Deepening your study and practice in a blessed environment
Wherever you are on the path, doing an individual retreat is an amazing opportunity to deepen your study and practice in the blessed environment of Lerab Ling.
From October to April, you can choose to come for one or several weeks or even longer. There could be a possibility to do an individual retreat outside this period depending on the number and types of events that are taking place at the time. Please check availability at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Before you come to Lerab Ling, a guide will help you to plan your retreat, help you settle in when you arrive and assist you with practical and spiritual support throughout your stay.
During your retreat you can choose to focus on studying a particular subject or text, accomplish the practice of meditation or compassion, accumulating your Ngöndro or sadhana practice, or focus on Dzogchen practice.
While on retreat, you are welcome to practise in one of the temple shrine rooms when they are available. You are free to join the daily group practices such as Riwo Sangchö and Tendrel Nyesel.
HOW TO REGISTER
Dates: October to April Arrival dates & times: Monday to Friday between 10am and 5pm. Event contribution: €7 (does not include accommodation and meals). This contribution covers the support for your retreat as well as administrative and other costs.
Please note - The minimum stay for an individual retreat is of 1 week
Before you register please contact the Individual retreat team at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and fill-in an application form. Once the dates and details are confirmed, we will send you a link to register online. Please register at least 2 weeks before the start of your retreat.
> FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Our commitment is for everyone who wishes to come to Lerab Ling, to have access to our programmes, whatever their financial circumstances. We offer different options for those who are unable to pay the standard contribution.
Different types of accommodation are available depending on the season, ranging from a simple wooden cabin in the forest to a retreat room or studio with a view of the temple. Reduced rates are available for longer stay.
25% off for retreats from 8 days to 3 weeks
50% off for retreats from 3 to 6 weeks
55% off for retreats from 6 to 9 weeks
60% off for retreats of more than 9 weeks
STUDY & PRACTICE GRANTS
If you have the heartfelt wish to do an individual retreat but lack financial means, you now have the opportunity to ask for support from the Study & Practice Grant. Read more
During three days, we will celebrate the extraordinary life of Khandro Tsering Chödrön with practice, offerings, videos and prayer. Lerab Ling will be streaming Yumka Dechen Gyalmo tsok during the day, and Tendrel Nyesel tsok in the evenings.
The practice will be dedicated to the long life of Mayumla, to all the living teachers of the Dharma, and also to the prosperity of the Rigpa sangha, so that all Rigpa groups may overcome any financial difficulties they face and thrive in the future.
As many of you will know, there are many stories from Tibet and from when Tibetans arrived with nothing in India in the 1950’s of great tsok offerings being made to create auspicious conditions and prosperity and to overcome obstacles.
For this weekend we would like to encourage everyone to join in either by making generous offerings on your shrines at home or to make a contribution to centres where groups of practitioners can gather for tsok practice. And we’d like to ask you to contribute so that Lerab Ling can make a really abundant offering on your behalf in the place that Khandro Tsering Chödrön in the final years of her life called home.
Tuesday 24 May is the actual anniversary of Khandro Tsering Chödrön and Wednesday 25 May is a Dakini day.
Dates: 24 to 26 May Event contribution: On donation basis. Minimum suggested 21€/ Day (does not include accommodation and meals)
You can find all the detailed practical information, such as check-in times, languages and transport by clicking on "Practical Info" anytime during registration. You can register and access all the practical information by clicking the button below.
OFFERINGS
You can also contribute to the generous practice offerings bymaking a donation online. You can dedicate your offering to removing obstacles for yourself or a loved one, accompany your donation with an aspiration prayer online, which will be included during the practices.
WHO CAN COME
This event is open to all Rigpa Mandala students, nevertheless to do the Sadhana, you need the respective empowerments. If you don’t have the empowerment, you can focus on your own personal practice, whilst enjoying the atmosphere and rejoicing in Khandro-la’s inspiring life story.
STUDY
You can support your practice by studying the Kyerim and Tendrel Nyesel section of A Guide to Vajrayana Practice for the Rigpa Sangha which is available on ZAM. This will help make your participation as meaningful as possible. Focus on:
The three samadhis
Teachings on the clear appearance, stable confidence and the recollection of purity
The four nails
WHICH TEXT TO BRING
Daily Sadhana book, for Riwo Sangchö, Tendrel Nyesel and Dharmapalas. Some of the practices will be done in English. You can either join in your own language or download the English text from ZAM. Yumka Dechen Gyalmo Sadhana text (if you are familiar with this practice and have the text).
PRACTICE TRAINING
Lerab Ling is holding a Practice Holder Training from 1 to 28 May (which also includes the Khandro Anniversary practices). If you would like to join the training, please contact the practice team at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
> FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Our commitment is for everyone who wishes to come to Lerab Ling, to have access to our programmes, whatever their financial circumstances. We offer different options for those who are unable to pay the standard contribution.
If you feel it is time to take a break from daily life and stresses, reconnect to nature, and recharge your batteries in a peaceful atmosphere, the packages below may be exactly what you need.
You can join us for:
A meditation break(open to everybody), to learn or deepen your practice of meditation with guidance, and in a group, or
An individual retreat (for Rigpa students only) to get on with your personal practice and study.
Both options offer the support of experienced instructors, and access to study materials (book and video libraries). All this at your own pace, whilst taking advantage of the beautiful natural environment surrounding our retreat center and the company of the community.
Click on one of the packages below to get all the informations.
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Lerab Ling, under the patronage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is one of the main centres preserving the authentic study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism. Founded in 1991...
