Tempa Dukte Lama
Bon Contemplative Healing Retreat
Saturday April 14 and Sunday April 15, 2012
Weekend Rate: $175.00*
*Rates include lunch and snacks
Limited Seating. Make Your Online/Mail Reservation!
Send an e-mail to almayoga@yahoo.com or
mail a money order or personal check ($175.00) to:
Alma Yoga, LLC
67 Pennsylvania Ave. Hancock, NY 13783
Bon Contemplative Healing Retreat
Contemplative healing practices help us to recognize that we are all gifted with the primordial wisdom of healing. In the Tibetan Bon tradition, practices to help us connect with the innate potential of healing have been done for thousands of years.
Tempa Lama will offer instructions and transmission of the traditional Bon healing practice of Sidpa Gyalmo, the chief protector of the Bon tradition.
In the Bon teachings, healing encompasses the physical, emotional and mental dimensions. Through the healing practice of Sidpa Gyalmo we can clear both physical illness and disturbances in our mind and feelings. The practice gradually opens us to our innate potential to heal ourselves and to help others heal.
Meals
We provide delicious, nutritionally balanced meals. Vegetarian meals are available upon request. (Please advise during reservations).
Meals Include:
Tea, Water, Light Snacks (2), Lunch (2)
Weekend Schedule:
Saturday
8:00 – 9:00 am: Registration
9:30 – 11:00 am: Practice
11:00 – 11:30 pm: Tea/Snack Break
11:30 – 1:00 pm: Practice
1:00 – 2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 pm: Practice
3:30 – 4:00 pm: Tea/Snack Break
4:00 – 5:00 pm: Practice
Sunday
10:00 – 11:30 am: Practice
11:30 – 12:00 pm: Lunch
12:00 – 1:00 pm: Practice
1:00 – 2:00 pm: Light Snacks, Closing and Farewell
Detailed and reviewed schedule upon arrival.
Weekend Accomodation:
Local Inns prices will vary. We will make recommendations upon request.
Hancock House: is offering a $20 discount on regular rate.
Single, King or Double Queen Rooms for $105. (subject to tax and service).
Rate includes breakfast for two.
www.newhancockhouse.com
The Inn at Starlight Lake: is offering a Retreat Special with midweek rate.
Single: $100.00 and Double: $115.00 (subject to tax and service).
Rate includes breakfast.
www.innatstarlightlake.com
About Tempa Dukte Lama
Genye Tempa Dukte Lama is an ordained Tibetan Bon lama. He is the founder and spiritual director of Olmo Ling Bon Center and Olmo Ling Publications. He is an artist, poet, and the author of The Intimate Mind and Inexhaustible Miracles.
Tempa Lama was born in the Humla valley of Nepal, close to the Tibetan Border into a family of Bon and Nyingma practitioners. His grandfather was a village shaman priests called Drang Rig. Tempa lived closely with his grandfather and often accompanied him on his visits to sick and dying people. At the age of six, Tempa entered Menri monastery in Dolanji, India, where he was placed under the care of H.H. Lungtok Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche, the spiritual head of the Bon tradition. He commenced studying and practicing meditation practices, Bon philosophy under the close guidance of H.H. the 33rd Menri Trizin, Lungtok Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche and Chongtul Rinpoche. For several years he served as monitor for younger monks and as training supervisor at the Dolanji orphanage. Tempa Lama was the first child to leave Humla to receive an education.
In 1998, Tempa Lama followed his deep interest in traditional healing practices and spent a year in Humla researching traditional Bon healing practices of shamanism in his family lineage.
In Summer 2000 Tempa Lama accepted an invitation from Joan Halifax Roshi, the abbot of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico to live and teach at Upaya. Tempa Lama assisted in facilitating Upaya’s Project on Being with Dying, served for several years as Director of Upaya temple, and taught on topics including death and dying, meditation, Bon contemplative practices and Buddhist view and philosophy. He also served as instructor at the Upaya Zen Center Childrens’ Program. With Roshi Joan and visiting teachers he co-taught a variety of retreats at Upaya, including Upaya’s annual professional training program on Being with Dying and annual retreats on The Human Encounter with Death. Outside of Upaya he taught at Omega Institute, the Taos Retreat Center, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and Ligmincha Institute. At Santa Fe County Jail Tempa Lama offered regular classes on meditation, stress reduction and self-compassion. During his time at Upaya he also accompanied several pilgrimage trips to Tibet, India and Nepal.
Since his departure from Upaya in 2005, Tempa Lama has been living and teaching in the US and Germany. In 2007 Tempa Lama founded the non profit organization Olmo Ling in Pittsburgh PA. At Olmo Ling Center, Tempa Lama is working to make the ancient teachings of the Bon tradition available and accessible for all who wish to bring a practice of compassion, healing and happiness into their lives. Central areas of his work include translations and commentaries on Bon teachings and practices, and the creation of an educational program geared toward the needs of psychologists and medical professionals in the areas of healing, compassionate care and spiritual support for the dying. As the founder of the Bon Cultural Society of Humla, Tempa Lama is engaged in ongoing projects to preserve the ancient culture of his home valley Humla.