Lamrim annual retreat 2023


OVERVIEW

From 1999, Rinpoche began to share his priceless realization of the lamrim - The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment - of which he is lineage holder during successive retreats of about ten days. Over time, they have become for many the most precious moment of the year. Dazzling in their depth, vibrant with the richness of more than 2600 years of practice, alive with the experience of sages and saints who experiences and passed on these incomparable instructions from generation to generation, these retreats have been for many students a source of profound transformations.    


WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THESE TEACHINGS?

During these retreats, Rinpoche relies mainly on Liberation in Our Hands by Pabongkha Dorjechang and The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by the great Je Tsongkhapa, but also on the inestimable heritage that he received from his masters, and in the very first place Kyabje Trijang Dorjechang and Kyabje Ling Dorjechang. Each retreat is most often devoted to a particular theme of the gradual path, although it is never approached independently from all the other stages of the path. Deepened through all the nuances of the quotes, reasonings and life stories offered by the root treatises, as well as meditations guided by Rinpoche himself, each of them reveal in turn all their richness. This approach leaves also the opportunity for each student to put into practice and integrate the instructions given by Rinpoche, until the next retreat.  


WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

These retreats offer an incredible chance - in the literal sense of the term, as it is so rare to have the opportunity to access the teachings of the stages of the path to enlightenment with such an authenticity that it seems difficult to believe - to put into practice and experience the teachings given by the Buddha in the Wisdom Sutra in all their dimensions. Rinpoche's instructions take us towards real autonomy to pursue by our own strength, with the blessing of our teachers, to meditate on the lamrim throughout our life until we obtain its realizations for the sake of all beings.  


HOW TO REGISTER?

If you wish to participate to this retreat, please contact the center affiliated with Rinpoche to which you are attached, or if you are not affiliated with such a center, please contact the organizers of the retreat directly: retraite-lamrim.guepele@gandenling.org .

This retreat is aimed at Buddhist practitioners who already have a good knowledge of the the Buddha's thought, and who wish to engage in the practice of the stages of the path to enlightenment. Registration for the retreat is subject to Rinpoche's prior approval.

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