May 21, 2022 - May 22, 2022 Healing Science of Mental Wellness Online: Hosted by Shang Shung Institute Rinpoche joins Doctor of Tibetan Medicine Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo for their third dialogue on the topic of holistic wellness. This program will be hosted by the Shang Shung Institute of Tibetan Medicine. It will be an online webinar held over parts of Saturday May 21st and Sunday May 22nd.
June 11, 2022 - June 12, 2022 Wisdom and Compassion: Essentials of Mahayana Buddhism If our compassion is weak, whatever wisdom we attain will be of little help to others. But if we cultivate compassion without wisdom, we will lack the vision, strength, and skill to benefit others in the most profound way: by guiding them toward their own enlightenment. This is why wisdom and compassion are traditionally compared to the wings of a bird. Both are necessary to fly. Upcoming online event hosted by the Boulder Shambhala Center.
August 13, 2022 - August 15, 2022 Wisdom and Compassion: The Essentials of Mahayana Buddhism An upcoming virtual event hosted by Dak Shang Kagyu. In the Mahayana teachings, wisdom and compassion are traditionally compared to the wings of a bird in that both are necessary to fly. For registration and other information, visit this page on the Dak Shang Kagyu site.
October 15, 2022 - October 16, 2022 Weekend Retreat with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche In person and online: Hosted by the Buddhist Center of Steamboat Springs Bud Werner Memorial Library, Steamboat Springs, CO, United States On Saturday, Rinpoche will be teaching based on his book Training in Tenderness. On Sunday, Rinpoche will be teaching on Mahamudra, and will discuss the importance of the teacher/student relationship. Details are available at https://www.steamboatbuddhistcenter.org/dkr-info.
December 9, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Wisdom and Compassion – The Essence of Mahayana Buddhism In this three evening program beginning on December 9th, and broadcast live from Europe (check event page for times), Rinpoche teaches that in order to cultivate compassion we must first recognize, open up to and understand our own suffering. This means looking more deeply and clearly at our fears, our guilt, the desire to be perfect and the habit of indulging our emotions. As we begin to have some objectivity towards our suffering, and recognize the causes of it, we can find a tremendous sense of compassion for ourselves and others, and wisdom begins to dawn.
January 1, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am New Year’s Day Address with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Join us for a New Year's Day Address by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. Streamed live.
January 14, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Dependent Origination and Compassion Kongtrul Rinpoche joins the 40th Buddhist Summer School hosted by Evam Institute in Australia for a talk on January 14th.
February 21, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Losar Address We are delighted to stream Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche’s Losar Address this year from the Sangdo Palri Temple of Wisdom and Compassion in Crestone, CO. The tentative start time for the address is currently 11 a.m. Mountain Time.
April 29, 2023 - April 30, 2023 Life and the Practice of Dharma (Online Retreat) Hosted by the Boulder Shambhala Center. In this weekend online teaching, Rinpoche will explore how we can learn to aspire to have a meaningful and altruistic bodhisattva’s way of life while living in the midst of our tumultuous modern world.
May 5, 2023 - May 7, 2023 Dukngal Rangdröl Drupcho, MSB Japan MSB Japan is pleased to announce that Kongtrul Rinpoche will preside over a Dukngal Rangdröl Drupcho from May 5 to May 7, 2023. Owing to the pandemic, this will be the first drupcho we have been able to hold in Japan since 2019. Dukngal Rangdröl (“Natural Liberation of Suffering”) is an Avalokiteshvara sadhana from the Longchen Nyingtik tradition. This sadhana has been practiced only once before in Japan.