13 September 2020 (Sunday) - 14 October 2020 (Wednesday)
2020 Dzogchen Buddha Path
Internet Teaching and Training Program
Month Three
New Session: 13 Sep (Sunday) – 14 Oct (Wednesday) PDT
Join us for the third month of the
historic international gathering of the Dzogchen Buddha Path Sangha
for this Internet Teaching and Training Program!
Internet Dharma Training with His Eminence Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche and Authorized Dzogchen Buddha Path Dharma Teachers
Learn the View, Meditation, and Conduct of The Dzogchen Buddha Path
Join us for a historic international gathering of the Dzogchen Buddha Path Sangha
for this Internet Teaching and Training Program!
In response to the pandemic and continuing need for Dharma in this world, the Dzogchen Shri Singha Foundation is hosting this Internet Teaching and Training Program to perpetuate the Dzogchen Buddha Path Lineage and create peace and happiness in this world. Due to the overwhelming success of the program, we have opened the third month to new and aspiring students.
We invite all virtuous beings to apply for this wonderful internet teaching and training program to learn from His Eminence Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche and Dzogchen Lineage Dharma Teachers. The Dzogchen Buddha Path Internet Teaching and Training Program is a vibrant and unique experience that combines state-of-the-art technology and the time-tested Buddhist tradition of learning, contemplation, and meditation to enlighten the hearts and minds of Dharma practitioners. This one-of-a-kind program is suitable for all levels of students who have a sincere wish to learn and practice The Buddha Path.
Because students with various levels of Dharma learning and practice require different levels of Dharma instructions, this program will consist of multiple classes according to the capacity, needs, and knowledge of each student. Students on every level will receive practical and profound teachings, real-life Dharma skills, and immeasurable wisdom blessings.
The excellent structure of our annual retreat program has been auspiciously adapted to benefit international practitioners on the Internet. After our great success in hosting the 2020 Dzogchen Buddha Path Spring Retreat and the 2020 Tara Drupchen on the Internet, we are joyfully ready to offer this one-month program throughout the world.
Registration Deadline
Registration for the program will officially close at 11:59 pm local time on Sept 12, 2020. After that date and time, any new registrants will be required to pay the full price and no discounts will be applied. This means late registrants will pay twice the current discounted price. No exceptions will be made to this policy so please register immediately.
Registration is currently open! Please register here.
After registration you will be contacted by the Director with more detail concerning your participation.
To pay your program fees, send to the following PayPal account: payment@thebuddhapath.org
North America Schedule
Note: These times are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, UTC-7).
Those in Mountain Time, Central Time, and Eastern Time will have to adjust accordingly.
Morning Schedule
7:00am: Joyfully wake up and individually practice The Buddha Path Awakening Yoga
8:00am: group practice (optional): The Buddha Path Preliminary Practice and Vajra Tantra Yoga
9:00am: Breakfast and preparation
10:30am: Morning Dharma teaching session
11:45am: wisely recess
12:00-1:00pm: Dharma Tutoring Session
Afternoon Schedule
1:00pm-5:30pm: Lunch and individual virtuous activities
5:30-6:30pm: group practice The Buddha Path: Concluding Practice
or
5:15-7:15pm: group practice Main Teaching by Bodhi Lama (Twice weekly)
Evening Schedule
6:30pm Dinner
8:00-10:30pm: teachings from the Vajra Master on some days, according to class level
11:00pm-7am: maintain vow of rest: practice The Buddha Path Sleeping Yoga,
which includes peacefully sleeping until joyfully waking up
Tuesday is the day of recess.
Registration is currently open! Please register here.
After registration you will be contacted by the Director with more detail concerning your participation.
To pay your program fees, send to the following PayPal account: payment@thebuddhapath.org
Please Consider Sponsoring Others to Attend
Supporting others to study, contemplate and meditate on Dharma who would not otherwise be able to do so is joining the activities of all Buddhas and enlightened beings. One simple act of generosity could bring great benefit to many beings now and in the future.
To make a contribution to the scholarship fund please send them through Paypal to donation@thebuddhapath.org
Program Fees
Fees include all teachings and tutoring classes, as well as practice sessions, question and answer sessions, yoga instructions, and administrative fees. They do not include personal offerings to Dharma teachers or Sangha.
The one-month program fee: $800USD
(due to the pandemic, discounted from $1500USD)
Fees for continuum students, including those who have completed the first month, are prorated accordingly.
To pay registration fees via Paypal please send to: payment@thebuddhapath.org
Contact Information
2020 Dzogchen Buddha Path Internet Teaching and Training Program Email contacts:
English speakers: English@thebuddhapath.org
Chinese speakers: Chinese@thebuddhapath.org
Russian speakers: Russian@thebuddhapath.org
Spanish speakers: Spanish@thebuddhapath.org
Japanese speakers: Japan@thebuddhapath.org
German speakers: German@thebuddhapath.org
French speakers: French@thebuddhapath.org
For all other languages: internetteachings@thebuddhapath.org
+1-541-359-0884 (USA)
Registration is currently open! Please register here.
After registration you will be contacted by the Director with more detail concerning your participation.
To pay your program fees, send to the following PayPal account: payment@thebuddhapath.org
Please Consider Sponsoring Other to Join
Supporting others to study, contemplate, and meditate on Dharma who would not otherwise be able to attend is directly joining the activities of all Buddhas and enlightened beings. It is a simple action can that can greatly benefit many lives now and in the future.
To make a donation to the scholarship fund please send your sponsorship to donation@thebuddhapath.org
The Buddha Path
The Dzogchen Lineage curriculum comprises teachings and commentary on The Buddha Path written by Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche. The Buddha Path is a concise practice text that provides the key to all of the Sutrayana, Vajrayana, and Dzogchen teachings of Buddha. This accessible and effective book offers clear practice instructions for the beginning student as well as a lifetime’s wealth of profound instructions for the advanced practitioner.
The Buddha Path is also a core text for the Dzogchen Buddha Path Internet Teaching and Training Program. This program’s comprehensive approach balances scholarly study, group practice, and powerful meditation techniques.
Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche unites ancient wisdom with modern techniques, directly applying Buddha’s teachings to the challenges of today’s world. Rinpoche mainly teaches courses in English, drawing upon his knowledge of Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese when appropriate. This program will be led by Khenpo Choga Rinpoche and authorized Dzogchen Buddha Path Bodhi Lamas and Dharma Acharyas who will teach, tutor, and facilitate group discussion. The Dzogchen Buddha Path Internet Teaching and Training Program provides all students with a firm grounding in Buddhist fundamentals, so they can help themselves and others increase personal happiness, create social harmony, and establish the roots of world peace.
The power of the Dzogchen Lineage lies in the unbroken succession of practitioners who have trained their minds by repeatedly applying Buddha’s teachings in their daily lives. It is for students who have faith in Buddha, and who understand that progress in Dharma requires comprehensive training and diligence in the three techniques: learning, contemplation, and meditation. If this describes your intentions and heartfelt aspirations, please join us in perpetuating the Dzogchen teachings.
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H.E. DZOGCHEN KHENPO CHOGA RINPOCHE
Great Perfection of Wisdom Holder, His Eminence Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche, was born and raised in Tibet. He began studying Buddhism at Dzogchen Monastery in Kham, Tibet at the age of five. He has received transmissions and teachings of the Buddhist Sutras, Tantras, and Shastras from forty-two different Buddhist masters, as well as specific instructions in the Dzogchen Tantras from his Root Masters — Khenchen Padma Tsewang, Drubchen Chatral Chochyab, Guru Dechen Namdrol, and Great Lama Athu.
Rinpoche spent ten years at the Dzogchen Shri Singha Five Sciences University, first studying and later teaching the five major sciences: art, medicine, linguistics, philosophy, and Buddhadharma, and the five minor sciences: poetics, semiotics, prosody, drama, and astrology.
Under difficult conditions, Rinpoche also spent a total of seven years of secluded meditation in caves located in the Siltrom Mountain range in the Holy Dzogchen area of Tibet. In addition to the concise practice text, The Buddha Path, Rinpoche has authored more than thirty books in Tibetan and currently is translating and writing Buddhist texts in English. Rinpoche conducts teacher training programs at The Dzogchen Retreat Center USA every year. Hundreds of Rinpoche’s students have been authorized as Dzogchen Buddha Path Dharma Teachers and are teaching and training thousands of students around the world.
Biography of His Eminence Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche
To support to the activities of Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche send your donation to https://www.paypal.me/TDBP
Power of the Dzogchen Buddha Path Lineage
The Inaugural Dzogchen Buddha Path Commencement Ceremony on August 11, 2014
Establishing All Beings In True Happiness
Humanity is facing increasingly serious problems, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Although humankind has made unprecedented scientific advances, our inner well-being has not kept pace. Our focus on technological and material gain alone does not address the root of physical and mental suffering being experienced.
Negative thinking and negative karma are the causes of ill health and mental suffering, as well as pandemics, disharmony, social strife, violence, and war. The methods of the Dzogchen Buddha Path Lineage eliminate these causes of suffering and increase positive thinking, which leads to peace, happiness, and wisdom and decreases fear and worry. Studying and practicing under the guidance of a qualified teacher, Dzogchen Buddha Path students clarify confusion and awaken, step by step, to their true nature: Buddha, True Happiness.
While we may not be able to meet in person this year, we have turned obstacles into opportunities to unite worldwide Sangha in the learning, contemplation, and meditation of Dharma to benefit all beings.
The Dzogchen Buddha Path Lineage
The Dzogchen Buddha Path Lineage is known for its synthesis of the entirety of Buddha’s teachings. In northern India 2,946 years ago, an enlightened human being named Bodhisattva Siddhartha attained Awakened Omniscience, and was thereafter renowned as Buddha Shakyamuni. For the next 47 years, Buddha taught Dharma, the path of enlightenment, to countless students in this world. Since that time, this unbroken lineage has been passed down from teacher to student for generations in India and Tibet. The teachings of Buddha have been continuously studied, practiced, transmitted, and protected up to the present day by the enlightened Dzogchen Lineage Masters.
SUPPORT DZOGCHEN LINEAGE ACTIVITIES
The Mission of the Dzogchen Shri Singha Foundation
Dzogchen Shri Singha Foundation’s mission is to support the preservation, practice, and transmission of the ancient and unbroken Dzogchen tradition in the modern world. The Dzogchen Wisdom Lineage—Buddha’s entire authentic teaching—is a time-tested tradition of practice with specific techniques to achieve both the immediate goal of individual happiness and the ultimate goal of Vast Awakening.
How You Can Support Our Activities
- Join our donation program, the Dzogchen Buddha Path Circle of Compassion. You may sign up for the recurring donation program or make a one-time contribution. Every portion of your donation will be used to support the Dharma activities of the Foundation. Your donations help us to accomplish our goals to benefit the world. thebuddhapath.org/giving/circle-of-compassion
- Make a donation via PayPal. It’s fast and secure: http://tinyurl.com/DSSFpaypal
- Contact our development chair Bodhi Lama Sean Young for other ways to participate: development@thebuddhapath.org
Any amount is greatly appreciated. May we all remember that generosity is the root of wealth!
“On one cushion, one person at one time
can practice all of Buddha’s teachings.”
—Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche
