Anne Carolyn Klein / Rigzin Drolma Ph.D. is Professor and former Chair of Religious Studies at Rice University and since 1996 a founding director of Dawn Mountain in Houston (www.dawnmountain.org). A practitioner since 1970, she is a student of A.dzom Rinpoche, Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche, the late Geshe Ngawang Wangyal, and other masters. Her books include Knowledge and Liberation; Path to the Middle; Meeting the Great Bliss Queen; and Unbounded Wholeness: Dzogchen and the Nonconceptual (with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche). Forthcoming this spring is Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse, a Story of Transmission.
“The amazing verses of this most sacred meditation practice have resounded in monasteries, nunneries, and mountain caves for centuries. They are waves from the spiritual realization of great adepts on the Roof of the World. These have now here been born in English, in beautiful poetry and inspiring melodies.”
--Tulku Thondup, author of The Practice of Dzogchen
Anne C. Klein
Visits California, March 2010
Being wisdom
A weekend retreat at Berkeley Shambhala hosted by Osel Thegchog Ling
Because there is birth from the birthless
Living beings are confused
-Jigme Lingpa
Seeking wisdom sometimes masks for us the fact that we are wisdom. This is a paradox at the heart of practice, and we resolve it through combining practice with understanding. In this retreat we deepen experience through simple practices unique to a contemporary transmission of Jigme Lingpa that emphasizes direct access to fresh experience. We also further our understanding through select sacred writings, including some newly translated by Anne. In this way, participants are able to unify practice with understanding, gaining clear experience and cohesive meaning to take back home and to integrate into life and purpose.
Opening Talk, Friday, March 26, 7-10pm
Saturday, March 27, 10am-5pm; Sunday, March 28, 10am-1pm
$125 for the Complete Retreat/$25 for the Friday Opening Talk
To register contact OselThegchogLing@gmail.com or call 415-509-5613
2288 Fulton Street at Bancroft
Berkeley, CA
How Wisdom Dawns
Stories, Images, and Illumination from Tibet
A Public Talk and Book-signing at CIIS
“Buddha-essence in the mindstream of living beings
Is like the sun enveloped in a cloud bank…it is naturally pure.”
--Jigme Lingpa
A core principle of Tibetan esoteric teachings is that wisdom is already within. What will bring it forth? In the 18th century, Jigme Lingpa opened a new stream of teaching, Heart Essence, the Vast Expanse, which continued, and inspired, centuries of reflection on this matter. This evening we hear from Jigme Lingpa's writing, some previously unavailable; see rare images of places and persons connected with his teachings; and reflect in new ways on the understandings of body, mind, and energy that are part of his perspective and central as well in the wider Tibetan tradition.
Monday, March 29, 7pm
Namaste Hall, California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street, San Francisco
free of charge
Anne’s new book, a chantable English translation of Jigme Lingpa’s Foundational practices (not yet in bookstores!) will be available, and she will sign copies at the end of each day.