Events 2016

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(Solitary Hero Yamantaka with Jhampa Shaneman

May 8-14 2017 in Stockholm)

May 8-12: The preliminaries for the practice of Tantra (these teachings can be attended without receiving the initiation and practice commitment that are given on May 13-14)

May 13-14: Initiation and commentary (9 mixings “Taking Death as Dharmakaya, Bardo as Sambhogakaya and Rebirth as Nirmanakaya” as well as a set of teachings with instruction on Dream Yoga). The lineage comes from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Kyabje Ling Rinpoche.  

Life long, daily commitment for receiving the empowerment: Daily practice of Six Session Guru Yoga

Inquiries: contact@contemplativepsychology.org

About Lama Jhampa Shaneman

One of the first western Buddhist monks in the Tibetan tradition of Mahayana Buddhism, Jhampa met Ven. Lama Yeshe and became his first male ordained sangha member in 1971.  From that time Jhampa studied mainly in Dharmsala, India, learning the Tibetan language and studying under such masters as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, His Holiness's senior tutor and the Ven. Geshe Rabten and Geshe Dhargaye.  Over the next 10 years in India he was introduced to many tenants of Buddhism interspersing this with periods of meditational retreat.  He also had the opportunity to study with Masters of all 4 sects of Tibetan Buddhism and teachers of Vipassanna and Zen Buddhism.  By 1980 he had completed 6 years of study of the sutras and tantras and approximately 4 years of short retreats such as the four preliminaries and several deities.  In the fall of 1980 Jhampa entered the traditional great retreat and spent the next three and a half-year on the mountain above Dharmsala, India, under the guidance of Ven. Ling Rinpoche.  Upon completing that he returned to Canada and established Thubten Choling Dharma center.

Jhampa is no longer an ordained monk.  He is a lay Buddhist practitioner.  He is one of the first western practitioners to be given permission by His Holiness to teach all levels of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.  His talks are spiced with humorous and fascinating anecdotes of his experiences of transforming a western mind to grip the Buddhist perspective.  Being born and raised in the west gives Jhampa's way of sharing the insights of the east a uniquely relevant twist.  

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Suggested donations:
1.000 SEK - employed
500 SEK - students & unemployed
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. 

Normally, we human beings spend at least a third of our lifetime in sleep and dreaming. Nevertheless, it is possible to engage in a dialogue with our dreams, receiving portents of the future, and even to become awake and self-aware in them awake and self-aware in our dreams and experience what is generally known as “lucid dreaming.” Becoming conscious in our dreams without awakening from sleep, we may come to find ourselves in control of our dream and be able to transform it, even practice meditation while asleep and journey in a dream-body to explore other worlds and dimensions of existence. 

Moreover, dream yoga represents an excellent training to prepare us for dying and the after-death-experience known as the Bardo, where, as is the case with the dream state, we are confronted with our karmic visions as virtual realities. In this course, we shall explore some of the methods found in the shamanistic and tantric traditions of Ancient Tibet, including Dzogchen, used by the Lamas of Tibet to realize lucid dreams and bring about their transformation, which in turn will affect the waking state life and the consciousness of the individual.

Lama Vajranatha (John Myrdhin Reynolds) is a writer and lecturer who has studied Sanskrit, Tibetan, Buddhist Philosophy, and Comparative Religion at several American universities. Living for ten years in Hindu Ashrams and Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in India and Nepal, he researched and practiced meditation methods in several different traditions, focusing especially on the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. In 1974 he received ordination as a Ngakpa Lama in the Nyingmapa Order of Tibetan Buddhism from HH Düdjom Rinpoche. Since then he has taught widely in Europe and America, giving lectures and workshops on Buddhist Meditation and personal development. 

His published translations from Tibetan include a number of important works dealing with Dzogchen, such as The Alchemy of Realization, The Cycle of Day and Night, Self-Liberation, The Golden Letters, The Oral Tradition of Zhang-zhung, Witches and Dakinis, Bonpo Dzogchen Teachings, The Sadhana Practice of Wrathful Deities, The Practice of Guru Yoga for Padmasambhava, The Practice of Dzogchen in the Zhang-zhung Tradition of Tibet, The Precepts of the Dharmakaya, and the forthcoming The Secret Book of Simhamukha and The Path of the Clear Light.

The practice of Chenrezig P’howa is the extraordinary Vajrayana method for attaining rebirth in Amitabha Buddha’s pure realm. P’howa means transferring consciousness from one state to another. At the moment of death, the skillful means of the “P’howa of three recognitions” allows us to direct our consciousness out of our body and into the exalted environment of Amitabha’s enlightened mind. Once enlightened, meditative realization and the capacity to benefit others increase to their ultimate potential.

P’howa accomplishment ensures that we will not die in a state of spiritual uncertainty, drifting helplessly in the after-death bardo.This practice provides a consummate method to help others when they die.

Chagdud Khadro has taught the meditation of P’howa, transference of consciousness at the moment of death, for 28 years. Like many Buddhist practitioners, especially in the Tibetan tradition, her teaching is informed by the writings and oral transmissions of such great masters as Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, Sogyal Rinpoche, the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, and Tulku Thondup Rinpoche. She has had the opportunity to counsel many in situations of dying and death and has listened to many stories.

Amitabha empowerment will be offered and is required for the P’howa training.

Chagdud Khadro met His Eminence Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche in Nepal in 1978, became his wife in the US in 1979, and remained his devoted student for twenty-three years. At the time of her ordination as a lama in 1997, Rinpoche invested her as the future Spiritual Director of Chagdud Gonpa Brazil. Since Rinpoche’s Parinirvana in 2002, she has focused on maintaining the Vajrayana training that he established. At Khadro Ling, the seat of Chagdud Gonpa Brazil, she has worked with a “miraculously assembled team” (her words) of lamas, artists, and talented sangha members to construct a Guru Rinpoche Palace (Zangdog Palri), publish texts, accomplish projects related to education, spiritual care for the dying, and to preserve and teach Vajrayana ritual arts. She travels, teaches, and leads retreats in the Americas, Europe, and Australia.

Related bibliography:

Phowa Commentary, Chagdud Khadro 

Red Tara Commentary: Instructions for the Concise Practice Known as Red Tara, Chagdud Khadro

Lord of the Dance: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama, Chagdud Tulku

Ngondro Commentary: Instructions for the Concise Preliminary Practices of the New Treasure of Dudjom, Jane Trogma & Chagdud Tulku

Life in Relation to Death, Chagdud Tulku

Gates to Buddhist Practice: Essential Teachings of a Tibetan Master, Chagdud Tulku