Yeshe Tsogyal Sadhana Practice (online, restricted)

Yeshe Tsogyal Sadhana Practice with Holly Gayley

Online, Saturday June 15, 2024
10am to noon Mountain Time

Price: $30
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Please join us for a talk and guided practice on Yeshe Tsogyal and her sadhana. We will go through the sadhana, The Brilliant Light of the Blessings of Great Bliss by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, section by section with brief explanations of the visualization, terminology, and phases of the sadhana. This session is restricted to those who received the reading transmission (lung) from Rabjam Rinpoche in October.

Yeshe Tsogyal’s legacy looms large in Tibetan Buddhism, and her life story has inspired generations of practitioners under challenging circumstances. In youth, her family attempted to force her into marriage, but she escaped to become Tibet’s preeminent yogini. While practicing in solitude, she faced numerous hardships and persevered through austerities. Exemplifying devotion, she served as student, consort, adept, and tantric master, achieving realization on par with Padmasambhava, the eighth-century Indian master who helped establish Buddhism on the Tibetan plateau. Yeshe Tsogyal's ongoing presence continues through ritual, visionary experience, pilgrimage, treasure revelations, and living emanations.

Jaipur Literature Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE3OwyYf9N4

 

About Holly Gayley

 

Holly Gayley is a scholar and translator of contemporary Buddhist literature in Tibet and associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research areas include gender and sexuality in Buddhist tantra, ethical reform in contemporary Tibet, and theorizing translation, both literary and cultural, in the transmission of Buddhist teachings to North America. She is author of Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet (2016); co-editor of A Gathering of Brilliant Moons: Practice Advice from the Rime Masters of Tibet (2017); translator of Inseparable Across Lifetimes: The Lives and Love Letters of Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro Tāre Lhamo (2019); and editor of Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century  (2021). For two decades, she has regularly led meditation workshops and retreats. At the University of Colorado, she is a founding member of a Contemplative Resource Center on campus and part of the co-design process for the Mindful Campus initiative. https://hollygayley.org

 

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