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Gaining Confidence in Our Innate Wisdom

The Profound Method for Bringing Forth

the Realization of the Nature of Mind

through the Teaching of Dzogchen,

the Great Perfection

2009 Rigpa Autumn Retreat
with
Sogyal Rinpoche

November 27 – December 6
Short Option: November 27 - 30

Squaw Valley, California

The retreat fee is $475 through November 16th. After November 16th the retreat fee will be $550. The Short Option retreat fee is $225 through November 16th. After November 16th the retreat fee will be $275.

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Dzogchen, or 'Great Perfection'—the most ancient and direct stream of wisdom within the Buddhist tradition of Tibet—is the heart-essence of all spiritual paths and one of the clearest, most effective and most relevant wisdom teachings for the modern world. Simple yet profound, it is a path that can be integrated with ordinary life and practiced anywhere.

In this special retreat, Sogyal Rinpoche will share the essence of the Dzogchen teachings, and may even teach on Tsik Sum Ne Dek (Hitting the Essence in Three Words), the remarkable instruction of the first Dzogchen master, Garab Dorje. Rinpoche's teachings will be complemented by periods of practice for people of all levels of experience, beginning with the basic meditation practice of 'calm abiding' (shamatha), and leading to the profound methods for realizing the nature of mind.

The retreat will take place at Resort at Squaw Creek in Squaw Valley, near Lake Tahoe, California. Located just minutes away from Squaw Village, the resort sits on 195 acres with beautiful views of the surrounding mountains and meadows and a full fitness center and spa.

Sogyal Rinpoche is a world-renowned Buddhist teacher from Tibet,
and is also the author of the highly acclaimed The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

Born in Kham in Eastern Tibet, Sogyal Rinpoche was recognized at an early age as the incarnation of a great master and visionary saint of the nineteenth century, Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa (1856-1926), a teacher to the thirteenth Dalai Lama. He received the traditional training of a Tibetan lama under the close supervision of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, one of the most outstanding spiritual masters of the twentieth century, who raised Rinpoche like his own son.

He went on to study with many other great masters, of all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, especially Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche and Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. In 1971, Rinpoche went to England, where he also studied Comparative Religion at Cambridge University.

First as a translator and aide to his revered masters, and then teaching in his own right, Rinpoche traveled to many countries, observing the reality of people’s lives, and searching how to translate the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism so as to make them relevant to modern men and women of all faiths, by drawing out their universal message while losing none of their authenticity, purity and power.

Out of this was born his unique style of teaching, and his ability to attune these teachings to modern life, demonstrated so vividly in his ground-breaking book, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. More than two million copies have been printed in fifty-six countries and in thirty-one languages.

Rinpoche is also the founder and spiritual director of Rigpa, an international network of over one hundred and thirty Buddhist centres and groups in forty countries around the world. He has been teaching for over thirty years and continues to travel widely in Europe, America, Australia and Asia.

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