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Date/Time:
This event takes place March 7-8 (Asia-Pacific restream March 8-9), 2026.
IMPORTANT: Daylight Saving Time begins in the United States on Sunday, March 8, at 2:00 a.m. Clocks will move forward one hour. The teaching will still begin at 9:00 a.m. New York time (Eastern Time). This time change may affect participants in other regions, such as Europe, Africa, and Asia, where the session may begin one hour earlier than usual in your local time zone.
Registration
Registration will close 1 hour in advance of the event. Full refunds will be given for cancellation requests up to 1 hour in advance of the event.
Who can attend this event?
Prerequisites for attendance: To have attended a Tergar Path of Liberation Level 5 retreat with Mingyur Rinpoche or Khenpo Kunga. Completing the Level 5 practice requirements is NOT required to attend this event.
Translation
Translation from English will be offered in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Shabkar is regarded by many as the greatest yogi after Milarepa to gain enlightenment in one lifetime.
— H.H. the Dalai Lama
WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?
The Path of Liberation advanced retreat is the perfect opportunity to deepen your understanding and practice on the nature of mind and explore some of the most profound texts of our tradition under the direct guidance of Mingyur Rinpoche, as well as to gather together as a sangha with those who have accompanied you all along on your Path of Liberation journey at Tergar. In this year’s retreat, Mingyur Rinpoche will give teachings and commentaries on more songs from The Flight of the Garuda by Shabkar.
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
In this retreat, you will:
- receive instructions on the Dzogchen text The Flight of the Garuda by Shabkar
- receive the reading transmission for The Flight of the Garuda
- receive deepening nature of mind instructions beyond Path of Liberation Level 5
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS PROGRAM?
- Live teachings, Q&A, and practice sessions with Mingyur Rinpoche
- Teaching sessions with Tergar Lamas
- Q&A sessions with Tergar Guides
- Group meditation
Requirements for participation
To have attended a Tergar Path of Liberation Level 5 retreat with Mingyur Rinpoche or Khenpo Kunga. Completing the Level 5 practice requirements is NOT required to attend this event.
The requirements for participation were set in consultation with Mingyur Rinpoche. In turn, we ask that you honor them. Thank you!
Special note for students in Asia-Pacific time zones
For students in the Asia-Pacific time zones, Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings, the Tergar Lama’s teachings, and the Q&A session with guides will now be restreamed at convenient morning/afternoon times on March 8–9. Live simultaneous interpretation in Chinese is planned for the restream, and other languages may be added closer to the event.
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About Mingyur Rinpoche
In his approach to teaching meditation, Mingyur Rinpoche integrates traditional Buddhist practice and philosophy with the current scientific understanding of the mind and mental health – making the practice of meditation relevant and accessible to students around the world.
Mingyur Rinpoche is a world-renowned meditation teacher with personal experience of anxiety and panic attacks, which he suffered from throughout his childhood and into his teenage years, when he learned to transform his panic through meditation. Born in Nepal in 1975, Mingyur Rinpoche began to study meditation as a young boy with his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, himself a well-respected Buddhist teacher. As a child he became interested in contemporary science through conversations with scientists who were visiting his father, and as he grew older he began to collaborate with neuroscientists and psychologists, including Richard Davidson and Antoine Lutz at the University of Wisconsin, on research projects that study the effects of meditation on the brain and the mind.
Mingyur Rinpoche’s first book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. His second book, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom, explores how difficult emotions and challenging life situations can be used as stepping stones to discover joy and freedom. In his most recent book, In Love with the World, Mingyur Rinpoche shares how his meditation practice sustained him when he left his monastery to wander through India and the powerfully transformative insights he gained from the near-death experience he had at the beginning of his journey. Mingyur Rinpoche recently appeared in the Netflix series The Mind, Explained, in an episode about the benefits of mindfulness.
As the head of the Tergar Meditation Community, Mingyur Rinpoche supports groups of students in more than thirty countries, leading workshops around the world for new and returning students every year.
About Khenpo Kunga
Khenpo Kunga is a Senior Tergar Lama. He became a monk at a young age and began his education at Tergar monastery, where he studied the rituals, prayers, and other traditional practices of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. At fifteen, he entered an extended meditation retreat and spent three years mastering the profound contemplative practices of the Kagyü lineage.
Following this period of intense meditation practice, he entered the renowned Dzongsar monastic college near Dharamsala in Northwest India. After studying there for eleven years and receiving his Khenpo degree (roughly equivalent to a PhD), he taught at Dzongsar college for three additional years. Khenpo Kunga’s primary teacher is Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, though he has studied with many other revered masters as well.
In recent years, Khenpo Kunga has taught in Asia, Europe, and the United States as one of the main teachers for the worldwide network of Tergar monasteries, meditation centers, and meditation groups.
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