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We joyfully announce the ninth annual Tara Drupchen to be hosted by the Nalandabodhi Seattle with support of the international Sangha. This weekend practice intensive includes sadhana, or ritual practice, and teachings from Nalandabodhi senior teachers. All are welcome to attend online, make prayer requests, and offer positive aspirations by registering. Nalandabodhi members and Nalanda West close friends are also welcome to attend on-site at Nalanda West.

“The problem isn’t our desire for individual freedom; the problem is the way we try to achieve that freedom” – Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.

So, how do we achieve individual liberation? Hosted by NB Seattle, please join this Path of Study Online course, exploring the View of the Foundational Vehicle – the path of individual iberation – as taught by the Buddha

How do we expand our desire for genuine freedom to include all sentient beings?

This Path of Study Course, offered by Nalandabodhi Seattle, explores how the greater vehicle can take us to Buddhahood and what it means for our practice that all sentient beings possess the seed of buddhahood – buddhanature.

Please join Nalandabodhi Seattle on Sundays in September for teachings on Green Tara (Khadiravaṇītārā) and how Arya Tara can help dispel inner and outer manifestations of the Eight Great Fears.

“The whole world and its inhabitants are impermanent; In particular the life of beings is like a bubble. Death comes without warning; this body will be a corpse. At that time, the dharma will be my only help; I must practice it with exertion — from The Four Reminders (aka Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind Towards Dharma)

Please join Nalandabodhi Seattle online or onsite for a rare opportunity to receive a teaching on impermanence by this Karma Kagyü lineage holder, Choje Lama Rinpoche, who is visiting Nalanda West.

It is our solemn, heartbreaking task to share that our guru’s guru, the supreme Khenchen Vajradhara Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, while immersed within the meditative concentration of great nonreferential compassion and profound wisdom inseparable, departed from his form of this lifetime and passed into parinirvāṇa at 6:10pm Nepal Standard Time on Saturday, June 22, 2024, in Kathmandu, Nepal.