ART'TIBET CHAM SEM

A not-for-profit humanitarian association that supports both lay and religious Tibetan communities in Tibet and the Himalayan region

The association is held by a team of volunteers and its running costs are entirely covered by the sales from our Boutique which allows the full amount of donations to be sent directly to the recipient communities. Art’Tibet is not involved in any political activities. Founded in 2001, Art'Tibet oversees four projects:

• The boarding school at Manali, Northern India hosts 290 children, boys and girls in equal numbers during ten months a year. The boarding school provides free education for the children who are all coming from very poor families.
• The financing of a 3-year professional nurse training course for two young girls, who are graduates from Manali school.
• Chokling Rinpoche’s and Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche’s nunnery in Tibet, in the Kham region which was founded by the tertön Chogyur Lingpa. The nunnery houses 40 nuns, some of who are on the solitary retreat since 2005 when our association started to support them. The nuns are holding and practising regular drupchens of Vajrasattva, Vajrakilaya, Kurukulla and Tara.
• The medical clinic in Bir, Northern India provides medical care for the entire population of this refugee village including 3,000 monastics of eight monasteries and 6,000 Tibetans and Indians. 

Since 2015 Art’Tibet is supporting the clinic with the aim to improve its health care facilities which include the renovation of the surgeries, construction of a surgery unit, purchase of medical equipment as well as further training for the medical staff. More information: www.art-tibet.org

OUR PROGRAMME AROUND THE WORLD

Rigpé Yeshé is now thriving in many countries

At present, Rigpé Yeshé Programmes are offered in several countries including Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and Australia.

Please contact the coordinators in each country for more information:

• France: Françoise Maniglier - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Germany: Maria Schmitz - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Netherlands: Jesse van Delft - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Italy: Grazia Roncaglia - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Spain: Victoria Martin-Moreno Carnero - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Switzerland - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• UK: Adele Hersey - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Australia: Lyndi Smith - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For more information on Rigpé Yeshé activities in countries which are not mentioned above please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

108 NIGHTS IN LERAB LING

Special Offer from La Source in 2024

La Source offers 21% reduction on all accommodation when you pre-pay 108 nights in Lerab Ling. You can spend these 108 nights in one go, such as doing a long retreat any time in the year, or spread them over a maximum of 5 consecutive years attending events and retreats in any season. 

Here is our special offer for 2024:

• Wooden Cabin: normal price 34€ per night, reduction 21% is €28; for 108 nights is €2,901 – save €609. 
• Retreat Room: normal price 45€ per night, reduction 21% is €36; for 108 nights is €3,839 – save €806. 
• Studio: normal price 80€ per night, reduction 21% is €63; for 108 nights is €6,826 – save €1,433. 

There will be no increase in price for your accommodation if you spread the use of the 108 nights over 5 consecutive years. This offer does not include the costs of meals and contribution to an event. 

If you would like to spend 108 nights in Lerab Ling please contact : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or buy directly online.

This is a limited offer, don't miss out... 

LOSAR RIGDZIN DÜPA DRUPCHÖ

At Lerab Ling and Online

Dates: from 30 January to 1 February

Participating in a Rigdzin Düpa practice intensive—drupchö—during the Tibetan New Year (Losar) period is the best and fastest way to become familiar with and deepen your practice of this profound sadhana!

All practice sessions will be held and guided by Rigpa Senior Practice Holders and short evocative teachings will be shared to inspire our practice.

Rigdzin Düpa is a sadhana that focuses on the root of all blessings: Guru Rinpoche. It is one of the most important and profound practices of the Longchen Nyingtik tradition that we follow in Rigpa and has the power to awaken, in our experience, the view of the natural state of Dzogpachenpo—the nature of mind. It is also considered to be a profound long-life practice.

The Tibetan New Year (Losar) period is traditionally a very important time for practice in all Tibetan Monasteries. Holding annual drupchös during this period in Lerab Ling was very much initiated by Sogyal Rinpoche, and the Lerab Ling practice team does its utmost to continue this annual tradition of group Vajrayana practice for the benefit of the whole sangha and all beings.

It is said that several days participating in a drupchö or drupchen can yield the same results as years of solitary retreat, and great contemporary masters such as Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche have made a point of encouraging and reviving the practice of drupchen, because of its power of transformation.

WHO THIS EVENT IS FOR

Since a Rigdzin Düpa drupchö is a way for all of us to deepen our practice of guru yoga, it is recommended for established Ngöndro students and Dzogchen Mandala students who have already received a Rigdzin Düpa or Guru Rinpoche empowerment.

WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS TO JOIN?

Drupchös are most suited for students that:

• Have a firm grounding in the practice of ngöndro, which includes having received all the ngöndro teachings, up to and including guru yoga,
• Have started their ngöndro accumulations;
• Have already received some instructions for sadhana practice, including a basic understanding of the key principles of the Vajrayana. This means you have either followed:
  
  
  • Rigpa's study and practice programme of the Vajrayana cycle from the Three-year retreat, Home Retreat or Vajrayana online retreats streamed from Lerab Ling,
  • Or you received these instructions during previous drupchens with Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche,
  • Or you are a student from a sangha other than Rigpa and have received these instructions from a qualified Vajrayana teacher.

To participate in this drupchö, a Rigdzin Düpa or a Guru Rinpoche empowerment is absolutely required.

PREPARING YOURSELF FOR THIS EVENT

You can support your practice by studying the Kyerim section of A Guide to Vajrayana Practice for the Rigpa Sangha which is available at ZAM. This will help make your participation as meaningful as possible.

If you have a Rigdzin Düpa empowerment, you could study the commentaries found in this publication: Jigme Lingpa, Patrul Rinpoche, Khenpo Chemchok, and Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, The Gathering of Vidyadharas: Text and Commentaries on the Rigdzin Düpa, Translated by Gyurme Avertin (Boulder: Snow Lion, 2017).

Which texts to bring:

• Draft of the new practice book (that we will use in the drupchö): get it here on donation basis
• Daily Sadhana book
  
  

HOW TO FOLLOW

The best of course is to follow onsite in Lerab Ling.

However, you can also follow this drupchö online via Prajna live (there is no need to register). This live streaming is offered on a donation basis. We suggest 21€ per day as a contribution to the offerings, the running of the event and to make the streaming possible. You can donate here.

TEACHERS

This event is held and presided by Lerab Ling’s team of Senior Practice Holders, with the help of the whole Practice and Chopön team. 

PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE

08.00 – 08.30 Riwo Sangchö
08.30 – 10.45 Rigdzin Düpa session 1
10.45 – 11.15 short break
11.15 – 12.30 Rigdzin Düpa session 2
12.30 – 14.30 lunch break
14.30 – 16.15 Tendrel Nyesel, Additional Practices, Extended Dharmapalas
16.00 – 16.30 short break
17.00 – 18.30 Narak Kong Shak, Rigdzin Düpa & Tendrel Nyesel Tsok & Conclusion

Please note that on the last day - for the Drupchö siddhis the schedule may be different and start earlier in the morning.

MORE INFORMATION

• Rigpa’s Study & Practice page on Rigdzin Düpa
• Rigpa Shedra Wiki articles on: drupchö