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ONLINE 2025 The Invocation of Tapihritsa: A Prayer from the Dzogchen Tradition
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ONLINE 2025 The Invocation of Tapihritsa: A Prayer from the Dzogchen Tradition
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November 23, 2025
About this Retreat
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Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha International, is one of only a few masters of the Bön Dzogchen tradition presently living in the West. An accomplished scholar in the Bön Buddhist textual traditions of philosophy, exegesis, and debate, Tenzin Rinpoche completed a rigorous11-year course of traditional studies at the Bönpo Monastic Center (Menri Monastery) in India, where he received his Geshe, degree. In 1992 Tenzin Rinpoche founded Ligmincha International in order to preserve and introduce to the West the religious teachings and arts of the ancient Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition. Fluent in English, Rinpoche is known for his clear, lively, and insightful teaching style and his ability to make Tibetan practices easily accessible to the Western student. He is a highly respected and beloved teacher to students throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe. In addition to Ligmincha International’s affiliates in the United States, Rinpoche has established centers in Central and South America, Europe and India.
Rinpoche is the author of 10 books: Wonders of the Natural Mind, in which he presents the view and practice of the Bön Dzogchen teachings; and The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep; Healing with Form, Energy, and Light: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen; Unbounded Wholeness; Tibetan Sound Healing; Tibetan Yogas of Body, Speech and Mind; Awakening the Sacred Body; Awakening the Luminous Mind; The True Source of Healing; and Spontaneous Creativity.
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The Invocation of Tapihritsa is one of the most important prayers in the Bön dzogchen tradition. Tapihritsa, an historical person of the early 8th century, achieved full realization and manifested the rainbow body as an expression of that realization. Inseparable from Kuntu Zangpo (Samantabhadra), he represents the union of all masters, especially one’s own root lama (teacher). It is this prayer that H.E. Yongdzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's root lama, and teacher to many in our sangha, recited during his final days and moments, fully abiding in the natural state of mind and self-arising wisdom.
The Invocation of Tapihritsa is not only beautiful, but also a profound expression of the natural state. It reveals not only all the qualities of our own enlightened nature, but also describes the path and fruit of practicing dzogchen meditation.
Over the course of two 90-minute sessions, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will explain the meaning of this prayer and how it can lead us to recognizing our own rangjung yeshe, or self-arising wisdom. This half day teaching will be an invaluable complement for all those who attended his summer retreats this year at Serenity Ridge, in Buchenau, German, and at Chamma Ling Poland, in which the Invocation was recited in almost every session, and those interested in attending the winter Dzogchen retreat in January at Serenity Ridge. It is also a wonderful opportunity to deepen our connection to H.E. Yongdzin Rinpoche, who held it especially close to his heart throughout his life, and especially at the time of his dying.
This retreat will be recorded. Recordings will be available for 30 days post retreat.
Schedule (New York Time)
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11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Session 1
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Session 2
The Invocation of Tapihritsa is one of the most important prayers in the Bön dzogchen tradition. Tapihritsa, an historical person of the early 8th century, achieved full realization and manifested the rainbow body as an expression of that realization. Inseparable from Kuntu Zangpo (Samantabhadra), he represents the union of all masters, especially one’s own root lama (teacher). It is this prayer that H.E. Yongdzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's root lama, and teacher to many in our sangha, recited during his final days and moments, fully abiding in the natural state of mind and self-arising wisdom.
The Invocation of Tapihritsa is not only beautiful, but also a profound expression of the natural state. It reveals not only all the qualities of our own enlightened nature, but also describes the path and fruit of practicing dzogchen meditation.
Over the course of two 90-minute sessions, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will explain the meaning of this prayer and how it can lead us to recognizing our own rangjung yeshe, or self-arising wisdom. This half day teaching will be an invaluable complement for all those who attended his summer retreats this year at Serenity Ridge, in Buchenau, German, and at Chamma Ling Poland, in which the Invocation was recited in almost every session, and those interested in attending the winter Dzogchen retreat in January at Serenity Ridge. It is also a wonderful opportunity to deepen our connection to H.E. Yongdzin Rinpoche, who held it especially close to his heart throughout his life, and especially at the time of his dying.
This retreat will be recorded. Recordings will be available for 30 days post retreat.
Schedule (New York Time)
Link to your local time zone
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Session 1
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Session 2
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