Yangti Yoga Retreat Center

10/09/2026

Deepening Practice as the Light Fades: October at Yangti

We entered into October with a profound private retreat on the land with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, who offered advanced instructions and, for the first time at Yangti, the Yuthok Nyingthig essential empowerment. As our retreatants return home, we are turning our attention to the season ahead and tending...

09/25/2026

Bhutan Pilgrimage 2027 | A Pilgrimage to the Heart of Ati with Lama Justin and H.E. Chung Tulku Rinpoche

A DZOGCHEN PILGRIMAGE INTO THE LAND OF THE DRAGON WITH LAMA JUSTIN VON BUJDOSS AND H.E. CHUNG TULKU RINPOCHE AUGUST 3 - 20TH 2027

09/24/2026

𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡: 𝐉𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐩𝐚’𝐬 𝐘ö𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐳ö𝐝, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐎𝐧𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐮𝐥𝐤𝐮 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐞 🪷

We warmly welcome you to join us for this very special program starting in just over a week with Chung Tulku Rinpoche! This series runs on Saturdays from October 17th through January 23rd, from 7–9am ET (5–7pm Bhutan time) offered as a live online teaching. For those unable to join the practice live recordings are available on the course platform for a full year allowing participants the space to receive these teachings on your own time. Proceeds from the event go directly to support Chung Rinpoche’s nunnery, Tshogyel Lungtok Tengayling, in the Paro valley.

The Yönten Dzöd, or Treasury of Precious Qualities, is a treatise by Jigme Lingpa written in the winter of 1779-80, offering a comprehensive explanation of the Buddhist path according to the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Across its thirteen chapters, it moves from the hinayana teachings all the way through to Dzogchen, making it a single text that covers the entire Buddhist curriculum, an invaluable tool for modern practitioners wishing to support and stabilize their path, especially in cultivating hearing and contemplative wisdom.

This first volume lays out the sutra teachings in gradual stages, according to the traditional three levels, or scopes, of spiritual endeavor. It begins with essential teachings on impermanence, karma, and ethics. From the Hinayana standpoint, it covers the four noble truths and the twelve links of dependent origination. Finally, from the Mahayana perspective, it expounds fully on bodhichitta and the path of the six paramitas, with an unusually detailed exposition of Buddhist vows. The nine chapters covered in Part One are:

The Difficulty of Gaining the Freedoms and Advantages
Death and Impermanence
Karma: Cause and Effect
The Sufferings of Samsara
The Four Wheels, the initial entry point for supreme beings
Taking Refuge, the entrance to the Buddhist Path
The Entrance to the Actual Mahayana (cultivating the four immeasurables)
Arousing Bodhichitta
The Bodhisattva Trainings

These topics provide the very foundation that allows practitioners on whatever stage of the path to hold their experience skillfully and turn it toward real benefit for others.

Chung Rinpoche received the transmission and instruction on the Yönten Dzöd directly from Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche, one of the three great khenpos of Namdrolling Monastery. But Rinpoche's own lineage is what makes this opportunity so rare: he is one of only two living holders of the Yangti Nakpo, one of the most profound and direct cycles of dark retreat practice within the Vajrayana, carrying an unbroken transmission rooted in the Dzogchen tradition of Bhutan. Recognized as the mind reincarnation of Trulshik Dongak Lingpa, an important terton connected to the revitalization of the Yangti Nakpo lineage, Rinpoche has spent his life preserving and transmitting this tradition in its full integrity.

To receive these teachings from Chung Rinpoche is to receive them from a profound source that embodies the fullness of this living transmission. This is a rare chance to learn directly from a lineage holder whose own path maintains and mirrors the very qualities the text describes.

We hope you join us for this profound program. There’s still time to enroll before we begin. 🔗 Learn more at courses.yangtiyoga.com

or register here:
https://courses.yangtiyoga.com/courses/y%C3%B6nten-dz%C3%B6d-part1-2026

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09/14/2026

Sem & Rigpa ⚖️

Lama Justin on the dichotomy between sem and rigpa, from a special teaching on Khenpo Gangshar’s Dzogchen instructions.

He explores the nuance of neither chasing rigpa, a subtle form of eternalism, nor waging war on sem. This moment is from a special program currently taking place, “Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet.”

Teachings like this are made available throughout the year. Join our mailing list to stay in the loop. 🔗 Link in bio

09/09/2026

Beginning tonight ✨

Join Lama Justin for the first session of Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet, a 7-day online series on Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo's Dzogchen instructions, September 9th - 15th from 4:00 - 5:30 pm est.

These teachings are profound, concise, and easy to put into practice. They can stand alone, or serve as a 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 and available for 1 year.

See you tonight. 🙏
https://courses.yangtiyoga.com/courses/naturally-liberating-whatever-you-meet-26

09/01/2026

Coming up this weekend ✨

His Eminence Chung Tulku Rinpoche, one of the living holders of the Yangti Nakpo, one of the rarest and most direct dark retreat cycles within the Vajrayana, will offer the first of three annual transmissions of the Yangti Nakpo lineage texts.

These are the very texts that Khetsun Zangpo Rinpoche brought out of Tibet and entrusted to Tibetologist Gene Smith for preservation, over 500 folio pages capturing the essence of the Yangti Nakpo Single Golden Syllable terma revealed by Dungtso Repa.

Chung Rinpoche will teach on the history of the lineage before moving into transmission of the first of three volumes, a truly rare opportunity to receive this living transmission directly.

🗓️ Saturdays, September 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2026
🕖 7–9AM ET | 5–7PM Bhutan
🎥 Recordings available for 1 year
🙏 Proceeds support Chung Rinpoche’s nunnery, Tshogyel Lungtok Tengayling, in the Paro valley, a community of dedicated female Yangti Nakpo practitioners

Link in bio to register 🔗

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08/28/2026

✨ A Rare Invitation ✨

We’re honored to host a special teaching series this fall: Jigme Lingpa’s Yönten Dzöd, or Treasury of Precious Qualities, with H.E. Chung Rinpoche.

📿 What it is: Written by Jigme Lingpa in 1779-80, this thirteen-chapter treatise spans from the Hinayana teachings all the way to Dzogchen, according to the Nyingma tradition. Thus it serves as a single text covering the entire Buddhist curriculum, an invaluable tool for modern practitioners wishing to support and stabilize their path, especially in cultivating hearing and contemplative wisdom.

Part One (Sat Oct 17 – Jan 23) covers the first nine chapters, grounding us in impermanence, karma, refuge, bodhichitta, and the bodhisattva trainings.
The very foundation that allows practitioners on whatever stage of the path to hold their experience skillfully and turn it toward real benefit for others.

🙏 Why this teacher: Chung Rinpoche is one of only two living holders of the Yangti Nakpo, carrying an unbroken transmission rooted in the Dzogchen tradition of Bhutan. He received this transmission directly from Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche of Namdrolling Monastery, and is recognized as the mind reincarnation of Trulshik Dongak Lingpa. To learn from him is to enter into the stream of this living tradition.

🕊️ Proceeds support Chung Rinpoche’s nunnery, Tshogyel Lungtok Tengayling, in Bhutan’s Paro valley.

📅 Saturdays, Oct 17 – Jan 23 | 7–9am ET
🎥 Recordings available for 1 year
💫 Link in bio to register

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08/28/2026

✨ A Rare Invitation ✨

We're honored to host a special teaching series this fall: Jigme Lingpa's Yönten Dzöd, or Treasury of Precious Qualities, with H.E. Chung Rinpoche beginning this fall. Learn more below:

A Treasury of Precious Qualities Part 1: The Teachings on Sutra with H.E. Chung Tulku Rinpoche Saturdays October 3rd - January 9th • 7 - 9 am est • 5 - 7 pm btt

08/21/2026

Our upcoming Yangti Nakpo transmission with H.E. Chung Tulku Rinpoche is a rare opportunity to receive the first of three volumes of texts brought from Tibet by the great ngakpa Khetsun Zangpo Rinpoche: over 500 pages of history, empowerment, and practice teachings found nowhere else. It's a direct connection to a profound living lineages. What makes this event even more special is that 100% of the proceeds will be directed to support the Tshogyel Lungtok Tengayling nunnery in Paro, Bhutan.

Known locally as Chorten Gangkha, the nunnery sits on sacred ground, home to the 12th century Gyelshel Karmai Chorten, said to house relics of Sangay Yoesung, a principal disciple of Buddha Shakyamuni. The nunnery itself was reconstituted by the 9th Neyphug Tulku, who gifted its custodianship to H.E. Chung Rinpoche in recognition of their monastic friendship, a role he formally marked in 2022 with the commissioning of a golden pinnacle for the stupa.

The nuns of Tshogyel Lungtok Tengayling live and practice here, rooted in the Nyingthig, Peling, and Yangti Nakpo traditions. Their days are given to spiritual cultivation and the quiet, ongoing preservation of Bhutan's Buddhist heritage.

In our most recent trip to Bhutan last January we had the pleasure of traveling around Bumthang with a small group of nuns from the nunnery. Towards the end of our travels, the nuns generously invited us to join them in their temple where they bestowed a healing ritual of the Laughter of the Dakini Chöd followed by a beautiful lunch on their grounds. Our entire group was quite moved by the time spent with these nuns and left feeling urgently inspired to find ways to support them in the coming year. 100% of the proceeds from this event will go to support the nunnery, marking the beginning of Yangti's formal support for this community.

One can find more details about the nunnery and the ways in which we hope to support them on our website. Or can visit the link in our bio to learn more about this event and to register.

08/20/2026

We warmly invite you to the online teaching series on Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa’s Yönten Dzöd (Treasury of Precious Qualities), Part One: The Teachings on Sutra, with His Eminence Chung Tulku Rinpoche.

Saturdays, October 17th, 2026 – January 23rd, 2027, 7am–9am ET (5pm–7pm Bhutan time) with instruction by Chung Rinpoche.

Over the course of thirteen chapters, Jigme Lingpa’s Yönten Dzöd offers a clear and progressive vision of the Buddhist path, moving from Sutra to Ta**ra to Dzogchen. Part One focuses on the first nine chapters on Sutra, grounding practitioners in ethics and the cultivation of Bodhichitta, essential supports for any practitioner as they move into higher teachings. Chung Rinpoche offers these teachings to nurture and enrich practice at any level of experience, whether you are new to the path or deep into the Yangti Nakpo or other Dzogchen practices. Rinpoche received the transmission and instruction on the Yönten Dzöd from Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche, one of the three great khenpos at Namdrolling Monastery.

As one of two major living holders of the Yangti Nakpo, Chung Rinpoche carries an unbroken transmission of one of the rarest and most direct cycles of dark retreat practice within Vajrayana Buddhism. We feel exceptionally fortunate to host this series, and to support Chung Rinpoche’s nunnery, Tshogyel Lungtok Tengayling, in the Paro valley of Bhutan, through the proceeds of this event.

🔗lhttps://courses.yangtiyoga.com/courses/y%C3%B6nten-dz%C3%B6d-part1-2026

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