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 |Submissiondate=2026-03-7
 |Submissionyear=2026
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 |telephone=6478556323
 |retreattype=Three-year retreat
 |center=Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrenees
 |centerstreet=Mas can pere courreu departmentale route 13
 |centercity=La bastide
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 |enddate=2029-12-31
 |retreatmaster=Drupon Lama Tenzin
 |retreatadministrator=Mikk Tamme
 |[email protected]
 |retreatliaison=Mikk Tamme
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 |cvedu=Oakwood Collegiate Institute/Subway Academy 2, High School Graduate 2010
 Toronto Ontario
 |cvwork=BBB Architects September 2022 - current. Office maintenance
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 Horseshoe Hill Construction
 November 2018- December 2019
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 |ngondro2begin=2023-07-16
 |ngondro2end=2024-03-15
 |ngondro3=Mandala
 |ngondro3begin=2024-03-15
 |ngondro3end=2024-05-31
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-|letterofmotivation=I have seen for myself that even a small amount of practice and exposure to the dharma with limited understanding can bring great benefit and meaning to life and this gives me confidence that through the Mahayana path one can truly be of benefit and use to others in a vast way. I believe the opportunity to take part in this retreat would be a great help in going in this direction.
-A few years ago I had the good fortune to make a connection to the Palyul lineage through their center in Toronto, and for the past three summers I've been attending month-long retreats at their center in upstate NY for ngondro, Tsa lung and Khorde rushen. While a month in retreat first sounded daunting, and like something only for the highly evolved, I have come to the conclusion that anyone can practice the dharma in meaningful way. Doing these retreats, practicing at home and studying with increased inspiration quickly instilled in me an aspiration to take part in the three-year retreats that I had heard about. I talked with my teacher from the Toronto center, Tulku Dawa Rinpoche, a couple of times about it in a general way and he was supportive of my aspirations. At the end of this September, we did a week-long retreat for Tara practice at Orgyan Osal Cho Dzong, located in an isolated area of eastern Ontario. From the limited practice that I have done, I have sometimes felt as if I was finally becoming slightly aware of beginningless delusion as the driving force of one's mental projections and suffering, and somehow during this short retreat, more than ever, this experience felt vivid. A few days after retreat, I somehow felt that now was the time to research the possibility of a three-year retreat more earnestly. As far as I know, Palyul is not set up at this point for these retreats in the West so I started by doing some research online. I knew that I would want to continue practicing in the Nyingma tradition and had heard that Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche was doing a retreat for Westerners in France. I got in touch with the coordinator there who sent me an information package. While mulling this over and listening to Rinpoche's teachings online, I felt deeply inspired by his clear explanations and evident compassion and felt a great longing to take part in this retreat under the guidance of this genuine master. Before formally applying, I spoke to Tulku Dawa Rinpoche and he encouraged me to go ahead and kindly wrote a letter of recommendation. Bearing in mind the four thoughts, refuge/bodhicitta and the great force of habitual tendency, I believe practicing in long-term retreat to be the ideal way to work with the samsaric state of delusion in which I find myself.
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