Upcoming Schedule
Lama Chökyi Gyaltsen Ontario Teaching Visit - FALL 2026
with Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (Mark Webber)
Toronto Urban Retreat Sessions
Sept. 28 – Oct. 6
Oct. 15 – Oct. 18
The Dharma Centre of Canada
Oct. 10 – Oct. 12, 2026
Three Turnings of the Wheel
Calling Upon the Awake Nature
The Namgyal Yangzab Buddhist Community of Canada (NYBCC) is delighted to welcome Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen for a series of teachings, empowerments and urban retreats this fall in Toronto and at the Dharma Centre of Canada.
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Toronto Urban Retreats — The Five Essential Realizations
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Both Toronto sessions (Sept 28 – Oct 6 and Oct 15 – 18) focus on the Five Essential Realizations of Buddha Dharma.
“These five increasingly profound realizations are indisputable, unshakable and adamantine. They bridge the mundane experience and the unchanging transcendent nature of all beings and all their experience.”
— Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen, The Five Essential Realizations of Buddha Dharma, August 2025
Lama Gyaltsen will draw from the three major cycles of the Buddha’s teaching — from the first turning of the Wheel of Dharma through to the ultimate view and activities of the third turning, Vajrayana. He will also teach the foundational recognitions and wisdom understandings that build a sturdy basis for these realizations — especially:
- Causality (karma)
- Naming and experience
- Bodhicitta
Recognitions, guidance and practices will all be given, alongside reading transmission, commentary and meditation on:
- Ju Mipham’s text, Profound Instruction on Śamatha.
- Longchenpa’s Precious Treasury of Phenomenal Space — the root text for his Seven Treasures.
- The Mahāmudrā, Eliminating the Darkness of Ignorance by the Ninth Karmapa, Wangchug Dorje.
For experienced practitioners only: The Drikung Yangzab Empowerment of Hayagriva Kīlaya and practice instructions — an extraordinarily powerful means of removing and averting obstacles and obstructions and clearing arrogance and impediments. Open only to mature, experienced practitioners of Vajrayana. Time, date and location to be announced. Send your interest in attending to namgyalyangzab@gmail.com
The Dharma Centre of Canada
Oct. 10 – Oct. 12, 2026
Dharma Centre of Canada, Kinmount — Oct 10 – 12
Oct 10 — Wisdom and compassion: Karma Pakshi empowerment & Dzogchen practice. A profound Guru Yoga for the cultivation of mental strength, protection of the Dharma and the realization of Wisdom and compassion.
Prerequisite: completion of 100,000 mantras of Chenrezi or another Yidam.
Oct 11 — White Mañjuśrī empowerment. The utterly profound practice of a White Mañjuśrī and Sarasvatī mandala from the collected direct instructions (Upadesha) of Gyalwang Rinchen Puntsok (16th century) for a celebration and recollection of Ven. Dorje Namgyal Rinpoche’s great gifts to countless beings. Also, a pith Guru Yoga practice of the Union of Guru Rinpoche–Namgyal Rinpoche, as revealed to Lama Gyaltsen.
Oct 12 — To be announced.
