Geshe Choekhortshang Rinpoche Coming to the United States!
Join Us at Serenity Ridge August on Online 13-14 for Special Dzogchen Teaching
Geshe Choekhortshang Rinpoche, well known throughout Europe and to Ligmincha's online community for his warmth, humor and breadth of knowledge, very recently received a five-year visa for the United States! This will be his first visit to the US, and he has agreed to offer a dzogchen teaching at Serenity Ridge August 13-14. Join us at Serenity Ridge or online on Zoom for this special retreat.
Choekhortshang Rinpoche will give instruction on the Four Goodnesses of Tapihritsa, a part of Tapihritsa's final instructions to Nangzher Lopo. These eighth century teachings are extremely precise pith instructions on the view, meditation, conduct and fruit of dzogchen, the deepest teaching in the Bon and some Buddhist lineages. The Four Goodnesses are extracted from the first written dzogchen instructions ever written down in the Bon tradition. They are the origin of the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyu teachings that have been handed down to us in the present day.
Saturday, August 13, will be a full day of teaching and practice, and Sunday will be a half day, ending around lunchtime. More information will be added to the Ligmincha website as it becomes available.
The sixth International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, being held the first week of August in Charlottesville, Va., is the initial reason for his visit to the US. At Serenity Ridge we are thrilled that he has agreed to stay on and teach a weekend retreat at the center.
Choekhortshang Rinpoche was born in Dolpo, Nepal, in 1976 and received his geshe degree from Menri Monastery in India in 2008, serving as a secretary to His Holiness the 33rd Menri Trizin during his studies. He was elected president of the Bon Dialectic School and was editor-in-chief of the Bon-sGo journal and later was treasurer of Menri. A researcher who has participated in many academic conferences, he lives in Prague, Czech Republic, where he is an assistant professor in the Department of South and Central Asia at Charles University in Prague. He has taught at many Ligmincha centers and sanghas in Europe.
