Saraha : Phowa 2013

HE Ayang Rinpoche 2013 Phowa Retreat at Saraha

Sept. 27-Oct. 6 HE Ayang Rinpoche Phowa Meditation Retreat

at Saraha Nyingma Buddhist Temple, Eugene, Oregon USA

Saraha Nyingma Buddhist Institute is honored to announce that His Eminence Ayang Rinpoche will visit and lead an extended meditation retreat, featuring intensive training on the yogic technique known in Tibetan as “Phowa.”

This retreat will feature a Buddhist empowerment of Amitabha, oral transmission of relevant practices and texts, and daily, detailed, specific training and practice in the methods of Phowa. The the entire 10 day retreat will be divided into 25 individual sessions. Many, but not all, of the sessions will be open to the people not attending the full retreat on a drop-in basis. The cost of attending the entire retreat is $300. All day passes (only available to people who have completed the Phowa training course with HE Ayang Rinpoche previously) are $45. The cost of attending individual sessions (those that are available to the general public) is $25 each per session.

Click HERE for daily event schedule, with asterisks ( * ) indicating individual sessions that will be open for drop-in by the general public. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

What is Phowa? Phowa is a profound, functional, straightforward, yet relatively simple method whose mastery enables the student to direct her own consciousness to pure lands, Buddhafields, or to the higher realms at the moment of natural death. Learning Phowa is training in how to joyfully and positively die, which is something we all must eventually do. Since this is the case, learning Phowa is of profound and practical importance.Click HERE for more information on Phowa.

HE Ayang Rinpoche is a Buddhist master and lineage holder of both the Drikung Kagyud and Nyingma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Having traveled the world guiding countless students in the theory and methods of Phowa, he is renowned as world’s premier Phowa training master and specialist. This special event will be the only Phowa training intensive retreat that Rinpoche will conduct in the United States this year.

(Please note, this retreat was originally scheduled for July 5-14. That schedule is cancelled, and the event has been moved to its new dates of Sept. 27-Oct. 6. If you have already registered for the previous retreat and have questions, please email phowa@saraha.org, call Ani Tsering at 541-685-0590 to discuss.)