Welcome!
We warmly invite you to visit, learn and practise at Drogmi Retreat Centre.
Lam Dre in Australia - 25 April to 7 June 2009
His Holiness the Sakya Trizin
bestows the precious Lam Dre
25 April - 7 June 2009
One precious teaching.
Three great masters!
Next year we host the Lam Dre, the most precious of the Sakya teachings and revered by all Tibetan Buddhists.
His Holiness the Sakya Trizin bestows the Lam Dre accompanied by His Eminence Ratna Vajra Rinpoche and Her Eminence Jetsun Kushok Chimey Luding. The opportunity of a lifetime, perhaps many lifetimes!
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and
His Holiness the Sakya Trizin
I am pleased to know that Sakya Dagtri Rinpoche is to bestow this precious teaching in Australia in 2009 at the request of the Drogmi Retreat Centre. Dagtri Rinpoche is eminently qualified to confer this wonderful instruction and I have no doubt that everyone who attends and has the opportunity to benefit from his knowledge and experience will be most fortunate.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Latest Lam Dre news and information:
[Cafe Conversations: Khenpo talking on The Three Levels of Spiritual Perception...]
[Accommodation suggestions...]
[Message from Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe...]
[Letter from His Holiness the Dalai Lama...]
[Lam Dre 2009...]
[Full event information...]
[Online registration...]
About Drogmi Retreat Centre
Drogmi Retreat Centre is only a 90 minute drive from central Sydney but a world away from the noise of the city. The natural beauty of the site in the Wollemi National Park is breathtaking.
[Take a look at Drogmi...]
Named by His Holiness the Sakya Trizin in honour of the great Drogmi Lotsawa, the first Tibetan recipient of the Lam Dre teaching, Drogmi provides a tranquil, inspiring setting for meditation, practice and teachings in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.
[About the Sakya tradition...]
Our teacher
Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe is the founder of Drogmi Retreat Centre. Appointed as spiritual director by His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin, Khenpo, a monk for over 35 years, is highly respected in Australia and internationally for his profound knowledge and the clarity of his inspirational teachings. He is the most highly qualified Sakya lama living in Australia.
[About Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe...]
Drogmi events
We conduct regular practices at Drogmi Retreat Centre, various retreats throughout the year, as well as Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe's teaching programme around Australia.
You are invited to a Maaarvellous Garden Party!
Put the afternoon of Sunday 30 November in your diary right away before it gets allocated to some other seasonal festivity that will be neither as glamorous or as much fun. It's a garden party in gorgeous Wentworth Falls.
[More details...]
Our next retreat
Attending the Green Tara and Vajrasattva retreat, from 27-31 December 2008, will help us prepare for a successful New Year by removing both our inner and outer obstacles. Green Tara is the manifestation of all the Buddha’s action and the remover of all obstacles and the granter of all one’s wishes. She protects us from fear and uncertainty and heals negative and disturbing emotions.
Vajrasattva is a powerful purification practice. It purifies negative karma and obscurations of body, speech and mind.
[More details...]
Regular Sunday practices
Our regular meditation practices include:
- Green Tara practice
- Shamatha meditation
- Vajrayogini practice with teaching, questions and answers
[Regular practice programme...]
Khenpo's teaching programme
Khenpo has taught all over Australia and internationally in the last 12 years, and maintains a busy schedule. He regularly gives talks and conducts meditation programmes in central and western Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the New South Wales south coast, as well as many other locations.
[Upcoming dates and venues...]
