Nityananda Institute is sponsoring
Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche, a member of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism,
for another visit to the United States. Lama Wangdu will be giving instruction,
assisting in translation projects, and performing many rituals during his stay.
Nityananda Institute, based in Portland, Oregon, is sponsoring Lama Tsering
Wangdu Rinpoche’s most recent visit to the United States. Lama Wangdu will be
spending the next few months in Portland giving instruction to and practicing
with students at Nityananda Institute. He has been visiting the United States
regularly since 1999.
Lama Wangdu has trained and initiated Nityananda Institute students in the practice
of Phowa and Chöd, including the accompanying ritual dance (chum), as well as
the practice of the Queen of Great Bliss tsok and sadhana. During his visits
to Portland, he has also assisted in the translation of a number of important
texts from Padampa Sangye and Machig Labdron. Nityananda Institute students
are at work on a documentary about his life and Chöd practice and a book of
his teachings on Chöd.
Lama Wangdu was born in the Dingri region of Tibet, an area associated with
the mahasiddha Padampa Sangye, and the birthplace of the Third Karmapa Rangjung
Dorje. He completed the traditional training in Tibet with his guru, Nadrag
Rinpoche. He was sent on pilgrimage to Nepal in 1957. He eventually settled
in Kathmandu, where he has lived in the Tibetan refugee camp in Jawalakehl for
many years.
Lama Wangdu practices in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, particularly
the Longchen Nyingthig cycle of teachings, and is an accomplished practitioner
of Chöd. He has studied, practiced and received initiations from teachers in
all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and many of the most respected members
of the Nyingma school: Chatral Rinpoche, Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche,
Penor Rinpoche, and the late Urgyen Tulku Rinpoche.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama recently requested Lama Wangdu to open a monastery
in Kathmandu to train practitioners in Chöd. Work is underway, and Lama Wangdu
will open the monastery when he returns to Kathmandu early next year.
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