The Vision

Evam Mingyur Ling Meditation, Healing and Enlightenment Center is dedicated to maintaining and spreading the Ancient Wisdom Traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism for the peace, prosperity and ethical foundation of current and future generations. Through establishing harmony within individuals and enlightened activity among spiritual practitioners, the global community is the ultimate beneficiary.

His Holiness Chadral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche has blessed and named this center "The Place Where the Three Impure Realms of Samsara are Emptied into Unchanging Great Bliss". 

His Holiness Chadral Rinpoche's Own Script and auspicious blessing for Evam Mingyur Ling

The center is being established in order to uphold the unbroken transmission lines of the precious Buddha Dharma.  The center is an important and unique facility where a wide range of traditional subjects can be studied, practiced and realized:

• Meditation, Rituals and Practices

• Physical and Mental Yogas

• Sacred Tibetan Arts

• Sciences for the Establishment of Sacred Monuments

• Sacred Medicine Production and Potentization

• Healing Arts and Yantra Production

Each of the above skillful means is capable of removing suffering and the causes of suffering. Through these, individuals can restore their original inner balance and create the sources of true happiness.

The Place

The center is located in the Pure Land Secret and Holy Abode of Sanku Vajrayogini (Ugra Tara) on the eastern edge of the Kathmandu Valley, in the Kingdom of Nepal. Overlooking the ancient and peaceful town of Sanku, this is a Sacred Goddess site of the ancient lineage of Shakya Demma, consort of Padmasambhava. Situated on the old route from Tibet to India, it has been a place of pilgrimage for over a thousand years. Surrounded by fruit trees, wild animals, farmland and many auspicious natural signs, the center sits below the holy meditation caves of the great saints Naropa, Marpa, and Milarepa.

Our facilities are being built as funds permit and will eventually include all of the below:

• General assembly pavilion for 200 people

• Yoga and shrine hall to hold 75-150 individuals

• World Peace Monument

• 4 Teacher’s Quarters

• Retreat cabins

• Meditation gardens

• Solar Electricity throughout the site

• Buddhist Exercise Pavilion

• Local gardens yielding organic meals.

Karga Yogini

(a wrathful form of Vajrayogini at Sanku)

The facility will accommodate activities for a wide range of needs, including:

• Individual and group meditation retreats of various lengths
• Individual guided meditation retreats
• Personal, one-on-one teachings
• Monthly meditation and offering ceremonies
• Annual Drubchen ceremony (great accomplishment ceremony)
• Consecration Rituals for Sacred Medicines, Rupas and Vases
• Teaching Events of various lengths from lineage masters
• World Peace ceremonies

Teachers

Born as Adam Friedensohn and recognized as the activity emanation of the Yogi and Loppön, Tulku Chimed Yugyal of Rangnang Ogminling Dzogchenpa Monastery of Kham Riwoche, Tibet, Lama Rangbar exemplifies the transfer of Eastern wisdom to Western mind, having absorbed these living traditions over a 28-year period. Today he is one of the few Westerners who can lucidly explain spiritual principles, based on direct experience and realization. Lama Rangbar's root Guru is His Holiness Dunjom Rinpoche and he has spent the last 16 years in Nepal. He has studied with, His Holiness Chadral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche, His Holiness Trulshig Rinpoche, His Holiness Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche, Karma Gyalpo Rinpoche, Acharya Dawa  Chodrak Rinpoche as well as with other great masters of the non-monastic, White-Robed lineage. Lama Rangbar is also well versed in Feng Shui and has offered consultations in several countries.  Currently, he is building the first Tersar Naljor retreat and spiritual practice / learning center of its kind, Evam Mingyur Ling (Place of Unchanging Great Bliss), in Nepal. Lama Rangbar is the founder and director of the Ngakdra Labrang and is presently authoring several books on the integration of Vajrayana Buddhism into daily life.

Participants

The center and its activities are geared towards the entire spectrum of practitioners and interested individuals including:

Beginners and members of the general public that wish an in-depth introduction and practice opportunity.

Intermediate & Advanced i.e. long-time Dharma practitioners, seeking meditation retreat opportunities and more advanced practices, teachings and trainings

While teaching and training in the traditions of the Ngakpa, the center accepts all true seekers of any religious, spiritual, ethnic or cultural background.

Monthly Practices

Evam Mingyur Ling will be hosting monthly practices of Tse Chu and Nyernga (the 10th and 25th of the lunar month) and the full and new moon dates as well. Tsok (Wisdom offering accumulation practices) of Guru Padmasambhava, Yeshe Tsogyal and Troma Nagmo will be highlighted.  Additional practices of Shakyamuni Buddha, Medicine Buddha and Lineage protectors will also be held regularly.

Pujas of various types can be performed at Evam Mingyur Ling for the benefit of sponsors and all beings. These can be done remotely, to positively affect people or situations regardless of their proximity in time and space. A comprehensive list of the skillful methods used within the Tibetan system could fill volumes. Some of the most commonly practiced ceremonies are as follows:

Purification and Increase:

• Purifying the land home and raising lungtra: GyaNgen Lha Sang

• Mountain of Burnt Offerings (Riwo Sang Chod)

• Hooking of wealth and prosperity: Yang Guk

• Drawing in of life force: Tse Guk

• Spontaneous accomplishment of all wishes: Sampa Lhundrup

• Naga Pujas and healing rituals

Healing

• Medicine Accomplishment (Men Chok)

• Tamdrin, Vajrapani, Garuda (Ta Chak Kyung Sum)

• Don Release

Removal of Obstacles and Protection

• Removal of obstacles: Barchad Lamsal

• Protective rites: Tara puja or Drön Chok

• Mountain of Burnt Offerings (Riwo Sang Chöd)

Reversing of Negativity

• Reversal of negative influences: Dokpa pa

• Heart Sutra reversal: Sherab Nyingpo Dokpa

For the Deceased

• Cemetery ritual for the deceased: Dur

• Ngowa: also for the deceased

• Bardo passage: Sur Chöd, 49 days burnt offerings for the deceased

Scripture Readings

• Sodrangma  (to increase progeny)

• Katang Denga

• Pema Katang

• Prajnaparamita and Prajnaparamita Dokpa

Guidelines for Sponsorship of Prayers, Pujas and Ceremonies

The tradition of sponsoring prayers, pujas and other Buddhist ceremonies is an ancient one dating back to before Lord Shakyamuni Buddha's time.  Whereas Lamas are constantly praying for the welfare of all sentient beings equaniminously,  sponsors may wish for focused efforts towards a particular concern and therefore opt to support a ceremony for positive effect. Based on an understanding that the situations of our physical reality stem from countless cause and effect (Karmic) roots, we can accumulate merit by becoming a cause in the performance of ceremonies that are dedicated to all beings and also benefit a specific concern to alleviate suffering and hail in auspicious circumstances.

Pujas are arranged after e-mail communications between organizing Lamas and sponsors. There are no set prices for prayers as benefactors can offer as they wish.  However, for more complex ceremonies and pujas, elaborate preparations and practices are required which can take from one or several days to complete by a few or several Lamas.  For this reason, it is necessary to cover the costs for these rituals in order for them for them to be performed properly.

Yearly Sanku Vajrayogini Jatra

Every year the townspeople of Sanku ascend the mountain on the northern side of their village, climbing the sacred dwelling place of the goddess Vajrayogini (Kargayogini). From there, they accompany her and her two escorts, Baghini (Tiger-headed Dakini) and Singhini (Lion-headed Dakini), down the mountainside to the village, to bless her followers.

The yearly Sanku festival, or Jatra as it is called in Nepali, presents participants with the opportunity to worship the Goddess as she passes by various locations on her descent.

Evam Mingyur Ling has created a retreat period at the time of this festival, dedicated to the Goddess in her various forms. A special two week mediation period takes place with both group Dakini Sadhana practice as well as individual silent retreat.

The retreat begins on the first day of descent of the Dakinis from their mountain abode, joining the special procession of the deity down the hillside. As she passes the retreat land, special aspiration prayers are made for a successful retreat and that the land be blessed. The Great Accomplishment ceremony commences on this evening, and continues in an unbroken manner, day and night, for 8-9 days. The retreat ends when the procession returns to the mountain temple. At this point, retreatants will continue individual retreats on the same, or other forms of the Dakini.

Evam Mingyur Ling is funded by public and private donations and contributions. Currently funds are being sought to establish the below facilities in priority order:

Budget Summary