Ripa Ladrang

GUTOR – Protectors Puja with Lama Tenzin
2016-02-06 - 2016-02-07 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
On the occasion of the Tibetan New Year – Losar – negative energies and influences of the past year are dispelled by traditional ceremonies and rituals.

LOSAR Traditional Gesar Lhasang Ceremony with Lama Tenzin
2016-02-09 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
Experience the traditional Gesar Lhasang Ceremony with Lama Tenzin in Bern/Switzerland.
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YOGOM ® – Yoga / Meditation
2016-02-18 - 2016-02-20 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
The targeted body and breathing exercises of YOGOM are a natural transition for the practice of sitting Shamatha meditation, connecting body and mind directly.
With François Bertolero (Yoga teacher and developer of this method)

RIPA Ngöndro With Lama Tenzin
2016-03-25 - 2016-05-28 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
An Easter-Weekend devoted to the practice and accumulation of Ripa Lineage Preliminary practices. This session will be especially dedicated to prostrations and Vajrasattva.
Lead by Lama Tenzin Phuntsok

Visit to Aix-en-Provence
2016-04-01 20:00 - 2016-04-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | Visit Aix-en-Provence, a Maison Diocésaine - Salle Cana, Aix-en-Provence, Provence, 13100, France
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
April 1st to April 3rd
We are honored to announce that Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche will be visiting Aix-en-Provence for practices and teachings during his European tour this spring
According to Buddhist teachings, the inherent nature of all beings is fundamentally good, although temporarily veiled by fear, doubt and mistrust. We should face our insecurities with openness and kindness, develop confidence in our basic goodness and allow our humanity to emerge. This can be be the key to spread compassion in our society.
Rinpoche will give practical advice and guided meditations based on techniques that allow us to open ourselves to our basic goodness, and thus lay the foundation for an engagement with the world based on openness, courage and compassion.
Please note that teachings with Rinpoche will be given in English with French translation.
Program details can be found on the link below.

Embracing Life with Openness, Courage and Compassion
2016-04-09 - 2016-04-10 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
Embracing Life with Openness, Courage and Compassion: A Buddhist Approach to Engagement in Society
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
According to Buddhist teachings, the inherent nature of all sentient beings is fundamentally good, although temporarily veiled by fear, doubt and mistrust. Embracing our insecurities with openness and loving-kindness, developing trust in our basic goodness and allowing the gentleness of our humanity to emerge could well be the cornerstone of the inner path that leads to a more compassionate engagement with society.
Rinpoche will give practical advice and guided meditations on techniques that allow us to open up to our basic goodness, hence laying the foundation to engage in the world with openness, courage and compassion.

Nyung Né – Ritual Fasting
2016-05-13 - 2016-05-18 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
Two cycles : May 13th – 16th or May 13th – 18th
Nyung Ne is a traditional Tibetan therapeutic fasting practice, based on prayers to Avalokiteshvara / Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion, with sessions of silence and teachings. This cleansing ritual is aimed at all those who want to connect with the compassionate qualities of their minds and of loving kindness.

Saga Dawa: Celebrating Buddha’s Enlightenment
2016-05-21 - 2016-05-22 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche

The Great Annual Celebration of Lord Buddha
A ceremony commemorating the Buddha’s Enlightenment : workshops, guided meditations, conferences, culinary delights,….
A colorful program around the Buddha’s life and teachings, for all – young and old.

Tara: Empowerment and Teachings
2016-05-28 08:00 - 2016-05-29 17:00 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
Tara is the Female Buddha par excellence, who protects all sentient beings as a loving mother.The practice of Tara confers powerful blessings that bring peace and inner calm to disturbed energies. It helps pacify diseases, negativities, wars and conflicts, calms fears and it is said to promote long life.

Rinpoche will confer the transmission and empowerment of the Praise to the 21 Taras.

Shiné / Shamatha
2016-06-10 - 2016-06-12 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
Calm-abiding meditation
A seminar to learn and develop sitting meditation practice. Meditation is the basis for personal and spiritual development in many religious and secular traditions. It helps pacify the restlessness of the mind, and contributes to creating focus and clarity.
For beginners as well as regular meditators
With Nathalie Bourquin

Green Tara: Empowerment and Teachings
2016-06-11 - 2016-06-12 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
Empowerment and teachings on “Praise to the 21 Taras”
Tara is the female Buddha that protects all beings as a mother. Her practice is a source of powerful blessings, which dissolves all fears and brings peace and inner calm, harmonizing disrupted energy.
The practice has a beneficial effect in healing and eradicating certain diseases; it promotes professional success, and pacifies conflicts and wars.
For the first time in Europe, Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche will bestow the initiation of Green Tara. He will present aspects of the 21 Taras through clear and profound teachings.
Please note that teachings with Rinpoche will be given in English.
Program details can be found on the link below.

Vajrasattva Healing Ceremony with Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
2016-06-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Tibet House, 22 West 15th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Vajrasattva Healing Ceremony
Buddhist Purification and Healing Ceremony (Vajrasattva). Vajrasattva practice is a tantric meditation performed for the purification of karma. It is undertaken with a bodhichitta aim to purify all of our karma in order to reach enlightenment as quickly as possible and to benefit all sentient beings. This ancient ceremony is practiced to connect us with our own inner healthiness, encouraging us to regain the balance and equanimity that promotes good health and well being.
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Sangye Menla Empowerment and Teaching with Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
2016-06-18 10:00 - 16:00, 2016-06-19 10:00 - 16:00 | Tibet House, 22 West 15th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Sangye Menla Empowerment and Teaching
Medicine Buddha (Sangye Menla) Empowerment and Teaching. In the Vajrayana tradition the Medicine Buddha Sangye Menla takes a special place in the hearts of devotees. Specializing in the curing of diseases, both physical and mental – of which confusion is the root cause – the Medicine Buddha is also the Buddha of wisdom.
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Vajrasattva Healing Ceremony with Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
2016-06-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Loyola Marymount University, 1 LMU Drive, Ahmanson Auditorium, University Hall - UNH 1000, Los Angeles, CA, 90045, United States
Vajrasattva Healing Ceremony
Buddhist Purification and Healing Ceremony (Vajrasattva). Vajrasattva practice is a tantric meditation done for the purification of karma. It is undertaken with a bodhichitta aim to purify all our karma in order to reach enlightenment as quickly as possible to help all sentient beings.
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Sangye Menla Empowerment and Teaching with Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
2016-06-26 10:00 - 16:30 | Loyola Marymount University, 1 LMU Drive, Ahmanson Auditorium, University Hall - UNH 1000, Los Angeles, CA, 90045, United States

Talk on the Dakini and Talk on the Four Aspects of Gesar
2016-06-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2016-07-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Orgyen Dorje Den, 2244 Santa Clara Ave, Alameda, CA, 94501 , United States
TALK ON THE DAKINI AND TALK ON THE FOUR ASPECTS OF GESAR
The Enlightened Aspects of King Gesar include Magnetizing, Pacifying, Enriching and Wrathful.
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Talk on the Four Aspects of Gesar
2016-07-02 10:00 - 12:30, 2016-07-03 10:00 - 12:30 | Berkeley Shambhala Meditation Center, 2288 Fulton St #202, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
TALK ON THE FOUR ASPECTS OF GESAR
The Enlightened Aspects of King Gesar include Magnetizing, Pacifying, Enriching and Wrathful.
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Sangye Menla Teaching and Meditation with Dungsey Lhuntrul Rinpoche
2016-07-04 19:15 - 21:15
Sangye Menla Teaching and Meditation
Medicine Buddha (Sangye Menla) Teaching and Meditation. In the Vajrayana tradition the Medicine Buddha Sangye Menla takes a special place in the hearts of devotees. Specializing in the curing of diseases, both physical and mental – of which confusion is the root cause – the Medicine Buddha is also the Buddha of wisdom.
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“Ritual Arts” Workshop
2016-07-09 08:00 - 2016-07-10 17:00 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Lama Tenzin

Training for Chöpen, in ritual instruments, Torma – and Tsog – making. The perfect preparation for the great Guru Rinpoche celebrations during the Summer-retreat.

Summer Retreat 2016 Week One: Time to Reveal Your Inner Goodness!
2016-07-23 - 2016-07-30 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Week One of the Ripa International Summer Retreat 2016
During this week of teachings open to all, Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche will show how unveiling our basic goodness is the foundation for a compassionate engagement with the world. Through an intensive program of teachings and meditation techniques, participants will gain insight into the philosophical and experiential Buddhist approach. This underpins the development of Metta, Maitri or loving-kindness and the direct impact that its practice can have in the relationship to one’s self, to others, and to the world at large.
Daily YOGOM® and meditation sessions enable us to integrate the effective power and methods of Buddhism.

Summer Retreat 2016 Week Two: Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö
2016-07-30 - 2016-08-06 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
Week Two of the Ripa International Summer Retreat 2016
A drupchö offers a rare opportunity to completely focus body, speech and mind on the spiritual path, resulting in achievement and merit. During this drupchö, practitioners invite the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal that embodies healing energy, helping to create the space in which emotions can dissolve.
The teachings will be given in English.

Summer Retreat 2016 Week Three: "Fire-Monkey 2016" Year of Guru Rinpoche – Celebration of His Birth, Life and Enlightenment
2016-08-06 - 2016-08-13 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
Guru Rinpoche Empowerment and Celebration
The Tsog Bum is achieved by invoking the blessings of Guru Rinpoche and the assistance of his entourage of deities. It helps to transform disturbed energies into positive outcomes. This practice is specifically undertaken to heal and bring harmony, peace, wisdom and compassion to all beings. Engaging in the practice of Tsog offering helps to release mental projections and ignorance as well as ego clinging which often manifests as anger, attachment, pride and envy, thus allowing one to fully enter into non-dual wisdom. The ultimate result is peace, positive circumstances and bliss, leading us further towards enlightenment, as we dedicate the merit to all beings.
Guru Rinpoche Day Celebration
August 13th marks the 10th day of the Monkey month of the Monkey year, an extremely auspicious occasion that only happens once every twelve years! It is believed that the blessings of Guru Rinpoche are particularly powerful and invoking him brings instant blessings to those present. The Ripa International Center will celebrate this occasion with the traditional Tibetan Cham ritual. Mask Dances and the Gesar Lingdro Dances will be performed in the exceptional presence of the three Ripa Masters.
Fire Monkey 2016
2016 is the Year of the Fire-Monkey – Guru Rinpoche’s Year – a time in which Guru Rinpoche’s energies are particularly strong and prevalent. It is also the year of Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche, the spiritual director of the Ripa Center, who is particularly blessed by Guru Rinpoche. Supporting him at this time is a particularly poignant and a very concrete way to help our teacher’s activity flourish.
Schedule:
6 August: Arrival
7 August: Guru Rinpoche Empowerment bestowed by His Eminence Terton Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche
8 – 12 August: Tsog Bum
13 August: Guru Rinpoche Day celebration
Further details to come…

Please note that the teachings will be given in English.
Program details can be found on the link below.
http://ripa-international.com/program/2016-year-of-the-fire-monkey-guru-rinpoches-year-celebration-of-padmasambhavas-birth-life-and-enlightenment/

Guru Rinpoche Celebration: Lama Dances and Lingdro
2016-08-13 03:00 - 20:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Jewels of Living Tibetan Culture in Switzerland
Genuine traditional Tibetan cultural dances performed by Tibetan Lamas from Asia according to the Epic of Gesar; a rare and colorful celebration for all!

Dorje Drollo dance
Black Hat dance
Lingdro dance
Five Dakinis dance
Lingdro dance

Gesar Wang 1 Magnetizing Aspect of Gesar with HE Namkha Drimed Rinpoche
2016-08-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Tibet House, 22 West 15th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
This Event, the Gesar Wang – Magnitizing Aspect of Gesar, is Part 1 of the Gesar Teachings by His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche. Part 2 takes place on Saturday, August 20th (please click to see details) and will be a Gesar Empowerment and Teaching. We encourage you to attend the teachings on both days as they will compliment each other (not mandatory).
Gesar Wang – The Magnetizing Aspect of Gesar:
We are happy to announce that His Eminence Terton Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, Lineage holder of the Ripa Lineage, has graciously agreed to grant the teachings of Gesar Wang – The Magnetizing Aspect of Gesar. This is a unique opportunity to receive these mind treasure (Terma) teachings directly from the treasure revealer himself. It is said that Gesar was a being that came to earth to pacify demonic forces and spread dharma teachings in this world. Many of the scriptures describe Gesar as the embodiment of Guru Rinpoche’s enlightened activities and the emanation of Avalokitesvara, Manjushri and Vajrapani. His Eminence, who was himself King Gesar’s brother in a previous life, rediscovered and revealed his teachings, particularly the Four Aspects of Gesar – the four enlightened activities. The magnetizing activities allow us to gain control over the world so that we can fulfill our worldly aims for the benefit of all beings. We are very fortunate to receive these teachings and practices directly from the treasure revealer himself.

Drupchös in Russia: Hayagriva and Wrathful Gesar
2016-08-20 - 2016-09-25 | Ripa Russia Center, Aptekarsky per.9, Moscow, Russian Federation
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
End of Summer / Early Fall in Russia:
Two Drupchös will be led by Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche and monks (exact dates to be clarified later):
Hayagriva Drupcho (7 days) — Urgen Sangak Choiling Monastery, Kalmykia
Wrathful Gesar Drupcho (5 days) — Ripa Moscow Center
The teaching will be given in English.
For more info click here

Gesar Wang Part 2 – Empowerment and Teaching with HE Namkha Drimed Rinpoche
2016-08-20 10:00 - 16:30 | Tibet House, 22 West 15th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
This Event, the Gesar Wang Empowerment and Teaching, is Part 2 of the Gesar Teachings by His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche. Part 1 takes place on Friday, August 19th (please click to see details) and will cover the Magnetizing Aspects of Gesar. We encourage you to attend the teachings on both days as they will compliment each other (not mandatory).
Gesar Wang Empowerment and Teaching
Empowerment or “granting an empowerment” refers to the Vajrayana ritual which awakens the special capacity for primordial wisdom to arise in the mind of the student. It is called “empowerment” because when we receive it, we are empowered to follow a particular spiritual practice or path to complete enlightenment; therefore, mastering its realization.
Empowerment means to ripen or mature our Buddha nature. Even though all beings possess the Buddha nature, without receiving an empowerment it is not possible to receive blessings through a particular practice.

Mindfulness Meditation – Led by Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
2016-09-07 13:00 - 13:45 | The Rubin Museum, 150 West 17th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
For centuries Himalayan practitioners have used meditation to quiet the mind, calm the nervous system and increase focus. Now Western scientists, business leaders and the secular world have embraced meditation as a vital tool for brain health.
Whether you’re a beginner, a dabbler or a skilled meditator seeking the company of others, join Rinpoche in a forty-five-minute program designed to fit into your lunch break. Each session will be inspired by a different work of art from the Rubin Museum’s collection and will include an opening talk, a 20 minute sitting session and a closing session. Chairs will be provided and late comers may not be admitted past 1:10 PM to avoid disruption.
