Six-Session Guru Yoga Commentary
Online Teaching - January 18, 25 and February 1, 8
Offered at the Request of Venerable Namgyel’s Group (Australia)
This course is offered by donation.
The Six-Session Guru Yoga is the essential daily practice for maintaining the profound samaya commitments received during anuttarayoga tantra empowerments. While often recited quickly as a required obligation, its depth, structure, and transformative power are rarely understood.
At the heartfelt request of a dedicated group of Ven Namgyel Group, who practice in the Gelug tradition in Australia, Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoche has kindly agreed to offer a special four-session commentary on this core tantric practice. Although Rinpoche comes from the Jonang–Kalachakra lineage, he has studied extensively within the Gelug, Sakya, Kagyu, and Nyingma traditions. Because of this rare breadth of training, he is uniquely positioned to:
convey the traditional understanding of the Six-Session Guru Yoga,
illuminate its deeper meaning through his cross-lineage insight and practical experience.
This teaching is a rare opportunity to receive a clear, integrative explanation of a practice traditionally required by the Gelug lineage, delivered by a master who deeply respects its origins while revealing its universal relevance for all Vajrayana practitioners.
Vajra Master
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).
