Course Overview

Clear away obstacles with this  online practice retreat with. During this retreat you will be led through a short sadhana practice for visualizing the individual forms and reciting the mantras of the twenty-one aspects of the Noble Goddess Tara. Each aspect provides a powerful method for clearing away obstacles to one’s spiritual path as well as harmonizing external worldly conditions to bring abundance and prosperity into your life.

  • Who is this course for?

    This course is designed for practitioners with interest in removing obstacles for the benefit of all sentient beings.

  • What will you learn?

    You will learn various ways to practice with the meditational deities of the 21 Taras, her mantra and the sadhanas.

  • How will this benefit you?

    Pacify and purify negative karma to swiftly attain the paths and bhumis to reach the ultimate state of enlightenment.

Program Offering

We offer flexible offering levels to accomodate students in different countries and economic situations worldwide. If you need further financial assistance to access a class, please email [email protected] No one is turned away for lack of funds.

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Instructors

Khentrul Rinpoche

Jonang Kalachakra and Rimé Master

Khentrul Rinpoché Jamphel Lodrö is the founder and spiritual director of Dzokden. Rinpoche is the author of Unveiling Your Sacred Truth, The Great Middle Way: Clarifying the Jonang View of Other-Emptiness, A Happier Life, and The Hidden Treasure of the Profound Path. Rinpoche spent the first 20 years of his life herding yak and chanting mantras on the plateaus of Tibet. Inspired by the bodhisattvas, he left his family to study in a variety of monasteries under the guidance of over twenty-five masters in all the Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Due to his non-sectarian approach, he earned himself the title of Rimé (unbiased) Master and was identified as the reincarnation of the famous Kalachakra Master Ngawang Chözin Gyatso. While at the core of his teachings is the recognition that there is great value in the diversity of all spiritual traditions found in this world; he focuses on the Jonang-Shambhala tradition. Kalachakra (wheel of time) teachings contain profound methods to harmonize our external environment with the inner world of body and mind, ultimately bringing about the golden age of peace and harmony (dzokden).

Rafa Lobsang Dorje (Rafael Nassif)

Dzokden Kalapa Program Co-ordinator

He started his contact with Buddhism in 2008, after practicing in other systems of spiritual practice in his homeland Brazil. In Europe, India and Tibet he had precious opportunities to receive teachings, transmissions and empowerments from masters from almost all schools of Tibetan Buddhism and from the Theravada Tradition as well, and took part in different group and solitary retreats. He was fortunate to met his precious Guru Jamphel Lodrö (Khentrul Rinpoche) in She Drup Ling-Austria in 2015, from whom he has been receiving a vast and profound wealth of Dharma, since the foundational subjects until the Kalachakra Vajra Yogas. Since 2016 he has been teaching Lu Jong (Tibetan Healing Yoga). In 2018 he received authorisation from Rinpoche to teach the Kalachakra-Ngöndro. Recently he reduced his professional activities as a composer in order to serve the altruistic ideals of his Guru as a full-time volunteer at our Dzokden community. He serves the community a.o. as a translator, editor and coordinator for the translations’ groups for both German and Portuguese languages.

Yeshe Wangmo

Dzokden

Yeshe Wangmo (Chloe Bregman) has over 20 years of experience in Corporate leadership, Product Design, and Agile Transformation. Previously, she was an Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach for a Fortune 500 company and Dir. Design at Onelogin. She brings her experience building teams and technology products to Shar Khentrul Rinpoche’s global community. Yeshe Wangmo has over 680 hours in yoga teacher training. She has completed two years of meditation teacher training with Culadasa of the Mind Illuminated. In 2016, Yeshe Wangmo created Rimé Kalachakra for supporting Shar Khentrul Rinpoche’s Sangha activities in the US and later founded Dzokden in 2018. Since 2019 she works full-time developing Dzokden according to Rinpoche’s vision, first as resident volunteer at the Tibetan Buddhist Rimé Institute in Australia and now at Dzokden Tashi Gadu House in California. She is Shar Khentrul Rinpoche’s main secretary, the CEO of Dzokden and an advisor to the Dzokden Kalapa board as well as Dzokden Shambhala. She has been organising and assisting with Kalachakra Empowerments and many other events worldwide and giving teachings for Rinpoche.

Julie O'Donnell

Tibetan Rimé Buddhist Institute

At an early age, Julie searched for a deeper meaning to life until finally at the age of 22 found the precious Buddhist path of Dharma. She dedicated her life to the practice, living in temples and serving teachers from around the world practicing the Buddhist teachings and living according to its principles. Julie has spent the last 34 years practicing this ancient path and for the past twelve years has lived at the Tibetan Buddhist Rime Institute in Tecoma helping the resident teacher Khentrul Rinpoche. Julie is now one of the senior teachers in Dzokden giving classes on meditation and basic Buddhist principals that can be applied to our everyday lives. Julie also manages the Tibetan Rimé Buddhist Institute. She arranges a program of courses, tours and fundraising activities.