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Our Spiritual Lineage:

NgalSo Ganden Nyengyu

We belong to Ganden Nyengyu; the

ear-whispered lineage from
Ganden, founded by the great Lama
Tsongkhapa in the fourteenth
century.
NgalSo is the tradition founded by
Lama Gangchen Rinpoche. The
name NgalSo represents all
Buddha’s teachings: Ngal means
su"ering and the causes of
su"ering. So means our potential to
eliminate su"ering and to develop
our qualities.

In the 1990s Lama Gangchen was

inspired by the ancient Buddhist
sanctuary Borobudur to reveal
NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing: a
traditional meditation practice
suitable for modern people. By
developing our inner peace, we
work towards a Peace Culture. The
Seven Limitless Meditations are the
common aims of all spiritual
traditions.

Ganden Nyengyu
Lama Gangchen Rinpoche belongs to the
Ganden Nyengyu Lineage – the ear-whispered
lineage of Ganden – founded by the great
Tibetan scholar, the fully enlightened yogi,
Lama Tsongkhapa in the fourteenth century.

‘Lineage’ refers to the unbroken line of direct

transmissions of knowledge and experiences
from master to disciple. The teacher guides the
disciple to realise the inner experience of the
path and to awaken one’s own inner guru;
one’s own inner wisdom, compassion and
power. The main responsibility of a master in a
lineage is to adapt Buddha’s teachings to the
capacity and mentality of people of that time,
while still keeping its essence and meaning.
That is how a lineage can keep the teachings
alive.
Lama Gangchen received his knowledge and
experiences directly from his root guru, Kyabje
Trijang Rinpoche and from the famous tantric
master Kyabje Zong Rinpoche.
Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche in turn received his
knowledge and experiences from his master,
Pabonkha Rinpoche, in an uninterrupted
transmission line that goes back to Lama
Tsongkhapa, Atisha, Nagarjuna, Asanga and
several other masters, reaching directly back to
Shakyamuni Buddha.

NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing

After years of experience in the West,
dedicating his time to helping people find
solutions to overcome and heal their physical
and mental su"ering, Lama Gangchen arrived
at a synthesis of the Buddha’s ancient
teachings and transmitted the NgalSo Tantric
Self-Healing method: a traditional meditation
practice suitable for modern people. This
method contains the very essence of all ancient
philosophical, medical and astrological
teachings “repackaged” in an accessible way so
that modern people can benefit from its
positive e"ects. Self-Healing helps to relax and
to recover from the stress and problems of daily
life in the 21st century. It emphasizes the
interdependent relationship between body and
mind and o"ers a method to overcome and
transform our physical and mental blockages,
our pain and pollution. It helps us to reconnect
with our innermost, pure self-healing energy,
which contributes to revitalize and restore our
physical and mental health.

Self-Healing helps us to diminish our mental

defilements like anger, jealousy, arrogance,
fear and ignorance. And it helps us to develop
our qualities such as patience, humility,
generosity, compassion, concentration and
wisdom. It teaches us how to recognise and
familiarise ourselves with the subtle energies of
our body and mind, as a first step towards
healing.
When something goes wrong, our usual
tendency is to point the finger at others or at
outer circumstances. And when something is
wrong with us, we do not like others to point it
out to us. Therefore, we need a method
by which to recognize and to acknowledge our
dilemma and that helps us to develop self-
responsibility and self-healing.

The Self-Healing practice uses methods to

touch our mind in a positive way: breathing,
colour, sounds, mantra, mudra, visualisation
and so on. When we first start the Self-Healing
practice we may not be aware of our inner
energy channels but even if we do not
understand how it works, we can still
experience the positive e"ects on our body and
mind.

The word NgalSo summarises in its meaning

The Four Noble Truths; the first teaching given
by Shakyamuni Buddha after reaching
enlightenment. NgalSo means ‘relaxation’ and
can be divided into the two syllables, Ngal and
So. Ngal contains the first two noble truths: the
truth of su"ering and its causes. So contains
the last two noble truths: the truth of the
cessation of su"ering and the path leading to
the cessation. NgalSo Tantric Self-Healing
contains the essential meaning of all the
teachings of Buddha: the NgalSo path to
enlightenment.

Borobudur
The ancient Buddhist sanctuary Borobudur in
Central Java, Indonesia was built in the 8th
century as a huge three-dimensional Vajrayana
mandala. The Mandala is built like a pyramid
and has four sides and ten levels that
correspond to the ten stages on the bodhisattva
or tantric path to enlightenment.

Since the first time Lama Gangchen visited

Borobudur in 1989, he sees the stupa as a
multi-mandala – an ‘ocean of mandalas’ –
suitable for the practice of all three main
traditions of Buddhism: Hinayana – or
Theravada -, Mahayana and Vajrayana,
including all four stages of tantra.

Borobudur Stupa Mandala is the residence of

the five Dhyani Buddhas and the five Great
Mothers: the archetypical meditation Buddhas
who represent the five wisdoms and the five
elements in their perfected state.
They are seated on the square levels of the
stupa: Akshobya and Mamaki in the East,
Ratnasambhava and Lochana in the South,
Amitabha and Pandaravasini in the West,
Amoghasiddhi and Samaya Tara in the North
and Vairochana and Akashvajra in the centre.

On the round top levels in 72 perforated bell

stupas we find Buddhas touching their ring
fingers together. This ‘mudra of union’
represents the Yab Yum aspect: the union of
male and female, method and wisdom, bliss
and emptiness.

In the early 1990s Lama Gangchen was inspired

by Borobudur to reveal the NgalSo Tantric Self-
Healing practice; a traditional meditation
practice for modern people, in which the five
Dhyani Buddhas and the five Great Mothers
play a central part. We can practice Self-
Healing anywhere in the world. However, Lama
Gangchen advices his disciples to visit
Borobudur, the cradle of the NgalSo Self-
Healing practice, at least once in their lifetime.
Hence, an increasing number of pilgrims joins
the yearly retreat to Borobudur with Lama
Gangchen Rinpoche. For two weeks, each
morning at the crack of dawn, around 200
friends and disciples of Lama Gangchen
Rinpoche climb the stupa while performing the
mudras, mantras and meditation that compose
the Self-Healing: A spiritual marathon to
enlightenment!

Peace Culture
Most people in the West have received a formal
education, and so have an understanding of
reading, writing, science, maths, etc. However,
formal education provides few lessons for
dealing with our emotions, the meaning of our
lives, our relationships to others and the
environment in which we live.
The latter is what Lama Gangchen refers to as
‘non-formal education’. It is the ‘inner peace
education’, which reconnects us with our inner
nature, helping us to live with greater peace,
harmony and respect. The real beauty is inner
peace.

We can gradually increase the peace we

experience in our lives and reduce our negative
actions, by using our five senses in a positive
way. We can look, touch, listen, speak, think;
do everything with peace. It is so simple yet not
a part of our education. Therefore we need
Inner Peace Education systems in all areas of
society – from unborn children, babies and
youngsters, to adults, retired and elderly
people.

Every time we act guided by violent emotions,

we destroy part of our vital energy and we cause
a lot of su"ering to ourselves and to those
around us.
When, on the other hand, we choose to follow
the path of peace and act guided by positive
intentions, we are able to have good results for
ourselves and for our whole society. We develop
a culture of peace.

The Seven Limitless Meditations

The Seven Limitless Meditations are the
common aims of all spiritual traditions. The
first four were composed by Buddha
Shakyamuni to help develop great compassion.
Lama Gangchen added the last three
meditations, for the development of physical
and mental health, a pure environment and a
peaceful world, because these energies are
urgently needed these days.

Limitless love: may all beings have

happiness and its causes.
Limitless compassion: may all beings be free
from su!ering and its causes.
Limitless joy: may all beings never be
separated from the great happiness that is
beyond all misery.
Limitless equanimity: may all beings dwell
in equanimity, una!ected by attraction to dear
ones and aversion to others.
Limitless health: may all beings recover
from the sicknesses of mind and body
pollution and enjoy relative and absolute
health now and forever.
Limitless ecological regeneration: may all
beings relax in a pure and healthy outer and
inner environment now and forever.
Limitless peace: may all beings enjoy inner
and world peace now and forever.

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