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ABOUT

Central to the Buddha Shakyamuni’s approach to integrating his teachings into our everyday lives is the threefold process of listening to, contemplating, and meditating on the Dharma we encounter. Engaging the Dharma in this way yields prajna, or precise knowledge, in a corresponding threefold progression. Tending prajna’s fire allows it to grow further and further, until it eradicates mistaken ways of knowing altogether, becoming the unceasing flame of nondual wisdom.

 

Karma Zopa Jigme and Karma Yeshe Chodron are American-born Kagyu practitioners and students of Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche for over twenty years, engaging in the study of Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy, and the practice of intensive individual and group retreat throughout. In 2005, they became teachers and translators at the Rigpe Dorje Institute for International Students at Pullahari Monastery in Kathmandu, seat of the Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoches in Nepal, under the guidance of Drupon Khenpo Lodro Namgyal. In 2016, they successfully completed three-year cloistered meditation retreat in the Karma Kamtsang lineage under the auspices of Kyabje Thrangu Rinpoche at Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado, serving as translators for retreat master Khenpo Jigme and philosophy master Khenpo Lobzang alongside their intensive undertaking of seminal Karma Kagyu lineage practices.

 

Yeshe and Zopa are passionate about sharing trustworthy traditional methods for transmitting experiential understanding of Buddhadharma with Western students.

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Dharma Offerings

  • Chenrezig Instruction and Sangha Practice
    Chenrezig Instruction and Sangha Practice
    HYBRID - monthly on first Friday
    Questa, NM and Zoom - HYBRID
    HYBRID - monthly on first Friday
    HYBRID - monthly on first Friday
    Lama Zopa offers ongoing instruction and guided practice of Chenrezig meditation on first Fridays of the month
  • Chenrezig Weekly Sangha
    Chenrezig Weekly Sangha
    ONLINE - Tues at 3:30pm, Thurs at 9am US MT
    Zoom Online
    ONLINE - Tues at 3:30pm, Thurs at 9am US MT
    ONLINE - Tues at 3:30pm, Thurs at 9am US MT
    FREE | DONATION | BENEFACTOR OPEN TO ALL Join Zopa for the chanting meditation practice of Chenrezig (Skr. Avalokiteshvara), bodhisattva of compassion. Opportunities to ask practice questions. Online and open to all.
  • PRAJNA SPARKS PODCAST
    PRAJNA SPARKS PODCAST
    New Moon days each month
    Wherever you listen to podcasts...
    New Moon days each month
    New Moon days each month
    Latest episode of our popular podcast!
  • IN THE MEDIA
    IN THE MEDIA
    Ongoing
    Media
    Ongoing
    Ongoing
    Articles, interviews, and other appearances in the media
  • Private Teaching
    Private Teaching
    By appointment
    Zoom Online
    By appointment
    By appointment
    Explore the Buddhadharma in the time honored "ear-whispered" approach of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, inspiring spiritual practice to evolve beyond perceived limitations...
  • Host Our Dharma Talks
    Host Our Dharma Talks
    Ongoing
    Zoom Online
    Ongoing
    Ongoing
    Contact us here to host private Dharma talks for your center or group. Look for new Prajna Sparks podcast episodes, Prajna Rising online journal articles, and impromptu Dharma talks in the coming months.
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