This event takes place September 19–22, 2025.
(Asia-Pacific restream September 20-23), 2025.
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.
There are prerequisites for attendance at this event.
Requirements for participation: To have attended Path of Liberation Levels 1 and 2 and completed the associated practice requirements.
Translation from English will be offered in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Liberation is not something you have to create; liberation is inside you.
– Tai Situ Rinpoche
Can I get access to a recording of this event?
Recordings of the teaching sessions will be posted within 1 week after the end of the last session and will be available for two months. Simply log in to the events page to access the recordings. However, please note that you are required to attend all teachings live or by official restream if this is your first time attending this level of the Path of Liberation. This is because the event includes transmissions that can only be received live.
Recordings of the main and Europe/Africa/Asia-Pacific section teaching sessions will be provided in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Recordings of the Americas section teachings will be provided in Portuguese, Chinese, and Spanish.
Also note that participants in certain regions may encounter difficulties accessing the content due to restrictions in those regions.
Recognizing the nature of mind throughout all experiences is at the heart of Tergar’s Path of Liberation program. During this retreat, Mingyur Rinpoche will transmit the third and fourth pointing out instructions of the Mahamudra lineage, helping to infuse your formal meditation and everyday-life practices with the recognition of nature of mind. Additionally, you will receive instructions on mandala offering and guru yoga, the third and fourth foundational practices, respectively.
This program contains core elements of the Path of Liberation as presented by Mingyur Rinpoche. During this retreat, Rinpoche will provide further instructions on the nature of mind and foundational practices. These profound practices have served as the basis for the Mahamudra lineage for centuries.
If you have previously attended a Path of Liberation Level 3 & 4 retreat, we warmly encourage you to join us again. Each year, Mingyur Rinpoche brings fresh perspectives to his teachings and instructions, offering guided meditations and deepening key aspects of the practice.
The techniques taught in this program, and associated benefits, are the most profound in the Buddhist tradition.
In this program, you will:
To have attended Path of Liberation Levels 1 and 2 and completed the associated practice requirements.
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
Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings for this event will be restreamed during the morning/afternoon on September 20–23. This allows participants in Asia-Pacific time zones to join Rinpoche’s teaching at a convenient time, whilst attending the rest of the Europe/Africa/Asia-Pacific sessions live. Live interpretation will be provided in Chinese and Japanese during the restream.
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Full refunds will be issued for cancellation requests made at least one hour before the event.
Tergar is a nonprofit organization committed to making the benefits of meditation available to all. If the fees prevent you from participating, please contact [email protected]
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.
Lama Trinley has been the resident teacher at the Tergar Mingjue Phoenix Center since November, 2007. Lama Trinley began his education at Tergar Monastery, where he studied the rituals, prayers, and other traditional practices of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He entered the traditional three-year retreat when he was seventeen years old, after which he spent six years training in the monastic college of Tergar Monastery, where he taught for three years as assistant professor. His command of English and his humble and gentle demeanor make him easily accessible to newcomers and experienced meditators alike.
Khenpo Gyurmé ordained as a monk at Tergar Monastery, Nepal, at the age of six. There he completed the primary monastic education, studying Tibetan language, Buddhist ritual, and philosophy. Following his training at Tergar Monastery, he was sent to Sherabling Monastery, the seat of Tai Situ Rinpoche, to complete nine years of formal Tibetan Buddhist College (shedra). After graduating from the shedra, he taught for three years and eventually was granted the title of Khenpo, a recognition of his scholarly accomplishment and contribution to monastic education. Khenpo Gyurmé has also studied meditation extensively with Tai Situ Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
Khenpo Gyurmé is continuing his practice as the Principal of Education at Osel Ling Monastery in Nepal and has been teaching there for the past thirteen years. He is responsible for coordinating and overseeing more than 180 young monks' studies and teaching monastic and lay students, thus playing a very significant role in the development of the monastery. As the Abbot of the monastery, he is devoted to educational development and to supporting Buddhist practitioners along their path.