A practice of offering, purification, and healing

Riwo Sangchö (Tib. རི་བོ་བསང་མཆོད་, Wyl. ri bo bsang mchod) or literally “mountain smoke offering” is a powerful practice of offering, purification, and healing.

Tulku Rigdzin Pema Rinpoche will base his explanation of the Riwo Sangchö practice mainly on Gyalse Shenpen Taye's commentary entitled “The Gentle Rain of Benefit and Joy” and explain step by step how to perform the practice, including all visualizations.

The Riwo Sangchö practice is a terma hidden by Guru Rinpoche and revealed in the 17th century by the great yogi and tertön Lhatsün Namkha Jikmé (1597-1653), who brought the Dharma to Sikkim. The terma is part of Rigdzin Sokdrup's profound Dharma cycle, The Perfection of the Life Force of the Vidyadharas.

Of the many ways to perform this practice in detailed or condensed form, Dudjom Rinpoche compiled an abridged version for daily practice, which is practiced by the Rigpa Sangha.

Tulku Rigdzin Pema Rinpoche is a close disciple of Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and a realized practitioner.

His main teachers were Rago Choktrul, Pema Kunzang Rangdrol, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche, and Penor Rinpoche. He holds the traditions of Adzom Drukpa and Longchen Nyingtik.

After fleeing Tibet in the early 1980s, he lived mainly with Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche at Shechen Monastery in Nepal as a close disciple and companion.

He is an expert in the construction of stupas and was responsible for the completion of a large number of stupas in Asia, Europe, and the United States. It was Tulku Rigdzin Pema Rinpoche who led the reconstruction of the Great Stupa of Boudhanath after the 2015 earthquake.

In recent years, Tulku Rigdzin Pema Rinpoche has meticulously overseen the preparation, construction, and blessing of the five stupas of Rigpa (including those in Dharma Mati and Sukhavati) and has given numerous teachings and transmissions in Rigpa centers, mostly from the Longchen Nyingtik lineage.

Schedule
Saturday | September 27 | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday | September 28 | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

The times are provisional and subject to change.

Venue
The Dharma Mati in Berlin-Charlottenburg is highly valued by many visitors as a place of tranquillity in the city. At the same time, Dharma Mati offers an extensive programme of events on the topics of meditation, compassion, healing, death and dying as well as Buddhist philosophy and culture.