Saturday & Sunday November 16-17, 2024
Led By the Venerable Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche
Ari Bhöd, Pema Drawa/ Tehachapi, CA, via ZOOM and IN PERSON
To have this retreat led by the Venerable Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche, a fully ordained Bhikshu Monk, forges a profound auspicious interdependence for us all. It is said that this powerful practice is one of the most supreme in order to avert seen and unseen hindrances and obstacles in our physical and emotional health, spiritual practices and in our ordinary daily lives, both now and in the coming year.
RETREAT SCHEDULE
Saturday November 16th
FOUR ONE-HOUR RECITATIONS OF THE HEART SUTRA
•8:30am | 11:30am | 3:30pm | 5:30pm Pacific Time•
You will need your Ari Bhöd Practice Book or Supplemental Text (provided upon registration)
Sunday November 17th
SHER-NYING DUD-DOK HINDRANCE- AND OBSTACLE-REMOVING CEREMONIES (based on the Heart Sutra)
8:30am – 6:30pm
You will need your Ari Bhöd Practice Book & a 2nd Supplemental Text (provided upon registration)
To register for Zoom participation, please click on the following link:
To participate in-person, please contact us first to arrange for your stay: contact@aribhod.org
If you have registered for the retreat, your name will automatically be included in the obstacle-removing ceremonies. To add the names of others, please fill out the bottom area of the form on the registration page or click the link below and be sure to add their names in the “notes” area.
If you would like to support the retreat without attending, and to add the name of someone for the removal of their obstacles and hindrances, please click on the link below.
Retreat Reminders There is no empowerment required to attend this retreat– all who have taken refuge in the triple gems with a qualified lama are welcome to attend.| Part-time attendance is fine. | You will receive login information, supplemental text and other retreat details following completion of your registration.| Please contact us at 661-221-8156 or at contact@aribhod.org with any retreat-related questions you may have or to register by phone. | In-person participants please register by Monday, November 11th.
THE VENERABLE GELONG KALSANG RINPOCHE is a fully ordained Bhikshu monk and lama of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He is renowned as a highly accomplished meditator and master of retreat. Ordained as a monk at the age of eleven, Rinpoche studied with and received empowerments and teachings from the foremost lamas of the Nyingma lineage of this era, including His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, His Holiness Trulshik Rinpoche, His Holiness Chatral Rinpoche, His Holiness Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, and His Holiness the Dodrupchen Rinpoche.
In the 1980s, The Venerable Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche was appointed by his root lama, His Holiness Chatral Rinpoche, to serve as the Dorje Lopon (Vajra Master) for Pal Rigdzin Drubpe Gatsal Ling (the Glorious Pleasure Grove of the Accomplished Awareness Holders), the monastery of His Holiness Chatral Rinpoche at Yanglesho in Pharping, Nepal, a post Gelong Rinpoche dutifully held for many years. Currently, Rinpoche generously teaches the Buddha Dharma throughout the world and faithfully presides over many of Ari Bhöd’s annual retreats in Tehachapi, CA. The Venerable Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche is one of Ari Bhöd’s most revered visiting lamas. Humble, generous, and kind–a dharma treasure–Rinpoche and his vast Dharma knowledge are a guiding light for all.
Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche currently serves as Abbot and Spiritual Director of the Nyingmapa Padmasambhava Pureland Buddhist Association in Taiwan and at his long-term retreat centers throughout Nepal, including his monastery, Kunkhap Yosal Thonkdol Choeling, in Pharping, where Rinpoche is in the final stages of completing his extraordinary Zangdok Palri Temple, a heartfelt offering dedicated for the benefit of all sentient beings—past, present, and future. If you wish to know more about the Zangdok Palri project please contact us at contact@aribhod.org.