Join Lama Justin for this week-long teaching series on Khenpo Gangshar’s Dzogchen instructions known as Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet. These instructions are profound, concise, and easy to put into practice. They can be considered stand-alone instructions, and also act as a helpful counter support for an existing trekchö or mahāmudrā practice.

Trained at Shechen Monastery in Tibet, Khenpo Gangshar became one of Chögyam Trungpa’s most important teachers, starting off as his tutor and then becoming an influential dzogchen teacher. Khenpo Gangshar was quick to understand that the Chinese invasion was imminent and decided that dzogchen and mahāmudrā instructions should be made more available for as many people as possible due to the impending chaos and destabilization that was coming. Instructions like these are powerful when put into practice correctly and offer people a rich way to explore how to let appearance self-liberate.

In times like these, when our world and much of what we see in the United States seems chaotic, and when global suffering and environmental collapse is undeniable, these instructions are vitally important. These instructions are even more vital for those who are feeling stuck, lost or blocked by excessive superstitious religiosity within their practice, or when people are being denied the liberating instructions for no good reason. In this respect, Khenpo Gangshar's commitment to connecting people to methods that liberate them is all the more important and timely.

This event will be a supportive, practical, dynamic presentation of Khenpo Gangshar’s instructions. The 7-day program will be recorded for participants who are unable to attend live.

EVENT DETAILS

  • September 9th - September 15th | 4:00 - 5:30 PM EDT

  • September 10th - September 16th | 8:00 - 9:30 AM NZST

  • Recordings Available For 1 Year Following The Event

Instructors

Lama Justin von Bujdoss

Spiritual Director & Founder

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.