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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

  • Ngondro Prep School
    Ngondro Prep School
    Sat. July 29, Aug 26, Sep 30, Oct 28, 2023
    Online Video Conference
    Sat. July 29, Aug 26, Sep 30, Oct 28, 2023
    Sat. July 29, Aug 26, Sep 30, Oct 28, 2023
    Teaching and discussion series exploring each of the four Karma Kagyu Ngondro prerequisite practices vital to laying a strong foundation for Mahamudra meditation
  • Chenrezig
    Chenrezig
    Thursdays 4 PM US MDT, ongoing
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    Thursdays 4 PM US MDT, ongoing
    Thursdays 4 PM US MDT, ongoing
    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.
  • Brave Heart of Awakening
    Brave Heart of Awakening
    December 8 to 10, 2023
    Zoom Online
    December 8 to 10, 2023
    December 8 to 10, 2023
    HOSTED BY KAGYU SUKHA CHOLING. Weekend practice program focused on the seven point cause-effect process for cultivating bodhicitta explored through "integrative practice," the Buddha's contemplative technology comprised of the rich practices of listening, contemplating, and meditating
  • PRAJNA SPARKS
    PRAJNA SPARKS
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    Latest episode of our popular podcast!
  • IN THE MEDIA
    IN THE MEDIA
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    Media
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    Ongoing
    Articles, interviews, and other appearances in the media
  • Private Teaching
    Private Teaching
    By appointment
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    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...
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