Online: A Journey Through the Heaven and Hell Realms - The Lamp of U Za Rinchen Sal
Online
Online: A Journey Through the Heaven and Hell Realms - The Lamp of U Za Rinchen Sal
September 27 - 28, 2025
About this Retreat
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Sangmo (Yangri), Ph.D, scholar, teacher, and translator, is the first Tibetan woman to receive a Ph.D In Tibetan Bon philosophy studies. A recipient of the Jwaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund grant, she won the Prime Minister Award from the Tibetan Government in Exile in India in 2013.
After completing her PhD, she was asked by His Holiness the 33rd Menri Trizin Lungtok Tenpe Nyima Rinpoche to teach at the dialectic school at the Redna Menling Nunnery in Dolanji.
She taught at Lishu Institute in India both in site and online the Bon teaching to western students. She has also translated from Tibetan to English various teachers from Lishu Institute and from Menri Monastery.
Sangmo-la’s first book in English is: Escape from Darkness: The spiritual journey of the Buddha Tonpa Shenrab Miwo’s daughter ShenzaNechung. This book is a translation of a chapter of the biography of Buddha Shenrab Miwo. Her second publication in English is The Lamp of UZa Rinchin Sal, a Delog story from the Bön tradition. She has also translated the Zhang Zhung Nyengyud Ngondro: The preliminary Practices to Dzogchen according to the Oral Transmission of Zhangzhung from the Tibetan teaching of PonlobTsangpa Tenzin Rinpoche in Shenten from the Tibetan to English. She is the editor of the Palden Tsultrim’s “A Commentary on the Three Ornaments of Poetry” book.
Learn more about Dr. Sangmo Yangri: https://uzarinchensal.com/
Details of this retreat
U Za Rinchen Sal was an uneducated Tibetan woman who lived many centuries ago in a small village. She became ill, died, and travelled through the bardo of death visiting all of the hell realms as well as many buddha-fields and the lands of the khandro, or sky-walkers. Just before her body was to be burned, Uza Rinchen Sal came back to life. She was a transformed person. Her experiences were found to be perfectly in accord with all the teachings of the Bön tradition, and her narrative was written down for the benefit of practitioners.
Join author and scholar Dr. Sangmo Yangri discuss her translation of this important work. Sangmo-la will share more about its history and how this tale can serve as a guide to living a life of dharma and practice. Sangmo-la is not only a scholar and an author but she is a deeply experienced practitioner who comes from a long line of dharma practitioners. She has spent many years working to reclaim the narratives of women in the Tibetan Bön tradition.
ONLINE ONLY (watch at Serenity Ridge if followed by painting prayer wheels)
Suggested reading: The Lamp of Uza Rinchen Sal
Join author and scholar Dr. Sangmo Yangri discuss her translation of this important work. Sangmo-la will share more about its history and how this tale can serve as a guide to living a life of dharma and practice. Sangmo-la is not only a scholar and an author but she is a deeply experienced practitioner who comes from a long line of dharma practitioners. She has spent many years working to reclaim the narratives of women in the Tibetan Bön tradition.
ONLINE ONLY (watch at Serenity Ridge if followed by painting prayer wheels)
Suggested reading: The Lamp of Uza Rinchen Sal
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