Tummo Practice Retreat with Choekhortshang Rinpoche Orte (VT) Italy, November 1 to 4, 2018 Lungtok Ling Association (www.lungtokling.org) organizes a residential retreat on the Practice of Tummo with Choekhortshang Rinpoche, to complete the cycle of teachings from the Bon Mother Tantra that Rinpoche has transmitted in Italy over the last few years. The meaning of Tummo is “inner fire” or “wisdom fire”. This practice involves generating and directing heat or warmth within the body by applying key points on Tsa (channels), Lung (wind or breathing) and Tigles (light drops of consciousness). The warmth burns physical impurities and destroys afflictions and conceptual thoughts transforming them into joyful bliss that enhances swift arising of co-emergent wisdom to be in the highest level of consciousness. Tummo in Bon Buddhism is a teaching from the Mother Tantra and it is also linked to the completion phases of Dzogchen practice. Dzogchen meditation is considered the highest and most profound practice in Bon tradition. Rinpoche teaches Tummo from the commentary text called Kusum Rangshar (Spontaneous Arising of the Three Kayas), written by Shardza Rinpoche, a Bön master who achieved the body of light or rainbow body. During this four days retreat Rinpoche will guide the three actual techniques of the Tummo practice followed by preliminary visualizations. The three techniques are Soft Breathing/Gentle Prana, Medium Breathing/intermediate Prana and Fierce Breathing/Wrathful Prana. These practices involve body posture, breathing techniques and visualisations. As for the breathing techniques, there are four main points that will be guided: inhaling, filling, pressing and exhaling. Through the practice of Tummo one can achieve three main benefits; in the outer way it can heal and cure physical illnesses, in the secret way it averts obstacles by spirits and in the inner way it transforms all the negative emotions into wisdoms. The whole Teaching will be transmitted (not one of two parts) On Rinpoche’s request, it will be possible to attend only to the whole retreat, a shorter participation will not be allowed. The retreat is not recommended to absolute beginners. The retreat will take place in a Farm Stay in Central Italy, near Orte (VT) “La Vecchia Fattoria” http://www.lavecchiafattoria.info/ , located in the rolling green hills between Lazio and Umbria. The Farm offers accommodation in rooms and apartments with full board, to allow us to enjoy a true residential retreat, with exclusive use of the whole structure. The Farm Stay is easily reachable from the A1 highway and from Orte Railway Station by taxi. The retreat will start at 3.pm on Thursday November 1st and will end on Sunday 4th with Lunch. Cost of the Retreat: 120 euros (including the subscription quota to Association Lungtok Ling) Cost of Accommodation: 60 euros per person per day in double/triple room, including all vegetarian meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks during the breaks, drinks). Single occupancy of double room: 80 euros per day. To register for the Retreat we ask you to: - Contact the Farm Stay by email at [email protected], or by telephone +39 0761492377, cell+39.3803501541, clearly indicating “November Tibetan retreat”. - Reserve a room and send and advance of 80 euros by bank transfer or credit card, indicating your full name and room and bed preference, if you want to share a room with others. The balance is to be paid at the farm in cash or by card. - Please inform us of your booking by email to [email protected] - Once you have sent the advance to the Farm for your booking, this will be considered as booking for the retreat too, to be paid it in cash on the spot The number of places is limited, and early booking is advised to avail of accommodation at the farm where the retreat is held, without having to move to and from other places. Contacts: Lidia Castellano [email protected], Tel/WhatsApp +393203837211 Website www.lungotkling.org Choekhortshang Rinpoche is a Lama of the Bon tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in Dolpo, a high mountain region of north- western Nepal bordering Tibet, in 1976, to an important local family. He is the head lama of Tashi Namgyal monastery in Dolpo. According to tradition, when he was 8 years old his father and grandfather took him to India, to be raised and educated at Menri monastery, in the village of Dolanji in Himachal Pradesh. This is the main site of the Bon tradition, where its spiritual head resides, His Holiness Menri Trizin. There he received a basic and modern education at school. In 1992, when he was 16, he took his monastic vows and started studying the traditional subjects such as philosophy, astronomy, astrology, Tibetan history and literature, Tibetan traditional Medicine, healing rituals and meditations. After 16 years, in 2008, he has obtained his Geshe degree, and since then he has been engaged in intense academic activities, both at the monasteries and at prestigious European Universities as Leiden, Oxford and Charles. Since 2009 he resides in Prague and teaches Tibetan Language and Culture at Charles University. Over the years, he has been teaching the spiritual practices of Bon in many European countries such as; Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. In 2015, he was officially enthroned at Menri monastery and entitled Rinpoche by HH Menri Trizin 33rd. .