Yeshe Tsogyal: Illuminating the Path of Awakening
avec Holly Gayley

Samedi, Avril 27 – Dimanche, Avril 28

9:30am-12pm and 1:30-4pm on both Saturday and Sunday

Plein tarif $120, Parrainer: $150, Subsidized/Member: $80
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Each day is followed by an hour long practice of the Yeshe Tsogyal Sadhana for those authorized. Details are found ICI*

Yeshe Tsogyal’s legacy looms large in Tibetan Buddhism, and her life story has inspired generations of practitioners under challenging circumstances. In youth, her family attempted to force her into marriage, but she escaped to become Tibet’s preeminent yogini. While practicing in solitude, she faced numerous hardships and persevered through austerities. Exemplifying devotion, she served as student, consort, adept, and tantric master, achieving realization on par with Padmasambhava, the eighth-century Indian master who helped establish Buddhism on the Tibetan plateau. Yeshe Tsogyal’s ongoing presence continues through ritual, visionary experience, pilgrimage, treasure revelations, and living emanations.

Through practice, talks and dialogues, this weekend explores what we can learn from Yeshe Tsogyal’s life to inspire our own practice and path. Following the trajectory of her life story, we will examine themes of devotion as a longing to awaken, consort practice in its profundity and pitfalls, taking adversity as path, and the dakini as a vibrant symbol of awakening.

*For those who received the lude (transmission de lecture) pour « La lumière brillante des bénédictions du grand bonheur: Un Guru Yoga basé sur Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal” de Shechen Rabjam Rinpoché en octobre 2023, we will practice the sadhana together at the end of each day.

Jaipur Literature Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE3OwyYf9N4

 

About Holly Gayley

 

Holly Gayley is a scholar and translator of contemporary Buddhist literature in Tibet and associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Ses domaines de recherche incluent le genre et la sexualité dans le tantra bouddhiste., la réforme éthique dans le Tibet contemporain, et théoriser la traduction, à la fois littéraire et culturel, dans la transmission des enseignements bouddhistes en Amérique du Nord. She is author of Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet (2016); co-editor of A Gathering of Brilliant Moons: Practice Advice from the Rime Masters of Tibet (2017); translator of Inseparable Across Lifetimes: Les vies et les lettres d'amour de Namtrul Rinpoché et Khandro Tāre Lhamo (2019); and editor of Voices from Larung Gar: Façonner le bouddhisme tibétain pour le XXIe siècle (2021). For two decades, she has regularly led meditation workshops and retreats. At the University of Colorado, she is a founding member of a Contemplative Resource Center on campus and part of the co-design process for the Mindful Campus initiative. https://hollygayley.org

 

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