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 |telephone=4427998793
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+|retreattype=Solitary hermitage
+|solcenterstreet=PO Box 1443
+|solcenterstreet2=1120 Shangrila Lane
+|solcentercity=Joshua Tree
+|solcenterstateprov=CA
+|solcenterpostalcode=92252
+|solcentercountry=United States of America
+|solstartdate=2025-02-05
+|solenddate=2031-08-27
+|solretreatliaisonemail=senge7@gmail.com
+|SolHermDescription=10x16 hut in the desert outside of Joshua Tree, CA. It has a loft with a mattress and a practice area and kitchen below with a water tap outside.
+|cvedu=New Westminster Secondary School (unfinished due to illness) 1993
+Four year work study and retreat program at Rigdzin Ling from 1995 to 1999 under Chagdud Tulku and Lama Drime
+Manjushree Institute of Language in Darjeeling, India - studied spoken Tibetan for 3 months 2004-2005
+|cvwork=Yoga teacher from 2002-2004 in London and Miami
+|studiedtibetan=Yes
+|spokentibcomprehension=Near native speaker
+|writtentibcomprehension=Near native skills
+|tibetanrequiredforretreat=Required
+|tibetanretreatparts=All of my practice texts, prayers, rituals. Commentaries, namtars etc are in Tibetan as was the case during my previous three year retreats.
+|introbuddhism=I started formally in 1995 with Chagdud Rinpoche at his retreat center in Junction Ciy, CA where I lived for 4 years doing work-study and half-time retreat going through their 4 year Vajrayana, Tsalung, and Dzogchen curriculum. My first empowerments and teachings were the Nyingtik Yabzhi, followed by the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro which I completed by July 1996. Then I received Troma Nakmo, Dudjom Lingpa’s Nang Jang, Yeshe Lama, Rigdzin Sokdrup Tsalung, and Chetsun Nyingtik. I engaged in two six week group retreats each year, 3 months of tsalung, 100 day Chetsun retreat, and a solitary 3 month retreat. After reading Shabkar’s biography and others, it became clear that the way we were being taught and practicing was not how the great masters of the past did. So in August of 99’, I went to Nepal to learn the authentic tradition.
+|refugehistory=From Chagdud Rinpoche, in October 1995 I received refuge and bodhichitta vows.
+|formalvows=Yes
+|formalvowsdetails=In 1998 I was encouraged by Lama Pema Dorje to hold the outer Ngagpa Vows. But then in 1999, at Tashi Jong, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo encouraged me to take pure (celibate) genyen ordination from the young Khamtrul with the Togdens acting as the officiating monks. Finally, in the Spring of 2004, I took gelong ordination from Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche at Shechen Monastery and have held the vows ever since.
+|ngondrocomplete=Yes
+|ngondro1=Dudjom Tersar
+|ngondro1begin=1995-12-01
+|ngondro1end=1996-07-01
+|ngondro2=Chetsun Nyingtik
+|ngondro2begin=2007-07-01
+|ngondro2end=2008-04-01
+|ngondro3=Chetsun Nyingtik
+|ngondro3begin=2008-04-01
+|ngondro3end=2009-01-01
+|ngondronotes=In 1999 to 2000 I spent 6 months in a cave in Tso Pema doing four three hour sessions of the Chetsun Nyingtik Ngondro, but didn’t focus on numbers, rather on mind-space, visualization, and feeling. Each session I went through each branch of the Ngondro. Then in my three year retreat in Nepal, I did the CN Ngondro one and a half times along with a year of mind training on the 7 thoughts, refuge, and predominantly bodhichitta. Including the time in the cave, I. Punt that as two cycles of Ngondro. I have also don 10,000 each of the Drikung and Yangti Nagpo preliminaries and am starting the Longchen Nyingtik now to completion.
+|previousretreatsdetails=I did 3 six-week group Nang Jang retreats from 1995-1998 and two six-week Yeshe Lama retreats during the same years.
+In 1999 I did a group 100 day Chetsun Nyingtik Retreat followed by a 1 month solitary retreat.
+Then in December 1999 I entered into a solitary retreat in a cave in Tso Pema until Jun 2000
+I began a traditional 3 year retreat at Chagdud Ritro, outside of Pharping Nepal with 8 Eastern Tibetan monks and HH Katok Getse Rinpoche. Then with Rinpoche’s blessings I went to Lapchi, where I lived in retreat in a cave for 14 months.
+In 2012, I entered an 8 month or so retreat in Arkansas
+In 2014 to 2018, with Tsadra’s kindness, I spent 5 years in retreat between a cave in New Mexico and a hermitage in Crestone, CO.
+In 2019 I did a few months of retreat in Nepal.
+In 2022 I lived in retreat in a tent on the side of Mt. Tuam in retreat.
+2 months group retreat on Mt Tuam and 1 month solitary retreat in Austria.
+6 months loose retreat in Joshua Tree.
+|advstudiesprogsdetails=I repeated the first year of a Nyingma Shedra twice as my Tibetan was weak during the first year, from 2005-2007
+I have received many teachings as well, on subjects ranging from preliminaries such as Words of My Perfect Teacher, Zablam Norbu Melong, The entire Katok path from Ngondro to Dzogchen, every commentary and teaching on Troma Nakmo, Chetsun Nyingtik, kyerim and dzogrim commentaries from the Longchen Nyingtik and Yangti Nagpo. The Tsoknyi ngondro manual, the one-to-one Khenpo Ngagchun Oral Dzogchen lineage, the one-to-one Adzom Twenty-Five Spheres Dzogchen transmission. I have also listened to many lamas teachings in Tibetan and Einglish on Madyamikavatara, Gyud Lama, Guhyagharba, and other seminal works while in retreat during my breaks. In accordance with Getse Rin-ochre’s advice, I continue to listen to recordings of master during my breaks.
+|ynofferedservices=Yes
+|offeredservicesdetails=I did translation work for HH Getse Rinpoche, Tulku Sang Ngag and Tsoknyi Rinpoche. And in accordance with many of my lamas, I began to teach, for now focusing on Ngondro (Katok and Longchen Nyingtik), the extensive commentary to the 37 Practices by Dzatrul Ngawang Tenzin Norbu, and the practices of Shamatha and Vipasyana.
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