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PemaO
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earofGratitudeand
Renewal
DudjomRinpocheIIISangyaPemaShepa
Rinpoche’sthrone LamaSonamR inpoche
We are deeply grateful to everyone who supported
We are also planning for the eventual return of
the Vajrayana Foundation over the
last
year.
Thank
DudjomRinpocheIIISangyePemaShepa.
you from the bottom of our hearts! We want to
share this excerpt of a letter from Lama Sonam
Rinpoche:
DHARMAP
ROGRAMS
"With the support of our members, residents and
sangha, we have been able to keep the “dharma
AnnualTrekchodRetreat
fire” at
Pema Osel
Ling going. [Since March 2020]
we have offered streamed teachings and oral “A
PrayerInvokingtheWisdomMind
transmissions, including two month-long Summer oftheBuddhas”,J anuary2 -10
Retreats, and extensive pujas.
Our
current Drubdra
(three-year retreat) is thriving and our Ngondro Trekchod, the epitome of Dzogchen teachings,
programisgrowingeachmonth. “cuts
through”
all of our deluded
perceptions. Lama
Tharchin Rinpoche started the tradition of winter
"We wanted to make sure our sangha, and anyone Trekchodteachings19yearsago.
who desires, can continue to have access to the
DharmaandourpreciousDudjomlineage." This year, Lama Sonam Rinpoche streamed
teachings on H.H. Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
As we transitioned from pandemic closure into Rinpoche's, “A Prayer Invoking the Wisdom Mind
reopening in
2021, we
put
resources and
effort
into
of the Buddhas to Prevent Times of Disease,
repairing and renewing our buildings and grounds Famine,War,andConflict”.
in anticipation of retreats, weddings, and tours on
thelandagain. Dudjom Rinpoche’s consort had a dream where a
dakini told her to request a prayer from him. He
prayedtoGuruRinpoche,whosaidinhisdream:
1
H.H.DudjomJigdralYesheDorjeRinpoche
BustofChatralRinpoche
"If you want to establish the Budddhist teachings,
craftedbyresidentartist,EleaM.
establishtheminyourownmind.
YouwillfindBuddhawithinyourownmind.
We honored the passing of our sublime lineage
If
you are
looking for a Pure Land,
purify your own
masters with tsok offerings and beautiful Lake
mind’sperceptions.
Born (Tsokye
Vajra T’huk
T’hik) and
Ladrub Thigle
You will find the
perfectly pure Buddha-field within
Gyachenpujas.
yourself."
Although we weren’t open for our traditional
in-person retreat this year, 290 fortunate students VajrakilayaGutor/LosarRetreat
werea bletoreceivetheseteachingsbystreaming. TibetanNewYearw
ith
TulkuJ amyangR
inpochea nd
The recordings of
these teachings
are
still
available
LamaS onamR
inpoche
here.
February3 -12
This was Vajrayana Foundation’s 32nd Vajrakilaya
Gutor practice to remove obstacles and negativity
DechösforH
.H.D
udjomJigdralYeshe for the New Year! This year, resident lamas and
DorjeRinpoche,C hatralRinpoche& sangha carried out the activities in person and
Longchenpa,J anuary1 ,3 a nd3 1 othersparticipatedbystreaming.
LamaS onamRinpoche’sVajrakilayaQ&Asession
recordingsa restillavailablehere.
2
VajrakilayaMandala
ExtensiveofferingstoShenpaduringpuja
GutorA
ccumulationsofShenpaMarnak
GutorDay-IncineratingNegativity
H.H. Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche ofthePastYear
practiced the Dudjom Tersar protector
Shenpa
and February1 1
askedh is studentstodothe same.
We performed our traditional Gutor ceremony with
Every year we accumulate 100,000 Shenpa
the ritual burning of the large Zor torma and the
protector prayers during Gutor - a tradition started
sacredB lackHatceremonyanddance.
by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. Sangha members
sponsored the
accumulations at Pema Osel Ling and
The Zor torma,
representing Vajrakilaya and crafted
alsoaccumulatedintheirownhomes.
each year from
a mold designed by
Lama Tharchin
"It is very important for all of you to practice
Rinpoche, sat in the front of our shrine room during
Vajrakilaya with protectors … especially to retreat before it was burned in the bonfire - a
accumulate prayers of offering, praise, fulfillment compassionate, wrathful weapon incinerating a ll
and invocation to Shenpa Marnak." [Excerpt from obstacles.
Dudjom Yangsi Rinpoche’s 2017 letter to Pema
OselLing]
3
LosarZorchenShrine
PreparingtheZorchenforthefire
Sanghamembers’phurbas
readytobeplacedintothemandala Lamascarryingoutthe
ritualburningoftheZorchen
4
RaisingPrayerFlags
Conclusiono fGutorDayCeremonies
Our small group shared delicious Tibetan Fortune
soup in the shrine room as the Zor outside burned
awayn egativityaccumulatedinthepastyear!
Losar-NewYear’sDay
February1 2
Sundogoverournewprayerflags,seenduring
NgondroRetreat
Each year, new prayer flags are sponsored by
sangha and we write their names and
the
names of
theirlovedonesonthem.
Following tradition, after lunch, during a Riwo Sang
Chod smoke offering, we raised the new Dudjom
prayer flags. The banners were hand-crafted for
Pema Osel Ling this year by a young printer who
poured his
energy into
getting a make-shift shop set
Losaro fferingso ftsok,w
heatgrassa ndk apse
uptoproducetheminspiteofpandemicconstraints.
Once the
flags
are
raised, the
prayers are
spread on
On
Losar Day, we
welcomed in the Year of
the
Iron the wind all year, generating blessings for the
sponsorsa ndallsentientbeings.
Ox with Lake Born Vajra and Khandro Norlha
pujas, after offering katas to the Three Jewels and
sharing auspicious rice, Tibetan pastry (kapse),
Tibetanricewine(c hang)a ndtea.
5
HonoringA
mala
February1 4
Beloved Amala (Pema Chhuing), mother of
Tullku
Jamyang Rinpoche and Lama Sonam Tsering
Rinpoche, passed in
2019 at
age
97.
On this
second
anniversary, we did a special Red Chenrezig
puja, The Innermost Heart That Synthesizes the
Essence of All Secrets, compiled by H.H. Dudjom
Rinpoche.
TulkuJamyangRinpocheandLamaSonam
Rinpocheo fferedserkyemsduringtheRiwoSang
Chodp uja,aswecelebratedtheraisingo fournew
prayerflags
Amala(PemaChhuing)
Lama Sonam Rinpoche says that Amala
accumulated great virtue from circumambulating
stupas in Boudha and Orissa while chanting
Chenrezigm antra-OMMANIPADMEHUNG.
Amala was
well
loved,
and inspired all of
us
for
her
dedication to
practice
and
for her many prostrations
LamasandsanghaattheRiwoSangChodpuja
inourShrineR oom.
6
CascadingWaterfallTeachings
NgondroRetreat
withSamB
ercholz March2 9- A
pril4
M
arch2 7-28
SamBercholzStreamingfromHome
Sam Bercholz has taught at Pema Osel Ling
annually since 2014. He is
a senior student of many
Nyingma and Kagyu lineage holders, including root
lamas Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dungse
Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, who personally
authorizedh imtoteach.
Sam called his weekend teachings, “Purifying and MandalaOffering
Transforming our Minds”. The teachings continued
his explanation of Dungse Rinpoche's Ngondro
commentary, A Cascading Waterfall Of
Nectar, and Ngondro is the foundation for all Buddhist
weref illedwithSam'spersonaldharmastories. practices, and a path to enlightenment itself. The
retreat was led by Lama Sonam Rinpoche, who
Sam kindly streamed the teachings from home for offered oral transmissions (lungs) for the Concise
hundredso fparticipantsfromallovertheworld. DudjomTersarandSa-TerN gondros.
The recordings of
these teachings are
still
available
The retreat continued with Ngondro commentary
here. and practice instruction with Lama Sonam Tsering
Rinpoche, Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche's senior
student, Amy Green, and Drubpon Pema Rigdzin
Wangyal.
7
LamaSonamR inpochegivingthereading
NgondroRetreatFaculty transmission(lung)fortheBodhicharyavatara
Evening Ngondro accumulation sessions were led Treasured by all Buddhists, The Way of the
by Drubpon Pema Rigdzin Wangyal, Choying Bodhisattva is
a guide
to
cultivating enlightenment,
Wangmo(ReginaD.)andStefanG. and
to
generating love,
compassion, generosity,
and
patience. Presented in the form of a personal
TherecordingsofSamBercholz’teachingsand meditation, it outlines the path of the
LamaSonamRinpoche’sandAmyGreen’s Bodhisattvas—those who vow to work for the
NgondroRetreatteachingsarestillavailablehere. liberation of
all
beings and to attain buddhahood for
theirsake.
BodhicharyavataraL ung
andBodhisattvaVows 32ndAnnualSummerRetreat
April2 2- 2 3 TulkuJamyangRinpocheand
LamaSonamRinpoche
In response to several students’ requests, Lama May1 9- J une2 0
Sonam Rinpoche gave the oral transmission (lung)
for
Shantideva's classic
Mahayana text,
The
Way of
the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) this year on
"Our precious Lama Tharchin Rinpoche established
Earth Day. Lungs (reading transmissions) pass on
a one-month Summer Retreat starting in 1989,
the
blessings of sacred texts. Taking the
Bodhisattva
calling it
our
“sangha dharma party”, and we have
Vows connects us to the unbroken lineage of all
continued it without interruption to
this
day.
Every
sublimeBodhisattvas.
year we do
practices
of
the
Three
Roots deities and
concludew ithDrubchen(GreatAccomplishment).
8
Similar to the Khandro Norlha retreat offered in
2020, with an additional Long Life emphasis, this
retreat fostered a wonderful opportunity for all
those connected with Orgyen Khandro Norlha to
tune in virtually and participate in practice,
teachings,a ndblessings.
TulkuJamyangRinpochepresidedoverourSummer
Retreata stheDorjeLopon
These practices help to counteract negative
circumstances for
each practitioner, as
well
as
those
TsokyeT’hukT’hik/KhandroNorlhaShrine
negative circumstances which cause so much
hardship for the whole world, including disease,
famine, war, c onflict, and especially epidemic
diseases like we are experiencing now." [Lama
SonamRinpoche]
The recordings of the
Summer
Retreat teachings are
stilla vailablehere.
TseyangKhatrodRetreat
May1 9- 2 6
This summer, we practiced the Dudjom lineage
wealth emanation of Guru Rinpoche - Orgyen
Khandro Norlha - together with the longevity TulkuJamyangRinpocheandLamaSonam
practice of Tsokye T’huk T’hik. Lama Sonam RinpocheC onsecatingTreasureVasesduring
Rinpocheg avethelungsforbothpractices. TseyangKhatrodRetreat
9
During the retreat, our lamas consecrated the new ShitroNgaksoandNeydren
Dudjom Treasure Vases and Lama Sonam Rinpoche June7 - 9
gaveteachingsontheirvastbenefits.
A powerful remedy from Guru Rinpoche, our
Dudjom Treasure Vases have dynamic energy to
balance elements and create abundance and
health.” We were able to offer many vases for
purchase that
were blessed on
the
Tseyang Khatrod
shrine for
eight
days and consecrated in
a beautiful
Siddhi-day ceremony. Links to this retreat are still
availabletore-watchh ere.
TromaNakmoRetreat
May2 9- J une5
Mandalaof42PeacefulDeities
Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche compiled our 100
TromaTormaSet
Peaceful and Wrathful Deity practice, based on a
CraftedbyMagicalDisplayoftheArts
Karma Lingpa treasure, as a method for
practitioners to achieve fully enlightened
Buddhahood by removing obstacles to the path,
Lama Sonam Rinpoche gave the lungs, and through restoring all broken precepts, vows and
tantricsamayas.
together with Tulku Jamyang Rinpoche, led the
Concise Sadhana practice, the Troma Ngondro
(Preliminary Practices) and the Four Feasts from We
included a Neydren ceremony again this year to
Dudjom Lingpa’s Chod revelation. Lama Sonam benefit loved ones
and
all
beings
who have passed.
“Through
said, this
practice
we can
accomplish the Sangha members sent in the names of their loved
Great Transference Rainbow Body in this very ones and the names were burned
on
the
last
day
of
lifetime, just as thirteen of Dudjom Lingpa’s thec eremony.
disciplesdid…”
10
and
coordinated
on
Zoom
by
Todd
Creamer.
Thank
youall!
LingdrodanceofferingbyZoom,2021
Neydrenname-burningceremony
Lama Sonam Rinpoche gave the lung for the LamaTharchinRinpoche’sDechö
Dudjom Rituals and Prayers of the Shitro Cycle
July2 4
saying, “For whoever has a connection to this
Shitro practice, the seed of samsara will be
destroyed."
SevenTreasuresG
uruR
inpocheRetreat
J une1 2- 2 0
Instead of our traditional Summer Drupchen, we
held a Seven Treasures Guru Rinpoche Retreat,
with practice focused on the Collection of Seven
Treasuressadhana.
Lama Sonam Rinpoche answered participants’
questions rather than
offering formal teachings each
day.
Rinpoche also gave lungs for the Collection of
Seven Treasures all the
and main practices of Guru
Rinpoche, the Three Roots Protectors, and every LamaTharchinRinpoche
practice and prayer in the Vajrayana Foundation’s
Daily Practices book, as well as Shower of “Anyone who is a vajra brother and sister means
BlessingsandBuddhaPuja. that we have no separation until reaching
enlightenment. We are bound together inseparably
We continued accumulating 100 Million Guru inonemandala…”[LamaTharchinRinpoche]
Rinpoche mantra recitations during retreat. Sangha
have been accumulating mantras and
we have over "When our teachers pass into parinirvana, …
illionaccumulatedasofNovember.
42m through their immeasurable compassion, they will
be performing their wisdom activity in a different
We
could not
invite
the public to
our
sacred dances way… to remind us of the inescapable truth of
again this year, but our Lingdro dancers made a impermanence - to compel
us
to practice
seriously.”
special offering from their homes, led by Lin Lerner [LamaSonamRinpoche]
11
TulkuNamgayDawaRinpoche
Teachingon“LoveandKindness”
October1 6
LotusLights
onLamaTharchinRinpoche’sKu-DungStupa
HisEminenceTulkuNamgayDawaRinpoche
This
year
marked the
8th anniversary of our founder
and most kind teacher, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s
His Eminence Tulku Namgay Dawa Rinpoche,
parinirvana. Due to the coming together of special
circumstances, with Rinpoche’s Decho falling on
a grandson of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, visited
Saturday so soon after the arrival of the beautiful PemaO selLingforthefirsttimethisOctober.
Yeshe Tsogyal statue he had crafted, we held a
specialKhandroT’hukT’hikpuja. Rinpoche shared engaging Dharma stories and gave
a teaching on "Love and Kindness". He also
participated in consecrating some of our new
treasurevasesattheendoftsok.
Rinpoche is
the
resident lama at
the
Dudjom Tersar
YesheNyingpoTempleinNewYorkCity.
The recording of these teachings are still
available
here.
hanksgivingRetreat
T
ThanksgivingDayBuddhaAmitabha
Puja&Tsok
November2 5
Every Thanksgiving Day we do Buddha Amitabha
puja and tsok with
Dudjom The
Lingpa’s Excellent
LamaTharchinRinpoche’sKu-dungStupawith
Path to
Omniscience sadhana,
followed by a sangha
poppiesandprayerflags dinnera ndthreedaysofretreat.
12
AmitabhaPhowa
November2 6- 2 8
Vajrapani-DeityofVajraArmorpractice
These retreats are being offered in-person and
bys treaming.Recordingsw illb ea vailableh
ere.
BuddhaAmitabha
This year, Thanksgiving will be our first in-person
KyabjeDungseThinleyNorbu
retreat since the beginning of the pandemic. Lama Rinpoche’sDecho
Sonam Rinpoche will give teachings on Dudjom January4,2022
Rinpoche’s practice of Phowa, the transference of (DuetotheTibetanlunarcalendar,theanniversaryof
consciousness at the time
of death. The retreat
will
DungseRinpoche’sparinirvanadidnotfallin2021.)
also be streamed, allowing many of
our sangha to
participatefromhome.
VajraArmorHealingRetreat
November2 9- D
ecember5
Continuing what has become an annual tradition,
Lama Sonam Rinpoche will
give lung and teach
the
using the text that he translated and compiled last
year from the Hayagriva Protection Practice Root
Text. This practice is recommended for people
facing health challenges or wishing to help others
withtheirhealth.
DungseThinleyNorbuRinpoche
Lama Sonam Rinpoche has said, "Vajra Armor is
“...Kyabje Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
one of the most powerful protection practices for
accepted our center, Pema Osel Ling, as his own.
our health and to remove unwanted circumstances
He
gave
teachings for the
complete Vajrayana path
ofallkinds."
from Ngondro to Dzogchen here…(and his)
kindnesswasgreaterthanalltheBuddhas…
[LamaTharchinRinpoche]
13
ChimeDolma,ourDakiniDayumdze
DungseRinpoche’sThroneatPemaOselLing
Offeringso nDungseRinpoche’sKu-DungStupa
GuruRinpocheDayStreaming
HolyD
aya ndD
ailyP
ujaS
treaming We have also been streaming our
daily
Troma puja
on Tuesdays, and our Yeshe Tsogyal (Khandro
In 2021 we invited sangha to join us
by
streaming
T’huk T’hik) puja on Saturdays. Sangha have been
for five Holy Days each month: Medicine Buddha
signing on from Brazil, France,
Germany and many
Day (8th), Guru Rinpoche Day (10th), Full Moon
placesintheUSandaroundtheworld.
(15th),D akiniDay( 25th),andNewMoon(30th).
14
ShrineR
oomU
pdates These physical texts will match the online texts,
which
have been
available for
our
sangha who have
Shrine Roof: The shrine
tent
roof
needed replacing joinedusallyearbystreaming.
for many years. We purchased the
seven panels with
funds donated by our sangha and paid a
professional company to install them. It was quite
spectacular as
a crew pulled each
old
panel off
onto PersonalR
etreats
the lawn using heavy equipment, then attached the
linestothenewpanelandpulleditintoplace. A few fortunate sangha members have spent
personal retreat
time
at
our
special
cabins
this
year.
Members have
been
able to rent
Dungse Rinpoche’s
trailer cabin (Kunsang Choling) and others have
stayedinrentalcabinsandtheSanghaHouse.
Theoldshrineroof
ShrineCabin
News hrineroofwithsixofsevenpanelsreplaced
ShrineRoomTexts:
Lama Sonam Rinpoche and our resident translator,
Cy K., have spent
countless hours preparing a new
set of Daily Prayer texts
to
use
in
the
shrine room.
To avoid disruptive and confusing page turning, Retreatcabinview
each daily sadhana is complete with Ngondro,
protectors, and all appropriate additional prayers.
15
T
hree-YearR
etreatP
rogram:
Drubdra
The Joyful Grove that Provides Both Kinds of
Accomplishments (Drub Nyiy Dojo Gatsal) is
Vajrayana Foundation’s Three-year Retreat Center
(Drubdra).
LamaTseringGyaltsenRinpoche
LamaTharchinRinpoche&LamaSonamRinpoche
The paving of a portion of the road going up to
Our Drubdra is thriving! Although we miss
Drubdra was accomplished late last year, thus
tremendously our sublime teachers, Lama Tharchin
fulfilling Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s aspiration of
Rinpoche and Lama Pema Dorje Rinpoche, the
creating a path for Dudjom Rinpoche III and his
seeds they sowed continue to blossoms under the
teachings to
come to
Drubdra. While we
await this,
spiritual authority of His Holiness Dudjom
we appreciate in
the meantime the
ease
it
affords us
Rinpoche III Sangye Pema Shepa and the
guidance
in escorting teachers and helping serve Drubdra
ofL amaSonamTseringRinpoche.
retreatants. Thank you to all who made this a
reality.
Drubpon Pema Rigdzin Wangyal instructs the
retreatants on a day-to-day basis, assisting with all
theirneeds.
Currently we have an international Drubdra with
participants from Europe, India, South America,
USAandAsia.
In addition to on-going teachings from Lama
Sonam Rinpoche, we
were fortunate that Namgyal
Dawa Rinpoche paid
the
retreatants a visit
this year
and that Lama Tsering Gyaltsen Rinpoche, founder
of the retreat center Tsogyal G ephel Jong in
Yangleshö, Nepal, was able to teach for an entire
month.
LamaTharchinRinpocheand
DrubponPemaRigdzinWangyal
16
We are currently reviewing applications for our next
The Program was
announced in February 2013 with
three-year retreat, which will start in 2023/24. If anemaildetailingtheuniqueProgramcomponents:
long retreat
is
something you
feel
called to explore, • A Personal interview with one
of
the
lamas
or you would like to sponsor any aspect of the
oncea year
retreat program, please contact us at
• Senior student advisors to give personal
drubdra@vajrayana.org. supportbyemailorphone
• Video webinar teachings by one of the
lamas
To have a small taste of the three-year-retreat everyo thermonth
experience please check out this video created by • Video study and discussion groups led by
TsadraF oundation. seniors tudentsonalternatemonths
• Annualin-personNgondroRetreat.
NgondroP
rogram
OngoingWeb-BasedS
upport
Our Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Program supports
individuals in their Preliminary Practice, Ngondro.
The program requires a commitment to practice, is
self-directeda ndcanbejoinedatanytime.
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and Lama Sonam
Rinpoche began planning the Ngondro Program ProgramCoordinators:ChoyingWangmo
with Vajrayana Foundation staff
in
the fall
of 2012. andS tefanGraves
Their objective was to provide serious students of
the Dharma the structure and guidance needed to On April 21, 2013, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche gave
complete their Dudjom Tersar Ngondro from start the first Ngondro Program video conference
tof inish. teaching to a group of 36 Program members from
the US, Europe, Mexico and the
Pacific Islands. In
it he welcomed the “new Tersar Lineage Holder
guys”.H esaid,“ IwanttosayhowmuchI’m
happy all of you are willing to do Dudjom Tersar
Ngondro. In this generation, by Kyabje Thinley
Norbu Rinpoche’s kindness, we established pretty
well all the
Dudjom Tersar teachings. But
[for
the]
nextg enerationwehavetokeepthesethingsgoing.
“His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche told me to take
care of the Tersar tradition…. We have to be
willing,responsibletoholdthatdoctrinelineage.”
[LamaTharchinRinpoche]
During the 2021 pandemic year, the Ngondro
Program maintained its regular monthly webcasts
LamaSonamRinpocheteachingandanswering
with the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Lung, Ngondro
NgondroProgramstudents’questions Teachings, Questions and Answers and Group
Accumulation Sessions supported by Lama Sonam
Rinpoche, Pema Rigdzin Wangyal, Choying
17
Wangmo and Stefan
Graves on Zoom
and Facebook
December on Guru Rinpoche Day, at
Live. https://dudjomtersarngondro.com.
DrubponPemaRigdzinWangyal
In its ninth year, the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro
web-based program has 125 members from all over
RefugeCeremonyatPemaOselLingOctober,2021 the world and has thousands of followers on
social
media. Many new people joined these last two
There were two very special events sponsored by years during the pandemic, including 44 new
the Ngondro Program this year. The first was a members from Brazil who joined as a group. The
Refuge Ceremony bestowed by Lama Sonam group, now called Vajrayana Foundation Ngondro
Rinpoche (in-person at Pema Osel Ling and Brazil, practices together twice weekly in addition
streamed online). This was our first in-person to attending weekly study group and Q & A
dharma event since the beginning of
the
pandemic, meetings with Drubpon Pema Rigdzin Wangyal,
and those on site were joined by 120 online who is able to speak with them fluently in
attendees. Portuguese.
They have completed the study of A Commentary
on the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro by Lama Tharchin
Rinpoche, and will soon be starting to study
Cascading Waterfall of Nectar by H.H. Thinley
Norbu Rinpoche. The group is coordinated by
Jeanne Pilli, who also translates Lama Sonam
Rinpoche’s teachings into Portuguese
simultaneously,duringhiswebcastteachings.
The Ngondro Program members speak frequently
about the strong sense of support and connection to
community that they feel. For more information or
to join, please visit our website
https://dudjomtersarngondro.com/.
LamaTseringGyaltsenteachingontheSevenLine
Prayer,withDongakNimatranslating
Secondly, on Guru Rinpoche Day in November, MembershipP rogram
Lama Tsering Gyaltsen Rinpoche gave a brief
teaching on the Seven Line Prayer of Guru Lama Tharchin Rinpoche started our current
Padmasambhava with his son, Dongak Nima membership program
in
2002
and
we have
averaged
translating. T
he video teaching will
be
available
in 160 yearly memberships since. We held a
18
membership drive in October with the goal of Treasureo fA
bundance
increasing that number going into 2022, the 20th
anniversaryo fourmembershipprogram. DudjomL
ineageT reasureV
ases
ProducedatPemaOselLing
“The money spent on membership is just like
putting
a
drop
of water
into
the
ocean that
is Pema Treasure of
Abundance is the Vajrayana Foundation
Osel Ling.…it will connect you forever to project which produces spectacular Treasure Vases
inexhaustible pure essence.” [Lama Tharchin designed by Lama Tahrchin Rinpoche in accordance
Rinpoche] with the Dudjom Lineage. Under the guidance of
Lama Sonam Rinpoche, our team has been hard at
work expanding the project and making these
sacredv asesmoreavailableonaglobalscale.
In 2021 alone, we sent vases all over the United
States, to the United Kingdom, Spain, the
Netherlands, Mexico, Italy, Ireland, Hungary, Hong
Kong, Germany, France, Estonia, Canada,
Australia,andArgentina!
MembergiftDec.2021:Blessedprotectionchakra
TreasureVasesonthe2021Losarshrinetobe
Members’ monthly dues provide much-needed, blessedandconsecrated
reliable income for all of our activities. Members
helpk eepPemaOselLinggoing! This
year
we
sought to
bring
our
digital community
more resources to encourage their practice and
"To maintain Pema Osel Ling and the connection to the blessings of their vases. This
uninterrupted, fresh blessings that
emanate from
the included video teachings from Lama Sonam
Guru Rinpoche statue in our shrine room... has Rinpoche, audio recordings from Lama Tharchin
inconceivable merit. We can dedicate this
merit
for Rinpoche, live-streamed consecration ceremonies,
our loved ones, to cure illness and to purify all
and words from practitioners within our
obstacles." [LamaS onamRinpoche] community! All these gems have been made
available throughout the year, and will be
We are deeply grateful to everyone who supported continuously added to
on
our
social media accounts
the
Vajrayana Foundation in 2021. Thank you again (Facebook,I nstagram,andYouTube).
from the bottom of our hearts! If you are not
alreadyamember,weencourageyoutojointoday!
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LamaSonamRinpoche,EarthDay2021,after
completingateachingonTreasureVases
Our group of staff and volunteers who make
Treasure of Abundance possible are preparing for
another year of fulfilling activity! We are working
on some artistic opportunities to add to our
collection, filming, editing, and translating more
teachings, planning live-streamed consecrations, ShakyamuniBuddhastatuehead,
and continuing our efforts to make the vases sculptedbyEleaM.
availablea roundtheworld!
For more information about the Treasure Vases, MDA artwork this year also includes the Dudjom
visit treasureofabundance.com or follow us on Troma shrine support tormas, which are
facebook and instagram! Questions? Email us at individually cast and painted (see Summer Troma
treasurevase@vajrayana.org Retreat, above); Tibetan Seed Syllables that are
hand-painted on silk-covered boards with
calligraphy created by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche;
and a variety
of
exclusive Tsa
Tsas,
each
originally
MagicalD
isplayo ft heA
rts designed by our artists under lama supervision for
ours tupa-buildingactivity.
The Magical Display of the Arts (MDA) had a busy
year. Resident artists created behind-the-scenes
artwork and artistic details for our annual retreats
and auspicious day ceremonies, as well
as
Dharma
arta vailabletopurchaseinsupportoftheCenter.
This year,
our
artists also completed various fine art
projects and reached a major milestone with
another. Resident artist Elea M. completed a new
head sculpture as a first step
in
constructing a new
ShakyamuniBuddhastatue.
SeedS yllableOMonsilk - DorjeDroloTsa-Tsa
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Resident artisan, Nirabhra
T. has
been
painting and
This beautiful Dakini statue made by our sublime
gilding a large
Medicine Buddha statue in
our barn teacherandfounder,arrivedintimeforDakiniDay!
shop
for
a few
years.
Soon it
will
return to its home
shrine at the children’s school at the Saraha The most amazing thing is
that this happened just as
NyingmaB uddhistInstituteinEugene,Oregon. we
were beginning to
fulfill
Dungse Thinley Norbu
Rinpoche’s prophecy to install Element Dakini
statues in our shrine room. Lama Tharchin
Rinpoche'smagicneverfails!
SarahaNyingmaBuddhistInstitute’s YesheTsogyalstatueinstalledatPemaOselLing
MedicineB uddhastatue,
gildedandpaintedbyNirabhraT.
In March, Lama Inge from Spokane offered Pema
Osel Ling a Yeshe Tsogyal statue that Lama
Tharchin Rinpoche sculpted during a Yeshe Tsogyal
retreathetaughtathercenterin1989.
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FireElementRedTara
YesheTsogyalStatue
beingsculptedbyLamaTharchinRinpoche,1 989
Follow along as MDA shares new creations,
commissioned works, and behind-the-scenes art
snippets
from
Pema Osel Ling,
present
and past, on
Facebook MDA, Lindro /Sacred Dance at
Instagram@magicaldisplay. To purchase our
available pieces, visit our Etsy shop or Dharma
Treasures.
"Tara offers the most powerful and universal
protection from all negativity. The Four Element
FiveT
arasa ndt heG
reatA
rhats
Taras, corresponding with fire,
water, earth and air,
specifically offer
protection from disharmony of the
Mandala elements that results in wildfires, earthquakes,
hurricanesandfloods.InDudjomLingpa’sGreen
In February 2021, we initiated a project
born
from
prophecy.LamaSonamRinpochesaid, Tara practice, the fifth Tara (Green Tara) is
included, offering protection from all obstacles,
"On one of his
visits
to
Pema Osel
Ling,
Our Lord relief from the Eight Great Fears and support for
of Refuge Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche shared harmony in the sangha and among all suffering
a prophecy with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and me.
beings.
He said that at the right time, statues of Four
Elements Dakinis should be installed in our shrine "Because of the catastrophic and worsening
room, to protect not only Pema Osel Ling, but the
imbalance in our
environment, I feel
that
this is
the
wholew orld. right
time to fulfill Dungse Rinpoche’s prophecy by
installing the five
Tara
statues -
and
that
we should
22
do it
as
quickly as
possible. In
addition, at this time
I believe that placing the 23 statues of the Great
Arhat Mandala at Pema Osel Ling will also be of
immeasurableb enefit.”
Freshpaintandgardenforthestore
This year we weatherproofed, installed a new
window in the storage area, painted the store and
refreshed the garden. We also redesigned the
interiortomakeroomforadditionalinventory.
Our
staff
is
currently editing
recordings from Lama
Sonam Rinpoche’s 2020 and 2021 teachings and
these will be made available at Dharma Treasures
laterin2021.
Visitourstoreatd harmatreasures.com.
TeachingsA
rchive
DakinistatuemadeinOrissa
We have commissioned the statues to be made in
the ancient temple city of Bhubaneswar in Orissa,
India, by the family of artisans who carved our
stupasfortheRedDorjeDrolomandalafence.
Readmoreaboutthisprojecth ere. Aportionoftheanalogtapesthathavenowbeen
preservedbydigitization
DharmaT
reasures
We are very happy to report that we have made
significant strides this year transforming our
Dharma Treasures, “The Wish-Fulfilling Treasure extensive catalogue of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's
House of Dharma”, offers print
and
digital
practice analog recorded teachings to modern digital
texts, ritual and shrine items, books, recordings of formats. With the generous support of The Lama
teachingsa ndHimalayangifts. Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation, our former
staff
member, Rigdzin (Darren) Beil, has completed
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the process of digitizing all 2400 of our audio
cassette tapes, which represent hundreds of
complete teachings. The 220 video cassettes are RedD
orjeD
roloS
tupa
now being professionally processed by a local CompletionP roject
archivalc ompany.
"Building stupas is
one of
the
highest
techniques to
transform negative energy into
positive energy,
cure
illnessa ndaccumulatetimelessmerit."
[LamaTharchinRinpoche]
Our precious teacher Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
passed into parinirvana before fulfilling the vision
he shared with Lama Sonam Rinpoche of
completingo urRedDorjeDroloStupamandala.
The Stupa Mandala at Pema Osel Ling currently
consists of a 30-foot Red Dorje Drolo Stupa,
erected and filled in 2001, surrounded by seven
stupasrepresentingtheBuddha’slife.
LamaTharchinRinpocheteaching
Our staff are currently in the process of verifying,
editing and creating multiple backups at divergent
locations to preserve these precious teachings. Our
goal is not only to preserve the fragile recordings,
buttomakethemavailabletotheSangha. LamaSonamR inpocheandstupa-builder,JohnR.
layingouttheauspiciousfence
While we celebrate the wonderful and key
milestones of digitizing Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s
teaching legacy, we maintain our aspiration and We are working to fulfill our lamas’ vision as
intention that many recordings we have of other quickly as possible, in spite of delays due to the
sublime lamas, including Dungse Thinley Norbu pandemic. The overall plan includes an auspicious
Rinpoche, HE Namkai Drimed Rinpoche, and other fence topped with stone s tupas, a korwa path,
masters,b epreserveddigitally,andmadeavailable. marble mandala courtyard, a pagoda for
lamas and
gueststogather,andlandscaping.
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Weddingsa ndF
acilities
In September, we were able to begin fulfilling the
dreams of those
couples who had rescheduled their
weddings one or more times due to the pandemic.
In preparation over the summer, we accomplished
significantrepairsandupgradestotheproperty.
Oneoftheredpowder-coated
auspiciousfencepanels
Our 152 small stone stupas ordered from the artisan
workshop in Orissa, India have been held up by
global shipping disruptions. While we wait for their
delivery, we have made progress in
other
areas. We
have received one of 40 panels of the auspicious
fence, each 5x2 feet, which has been
powder-coated a beautiful red.
Supporting the fence
will be 52 red and gray polished granite columns,
each 8x30 inches. These are currently being made
to
order in
India. We invite you
to
help
sponsor the
panelsandcolumns.
TheOfferingPondaftertreeremovaland
renovationoftheofficeentry
The process of removing trees for fire safety and
failing wooden retaining walls, made it necessary to
redesign the
main property and office entrances. We
LamaSonamRinpocheselectinggraniteforthe
also paved the walkway for safety, and added
auspiciousfencecolumns concrete retaining walls, landscaping and
irrigation
tohelpwithdrainageandwaterconservation.
Stupas are unparalleled in their ability to bring The Sales Office got a new coat of paint, and the
peace and healing to the world and to benefit all main office building, including Lama Sonam
beings. For information or to help, please see our Rinpoche’s house and shrine room, were painted
website. withaspecialfire-retardantpaint.
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We installed a new pump and fountain for our
offering pond, and a new generator and pump to
keepourwatersupplysecurelyrunningatalltimes.
Mainofficeandsalesofficeentrance
In our public accommodations areas, we paved a Our“honeymoon”RedwoodCottage
portion of the
driveway, repaired cabins and
decks, receivednewdecksandrailings
removed dangerous limbs and trees, and began
making drainage and pathway lighting We have been extremely fortunate to rehire some of
improvements. We repaired the Orchard House and our wedding and kitchen staff and to hire an
Redwood Cottage decks, and the Round House also exceptional new Sales Manager, Becka M. She
receiveda newdeckandstairs. replaces Kristie B, who retired after leading our
tours and sales office for so
many years. We are also
We are extremely grateful to our members and training a promising new wedding coordinator who
donors who made it possible to
make these critical wills tartfulltimein2022.
infrastructurer epairsandimprovementsthisyear!
Our four weddings and one elopement so far in
2021 have been highly successful, with couples
happy to be able finally to hold their weddings at
PemaO selLing.
We are so grateful to our
wedding staff,
who carry
out this wonderful activity that not only supports
the Vajrayana Foundation, but connects thousands
eachyeartoPemaOselLing'ssacredenvironment.
Most of all, we look forward to
welcoming all our
sangha back for in-person group and personal
retreatswithafullDharmaschedulein2022.
LotuscandleofferinginourShrineRoom
Wehopeyouwilljoinus!
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OfferingFountainattheShrine
WishingY
ouG
oodH ealth,P
eacea ndH
appiness
intheN
ewY ear
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ABriefHistory
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche established the Vajrayana Foundation in
1987, upon the advice of Kyabje
Dudjom Jigdral
Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche and Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, to transmit the Dudjom Tersar lineage in the West. The
Foundationb oughtP emaO selL ingin1 991a nda y earlyc ycleo fteachingsa ndp racticebegano ntheland.
In 1998, Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche agreed to guide the Vajrayana Foundation and asked Lama Sonam
Rinpoche to assist Lama Tharchin Rinpoche in running Pema Osel Ling. In 2011, after Dungse Rinpoche’s
parinirvana, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and Lama Sonam Rinpoche offered Pema Osel Ling to H.H. Dudjom
RInpocheI IIS angyeP emaS hepaR inpoche,w hoa cceptedP emaO selL inga sh isc enter.
We make aspirations that
with Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa Rinpoche’s guidance and our sangha’s support, we will
continuetop reserveP emaO selL inga sa blessedp lacetoa ctualizep rofoundB uddhistteachings.
As another challenging pandemic year draws to
a close, we want to acknowledge and express our deep appreciation
to you, our
incomparable sangha! The
opportunity to
work
together to help realize our sublime teachers’ aspirations
isv eryp recious.Y ours upportw illh elpu sc ontinuetog rowa ndc arryo uta y earf ullo fd harmaactivityin2 022!
w
ww.vajrayana.org
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