Learn to Meditate – Shamata (Shiné)
2018-09-01 - 2018-10-31 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Amrit Wagner
there is an ongoing practice for students of all levels, newcomers and long time students alike, at the Ripa International Center. The practice is led by Amrit Wagner, an approved meditation instructor under the guidance of Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche. For more information on the weekly Shiné sittings, please contact: info@ripa-international.com

THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDITATION: “The only way to know mind and to attain wisdom is through meditation. In repose, in space, in silent time, answers can come. Wisdom and insight wash away problems. Transformation occurs in stillness. Through the practice of mindfulness, the elementary harmony that creates wind horse – the Tibetan expression for positive energy – is created. Relaxation will then translate into everyday life and bring benefits. Internal change will bring external change. When we are clear and equipped with insight, we are in a place to help others. It is by developing wisdom and compassion that we are able to be of the greatest assistance to others…. compassion heals.” – Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche

About the Teacher

Amrit Wagner
Amrit Wagner is an approved meditation instructor under the guidance of Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche.

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Geneviève Hamelet
2018-10-12 08:00 - 2018-10-14 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
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These four areas of exploration – on which the development of mindfulness is based consist of a real investigation of the nature of reality, starting from the body and gradually penetrating the nature of phenomena.

These two days will be devoted to study and practice, emphasizing the direct experience of this natural quality of attentive presence or Mindfulness.
Geneviève Hamelet, a meditation practitioner for 25 years, has participated since 2009 in the development of Mindfulness in French-speaking countries, within the ADM (Association pour le développement de la Mindfulness), of which she is a founding member and president.
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Normal Price : $ 185.– / € 160.–
Reduced Price * : $ 162.– / € 140.–
(*students, seniors, unemployed or members of Ripa and Padma Ling)

The Spiritual Warrior
2018-10-26 - 2018-10-28 | Tibet Kailash Haus, Wallstr. 8, Freiburg, 79098, Germany
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
October 26 – 28, 2018
In Freiburg, hosted by Padma Ling Deutschland.
A spiritual warrior has a soft, compassionate heart and intrepid courage in all challenges thrown his or her way.
October 27th-28th – 10:00 – 12:30 & 15:00 – 17:30 ; costs – Friday – € 15,- (12,-), $17 Sa. & So. – € 100,- (90,-), $115 Fr., Sa., So. combined – € 105,- (95,-), $132

About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

Public Talk in Basel, Switzerland : What is Reality?
2018-10-31 | Volkshaus, Basel, Rebgasse 12, basel, Switzerland
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
October 31, 2018
Hosted by Padma Ling Schweiz.
What is reality?
Wake up … The Matrix has you … Follow the white rabbit …
Maybe you know the movie “The Matrix”. Neo meets Morpheus and has the choice to see the truth or continue to live in the Matrix. The Matrix is a phantom world that distorts the view of reality that prevents him from seeing the truth. Or in the words of Morpheus, “The Matrix is the world that was drawn over your eyes to blind you to the truth.”
But – what is the truth? Morpheus: “Talking about the truth does not let us see the truth. We have to experience it ourselves. ”
Are we all living in the same reality? Does each of us perceive the same reality? Or does each of us wear our own glasses, distorted with glasses in a variety of colors, which distorts the true color of reality? Where is the difference between a dream and waking state?
Maybe we are constantly numbing ourselves, not just with drugs, painkillers, music, movies, books, conversation, but even with our own thoughts. We are constantly distracted. Most rarely are we authentic, are we truly present. As soon as we are in this moment, comes again the urge to distract one’s self. Perhaps this constant dispersion corresponds to life in the Matrix. Morpheus offers Neo two pills – one red and one blue pill. If Neo chooses the blue pill, he lives on in his usual “reality.” If he takes the red pill, he sees the reality without colored lenses – as it really is.
This evening, Dungsey Gyetul Jigme Rinpoche will take us to the Buddhist perspective of reality.
The question is – which pill do you choose?
For details visit the Padma Ling Schweiz website : https://padma-ling.ch/event ; for questions, please contact : info@padmaling.ch.

About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

Public Talk in Bern, Switzerland – Life, Death and Rebirth : A Buddhist Perspective Based on the Traditional Tibetan Teachings of the Bardo Thödal
2018-11-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Die Quelle, 10 Museumstrasse, 3005 Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
November 1, 2018
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Hosted jointly by the Ripa International Center with Die Quelle. Please register here on the Die Quelle site directly.
Cost: $25.00

According to the Buddhist view of impermanence, death is part of the natural process of birth, aging, dying and rebirth. Death is not considered as the end of life, but merely as the passing away of the body that we inhabit. Our mind-stream will remain, and our habitual tendency of yearning and attachment usually leads us to seek a new body, a new life. How this next life will be and what form it will take is determined by the actions of past lives.
Provided that we have become acquainted with the true nature of our mind through meditative practice, the moment of death is a great opportunity to recognize and merge with our inherent clear light – our Buddha nature – and in this time we can become free from the wheel of cyclic existence (birth, aging, dying and rebirth).
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche is a traditional Tibetan Buddhist meditation and philosophy teacher of the Kagyu and Nyngma lineages. Born in India in October 1970, he is the successor to the spiritual lineage of the Ripa family, a lineage of reincarnated lamas since the 17th century from eastern Tibet. He is the leader of the monasteries of the Ripa lineage in India and Nepal. He is also the spiritual leader of a Tibetan community living in exile in Orissa, India.
Since 1996, Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche has been touring Asia, Europe, and the USA on a regular basis. There he lectures and gives seminars for a lay audience on various topics such as “Meditation for the modern world,” “Eastern wisdom in the world today,” “Goodness and creativity,” “Authentic presence for executives,” and so on. Rinpoche is the spiritual teacher of more than 6,000 students around the world and has opened centers in Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Spain, Germany, Russia, Japan, and the USA. He is the spiritual director of the Ripa International Center, the international center of the Ripa Lineage in the West, located in Niederwangen b. Bern. (www.ripa-international.com).
Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche is a socially engaged Buddhist teacher – as he is happy to be known – his immediate understanding of the human mind, his lively and spontaneous style of speaking, his freshness and sense of humor make him a valuable teacher in almost every situation. Especially when it comes to helping lay practitioners in a variety of situations integrate traditional spiritual values into modern life.

About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

Medicine Buddha : A Buddhist Approach to Health and Well-Being
2018-11-03 08:00 - 2018-11-04 17:00 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
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Illness, which is an integral part of our lives, is caused by an imbalance of our vital energies and the best remedy lies within ourselves: help re-establish harmony within those energies through meditating techniques that evoke our own healing resources.
We connect with nature through the five basic elements present in the universe and in ourselves. As long as balance is maintained within these elements, we remain healthy, while the abusive use of one element destroys the harmony necessary to our physical and mental constitution, which is at the root of the problems that poison our life.
The practice of healing according to the Buddha of Medicine inspires us to work not only on an outer level, but deep within ourselves, thus balancing vital forces to bring inner harmony and outer health.
Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche, is a master of Tibetan Buddhism, recognized in both Kagyu and Nyingma schools, he is the spiritual director of the Ripa International Center. He has taught for more than twenty years in Europe in a particularly lively, practical and contemporary way.

Normal Price : $ 226.– / € 195.–
Reduced Price *: $ 186.– / € 160.–
(*students, seniors, unemployed or members of Ripa and Padma Ling)

About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

Our Fears : Live with It or How to Release?
2018-11-06 20:00 | Centre Culturel d’Auderghem, Brussels, Boulevard du Souverain 183, 1160 Auderghem, Belgium
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
November 6, 2018
Public Talk hosted by Padma Ling Belgium. Teachings given in English with French translation. Starts 20:00. Cost : € 15 , $ 17 and € 12, $ 13.86 for students and persons of low income.
Location : Centre Culturel d’Auderghem – Bd du Souverain, 183 – 1160 Brussels ; métro “MTB” 8-34-5-42-72-41.
For more information please visit the Belgian website : https://www.padmaling.be/
Flyer : affiche 2 conférences novembre 2018

About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

The Key of Letting Go in this Agitated World
2018-11-07 20:00 | Notre Dame du Chant d’Oiseau, Brussels, Belgium, Avenue des Franciscains 3 a,, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
November 7, 2018

Public Talk hosted by Padma Ling Belgium. Teachings given in English with French translation. Starts 20:00.
Location of the second public talk : Notre Dame du Chant d’Oiseau, Avenue des Franciscains 3 a, 1150 Bxl, MTB 36 (grand parking).
Cost : € 15 , $ 17 and € 12,$13.86 for students and persons with low income.
For more information, please visit : https://www.padmaling.be/

About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

RAM : Ripa Awareness Meditation
2018-11-09 19:30 - 2018-11-11 17:00 | L’enclos Rey, Paris, France, 57 Rue Violet, 75015 Paris, France
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
November 9 – 11, 2018
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Hosted by Padma Ling Paris. Please visit their website for further information and to register .
The “Ripa Awareness Meditation” method was designed by Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche, an authentic master of Tibetan Buddhism of the Ripa lineage, with an international reputation.
It is a simple and effective method that stabilizes the mind by using SHAMATA, a millennial technique that uses breathing to develop “mental calm.” It then introduces aspects of VIPASSANA meditation, or “penetrating vision,” facilitating approaches that liberate the spirit from conceptual fabrication.
Through training, RAM leads to more subtle aspects of the mind, allowing a true exploration of the nature of phenomena and reality.
By welcoming our emotions, our reflections, and the habitual tendencies of our mind as they present themselves, without judgment or rejection, we gain access to a space conducive to a more authentic acceptance of ourselves and others.
Attentive Presence and Mindfulness work together to help us accept life situations as they are, and are the focus of our meditative practice.
For the event, people wishing to eat on site can register for free online pre-bookings to indicate their preferences.
Note that a minimum of 30 people is required to set up a catering service.
If we do not reach this number we will notify you before the event by phone.
Two meals are offered for lunch on November 10 and November 11.
Lunch is 23 euros with drinks and desserts.

About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

The Road to Health and Wellbeing: A Buddhist approach
2018-11-14 07:30 - 20:30 | Centro de Historias, DIRECTIONS Plaza San Agustín, 50002 Zaragoza, Spain
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
November 14, 2018
Public lecture and teachings hosted by Padma Ling Spain in Zaragosa.
free entry
Additional information : www.padmaling.org
email : informacion@padmaling.org

About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

The Medicine Buddha : A Buddhist Approach to Health
2018-11-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Centro de Historias, DIRECTIONS Plaza San Agustín, 50002 Zaragoza, Spain
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
November 15, 2018
Public lecture and teachings hosted by Padma Ling Spain in Zaragosa.
Additional Information : www.padmaling.org ; informacion@padmaling.org

About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

The Pathway to Health : The Vision of Tibetan Buddhism
2018-11-16 18:00 - 2018-11-18 20:30 | : Barcelona (Badelona), DIRECTIONS Plaza San Agustín, 50002 Zaragoza, Spain
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
November 16 – 18, 2018
Teachings hosted by Padma Ling Spain in Barcelona.
Badalona (Barcelona) – 16-17-18 November
16 Friday
Public Talk: The road to health and well-being: a Buddhist approach.
Place: Center Civic Can Cabanyes – Rambla de San Joan 59 – Badalona
Hours: 7:00 PM / 9:00 PM
Free entry
17 Saturday and 18 Sunday
Teachings: The Medicine Buddha. A Buddhist approach to health.
Place: Municipal Museum of Badalona – Plaça de l’Assemblea de Catalunya 1
Hours: Saturday 11:00 – 14:00 and 17:00 – 20:00 and Sunday 11:00 – 14:00
Contribution: 60 euros (50 euros before October 30)
Contact Badalona: Andrea +34 626 025 571 and Cristina +34 620 770 820
Additional information: www.padmaling.org ; informacion@padmaling.org
About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

The Satipatthana Sutra – How the Buddha Taught Mindfulness
2018-11-29 08:00 - 2018-12-02 17:00 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
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An experiential perspective from Early Buddhism
Mindfulness is en-vogue. While Mindfulness is being adopted by the modern world, many of the more subtle and critical aspects of the practice are overlooked and being lost.
Very few know where Mindfulness comes from, how it was understood in the context of Early Buddhist practice, in which larger context mindfulness was practiced, and to what end.

The Satipatthana Sutra is well known as the main source for Buddhist teachings on mindfulness and its place in the Buddhist path, and is hailed as the direct path to realization. In this short retreat, we will use Bhikkhu Analayo’s translation of the Sutra, in conjunction with his instructions on how to practice, with the aim to explore deeper the original source of Mindfulness and benefit from its power for deep transformation.
Diego Hangartner completed his studies in pharmacology at the ETHZurich, specializing in psychopharmacology and addiction. He lived for 11 years in Dharamsala, India, learned Tibetan, and studied for 7 years at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in the Tibetan language. He has completed multiple meditation retreats of several months, worked as an interpreter, translating Tibetan into many languages, and published several books. On returning to Europe, he taught widely, and organized many large events with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He participates in research aimed at exploring the benefits of meditation as a long-term practitioner.
Diego is associated with and worked for the Mind and Life Institute since the 1990’s: he was Mind and Life’s COO from 2009 – 2012 in the USA, founded Mind and Life Europe in 2008, and was its director until 2015.
His teachers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Khamtul Rinpoche, Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche and Bhikkhu Analayo – with each spending many years of close study.
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Price: USD 297.– /CHF 290.– (excl. accommodation)

Winter Retreat 2018 -2019 : RAM – Ripa Awareness Meditation
2018-12-27 - 2019-01-02 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche winter Retreat in Full Silence

Mindfulness and awareness work together to bring acceptance of living situations as they are. Life is not regarded as source of rejection or indulgence, but rather as the food of awareness and mindfulness; the depression and excitement that go on in life become the very object of meditation!

During this end-of-year retreat Rinpoche will unfold and guide participants through the key elements that help us in this process. Gathered under the Ripa Awareness Meditation method, they bring in Shamata’s Buddhist tools – a millennial breathing technique that helps develop mental calm – and introduces aspects of Vipassana meditation, or penetrating vision, that help us develop “ways of looking” that free the mind from conceptual fabrication.
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Normal Price : $ 318.– / € 275.–
Reduced Price *: $ 243.– / € 210.–
(*students, seniors, unemployed or members of Ripa and Padma Ling)

About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

Sound Yoga
2019-04-06 - 2019-04-07 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
With Mahaut Aeschlimann
Primordial sounds, mantras, sacred harmonies and songs of Tibetan monks, therapeutic sounds of shamans … practiced since the dawn of time, for their virtues or for their power, these sacred sounds have the ability to spark spiritual awakening.

A qualified art therapist, recognized by the ASCA, she has been a yoga practitioner for twenty years. She integrates in her work techniques of physical presence (Hatha Yoga, Energy Yoga, Healing Tao, Qi Gong, intuitive movement …) and the use of breath and sounds through various approaches such as spontaneous singing, Indian devotional singing (Bhajan, Mantras) and Yoga of Sound.
Disciple of the Vietnamese master Thich Nhat Hanh, meditation and mindfulness are at the center of her approach.
Normal: $160
Reduced*: $125
(*students, seniors, unemployed or members of Ripa and Padma Ling)

Tai Chi and Mantra Singing with Dechen Shak-Dagsay
2019-04-13 - 2019-04-14 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
During this weekend, Dechen Shak Dagsay will share her experience of Tai Chi practice that she learned with Foen Tjoeng Lie, the famous Sino-German master. Through the practice of the 18 popular episodes of Tai Chi / Qi Gong, the breath is calmed and the body and mind are immediately rested, creating immense benefits for mental and physical health.
The second day of the course will be devoted to the practice of mantra singing. Dechen will give an overview of the world of millenary mantras, explaining their universal power and their application and precious use in our daily lives.
Dechen Shak-Dagsay discovered Chinese movement theory and the healing art of Tai Chi and Qi Gong 20 years ago. Fascinated, she decided to train as a teacher with Foen Tjoeng Lie, the famous German living Chinese master. Dechen is the eldest daughter of Dagsay Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama, from whom she has also received the transmissions of the healing mantras that she now sings for a worldwide audience. Dechen is a Swiss/Tibetan artist who has lived most of her life in Switzerland.
Normal price: $205
Reduced price: $193(students, unemployed, senior)
(*students, seniors, unemployed or members of Ripa and Padma Ling)

Easter retreat Nyung Nay – Traditional Tibetan Fasting Ritual – 2 pairs
2019-04-17 - 2019-04-21 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche
The Nyung Nay is a traditional spiritual fast in Tibetan Buddhism that aims to purify outdated patterns of behaviour, offering us the opportunity to free spiritual, emotional and psychological resources and thus accelerate our personal and spiritual growth.
2 pairs of Nyung Nay
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche, a highly accomplished ritual master in the tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism, he was recognized as the reincarnation of Jigme Tempay Gyeltsen, the third Tamdrin Lhunpo Chogtrul.
Normal price: $305 (excl. accommodation)
Reduced price: $ 240 * (excl. accommodation)
(*students, unemployed, seniors and members of Ripa and Padma Ling)

Ripa Awareness Meditation (RAM) – Weekly meditation sessions
2019-04-25 - 2019-06-11 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Amrit Wagner
Open Dates

“Ripa Awareness Meditation” is a simple and effective method that helps stabilize the mind, using the Shamatha technique or calm-abiding meditation; once the mind has settled, the application of Vipassana meditation tools allows the practitioner to gain access to more subtle aspects of his mind, thus allowing him a true exploration of the nature of phenomena and reality.
The method was conceived by the master of Tibetan Buddhism, Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche to benefit his students around the world.
A new cycle of practice for beginners will open this year:
Beginners: RAM-Shamata 8-week cycle
This 8-week cycle on Shamata meditation aims at familiarizing participants with the meditation technique of Shamata, or calm-abiding meditation, a traditional Buddhist method that uses the breath as a support to calm the mind.
The practice of this type of meditation results in a more calm, focused, and stable mind.
It is an ideal practice for those wishing to discover meditation for the first time.
No previous meditation experience needed
Every Tuesday from 19:30 to 21:00, from April 23 to June 11
Fee for the 8-week program: $ 240
Info & registration: info@ripa-international.com
The current advanced group guided by Amrit Wagner will continue every Thursday
Advanced – RIPA AWARENESS MEDITATION
RAM-(Shamata/Vipassana) 8-week cycle
This 8-week cycle on Shamata/Vipassana meditation aims to help participants deepen their meditation practice. Participants are guided through a methodic and progressive approach of exploration of the mind, following the traditional Buddhist Sutra of The Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
It is addressed to participants with previous meditation experience.
Every Thursday from 19:30 to 21:00, from April 25 to June 13
Fee for the 8-week program: $240
Info & registration: info@ripa-international.com

THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDITATION: “The only way to know mind and to attain wisdom is through meditation. In repose, in space, in silent time, answers can come. Wisdom and insight wash away problems. Transformation occurs in stillness. Through the practice of mindfulness, the elementary harmony that creates wind horse – the Tibetan expression for positive energy – is created. Relaxation will then translate into everyday life and bring benefits. Internal change will bring external change. When we are clear and equipped with insight, we are in a place to help others. It is by developing wisdom and compassion that we are able to be of the greatest assistance to others…. compassion heals.” – Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche

About the Teacher

Amrit Wagner
Amrit Wagner is an approved meditation instructor under the guidance of Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche.

Medicine Buddha Teaching and Empowerment
2019-05-10 - 2019-05-12 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche.
Illness, which is an integral part of our lives, is caused by an imbalance of our vital energies and the best remedy lies within ourselves: help re-establish harmony within those energies through meditating techniques that evoke our own healing resources.
The practice of healing according to the Buddha of Medicine inspires us to work not only on an outer level, but deep within ourselves, thus balancing vital forces to bring inner harmony and outer health.
Following the teachings are given on this topic last Autumn, Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche will develop further on the theme and will confer Medicine Buddha’s initiation. The weekend is open to anyone wishing to learn more about meditative practices that enhance one’s own healing abilities.
Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche, is a master of Tibetan Buddhism, recognized in both Kagyu and Nyingma schools, he is the spiritual director of the Ripa International Center. He has taught for more than twenty years in Europe in a particularly lively, practical and contemporary way.
Normal price: $193
Reduced price*: $182
(*students, seniors, unemployed or members of Ripa and Padma Ling)

Retreat: Inner Peace Keeping
2019-05-31 - 2019-06-02 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Amandine Roche.
What if inner peace was at the heart of the world’s cohesion? What if meditation was the beginning of a response to stop human conflicts? How can we contribute to bringing more peace on Earth?
During this retreat, Amandine Roche will share the tools to achieve inner peace in a lasting joyful and playful way.
The “Inner Peacekeeping” program is a retreat that helps combat stress, develop well-being and help reconnect the soul, body and mind.
Created by a group of experts in yoga, mindfulness, emotional Intelligence, neuroscience and leadership, this innovative approach was first offered to humanitarian and refugee workers suffering from traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety before being offered to people working in companies.
Amandine Roche became a hatha yoga teacher in India and studied meditation with great spiritual masters such as Amma, the Dalai Lama or Goenka. In California, she trained in Vinyasa Yoga and became a teacher in the Google Search Inside Yourself program.
She has now developed the Inner Peace Keeping program, based on yoga, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, neuroscience, and conscious leadership. The Inner Peace Keeping program also implements the tools of inner peace with humanitarian aid workers, refugees, prisoners, soldiers in the Middle East and in Afghanistan.
Normal: $330
Reduced: 2262
(*students, seniors, unemployed or members of Ripa and Padma Ling)

Sagadawa Festivities
2019-06-15 - 2019-06-16 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
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.

Ripa International Summer Retreat 2019 - Module One – Caring for One’s Self, Caring for Others
2019-07-20 - 2019-07-26 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche.
Developing a loving, caring attitude towards our family and friends, our society and our planet depends very much on the care and love we are able to develop towards one’s self. The practice of compassion and loving-kindness towards one’s self helps us get in touch with the tenderness, openness and kindness of the heart, and frees us from the reactive patterns derived from the boundaries we normally live by—good and bad; love and aversion; self and others.
During this public teaching open to all, Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche will introduce participants to the meditative practices of loving-kindness (Metta) and the teachings on The Four Immeasurable Thoughts, methods that help expand one’s own capacity to experience self and reality in a boundless, unifying and compassionate way.
Public program open to all
Prices: check our website for regular updates
Arrival of participants on July 20 at 4:00 pm
End of the program Friday, July 26, after lunch
More information: info@ripa-international.com
Official registrations will open soon. Check our website regularly for updates.

Summer Retreat 2019 July 20 – August 10
Module 1:
July 20 – 26 Caring for One’s Self, Caring for Others: A Training of the Mind in Compassion and Loving Kindness Meditation

Module 2:
July 27 – August 2 Taksham Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö (5 days)

Module 3:
August 3 – 10 Enrichment Gesar Empowerment and Drupchö
About the Teacher

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

Ripa International Summer Retreat 2019 – Module Two – Taksham Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö
2019-07-27 - 2019-08-02 | 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
July 27 – August 2, 2019
“Drupchö“ means “Great Accomplishment“ in Tibetan and is one of the most elaborate forms of Vajrayana Buddhist practice. It offers participants the unique opportunity to focus the body, speech and mind on spiritual activity, the source of merit and achievement on the path to enlightenment.
With Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Rinpoche, in the presence of His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Arrival of participants on July 27 at 4:00 pm
End of the program Friday, August 2 after lunch
Prerequisites: having taken refuge in the Three Jewels and having received the initiation of Yeshe Tsogyal
More information: info@ripa-international.com
Official registrations will open soon. Check our website regularly for updates.
Summer Retreat 2019 July 20 – August 10
Module 1:
July 20 – 26 Caring for One’s Self, Caring for Others: A Training of the Mind in Compassion and Loving Kindness Meditation

Module 2:
July 27 – August 2 Taksham Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö (5 days)

Module 3:
August 3 – 10 Enrichment Gesar Empowerment and Drupchö

About the Teachers

His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche
His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche is the supreme head of the Ripa lineage of Nyingma Vajrayana Buddhism and a living Terton. The Ripa Lineage has its historical roots in the supreme head, Glorious Master Ripa Pema Deje Rolpa, the leader … More →

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche

Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche was born, in keeping with Guru Rinpoche’s prophecy, in 1976 as the son of His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Khandro Chime Drolkar. He was recognized as the reincarnation of Jigme Tempay Gyeltsen, the 3rd … More →

Ripa International Summer Retreat 2019 – Module Three – Enrichment Gesar Empowerment and Drupchö
2019-08-03 16:00 - 2019-08-10 12:00 | 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.
We are very pleased to announce that His Eminence Terton Namkha Drimed Rinpoche will be giving the Gesar Enrichment empowerment and will be leading the Enrichment Gesar Drupchö, Wish Granting Jewel, at the Ripa International Center.
The Enrichment Gesar – also called Sengchen Samphel Norbu Gyalpo, Great King Lion of the Wish Granting Jewel – is the embodiment of all the wisdom and mundane wealth deities. This practice was written by H.E. Terton Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche himself, as part of the revealed mind treasure (Terma) on the teaching cycle of Gesar, with the blessings of Guru Padmasambhava.
This is a very rare opportunity for students to sit with His Eminence and receive these precious teachings. In this lifetime, as prophesied by Guru Rinpoche, His Eminence is a mind emanation of Gesar. During the time of Gesar, His Eminence was Dongbumpai Gyatsa Gyalkar, the brother of Gesar.
The teachings of Gesar are vital to this time and age of degeneration. In essence, Gesar is the Body emanation of Manjurshri, Speech of Avalokiteshvara, Mind of Vajrapani. In quality and activity, Gesar is the same as Guru Padmasambhava.
It is said that participating in the Enrichment Gesar empowerment and Drupchö brings immense benefits to one’s life: improved health, increased lifespan as well as merit, and success in everyday life.
August 4
Enrichment Gesar empowerment led by His Eminence Tertön Namkha Drimed Rinpoche – Organized by the Swiss Tibetan community, followed by the traditional Lingdro Dances ceremony.
August 5 – 10
Enrichment Gesar drupchö
Bestowal of Siddhis on 10 August
With His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and in the presence of Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Rinpoche and Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche
Arrival of participants on 3 August at 4pm
End of program Saturday 10 August after lunch.
Prerequisites: To have taken refuge in the Three Jewels.
More information: info@ripa-international.com
Official registration will open shortly.
Check our website regularly for updates.
Summer Retreat 2019 July 20 – August 10
Module 1:
July 20 – 26 Caring for One’s Self, Caring for Others: A Training of the Mind in Compassion and Loving Kindness Meditation

Module 2:
July 27 – August 2 Taksham Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö (5 days)

Module 3:
August 3 – 10 Enrichment Gesar Empowerment and Drupchö
About the Teachers

His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche
His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche is the supreme head of the Ripa lineage of Nyingma Vajrayana Buddhism and a living Terton. The Ripa Lineage has its historical roots in the supreme head, Glorious Master Ripa Pema Deje Rolpa, the leader … More →

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

Dungsey Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche

Lhuntrul Dechen Gyurmey Rinpoche was born, in keeping with Guru Rinpoche’s prophecy, in 1976 as the son of His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Khandro Chime Drolkar. He was recognized as the reincarnation of Jigme Tempay Gyeltsen, the 3rd … More →

Ripa Awareness Meditation with Geneviève Hamelet
2019-10-05 - 2019-10-06 | The Ripa International Center (RIC), Hilfigweg 10, CH – 3172 Niederwangen, Bern, Switzerland
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Ripa Awareness Meditation (RAM) is a simple and effective method to stabilize the mind using SHAMATA, a millenary technique that uses breathing as a support to develop “mental calm”. Once the mind is settled, aspects of VIPASSANA meditation, or “penetrating vision”, are introduced, facilitating approaches that free the mind from conceptual fabrication. Attentive presence and mindfulness work together to help us accept life situations as they are and make them the very object of our meditative practice.
The Ripa Awareness Meditation (RAM) method was developed by Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche, authentic master of Tibetan Buddhism of the Ripa lineage.
Geneviève Hamelet has been practicing meditation for over 25 years; a student of Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche, she is the director of RAM programs in charge of development and training. Since 2009, she has also been involved in the development of the Mindfulness and MBSR programmes in French-speaking countries, within the ADM (Association pour le développement de la Mindfulness), of which she is a founding member and President.
Normal: $160
Reduced* : $140
(*students, seniors, unemployed or members of Ripa and Padma Ling)

Buddhist Philosophy I: The Wisdom of the Middle Way, Based on Acharya Nagarjuna’s Text
2019-10-31 - 2019-11-03 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
With Khenpo Tenzin Wangdu
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The Mülamadhyamakakärikä is the most famous work of the great Acharya Nagarjuna, one of the main founders of the Madhyamaka School of Mahayana Buddhism. The central topic of this text is the understanding of emptiness of self and all phenomena, which are devoid of inherent existence and interdependently originated.

Teaching format
Two evenings of teaching followed by a full weekend. First level of a five-year curriculum to learn and deepen the foundations of Buddhist philosophy.

Curriculum Year 1
This teaching is the first year of a 5-year curriculum that will be delivered at the Ripa International Center; it will cover the twenty-seven chapters of “The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way”.
On the first year, the following chapters will be studied:

Examination of Conditions
Examination of Motion
Examination of the Senses
Examination of the Skandhas, and The Noble Eightfold Path.

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The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
PRICE
CHF 200./ € 190/ $ 210 – Entire week-end
CHF 35 / € 30/ $ 35 – Individual evenings, Thursday & Friday (Excl. accommodation & food)
Thurs & Fri: 18:30 -21:00 // Sat & Sun: 09:30 – 12:30 // 14:30 – 17:00

About the Teacher
Khenpo Tenzin Wangdu

Khenpo Tenzin Wangdue was born in 1982 in Tibet. At the age of 13 he became a monk of the Ripa Monastery, where he studied philosophy and was instructed and trained in ritual performance. A few years later, he went to India and continued his Buddhist Philosophy studies in the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute (Higher Buddhist Studies & Research Center) of Namdrolling Monastery, Mysore. He has successfully completed the nine-year-long study program there, and due to his great knowledge and understanding of the Buddhist teachings, he was enthroned as Khenpo of the Ripa lineage by H.E. Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche and Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche.

Yogom with Cynthia Jouffre
2019-11-23 09:00 - 2019-11-24 16:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
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Yogom is a set of exercises developed from traditional yoga postures, breathing exercises and meditation. The meditation technique used in this practice is Shiné (or Shamata in Sanskrit) aimed particularly at soothing our mind.
The name “Yogom” is a condensed version of YO for yoga, and GOM which means “meditate” in Tibetan. By unbinding tensions, this practice particularly helps to prepare the body and mind before engaging in formal sitting meditation practice.
This technique was developed by François Bertolero at the request of the Tibetan Master Gyétrul Jigmé Rinpoche. The workshop will be led by Cynthia Jouffre, yoga teacher in Alsace, France, and certified Yogom instructor since 2017.
Price
Normal price: CHF 160 / € 150 / $ 165
Reduced price*: CHF 140 / € 130 $ 145
(*students, unemployed, retired, members of Ripa or Padma Ling)

About the Teacher

Cynthia Jouffre
Cynthia Jouffre is a student of Gyétrul Jigmé Rinpoche since 2012. She is a yoga teacher in Alsace, France, and a certified Yogom instructor since 2017. The method was created by François Bartolero according to the instructions of Gyétrul Jigmé … More →

Contemplative-Based ResilienceTraining for Humanitarian Aid Workers
2019-12-02 14:00 - 2019-12-06 10:00 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
Gayla Marie Stiles, Hugh Byrne and Ola Witkowska

The CBR Project was developed for both national and international humanitarian and human rights workers, based in the field and the office. If you seek to use your annual leave, break between contracts or R&R in a way which ensures deep rejuvenation and reconnection to yourself and to the work, then this training retreat is for you.
The four-day training retreat provides humanitarians an opportunity to rest, reflect and restore alongside a transformative learning process. In addition to meditation, mindful movement and other activities, the curriculum incorporates periods of free time allowing you to walk, socialise or enjoy some reflection time to yourself.
Contemplative-Based Resilience (CBR) Training is an experiential skills-building programme, grounded in cutting-edge research on human resilience. Through its integrated approach incorporating Psychosocial education, Mindful Movement and Meditation, the training supports humanitarians to develop the practices and habits to enhance personal resilience and thrive within their work.
At the end of the programme, you will have learned effective resilience skills you can immediately implement, which will continue to benefit you in the long term. The course fee also includes 12 months of ongoing remote support which can be accessed via the CBR Mobile App and by dialling into monthly support calls along with other humanitarian aid workers, facilitated by our experienced Faculty.

About the facilitators
HUGH BYRNE, PhD, is a guiding teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW). Having worked in the field of human rights, Hugh is deeply committed to using contemplative science to alleviate suffering in the world.
GAYLA MARIE STILES is an expert in yoga and other movement modalities. She is passionate about teaching therapeutic and transformative elements of movement, and played a leading role in developing the CBR Mindful Movement curriculum.
OLA WITKOWSKA, is a Gestalt therapist working internationally to provide psychosocial support for MSF humanitarian staff. She has also led mental health interventions with international aid organisations in Kosovo, Serbia and Iraq, and has a keen interest in meditation.

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Silent Winter Retreat : Ripa Awareness Meditation (RAM)
2019-12-27 - 2020-01-03 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
With Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche

Mindfulness and awareness work together to bring acceptance of living situations as they are. Life is not regarded as source of rejection or indulgence, but rather as the food of awareness and mindfulness; the depression and excitement that go on in life become the very object of meditation.

During this end-of-year retreat Rinpoche will unfold and guide participants through the key elements that help us in this process. Gathered under the Ripa Awareness Meditation method, they bring in Shamata’s Buddhist tools – a millennial breathing technique that helps develop mental calm – and introduces aspects of Vipassana meditation, or penetrating vision, that help us develop “ways of looking” that free the mind from conceptual fabrication.

Normal Price : CHF 360.– / € 320. / $355.
Reduced Price *: CHF 260.– / € 240. / $265.
(*students, seniors, unemployed or members of Ripa and Padma Ling)

Information and registrations on: info@ripa-international.com
Registrations will open in October 2019 – Please check our website regularly for updates

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche

Dungsey Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in 1970, the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of the Earth Monkey, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth. He is the son and spiritual heir of His … More →

Vipassana Retreat
2020-03-19 - 2020-03-22 | Ripa International Center, Hilfligweg 10 CH-3172, Bern, Switzerland
With Fred von Allmen and Irene Bumbacher
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With sustained attention and benevolent awareness, we explore the true nature of body, heart and mind in direct contact with our present experience. The immediate insight into the unstable, unfathomable nature of the experience enables deep inner letting go and acceptance, whereby serenity arises and inner liberation becomes possible. By cultivating altruistic motivation and experiencing the connectedness of all beings, love and compassion are deepened.

Other than the teachings, instructions and conversations with the teachers, the course takes place in silence and free of any communication media.

Irene Bumbacher began practicing Zen in Japan in 1989. Since then she has visited monasteries and retreats in various Buddhist traditions in Europe, Asia and the USA. She values everyday life as an ideal spiritual training ground, from which she also withdraws for one to two months each year to devote herself more deeply to Buddhist heart and mind training. She has been teaching Vipassana and Metta meditation since 2008. She is co-founder of the Center for Buddhism in Bern and works as a Shiatsu and Trauma therapist.
Fred von Allmen has been studying and practicing the Buddhist path of awakening for over forty years among teachers of the Tibetan Dzogchen, Gelug and Theravada Vipassana traditions. Since 1984 he has been teaching worldwide – today mainly in Switzerland – a path to the liberating knowledge of heart and mind. He is the author of the books ‘Discovering Freedom’, ‘Buddhism: Teaching-Practice-Meditation’, ‘Seeing with Buddha’s Eyes’, ‘Buddha’s Thousand Faces’ and is co-author of ‘Mahamudra & Vipassana’. He is co-founder and foundation board member of the Meditationszentrum Beatenberg.

Teachers fees: On donation basis ( Dana )
The work of the teachers is based on the principle of generosity, an essential aspect of spiritual practice. From these donations, teachers must provide for their livelihoods, continuing education, retreats, and retirement. The donations are anonymous so that everyone can give as much as they think is right in terms of solidarity and generosity. This is also an expression of trust in the generosity of the participants.
