The Heart of the Vajrayana: Tergar Meditation Community Announces Online Teaching with Tai Situ Rinpoche

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The Heart of the Vajrayana: Tergar Meditation Community Announces Online Teaching with Tai Situ Rinpoche

By Craig C Lewis
March 8, 2023

The Tergar Meditation Community, founded by the respected Dharma teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, will host a free online teaching by His Holiness Kenting Tai Situ Rinpoche on 8 April on the topic “The Heart of the Vajrayana.”

“This event is a special opportunity to receive teachings directly from His Holiness Kenting Tai Situ Rinpoche, the supreme head of the Palpung monastic seat and the living root guru of Mingyur Rinpoche. Tai Situ Rinpoche will teach us about the perfect, incorruptible true nature of all sentient beings and other essential points of tantra,” Tergar said in an announcement shared with BDG.

Guru Vajradhara Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa is the 12th Tai Situpa in an unbroken lineage that dates to the 11th century. He is the head of Palpung Monastery in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham, and a principal figure in the Karma Kagyu school of Vajrayana Buddhism. Kenting Tai Situ Rinpoche was trained by the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa and is supervising the education of the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje. Kenting Tai Situ Rinpoche was born in 1954 in eastern Tibet and was enthroned at an early age. He received transmissions from many prominent masters, notably Kyabje Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

This free teaching is open to all and will be live-streamed via Zoom and YouTube at the following times:

Auckland: 2am, Sunday, 9 April
Canberra: 12am, Sunday, 9 April
Seoul, Tokyo: 11pm, Saturday, 8 April
Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei: 10pm, Saturday, 8 April
Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta: 9pm, Saturday, 8 April
India Standard Time: 7:30pm, Saturday, 8 April
Central European Summer Time: 4pm, Saturday, 8 April
Western European Summer Time/GMT: 3pm, Saturday, 8 April
Eastern Daylight Time: 10am, Saturday, 8 April
Pacific Daylight Time: 7am, Saturday, 8 April

The teaching program by Tai Situ Rinpoche is based on Creation and Completion by the terton Jamgon Kongtrul, revered as one of Tibet’s true spiritual and literary giants, and will explore: the ultimate potential of all sentient beings; the relationship between body, speech, and mind; absolute and relative reality; and the three kayas.

Click here to register for the teaching

“Many of us often find ourselves trapped in habitual patterns that limit us and negatively affect how we relate to ourselves, others, and our environment,” Tergar explained. “In this webinar, Vajradhara Tai Situ Rinpoche will give us practical advice on how, through cultivation, our body, speech, and mind can naturally come to be in accordance with our ultimate, primordial potential, the destiny of all sentient beings.”

Craig C Lewis

Craig Lewis grew up in a transplanted Scottish family in southern England before setting off against all advice to seek light and wisdom in far-off places, rather than staying put and looking within. After repeated encounters with the Buddhadharma as a journalist in Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and across Asia, he eventually found refuge as senior editor at BDG, where he reports and writes on the diversity of contemporary manifestations of the Dharma. Craig is also a keen mountain trekker and photographer, finding particular inspiration in the peoples, cultures, and Buddhist expressions of the Himalaya. In his column for BDG, “Chasing Light,” Craig seeks to document encounters, experiences, and epiphanies resulting from his own tentative and faltering path toward liberation. Contact: [email protected]

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