Every year, for over 25 years, at Chagdud Rinpoche’s original home and center in the West, a Red Tara tsok offering is held in the fall. This year nine lamas attended. Jigme Tromge Rinpoche was the Vajra Master, Gatsal Lama (Jamie) was umze, and Gyaling Rinpoche was a guest of Dechen Ling (Cottage Grove). Lamas Dorje, Trinley, Padma, Thupden and Lama Jigme were also there.
You can view and download pictures from at the dharmaphotos site.
Red Tara
This statue of Red Tara, one of the first sculptures made in the West by Chagdud Rinpoche, sits in the shrine room of Dechen Ling, in Cottage Grove, Oregon, the first Chagdud Gonpa center outside of Tibet, and Rinpoche’s home for many years.
For more pictures of the Red Tara statue, as well as a Guru Rinpoche statue also sculpted by Chagdud Rinpoche, click on the picture above. You will be taken to a site where you can view, download and/or order good quality prints.
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Lama Tsering has just completed a visit to North America, where she gave three days of stories and teaching centered around her life with Chagdud Rinpoche. Here is the collection .
Almost twenty years to the day that Chagdud Rinpoche, Lama Sonam, and a group of students met and received teachings from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and a hundred years after Khyentse’s birth, his young incarnation returned to America, giving teachings, blessings and empowerments to old and new friends.
After visits to New York City and Vermont, Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche came to Boulder, Colorado, and Phuntsok Choling, the nearby retreat center of Mangala Shri Bhuti. 
At the Boulder Theater, Mattieu Ricard introduced a film on Dilgo Khyentse, “Brilliant Moon”, in the afternoon, and in the evening, Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche gave the Pema Tse Nyingtik Longevity Empowerment.
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On the weekend at Phuntsok Choling, in the mountains above Boulder, Rinpoche gave the empowerment for the Rangjung Peme Nyingtik (which includes Essence of Siddhi) on Saturday, and on Sunday lead everyone in doing the practice and offering tsok. Click on the picture below for a slide show.
The annual Rigdzin Dupa retreat, the “Gathering of theVidyadharas”, (a terma of Jigme Lingpa) took place in the “new” shrine room at PPIAti Ling this year. As yet unfinished, and without windows or doors, it is open to the fresh summer breezes from the ocean nearby. We enjoyed having space to prepare tsok, and for kids to join us, playing at the back of the hall while we accumulated 100,000 tsok offerings. During breaks, we were delighted by beautiful weather and abundant flowers in the garden, and renewed the prayer flags that circle the garden.
Here is a collection of slides of the retreat…..or you can view the collection in a larger format, and down load pictures, here
Encountering the very wrathful compassionate energy of Kunt’hup Gyalmo, the queen who is equal to all. Fearsome and energetic, her eyes bulging, she crushes to dust obstacles of broken samaya and random negative forces.
May be viewed in high definition, full screen. Sound from T’hroma Nagmo by Chagdud Rinpoche.
Red Vajrasattva drubchen, Rigdzin Ling.
Jigme Rinpoche continues his series of Bay Area teaching with three talks on the Six Perfections.
With Lama Padma Gyatso, Bhodi Montgomery and Lama Choyang
with Tulku Sang-ngag, Senge Khadro, and Lama Padma Gyatso
with Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche.
