May 30th—June 4th
At the end of May, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche will confer the Vajrayogini Abhisheka to qualified recipients at the Halifax Shambhala Centre. The empowerment will be followed by four days of sadhana training.
Register here to attend the Vajrayogini empowerment with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche on May 31st at the Halifax Shambhala Centre. Though you have hopefully already filled out the Abhisheka Planning Survey, you must now register through this site.
This empowerment is being conducted and hosted under the auspices of the Open Umbrella initiative of Sakyong Wangmo Diana Mukpo and by the collective efforts of Ocean’s Ngondro Practice Committee, by the Halifax Shambhala Centre, and by Karma Changchub Ling. Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is conferring the empowerment on the request and with the blessing of His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa.
As explained before, the abhisheka will be conferred at the Halifax Shambhala Centre on May 31, 2024. It will be followed by four days of training in the practice, June 1-4. We recommend that you plan to arrive on May 29th to ensure that your attendance is not impacted by travel delays. There will be an orientation session on May 30th.
Note: If you are applying to receive this empowerment for the first time, you must have fulfilled certain requirements and have been approved by the Dorje Loppon or Mr. Mermelstein.
First-Phase Registration
This initial first-phase registration is limited to those receiving the abhisheka for the first time and those coming from away to support the first-time recipients.This is to give space priority to this group of attendees. In a few weeks registration will be opened to the general assembly of Vajrayogini sadhakas.
The cost for the empowerment is $300 Canadian (about $220 US). This includes a teaching gift for Ringu Tulku. Costs for texts and ritual implements are additional, see the Frequently Asked Questions document linked below.
As for “How to Order Texts”, “Frequently Asked Questions”, “How to Register”, click here.
On Ringu Tulku Rinpoche’s connection with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Ringu Tulku met Trungpa Rinpoche in 1962 at the Young Lamas Home School in Dalhousie, India, where Trungpa Rinpoche was the 22-year-old spiritual advisor to the school, and Ringu Tulku Rinpoche was a 10-year-old student. Six years later they met again at a small gathering in Delhi where Trungpa Rinpoche bestowed the Sadhana of Mahamudra abhisheka, shortly after receiving this terma on retreat at Taktsang, Bhutan. Not having any ritual implements, he used a coke bottle as the tsobum (“principal vase”).
Listen to Ringu Tulku’s recollections of his time at the Young Lamas Home School and this spontaneous Sadhana of Mahamudra empowerment in Part Two of this 2013 interview with Ringu Tulku conducted by our friends at the Westchester Meditation Center.
For more on Ringu Tulku’s life, training, and activities, please visit bodhicharya.org.