Land of Medicine Buddha

08/21/2026

What if the challenges you face every day could become the very material you use to develop greater peace, resilience, and compassion? 🌿

✅ Register here: https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/retreat-guru/2004/lama-tsongkhapas-mind-training-poem/

Join us September 26–27 for a special weekend retreat with Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu, a highly respected lineage teacher, exploring Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings on mind training (Lojong).

Mind training offers a different way of approaching life’s difficulties: rather than needing the people and circumstances around us to change, we learn to transform the way we meet them. 🪷

Stress at work. Conflict in relationships. Disappointment. Uncertainty. These are experiences we all encounter—and through Lojong, they can become opportunities to cultivate patience, compassion, inner strength, and wisdom.

How can we become less reactive when things don’t go our way? How can difficult people become part of our practice? How can we develop a mind that remains more open and steady through life’s ups and downs? 🌱

This weekend is a precious opportunity to receive these teachings directly from Khen Rinpoche, an authentic lineage teacher deeply trained in the traditional study and practice of the Buddhist path. Whether you’re new to Buddhism or a longtime practitioner, come discover practical tools for meeting everyday life with a steadier mind and a more compassionate heart. 🙏

📅 Saturday–Sunday, September 26–27
🕥 10:30 am–12:30 pm & 2:00–4:00 pm
📍 In person at Land of Medicine Buddha + online via Zoom
🥗 Vegetarian lunch included with in-person registration

08/20/2026

08/20/2026

Register here: https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/retreat-guru/2002/the-sixteen-human-dharmas-of-king-songtsen-gampo/

📅 September 12–13, 2026
📍 In person at Land of Medicine Buddha + online via Zoom
🥗 Vegetarian lunch included with in-person registration

✨ Join us for a weekend of timeless wisdom made practical for the life we’re living today.

How do we live with greater kindness, integrity, and purpose—especially in a world that can feel increasingly divided, uncertain, and disconnected?

This September, we have a rare opportunity to receive teachings from Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu, a highly respected lineage teacher, on The Sixteen Human Dharmas of King Songtsen Gampo—timeless guidance for bringing greater compassion, patience, generosity, gratitude, and responsibility into everyday life.

These teachings aren’t simply philosophical ideals. They offer practical guidance for how we relate to others, navigate difficulties, make choices, and contribute to our families, workplaces, and communities.

Khen Rinpoche will teach from the original Tibetan text that inspired FPMT’s widely known 16 Guidelines for Life, offering a precious opportunity to encounter this wisdom through an authentic living lineage.

Whether you are Buddhist, simply curious, or looking for a more grounded and compassionate way to meet the challenges of modern life, you are warmly invited.

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08/18/2026

✨ Come discover how the moments that challenge us most can become opportunities to cultivate a wiser and more compassionate heart.

✅ Register here: https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/retreat-guru/2008/bodhichitta-and-anger-management/

🔥 Anger can arise in an instant—but its effects can linger, disturbing our peace of mind, straining our relationships, and making it harder to respond to difficult situations with the wisdom and compassion we aspire to.

🙏 On September 9, join us for a special evening with Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu, a highly respected lineage teacher, exploring the Buddhist approach to anger and bodhichitta—the awakened heart that seeks enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.

🪷 Rather than simply suppressing anger, Buddhist teachings offer ways to understand what gives rise to it and cultivate a mind that can meet challenging people and situations with greater awareness, patience, and compassion.

💭 How can we work with anger when it arises? How can difficult moments become part of our practice? And how might cultivating bodhichitta transform the way we relate to ourselves and others?

Whether you’re new to Buddhism or a longtime practitioner, this is a precious opportunity to receive practical teachings directly from an authentic lineage master. 🙏

📅 Wednesday, September 9
🕖 7:00–8:30 pm PT
📍 In person at Land of Medicine Buddha + online via Zoom

08/18/2026

📅 Tuesday, September 8
🕖 7:00–8:30 pm
📍 In person at Land of Medicine Buddha + online via Zoom

Register here: https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/retreat-guru/2006/buddha-nature/

✨ Come explore the extraordinary potential Buddhism says is already within each of us.

What if the qualities we’re searching for—wisdom, compassion, inner freedom—aren’t something we have to acquire, but capacities we can uncover and develop?

According to the Buddha, every living being possesses the potential for full awakening. This is known as buddha nature, and it offers a radically hopeful way of understanding ourselves: we are not limited to our present habits, struggles, or ways of seeing the world. Transformation is possible.

On September 8, join us for a special evening with Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu, a highly respected lineage teacher, as he explores this foundational Buddhist teaching and what it means for the way we approach our lives and spiritual practice.

What does it really mean to say we have buddha nature? And how can recognizing our potential help us meet ourselves with greater courage, confidence, and purpose?

Whether you’re new to Buddhism or a longtime practitioner, this is a precious opportunity to receive these teachings directly from an authentic lineage master.

08/16/2026

🌱 What if you could hold the entire Buddhist path in just fourteen verses—and use it as a guide for transforming the way you live, practice, and relate to the world?

✅ Register here: https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/retreat-guru/2000/the-foundation-of-all-good-qualities/

🙏 Join us September 5–6 for a special weekend retreat with Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu, a highly respected lineage teacher, exploring Lama Tsongkhapa’s The Foundation of All Good Qualities.

🪷 In just fourteen verses, this profound text presents the entire graduated path to enlightenment (Lamrim)—from appreciating the preciousness of our lives and relying on a qualified spiritual teacher to cultivating renunciation, bodhichitta, the wisdom realizing emptiness, and ultimately the Vajrayana path.

But these teachings aren’t meant to remain on the page. Khen Rinpoche will illuminate how we can bring them into our meditation practice and everyday lives, helping us cultivate greater wisdom, compassion, and inner stability. 🌿

✨ Whether you’re encountering the Lamrim for the first time or have practiced for many years, this is a rare opportunity to study one of Lama Tsongkhapa’s essential texts with an authentic lineage master steeped in the Buddhist philosophical and contemplative tradition.

📅 Saturday–Sunday, September 5–6
🕥 10:30 am–12:30 pm & 2:00–4:00 pm
📍 In person at Land of Medicine Buddha
🥗 Vegetarian lunch included

🙏 Come spend a weekend reconnecting with the heart of the Buddhist path—and the qualities we can cultivate to bring greater wisdom and compassion into our lives.

08/16/2026

🌿 A rare opportunity to learn from a master with more than five decades of Buddhist study, practice, and teaching.

✨ Join us for one evening, a weekend retreat, or the full three-week journey. (Lodging options available. Free vegetarian meals provided for retreats.)

This September, Land of Medicine Buddha is deeply honored to welcome Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu for an extraordinary three-week teaching series.

For those unfamiliar, teachers of Rinpoche’s generation and depth of training are becoming increasingly rare. He spent more than 20 years immersed in the rigorous study of Buddhist philosophy, debate, and meditation at Sera Je Monastic University, followed by advanced Vajrayana training at Gyume Ta***ic College. Today, he serves as Abbot of Segyü Ta***ic College.

What makes this visit especially precious is the chance to encounter these teachings directly from someone who has devoted his entire life to studying, practicing, and preserving them within a living lineage. You do not need to be Buddhist or an experienced practitioner to benefit.

Across three weeks, Rinpoche will guide us through some of Buddhism’s most essential teachings, including Lamrim, emptiness, bodhicitta, Buddha nature, mind training, and transforming anger, culminating in a White Tara Long Life Empowerment and retreat, with the opportunity to receive or renew the Bodhisattva Vows. 🙏

Whether you are simply curious about Buddhism, looking for practical wisdom for everyday life, or have practiced for many years, this is an exceptional opportunity to experience these teachings at their source.

Register here: https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/retreat-guru/2010/rare-teachings-with-segyu-khen-rinpoche-lobsang-wangdu/

08/14/2026

Read more about the retreat and register here: https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/retreat-guru/1937/wise-paths-to-the-heart/

Wise Paths to the Heart
With Hans Burghardt

Friday – Sunday, August 21 - 23 | In Person and Online via Zoom. Meals provided with registration.

What if love, compassion, and kindness aren’t simply qualities we have—but capacities we can intentionally strengthen?

Wise Paths to the Heart explores what both Buddhist wisdom and modern science reveal about our capacity for connection, care, and genuine well-being. Drawing on the Four Immeasurables—loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—this retreat offers practical ways to cultivate a warmer, more open relationship with ourselves and others.

Alongside these ancient teachings, we’ll explore current scientific insights into altruism, empathy, compassion, and self-compassion, asking what it really means to train the heart. Through reflection, meditation, and practice, discover how these inner qualities can grow beyond our usual boundaries and become a source of greater resilience, connection, and happiness in everyday life.

Join us for a weekend of opening and training the heart. Register today and discover how compassion can transform the way you relate to yourself, others, and the world around you.

Wise Paths to the Heart is the fifth module in the series, Buddhist Mind Science: Activating Your Potential, an FPMT introductory course.