendees. Membership and volunteerism will be essential for us to sustain the DNL Center into the future.
Please consider joining our membership today (click on Membership below):
Membership

Chenrezig Empowerment with Drupon Thinley Ningpo
2016-11-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Drupon Thinley Ningpo will bestow Thousand-Armed Chenrezig Empowerment on Thursday evening, 7pm to 9 pm.
Cost: Free to members, $40 non-members.
Please call Miheala Marin with any questions: 520-400-6541

4-Day Mani Drupchen Practice with Drupon Thinley Ningpo
2016-11-11 08:00 - 2016-11-13 16:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Annual Mani Drupchen, November 11 through 13
Chenrezig is renowned as the embodiment of the compassion of all the Buddhas, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Whenever we are compassionate, or feel love for anyone, or for an animal or some part of the natural world, we experience a taste of our own natural connection with Chenrezig.
Drupchen means vast accomplishment and is a form of intensive group practice. This practice will continue night and day through these three days. Participants will be welcome to practice though the entire 4 days or drop in for sessions. Practitioners of all levels are welcome. Preregistration will be required for overnight stays. Meals will be available for a small donation, or you are welcome to bring your own food.
Empowerment will be help Thursday evening. Empowerment is not required to participate. Session hours will be as follows:
8 to 12,
12 to 4,
4 to 8,
both am and pm.
We also welcome volunteers and helpers for such events. Please let us know if you are interested in helping us organize this Chenrezig Drupchen event. Helping with meals, kitchen and bathroom clean up, signing up for night sessions are amongst some of the items that would be very helpful. Lodging is availabe for those who wish to attend session into the evening.
Drupchen Fee: $150 for entire event including sleeping arrangement, Foundational Members come free, $20/session for non-members, $10/session for Supporting Members or above.
If you would like to attend and the cost is an obstacle please contact us. Work study and other options do exist.
Please contact Miheala 520-400-6541
Membership – In October 2015 we moved into our lovely Sahuarita location. The idea of establishment of property was the wisdom of Drupon Thinley Ningpo, Khenpo Ozer, and Garchen Rinpoche. Our ability to sustain this ourselves is directly dependent on the community of practitioners and attendees. Membership and volunteerism will be essential for us to sustain the DNL Center into the future.
Please consider joining our membership today (click on Membership below):
Membership

2016-11-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Renunciation
Saturday, Nov 19, 10am-5pm
Most broadly, renunciation can be understood as a letting go of whatever binds us to ignorance and suffering. The Buddha taught that genuine renunciation requires thoroughly perceiving how we make ourselves unhappy by grasping and greediness. When we can let go of such things it is liberating. The Buddha said, “If, by forsaking a limited ease, he would see an abundance of ease, the enlightened man would forsake the limited ease for the sake of the abundant.” (Dhammapada, verse 290).
Drupon Thinley Ningpo will provide teachings and advice on attaining renunciation, or liberation from ignorance and confusion. We hope you can join us for this one day event.
Teaching Fee: $50 for this one day teaching, $25 for Sustaining Members and above. Foundational Members may attend for free.

Renunciation
2016-11-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Most broadly, renunciation can be understood as a letting go of whatever binds us to ignorance and su ering. The Buddha taught that genuine renunciation requires thoroughly perceiving how we make ourselves unhappy by grasping and greediness. When we can let go of such things it is liberating. The Buddha said, “If, by forsaking a limited ease, he would see an abundance of ease, the enlightened man would forsake the limited ease for the sake of the abundant.” (Dhammapada, verse 290).
Drupon Thinley Ningpo will provide teachings and advice on attaining renunciation, or liberation from ignorance and su ering. We hope you can join us for this one day event.
Teaching Fee: $50 for this one day teaching, $25 for Sustaining Members and above. Foundational Members may attend for free.

Sunday Mornings at the Center
2016-11-20 09:30 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Drupon Thinely Ningpo
For this special Sunday, Drupon Thinley Ningpo will join us for Ngondro session for the AM and afternoon session. Our schedule will be as follows:
-Refuge in English 10 am – recitations and prostrations
-Vajrasattva in English 11am – recitation, meditation, and purification
– Lunch Break – 12 to 1pm please bring your own sack lunch
-Refuge in Tibetan chant 1pm
-Vajrasattva in TibetanChant 2pm
For those of us who are completing Ngondro, have a love for these practices, or have questions or curiousity about these preliminaries, this Sunday is a special opportunity to do the practice along side this excellent retreat master and to ask questions.
In samsara, there are three types of suffering – suffering in the making, the suffering of change, and the suffering of suffering. Ones should meditate with fierce renunciation in the knowledge that the intrinsic nature of these three is like a building blazing with fire. Having established the difficulty of obtaining the freedoms and advantages, ones should train in the ordinary preliminaries, and then undertake them.
The founder to the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, Lord Jigten Sumgon stated, “Ngondro is even more important than the higher practices.” It has also been said that sincerely practicing only Ngondro will lead to enlightenment since all mind training techniques leading to enlightenment are included within it!
If you have always wanted to complete the preliminaries, but needed the support of a group, or are new and want to deepen your understanding and commitment this Sunday practice is for you.
Beginners are very welcome at this practice.

Sunday Mornings at the Center
2017-01-01 10:00 - 11:30 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Please join us for a very special New Years Practice:
Achi Practice followed by the prayer of Kuntuzangpo.
Achi Chokyi Drolma is the great Dharma protector of the Buddha’s teachings 3Ú4 and the emanation of Vajrayogini 3Ú4 the embodiment of the wisdom and activities of all the Buddhas. Achi is revered throughout Tibet and her sadhana is practiced by all lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. She was the grandmother of Jitgen Sumgon, the founder of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage. Whosoever will practice the sadhana of Achi Chokyi Drolma with full devotion and certainty, will be freed from all kinds of unfavorable circumstances and obstacles in this life, as well as obstacles connected with Dharma practice, and will finally achieve perfect enlightenment.
The Prayer of Kungtuzangpo (Tibetan), also known as the Primorial Buddha Samantabhadra (Sanskrit) instructs the sincere student about the View, Meditation an Action of the Nature of Mind and how we stray from this Unchanging Goodness in our day to day lives.
10 am – 11:30

Beginners are very welcome at this practice.
* After the practice we will have an optional pot luck lunch for those who wish to enjoy the good company and quietude of the Sahuarita location. *

Sunday Mornings at the Center
2017-01-08 09:30, 2017-01-15 10:00 - 12:00, 2017-04-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
By popular request we will practice Ngondro every Sunday. Our schedule will be as follows:
-Refuge 10 am – recitations and prostrations
-Vajrasattva 11am – recitation, meditation, and purification
In samsara, there are three types of suffering – suffering in the making, the suffering of change, and the suffering of suffering. Ones should meditate with fierce renunciation in the knowledge that the intrinsic nature of these three is like a building blazing with fire. Having established the difficulty of obtaining the freedoms and advantages, ones should train in the ordinary preliminaries, and then undertake them.
The founder to the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, Lord Jigten Sumgon stated, “Ngondro is even more important than the higher practices.” It has also been said that sincerely practicing only Ngondro will lead to enlightenment since all mind training techniques leading to enlightenment are included within it!
If you have always wanted to complete the preliminaries, but needed the support of a group, or are new and want to deepen your understanding and commitment this Sunday practice is for you.
Beginners are very welcome at this practice.
* After the practice we will have an optional pot luck lunch for those who wish to enjoy the good company and quietude of the Sahuarita location. *

Mahamudra Practice Instruction and Open Retreat
2017-01-21 10:00 - 2017-01-28 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Mahamudra Practice Instruction and Open Retreat

With Drupon Rinchen Dorje Rinpoche
Saturday-Saturday, January 21-28, 2017

We are pleased to announce a very special teaching and practice retreat with Drupon Rinchen Dorje Rinpoche in the beauty and tranquility of the desert southwest. This open retreat will take place in late January during Tucson’s mild and very pleasant winter months.
Rinpoche will be teaching from the extensive Mahamudra chapter
included in the famous Words of Vajradhara Dharmakirti: A Record
of Instructions on Five-Fold Mahamudra by the 17th century
meditation master, Lho Trinley Namgyal. These instructions have
been the main Mahamudra instructions received and practiced in
Drikung Kagyü three-year retreats for centuries. We are extremely
fortunate to be able to receive these from a retreat master who has received and realized such traditional training.
Some of the main topics included in these extremely profound mahamudra instructions are: Calm Abiding, Special Insight, Becoming Certain about the Various Appearances of the Mind, Cutting Through Misconcep- tions About the Energy of the Ground, Introduction to the Nature of the Mind, Introduction to the Co-emergence of Thoughts, Introduction to the Coemergence of Appearances, Introduction to the Co-emergent Nature of Mind, Explanation of the Faults of Meditation, Recognizing the Fresh Ordinary Mind, Way to Take Things on to the Path, Four Yogas of Mahamudra, and Enhancing Realization.
Teaching Location (see directions to the center, below): Drikung Namgyal Ling Center
1135 West Twin Buttes Road
Sahuarita, AZ 85629
Retreat Fee – Retreat-ants in Residence (Includes lodging and meals.):
– $350 non-members for entire 8 day retreat – includes lodging and food
– $250 for full 8 day retreat (Supporting Members & above), Foundational Members are Free
Per Session Fee:
– $35/session for non-members
– $25/session for Supporting Members or above – Foundational Members are free

Retreat Schedule (January 21 to 28):
– AM/PM Sessions (10am-12pm, 2pm-5pm): Teaching and Practice Instruction – Evening Session (7pm-9pm): Practice and Q & A on the Day’s Teaching
Lodging and Meals at the Center:
The center has dorm-style (room sharing) accommodations for 10 retreat-ants. Attendees may also car camp or erect a tent on the property grounds. Individuals attending the full retreat will be given priority in booking both dorm and camping space.
Accommodation costs are included in the full retreat fees. For those attending only a portion of the retreat, the cost accommodation is $20/night indoor and $10/night for camping.
Indoor accommodation must be reserved prior to the retreat, and is otherwise available only as space permits. Please contact us to ensure your accommodation needs are met.
Three (3) vegetarian meals/day will be prepared daily by center members, with the requested assistance of retreat-ants as needed in meal prep and clean-up. Attendees with special dietary needs or desires may bring their own food. All meal costs are included in full retreat fees. Individual meals are available for $5 donation/meal.
For More Information on this Event:
Brennan Washburn 520-977-2136, brennan@drikungtucson.org
Pati Stein, 520-465-1882, pati.c.stein@gmail.com

Achi Chokyi Drolma Empowerment and Practice Instruction
2017-03-18 10:00 - 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Empowerment: Saturday, March 18, 10am
Teaching: Saturday & Sunday, March 18/19, 10am-12pm & 2pm-5pm
Drupon Thinley Ningpo will grant the Achi Chokyi Drolma empowerment and then guide us to a greater understanding of Achi deity practice. Achi, chief protectress of the Drikung Kagyu and an emanation of Vajrayogini, is also the great grandmother of Lord Jigten Sumgon, founder of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage. As such she “liberates the thoughts of beings to suit the dharma.”
Born in 11th century Tibet, from an early age Achi displayed auspicious powers such as teaching mantra to others by the age of three. In essence her manifestation in the human realm embodies the wisdom and compassion of all the Buddhas, the great mother of the Buddhas (http://www.rigdzindharma.org/achi-chokyi-drolma.html). “According to a prophecy in the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, it is said, “The head of the Karma Dakinis will come to the area of Tidro cave in Drikung. This will be a nirmanakaya manifestation of Vajrayogini” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achi_Chokyi_Drolma).
Achi practice is a particular favorite for our sangha. Please join us in paying homage to her for the benefit of all beings, the Drikung Kagyu lineage and for the benefit of our fledgling dharma center.
This particular practice was written by Lord Jigten Sumgon, and translated into English by Khenchen Gyaltsen Rinpoche. Drupon Thinley Ningpo will explain not only explain the text in particular and how to practice it, but will also offer commentary on the meaning of empowerment and of deity practice in general. Copies of the practice will be provided.
To pre-register for this event, please click here.
Teaching Fee: $75 for this weekend, $35 for Sustaining Members and above.
Foundational Members may attend for free.

Weekly Meditation Practice
2017-03-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Tara Embodies the female wisdom activity of the mind. She is often called the mother of all the Buddhas. White Tara offers peace, prosperity, health and long life through her enlightened activities. In reciting her mantra and making a connection to her, we draw closer to developing her enlightened qualities in ourselves.
This event is free and beginners are welcome.
1135 West Twin Buttes Road
Sahuarita, AZ 85629
(Click here for a map)

For More Information:
Pati Stein: 465-1882

Mandala Offering Practice
2017-03-25 10:00 - 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
As Vajrayana Buddhists we diligently practice the 2-fold accumulation of merit and wisdom. To accumulate wisdom we engage in meditation to deepen our understanding of emptiness and the innate purity of all phenomena. To accumulate merit we engage the other 5 perfections, starting with the perfection of generosity. Mandala practice combines meditation, mantra, and purification into a single very powerful act of generosity, and serves as a method to accumulate merit quickly.
With each mandala offering we offer the entire universe, our world and the inconceivably vast universe, in brief, the entirety of the glorious dharmasphere, to all beings and to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. In doing so we overcome our basic tendency toward self grasping and greed by purifying it with loving kindness and compassion. In the context of Ngondro, or preliminary practice, offering 111,111 mandalas is recommended. So just as we repeatedly polish our offering rings, we correspondingly polish the mirror of mind.
Our beloved Drupon Thinley Ningpo will show us how to practice the mandala offering as taught in the Drikung Kagyu tradition. He will explain not only how to perform the mandala offering — the ritual materials and 37 point step-by-step process — but will also explain its inner significance, how it builds merit, purifies negative karma, and ultimately blossoms as the most valuable benefit of all, Buddhahood.
Mandala practice texts will be available to use during the teaching weekend, and will be available for purchase in the dharma store. If you own a mandala offering set, please bring it with you. If you do not own a mandala set, we will provide as many simulated sets as needed, and vats of rice to fill the mandala, so that everyone can participate and learn the practice hands-on.
To pre-register for this event, please click here.
Teaching Fee: $75 for this weekend, $35 for Sustaining Members and above.
Foundational Members may attend for free.

Sand Mandala Final Dissolution
2017-04-08 11:00 - 13:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Join Drupon Thinley Ningpo as he ventures to Madera Canyon to offer the final vase of sand from sand mandala dissolution on April 6th. We will first meet at the Drikung Namgyal Ling dharma center, then together travel to the nearby Santa Rita mountains.

Mahamudra Meditation
2017-04-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Practice Mahamudra meditation with Drupon Thinley Ningpo, who will also offer insight and instructions. We are extremely fortunate to be able to receive these from a retreat master who has received and realized the traditional training. After the meditation we will have a potluck lunch.

The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena
2017-05-26 14:00 - 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Khenpo Yeshi returns to Tucson for the 12th year straight, and this time he will lead us on a journey into Longchen Rabjam’s famous treatise, The Chö Ying Dzöd, The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena and its accompanying commentary. By elucidating this text, Khenpo Yeshi will simultaneously introduce us to the work’s essential instruction on the profound Dzogchen practice of Trekchö or “cutting through.”
What do we cut through? Conceptual delusion. In the context of Dzogchen, we cut through the flimsy fantasy world of self-grasping and we do so swiftly, emboldened by the simple recognition of the innate incorruptibility of our own primordial awareness or Buddha Nature.
As dharma students in 2017 we can celebrate the auspicious good fortune of not only this masterpiece having been translated into English, but also the special insight of Khenpo Yeshi. A scholar in both Tibetan and English languages, Khenpo Yeshi has received extensive trainings, both academic and spiritual, too numerous to list here, and completed three-year meditative retreat under the guidance of the renowned Dzogchen master, H.E. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. He currently lives in California and attends Berkeley as a PhD student.
Since, during the course of one weekend, we will we only have enough time to cover the first few chapters, this teaching will become the first of a multi-year series. Please join us as we begin this cycle of Dzogchen teachings with Khenpo Yeshi at Drikung Namgyal Ling.
Texts will be available in our dharma store.
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Teaching Location (see directions to the center, below):
Drikung Namgyal Ling Center
1135 West Twin Buttes Road
Sahuarita, AZ 85629
Teachings Fee – 3 days teachings
– $85 non-members
– $60 Supporting Members & above
– Foundational Members are Free
Per Session Fee:
– $20/session , $40/day for non-members
– $15/session , $30/day for Supporting Members or above
– Foundational Members are free
– Work Study Positions are available but require prior arrangements. Please contact us 2 weeks in advance
Schedule (May 26 to 28):
-May 26: 2pm-5pm
-May 27-28 : 10-12 am and 2-5 pm

The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena
2017-05-27 10:00 - 2017-05-28 17:00 | Drikung Namgyal Ling Center, 1135 West Twin Buttes Road, Sahuarita, AZ, 85629, United States
Khenpo Yeshi returns to Tucson for the 12th year straight, and this time he will lead us on a journey into Longchen Rabjam’s famous treatise, The Chö Ying Dzöd, The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena and its accompanying commentary. By elucidating this text, Khenpo Yeshi will simultaneously introduce us to the work’s essential instruction on the profound Dzogchen practice of Trekchö or “cutting through.”
What do we cut through? Conceptual delusion. In the context of Dzogchen, we cut through the flimsy fantasy world of self-grasping and we do so swiftly, emboldened by the simple recognition of the innate incorruptibility of our own primordial awareness or Buddha Nature.
As dharma students in 2017 we can celebrate the auspicious good fortune of not only this masterpiece having been translated into English, but also the special insight of Khenpo Yeshi. A scholar in both Tibetan and English languages, Khenpo Yeshi has received extensive trainings, both academic and spiritual, too numerous to list here, and completed three-year meditative retreat under the guidance of the renowned Dzogchen master, H.E. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. He currently lives in California and attends Berkeley as a PhD student.
Since, during the course of one weekend, we will we only have enough time to cover the first few chapters, this teaching will become the first of a multi-year series. Please join us as we begin this cycle of Dzogchen teachings with Khenpo Yeshi at Drikung Namgyal Ling.
Texts will be available in our dharma store.

Schedule (May 26 to 28):
-May 26: 2pm-5pm
-May 27-28 : 10-12 am and 2-5 pm
Teaching Location (see directions to the center, below):
Drikung Namgyal Ling Center
1135 West Twin Buttes Road
Sahuarita, AZ 85629
Teachings Fee – 3 days teachings
– $85 non-members
– $60 Supporting Members & above
– Foundational Members are Free
Per Session Fee:
– $20/session , $40/day for non-members
– $15/session , $30/day for Supporting Members or above
– Foundational Members are free
– Work Study Positions are available but require prior arrangements. Please contact us 2 weeks in advance
Schedule (May 26 to 28):
-May 26: 2pm-5pm
-May 27-28 : 10-12 am and 2-5 pm
