The revered meditation teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche will guide a series of transformative talks, retreats, and events in Cape Town and Johannesburg, as he embarks on his first-ever Dharma tour of South Africa from 27 August–7 September. Mingyur Rinpoche’s itinerary includes two powerful events that will be live-streamed from South Africa for a global audience: “Boundless Compassion” on 28 August, and an “Anytime Anywhere Meditation” workshop on 6–7 September.
“Mingyur Rinpoche is known for making meditation deeply accessible, offering tools to face stress, cultivate clarity, and live with greater presence and meaning,” Tergar said. “His teachings are grounded in centuries-old Tibetan tradition, enriched by modern neuroscience and shaped by his own personal journey—including overcoming panic attacks and a near-death experience during a wandering retreat.”
Boundless Compassion is intended as a unique interfaith gathering of religious communities in St. George’s Cathedral—a sacred space that embodies Cape Town’s spirit of reconciliation. Organized in partnership with the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative, Mingyur Rinpoche will be accompanied by key faith figures for a wide-ranging event intended as a celebration of shared humanity and compassion that will include prayer, teachings, meditation, and music. The evening includes a choir that will offer a four-part-harmony rendition of the mantra of Chenrezig or Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, Om Mani Padme Hum.
Boundless Compassion will be live-streamed on Thursday, 28 August at 6:00–8:30 p.m.
local time.
The Anytime Anywhere Meditation workshop is a two-day program framed as an accessible course for anyone curious about meditation. The workshop will feature eight guest speakers from fields including neuroscience, psychology, wellness, and climate science. As part of the Tergar community’s Joy of Living program of practice, the worksop will teach practical tools to allow beginners and experienced mediators to cultivate awareness, compassion, and wisdom, and to to deepen their contemplative practice.
Anytime Anywhere Meditation workshop will be live-streamed on 6–7 September at 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. local time.
“Register for free to join this transformative workshop online and learn how to cultivate awareness, compassion, and wisdom—right from your home,” Tergar said in an announcement shared with BDG. “A rare opportunity to connect directly with Mingyur Rinpoche.”
These live-streamed events are offered free of charge and are open to beginners, seasoned practitioners, and anyone curious about meditation, in particular people seeking tools to live with greater clarity, purpose, and peace.
Click here for full details and to register for “Boundless Compassion” and “Anywhere Anytime Meditation”
“This is a rare opportunity to experience teachings that combine deep personal insight, ancient wisdom, and modern science,” Tergar remarked. “Whether you’re just beginning or already on the path, these teachings offer practical insight and authentic depth.”
Born in 1975 in the Himalayan border region between Tibet and Nepal, Mingyur Rinpoche received extensive training in Tibetan Buddhist meditative and philosophical traditions from his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–96), considered one of the greatest modern Dzogchen masters, and subsequently at Sherab Ling Monastery in northern India. After just two years, at the age of 13, Mingyur Rinpoche entered a three-year meditation retreat and then completed a second immediately afterward, serving as retreat master. At 23, Rinpoche received full monastic ordination.
Mingyur Rinpoche famously undertook a four-year solitary wandering retreat through the Himalaya in 2011–15. In recounting how he came to terms with the realities of his ambition to practice in the manner of a wandering yogi, Rinpoche revealed that he confronted many personal and spiritual challenges—including, at one point, his own mortality. Rinpoche has described the years he spent wandering in the Himalaya as “one of the best periods of my life.”*
The essence of the Buddha’s teachings was that while formal practice can help us to develop direct experience of emptiness, wisdom, and compassion, such experiences are meaningless unless we can bring them to bear on every aspect of our daily lives. For it’s in facing the challenges of daily life that we can really measure our development of calmness, insight, and compassion. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
* Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Returns from Four-year Wilderness Retreat (BDG) and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Releases Video Offering Insights Following His Retreat (BDG)
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