19 Jun 2026

The Completion of Primordial Wisdom

June 26-28, 2026 | Online & In Person | Sunray Peace Village

The Completion of Primordial Wisdom

A Yangzab Dzogchen Retreat with Khenpo Yeshi Rinpoche

Khenpo Yeshi with HE Garchen Rinpoche

The Drikung Dzogchen Community of Vermont is hosting a rare opportunity to receive teachings from the Yangzab Dzogchen tradition with Venerable Khenpo Yeshi Rinpoche, a deeply trained scholar-practitioner whose Dharma life includes intensive Dzogchen retreat, years of teaching in Nepal and the United States, and a long connection with His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche.

The retreat will focus on The Completion of Primordial Wisdom, the root Dzogrim text of the Yangzab Treasure Teachings, and will also feature transmissions for Padmasattva Guru Yoga, and Yangzab completion-stage practices, including Trekcho and Thogyal.

For more information: https://ddcv.com/events.html

Schedule

Friday, June 26, 6:30 PM

Introduction to Yangzab Treasure Teachings
Preliminary Dzogchen Practice Transmissions

Saturday, June 27 (9:30 AM – 5:00 PM)

Completion of Primordial Wisdom Teachings
Padmasattva Guru Yoga Transmission
Completion of Primordial Wisdom Teachings
Special Transmissions to be Announced

Sunday, June 28 (9:30 AM – 5:00 PM)

Completion of Primordial Wisdom Teachings
Yangzab Completion Stage Transmissions
Completion of Primordial Wisdom Teachings
Yangzab Completion Stage Transmissions

Quotations

Often as people come closer and closer to understanding their true nature, they find themselves distracted and annoyed by things, or deep fears come up that they had not known were there. When these fears and other uncertainties of the mind arise, it is a great opportunity to see them as they are, just thought patterns, and have no attachment to them. (p. 258)

Voices of Our Ancestors

Ceremony is the opportunity to say thank you. It is the gift of our life force and our thought to explore the potential. Ceremony honors the cycles of the moon, the sun, and even more subtle cycles that connect our solar system with other galaxies and the very heart of this and all universes.

Learning Cherokee Ways

As human beings we have a significant responsibility in this time. It is to relate to those patterns in ourselves that lead to fear, doubt, and aggression in such a way that they are transmuted. You never deny what is, but simply acknowledge, “Oh, that feeling is there.” Is it really you? No, it is feeling arising from emotion. Generate the antidote.

Voices of our Ancestors

Each of us is a battery, a resonator, a musical instrument, and we are setting waves of many patterns and many possible futures in the sea of life. Let us be discriminating in the futures that we shape forth. (p. 157)

Voices of Our Ancestors

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