Sublime

The way that Trungpa Rinpoche trained his students was a combination of the Kagyü and the Nyingma lineages of teachings of Tibetan Buddhism.

Teishin,

One of the most interesting is the Shangpa Kagyü, founded by a student of Naropa’s tantric consort Niguma, a person known as Khyungpo Naljorpa, the

Ajahn Amaro

Standing in the background is the great fourteenth-century Nyingma scholar and yogin Longchenpa, who, for the first time, brought together the various doctrines and practices of the Ancient School into one grand and comprehensive synthesis.

The retreat was to be under the direction of the Very Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche, a close dharma brother of Trungpa Rinpoche and one of the foremost teachers in the Kagyü lineage.

In Western communities of sādhana practitioners, gaṇacakra feast offerings have been performed by male and female practitioners together who all understand themselves to be embodiments of the ḍākinī

As for these women, the dakinis have a gift to present to you too. They offer a feminine model that is fierce, wise, spiritual, and embodied. They give us the energy of the undomesticated feminine; they are not meek or submissive. They are luminous, subtle spiritual energy, the gatekeepers and the guardians of the unconditioned wisdom and sacred ea