Tilopa’s Ganges Mahamudra: Direct Instructions on the Nature of Mind
About this Retreat
Your Guides
Younge Khachab Rinpoche is the spiritual director of Younge Drodul Ling and a highly accomplished master of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. His life and teaching are oriented toward one aim: helping practitioners turn the Dharma into lived experience.
Rinpoche received a traditional monastic education at Ganden Jangtse Monastery, where he earned the Geshe degree, and later served as Khenpo of the Kagyu monastery Thagten Nyingje Ling in Boudhanath. Inspired by the Rime masters of the past, he has studied extensively with accomplished masters across the Kagyu, Nyingma, Gelug, Sakya, and Bön traditions, integrating this breadth of training into a clear and practice-oriented path.
What distinguishes Rinpoche’s teaching style is that he teaches from the immediacy of practice, emphasizing understanding how and why the teachings work. His style is warm, precise, and uncompromisingly practical, meeting students where they are while steadily guiding them toward deeper confidence and continuity on the path.
Rinpoche is known for his accessibility and personal engagement with students. He takes a genuine interest in their progress, offering guidance that is relational and rooted in the long arc of practice rather than short-term experience.
He currently resides in the United States, where he continues to teach, write, and support a growing international sangha committed to keeping the Dharma alive through practice, integrity, and continuity.
Details of this retreat
Naropa came to Tilopa as a great scholar, but realization did not come through his academic achievement. It came through devotion, hardship, direct instruction, and the exhaustion of ordinary grasping. From Tilopa, the Mahamudra lineage flowed through Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa, Gampopa, and the great Kagyu masters. In these teachings, Rinpoche will guide us through this treasured text and help us understand how its instructions can be brought directly into meditation, practice, and daily life.
Over two weekends, Rinpoche will guide us through this text line by line, drawing upon the oral instructions of the Mahamudra lineage and his own decades of study, retreat, and practice. These teachings will help clarify the meaning of Mahamudra and illuminate how these timeless instructions can be applied directly within our own experience.
This series is especially suited for practitioners who:
Wish to deepen their understanding of Mahamudra
Want practical guidance on recognizing the nature of mind
Seek to connect meditation practice more directly with that realization
At its heart, Ganges Mahamudra is an invitation to look directly at the mind itself and discover the freedom that has been present from the very beginning.
Live Online Sessions:Saturday and Sunday, June 27-28 and July 18-19 3 to 5 PM Pacific Time(6 to 8 PM Eastern Time)
Translator: Erik Drew
A link to the live series will be shared on the day of the events, and digital recordings will be available for later viewing.
Suggested Donation: $108
(Includes access to both live teachings and digital recordings)
Getting Here
Younge Drodul Ling, 3213 W Wheeler St #28
Seattle, WA 98199
