Date: December 9th-22nd, 2024.
December 9th to 22nd, 2024 at Tsegyalgar West - in person & online via Zoom
Hosted by Tsegyalgar West in collaboration with Tsegyalgar East
Sessions are 9am-12pm and 2:30pm-5:30pm MST (GMT-7)
Mountain Standard Time
Check your time zone>>
This retreat is open to those who have transmission from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu or Yeshi Namkhai **or** have sincere intentions to receive it and are current members of the International Dzogchen Community. If you are not a member but are considering becoming one, and are seriously interested in attending the retreat, please contact us at admin@tsegyalgarwest.org
Practitioners who are interested to deepen the unique transmission of our master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and approach the most essential Dzogchen teachings will benefit from this program.
For more information and to register>>
"A" image courtesy of Kay Konrad
Member of the German Dzogchen community
About Elias Capriles
Elías Capriles is a Santi Maha Sangha Teacher authorized by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, whom he first met in 1978 in Boudhanath. He practiced Dzogchen in successive strict 3 months retreats in the Himalayas between 1977 and the end of 1982, after receiving Tregchö instructions from H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche and Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. He also received teachings and transmissions from H.H. Dilgo Khyentse, Dodrub Chen Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche and Pema Norbu Rinpoche.
As a whole, he has published more than 20 books, as well as five internet books, over forty academic papers and twelve book chapters, dealing with Dzogchen and Tibetan Buddhism; transpersonal psychology; ontology; philosophy of history; aesthetics; political philosophy; epistemology; sociology; axiology, etc.
He is retired from the Chair of Eastern Studies and the Center for Studies on Africa and Asia the University of The Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. He has offered conferences in many Universities across the Americas, Europe and Asia, and has also led workshops and courses in many countries. He managed “spiritual emergency refuges” where “psychotics” would go through the natural self-healing process in which they unwillingly embarked, and has been an ecological activist. He is a member of the Board of the International Transpersonal Association; among his works on this subject, most recent and best known is the four-volume work The Beyond Mind Papers: Transpersonal and Metatranspersonal Theory.