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Winter Seminar with Phakchok Rinpoche Lotus Essence Tantra Rangjung Yeshe Gomde California is deeply honored to once again welcome our revered lineage master, Phakchok Rinpoche, for our Winter Seminar. This is a rare and precious opportunity to receive direct transmission, teachings, and retreat guidance from one of the principal lineage holders of the Chokling Tersar […]

Gomde’s Annual Winter Retreat focuses on the deity Vajrasattva—an expression of the ultimate purity of our intrinsic nature. Vajrasattva is the essence of all the Buddhas, so all deities are included within this single deity and all practices within this one sadhana. When you practice this short liturgy of Vajrasattva, it is as if you […]

Inner Tara Sadhana with Lama Tenzin Sangpo Rangjung Yeshe Gomde California is honored to welcome our teacher, Lama Tenzin Sangpo, back to Gomde California to teach on the Inner Tara Sadhana, a profound sadhana practice within the path of Tara’s Triple Excellence. Lama Tenzin Sangpo is a senior monk and chant master at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling […]

Our lineage teacher, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, has often encouraged us to place special emphasis on the practice of Shakyamuni Buddha. Through visualizing the Buddha, reciting his mantra and reading his words, and connecting with his wisdom mind, we receive the great blessing of joining with the root and source of our tradition. During this retreat, […]

The cultivation of love plays a pivotal role in both Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. It is the foundation of compassion, bodhicitta, and devotion, which in turn lead us directly to the awakened mind. Over this weekend program we will explore love's power to heal and transform. Our teachings will be based on Tulku Thondup's The Heart […]

From a Tibetan Buddhist perspective, our buddha nature is the basic space of our being that is undivided from vast capacities of awareness, warmth, love, compassion, and wisdom. These capacities are always available below our surface consciousness but often hidden by our conditioned habits of thought and reaction. In this retreat, we will learn three […]

Kurukulla Practice Retreat  Gomde California | May 2027 Kurukulla is a magnetizing dakini—an expression of enlightened wisdom and the dynamic power of compassion. In this profound Vajrayana practice, the practitioner connects with Kurukulla’s enlightened qualities and mind to attract all that is beneficial for the Dharma path, including supportive circumstances, inner realization, and auspicious connections […]