Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's Eleventh Dechö Anniversary

Please join us in honoring the eleventh anniversary of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche passing into Parinirvana (Dechö), July 22, 2024. The lunar anniversary (Tibetan Sixth Month Full Moon Day) is observed on Sunday, July 21st this year. As a special gift from Heart Teachings and Jnanasukha, you can stream and download Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's 2009 teaching in Honolulu, Inner Peace, Luminous Mind, hosted by Jnanasukha Foundation.

About the teaching, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche said:

"The topic on which I want to speak tonight has to do with the ultimate inner peace or happiness that inhabits all of our beings. This inner peace has as its nature an inner luminosity and brilliant clarity. This is primordially our nature, and it is primordially the nature of all sentient beings... However, regardless of our thoughts about how we’re going to gain peace and happiness, there are very few who actually come to awaken their original natural inner peace and happiness. Why is that? The answer to this is something I’d like to speak about."

On July 21st, the lunar anniversary of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's passing, we are very fortunate to join Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche, Tulku Thadral Rinpoche, Tulku Jamyang Rinpoche, Khenpo Tamdrin, Tulku Sangye Rinpoche, Lama Lekshey Zangpo, and Drubpon Pema Rigdzin, along with other lamas and sangha, who will perform a day-long Vajrasattva Dorsem Lama Chöpa puja. Please visit the Vajrayana  Foundation website for details and to make offerings.

Vajrasattva Practices: Visit our SoundCloud page for resources for doing Vajrasattva practice at home.

Find more from Lama Tharchin Rinpoche on the significance of Parinirvana practice and Vajrasattva practice in particular on our blog post from 2022.

Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo will host a special online event on the solar anniversary, July 22nd, 2024, With You in the Year of the Dragon, focusing on Rinpoche's literary legacy. She will also give the reading transmission and lead Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's Excellent Treasure Vase of Blessings guru yoga and tsok practice.

Please visit the Jnanasukha Foundation website for more information and to make offerings to Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo's work. You can find more about her teachings and dedication to upholding the Dudjom lineage and the teachings of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche on the Jnanasukha website. Watch a short clip of Rinpoche speaking about Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo in Portland, Oregon, in 2010 on Vimeo.

Photos: 1) Lama Tharchin Rinpoche with plumeria lei crown in Captain Cook, Hawaii, March 2009 (by Fariba Bogzaran)

2) Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche at the Pema Osel Ling shrine fountain (by Yvon Chausseblanche)

3) Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and Tulku Jamyang Rinpoche waiting for the arrival of Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, Pema Osel Ling, August 2010 (by Sonam Famarin)

4) Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo at Orgyen Dechen Cho Dzong, Big Island of Hawaii (by Nancy McGee Wangmo)

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