Intensive Vajrasattva Practice with Yangsi Rinpoche

Next session: August 2026, dates to be announced

Presentation of the retreat

Continuing the tradition of recent years, Rinpoche offers to guide us in the purification practice of Vajrasattva. One of the fundamental characteristics of karma is that it grows over time, like a seed capable of yielding a large quantity of fruit. To prevent the growth of negative imprints in our mind, it is necessary to purify it. This is the very purpose of Vajrasattva practice. The recitation of its hundred-syllable mantra, combined with the application of the four opponent powers, allows for the elimination of negative karmas accumulated through body, speech, and mind, and also for the restoration of broken vows and samayas. This intensive practice is open to all, but it is preferable to have received the Vajrasattva initiation and to complete the four daily sessions.

The teacher

Born in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1968, Yangsi Rinpoche was recognized at the age of six as the reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun, one of Lama Yeshe’s teachers. He studied at Kopan Monastery and then at Sera Je Monastery in India where he obtained the title of Geshe Lharampa in 1995.

In 1998, driven by the wish to share the Dharma with Western students, Rinpoche traveled to the West, where he relinquished his vows, and has since offered numerous teachings across America and Europe.

He is currently the director of Maitripa Institute, a university he founded in Portland, USA.

He agreed to come each year to the Institute to guide retreats for his French students.

Conditions

Information and registration details to follow

The location

The retreat will be hosted by Institut Vajra Yogini, a Buddhist center located in a magnificent 19th century chateau in the French country-side near Toulouse.