Urgyen Dongak Choeling Monastery

Near the great Jarung Khashor Stupa of Boudhanath in Nepal, at the monastery known as Urgyen Dongag Choling, lays the physical remains of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche. He dissolved his body into luminosity on January 17th 1987, at La Pechardie, his residence in the Dordogne, France. His precious body relics remained there for nearly two years and then was consecrated to the newly built monastery where he is enshrined in a golden Stupa. After the consecration ceremonies were completed on March 8, 1989, the Gomchen Dratsang Association was established by a group of devoted disciples with the sole intention of learning, practicing and preserving the precious Doctrine of the Dudjom Tersar. They received the full blessing and support of His Holiness’s wife, the Venerable Sang Yum Kusho and his heart son, His Eminence Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche.

The Dudjom Tersar

            The Terma Tradition is a well-known feature of the Nyingma School. It is the skillful means whereby, Guru Rinpoche - Padma Sambhava, a great and powerful meditation Master, through his yogic powers, concealed teachings destined for future generations in the elements of earth, water, fire, and air as well as in the expanse of awareness in the minds of his disciples. At the appropriate moment these disciples appear in the world as Tertons, or revealers of these teaching which are known as Terma, or Treasures of Dharma. These Teachings were to be discovered at certain time periods, when the beings were in need of a particular teaching to remove obstacles, sickness and various other catastrophes. His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche was one of these Treasure discoverers and he revealed many teachings that would benefit beings at the time of war, famine and world disharmony that we are facing at the present moment. So the Dudjom Tersar is fresh, vivid, and direct with no loss of meaning, words or blessing. These teachings from Guru Rinpoche to Dudjom Rinpoche to us is a direct short lineage. Therefore this lineage is uncontaminated and knows no degeneration by broken samayas. The blessing and attainments are immediate.

            During his life, Dudjom Rinpoche not only devoted much of his time to the propagation and preservation of the Termas of his predecessor Dudjom Lingpa, but he also revealed many Treasures of his own. Some of these cycles include the Khandro Thugtik, Tsokye Thugtik, Putri Repung, and others.

Current Activities

            At present these practitioners come together on the eight, tenth and twenty fifth of the lunar months, as well as on other auspicious days to offer Tsog Puja and to perform the ceremonies according to this tradition. This positive action generates love, harmony and peace in the world.

            Also uninterrupted ceremonies, prayers and rituals are performed for the sick, those dying and the deceased. There are also ceremonies that remove obstacles in ones life and work and there are many methods in Tibetan Buddhism to dispel the unseen forces that cause sickness, calamities and other misfortunes. The Dudjom Tersar is known to be unsurpassable in these wisdom methods for pacifying, subjugating, increasing and magnetizing all these subtle phenomena.

            Over 2500 years of the Buddhas Teachings are still preserved in an unbroken lineage to this day by the Tibetan Masters. Here in the Dudjom Gompa these teachings and sciences are imparted to the young monks and lay practices by qualified masters. The Teachings of the precious Guru Padmasabhava and the Sutras and Tantras are a daily main focus and practice of the assembly. Thus unifying the skillful wisdom method teachings of Lord Buddha in a daily living situation.

His Holiness, Dudjom Rinpoche was widely recognized as one of the most accomplished masters and scholars of all aspects of the Vajrayana tradition, and as a great spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was particularly recognized for his profound realization of the Vajrayana science of mind and meditation, and its relation to mental and physical healing. He wrote over forty volumes of instruction and commentary important to the understanding of the mind, and, in particular, designed an entire program of physical and mental exercises to harmonize the mind and body.

His Eminence, Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche is the son and lineage successor of Dudjom Rinpoche. He was personally trained by Dudjom Rinpoche in all aspects of Vajrayana meditation and medicine. His mastery of this knowledge has established him as a foremost teacher of meditation and Tibetan medicine. His command of the English Language, as well as his familiarity with Western culture allows him to express the essence and the specifics of the Tibetan tradition in thoroughly contemporary terms, in a detailed and practical manner.

His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche’s

Urgyen Dongak Choiling Monastery

Nyingmapa Gomchen Association

GPO Box: 10530, Kathmandu, Nepal

Tel: 374330

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