More Details On Ven. Lamchen Gyalpo Rinpoche's Chicago Visit

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August 31, Friday, 7 pm

Yangzab Dzogchen

This is a Padmasambhava Dzogchen transmitted by the Drikung Kagyu Lineage. Many great masters (both known and hidden) have achieved the final result of the "Rainbow Body" through the practice of Dzogchen (the Great Completion). The foundation of the practice must be given by transmission from master to student.

Friday, August 31, 2007
7 pm

Location: Quang Minh Temple, 4429 North Damen Avenue, Chicago, Illinois (Damen and Montrose)
Please telephone Roberto at 773-784-9190 for more information.

Donation: $10

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Saturday, September 1, 2007

"Taking the Five Poisons Onto the Path," a Dzogchen text composed by the 16th Drigungpa, Gyalwang Kunga Rinchen Rinpoche

(an English translation of the text will be available)

In the Practice of Dzogchen, one sees and functions in the world in a constant, uninterrupted state of meditation and mindfulness. Instruction is essential to the practice.

10:00 am - Noon

Noon - 2:00 pm (Lunch break)

2:00 - 4:30 pm

Suggested donation: $35
Text: $5

Location: Chicago Ratna Shri Sangha, 5337 West Cullom Avenue, Chicago (Take Montrose Avenue to Long. 2 blocks south of Montrose)
Refer to our website
CHICAGORATNASHRI.ORG for more detailed travel information.

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Outer, Inner, and Secret Amithaba Wang

Sunday, September 2, 2007
2:30 pm - 9 pm

This empowerment is a foundation for the practice of the Yangzab Dzogchen. Amitabha is the Buddha of Infinite Light and the source of Avalokiteshvara and Padmasambhava (the source of the Dzogchen Lineage).


Location: Quang Minh Temple, 4429 North Damen Avenue, Chicago, Illinois (Damen and Montrose)
Please telephone Roberto at 773-784-9190 for more information

Suggested Donation: $35

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About Ven. Lamchen Gyalpo Rinpoche:

Tulku Konchog Tenzin Sharling Migyur Rinchen Dorje Namgyal, known as Gyalpo Rinpoche, has received complete teachings
from the generative stages to the completion stages of Yamantaka, Chakrasamvara, and Vajravarahi, among other
practices, from many enlightened masters of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage. Gyalpo Rinpoche went on retreats with his masters
and received core teachings on Mahamudra, and the transfer of profound experiential insight by the Drikung Master, Gelong
Pachung Rinpoche and Drubwang Kyunga Rinpoche.

From His Holiness the 16th Karmapa, Gyalpo Rinpoche received such profound teachings as Mahamudra and the transfer of
experiential insight on all Yidam deities; Gyalpo Rinpoche received from other enlightened masters numerous aspects of
Dzogchen empowerments, teachings, and conveyance of experiential insights with special emphasis on Longchen Nyingthig. From his root guru, Khunu Rinpoche Tenzin Gyaltsen - the lifeline of all Buddhist traditions - Gyalpo Rinpoche received unadulterated
teachings on the core of Mahamudra and the Great Perfection with special emphasis on trigchod and thogal. The teachings of
such profound masters were practiced from the Preliminary to the stages of Arising and Completion, punctuated with retreats
and propitiation of deities which included three Major retreats and Yidam Propitiations.

Ven. Gyalpo Rinpoche's contribution to rekindling of the Drikung Kagyu Tradition in exile is extraordinary. Gyalpo Rinpoche
looked for the location, found, raised funds, and purchased the land on which the exile seat of the Drikung Kagyu tradition stands
today. In a successful effort to reach out to Lineage followers, Gyalpo Rinpoche has toured every single Drikung monastery from
the regions in Eastern Tibet to Mt. Kailash. He also assisted His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Rinpoche with the history of Drikung
and other such writings.

Gyalpo Rinpoche is throne holder of Ka Tashi Thubten Rabgye Ling Monastery and is their reincarnate lama.


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