From the Bhagavatī Prajñāpāramitā Hṛidaya

The Sutra of the Heart-Essence of Wisdom

ARI BHÖD'S ANNUAL

HEART SUTRA ACCUMULATION

SHER-NYING DÜD-DOK

Obstacle-Removing Retreat

July 10–12

Pema Drawa | Tehachapi, California


Presided Over By:

THE VENERABLE GELONG KALSANG RINPOCHE

with Venerable Lama Nawang Thogme

& Lama Kalsang Dorji

THIS TWO DAY RETREAT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED AS FOLLOWS:


DAY ONE & DAY TWO

Friday & Saturday, July 10th & 11th

Four one-hour recitation sessions of the Sutra of the Heart-Essence of Wisdom (Heart Sutra)

🕣 8:30 AM | 11:30 AM | 3:30 PM | 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)

You will need your Ari Bhöd Practice Book and/or the supplemental text, provided upon paid registration.


DAY THREE

Sunday, July 12th

🕣 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM (Pacific Time)

Daylong Sher-Nying Düd-Dok obstacle-clearing ceremonies—a companion practice to the Heart Sutra—offered to dispel outer, inner, and secret hindrances through the realization of prajñā (wisdom).

Please have your Ari Bhöd Practice Book and the supplemental text ready.

We encourage full-time participation, though part-time attendance is welcome. Whether you're with us for one day or the full three-day weekend, your presence and dedication will contribute to the success of this auspicious endeavor.


Now, at a time when spiritual and worldly obstacles are more prevalent than ever, (instead of doom scrolling, trolling & eye rolling) please join us in offering this direct and effective practice—so that we may transform our own minds, and in turn help bring about change in the minds of others thereby benefiting countless beings.
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Join us for this powerful retreat centered on the Prajñāpāramitā Hṛidaya Sūtra during Ari Bhöd’s annual Sher-Nying Düd-Dok /Heart Sutra

Obstacle-Averting Weekend.


The Heart Sutra is one of the most widely recited scriptures in Mahayana Buddhism. Composed sometime between 100 BCE and 500 CE, it draws from much longer Prajnaparamita texts, some thousands of lines in length, and offers a condensed expression of their essential teachings. The sutra depicts the Historical Buddha Shakyamuni seated in deep meditative absorption (samadhi) while Avalokitesvara (Chenrezig, སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་) Bodhisattva delivers the teaching on emptiness to Sariputra, one of the Buddha’s closest disciples. The Heart Sutra conveys the profound insight into the emptiness of all phenomena, including the five aggregates (skandhas) that make up individual experience.


In Tibetan Buddhism, this short but powerful text, just about 250 words in Sanskrit, is revered for its ability to cut through confusion and reveal the nature of reality. It is included in the Tibetan canon (Kangyur) and forms the basis for various liturgies and ceremonies, including the Sher-Nying Düd-Dok practice for clearing obstacles.


Sher-Nying = “Heart of Wisdom,” and Düd-Dok = “Dispelling Obstacles.”


This retreat offers a concise yet profoundly vast opportunity to relate with the nature of emptiness through practice and ritual dispersing outer, inner, and secret hindrances by invoking the direct realization of the Heart Sutra’s wisdom.


With extensive accumulation of the Heart Sutra, torma offerings, and averting prayers, we invoke the liberating clarity of transcendent wisdom (prajna) to purify confusion, illness, and countless obstacles, seen & unseen.


In this short but potent retreat, we endeavor together to restore balance and clarity for ourselves, our communities, and all beings.


A Heart Sutra / Sher-Nying Düd-Dok retreat led by fully ordained Bhikshu monks such as Venerable Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche and Venerable Lama Thogme forges a deep and auspicious interdependence for all who participate. This transformative three-day gathering offers a rare and genuine opportunity to dispel obstacles related to health, spiritual practice, and the relative challenges of daily life for the benefit of ourselves and all beings.

The

Venerable

Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche

Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche is a fully ordained Bhikshu monk and Lama of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He is renowned as a highly accomplished meditator and master of retreat. Ordained as a monk at the age of eleven, Rinpoche studied with and received empowerments and teachings from many of the foremost Lamas of the Nyingma lineage in this era, including His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, His Holiness Trulshik Rinpoche, His Holiness Chatral Rinpoche, His Holiness Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, and His Holiness Dodrupchen Rinpoche.


In the 1980s, the Venerable Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche was appointed by his root lama, His Holiness Chatral Rinpoche, to serve as the Dorje Lopön (Vajra Master) for Pal Rigdzin Drubpe Gatsal Ling (“The Glorious Pleasure Grove of the Accomplished Awareness Holders”), the monastery of His Holiness Chatral Rinpoche at Yangleshö in Pharping, Nepal, a post Gelong Rinpoche dutifully held for many years.


Currently, Rinpoche generously teaches the Buddha-Dharma throughout the world and faithfully presides over many of Ari Bhöd’s annual retreats in Tehachapi, CA. The Venerable Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche is one of Ari Bhöd’s most revered visiting lamas. Humble, generous, and kind—a true Dharma treasure—Rinpoche and his vast Dharma knowledge are a guiding light for all.


Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche currently serves as Abbot and Spiritual Director of the Nyingmapa Padmasambhava Pureland Buddhist Association in Taiwan, as well as at his long-term retreat centers throughout Nepal, including his monastery Kunkhap Yosal Thonkdol Chöling in Pharping, where Rinpoche is in the final stages of completing his extraordinary Zangdok Palri Monastery—a heartfelt offering dedicated to the benefit of all sentient beings: past, present, and future.


If you wish to know more about Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche’s Zangdok Palri project, please visit: https://zangdokpalrinepal.org/

Retreat Reminders

• No empowerment is required to attend this retreat. All who have taken refuge in the Three Jewels with a qualified Lama are warmly welcome.

• Part-time attendance is perfectly fine—join as you are able.

• Upon completing your registration, you will receive:

  • Zoom login details
  • Supplemental texts
  • Full retreat information

• Please reach out with any retreat-related questions or to register by phone:

📞 661-221-8156

📧 contact@aribhod.org

• In-person participants: Please register by Monday, August 4th.


YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED & SINCERELY ENCOURAGED TO JOIN VENERABLE GELONG KALSANG RINPOCHE AND THE VENERABLE LAMA THOGMED IN OUR HEART SUTRA RETREAT MANDALA BY CONTRIBUTING TO THE DAILY TSOG, BUTTER-LAMP, SHRINE, AND CEREMONIAL OFFERINGS MADE THROUGHOUT THIS EVENT.


YOUR DONATIONS AND DEDICATIONS ARE MEANINGFUL. PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR DEDICATIONS OF MERIT ALONG WITH YOUR OFFERING SO THEY MAY BE READ ALOUD DURING THE RETREAT. ALL DONORS WILL BE ADDED TO THE HINDRANCE & OBSTACLE REMOVAL CEREMONY LIST.


YOU ARE ALSO WELCOME TO SPONSOR ON BEHALF OF OTHERS—PLEASE INCLUDE THEIR NAMES WITH YOUR DONATION AND DEDICATION SO BENEFICIARIES MAY BE INCLUDED IN ALL HINDRANCE & OBSTACLE REMOVAL CEREMONIES.
CLICK HERE TO DONATE & DEDICATE TO THE ANNUAL HEART SUTRA ACCUMULATION & SHER-NYING DÜD-DOK HINDERANCE AND OBSTACLE REMOVING RETREAT. May all obstacles be dispelled!


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May Wisdom & Compassion Flourish!

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