Yangti Yoga Retreat Center

His Eminence Chung Tulku Rinpoche is a recognized tulku and a living holder of the Yangti Nakpo, one of the rarest and most profound cycles of dark retreat practice within the Vajrayana. Rooted in the Dzogchen tradition of Bhutan, Chung Rinpoche carries an unbroken transmission of Yangti practice that is among the most direct and complete available today. Chung Rinpoche trained under some of the most eminent masters of the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions and has devoted his life to preserving and transmitting the Yangti Nakpo lineage in its full integrity. He is based in the Paro valley of Bhutan where he continues to teach, practice, and hold this living tradition. When he was six years old he e recognized himself as the body reincarnation of the previous Chung Rinpoche, a well-known dark retreat yogin who was a student of Lochen Shukseb Jetsun Chönyi Zangmo - a recognition that was confirmed by the previous Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Later, in 1996 at the Nyingma Monlam Chenmo in Bodh Gaya, His Holiness Penor Rinpoche recognized and enthroned Chung Tulku as the mind reincarnation of Trulshik Dongak Lingpa, the important terton who was the Yangti Nakpo teacher of Lochen Shukseb Jetsun Chönyi and an important force in revitalizing the Yangti Nakpo lineage.

Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an internationally renowned vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer and chaplain. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice published by North Atlantic Books and contributor to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections published by Lexington Books. He has been a frequent contributor to various Buddhist magazines and journals and has been a collaborator with the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art and other cultural institutions. With over thirty years of Buddhist practice, Justin is ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the heart sons of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa and is a ngakpa, a lay tantric yogin in the Nyingma tradition of the Yuthok Nyingthik lineage. He has worked professionally as a hospice chaplain, was the head chaplain and Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for New York City Department of Correction, and the chaplain for Hart Island, New York City’s Potter’s Field. He is currently the chaplain for the Shelburne Falls/Buckland Fire Department. Lama Justin has spoken widely at colleges and universities across the United States and is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist and Ati Yoga practice in the West.