THE COMPLETION OF PRIMORDIAL WISDOM:

A YANGZAB DZOGCHEN RETREAT

with Ven. Khenpo Yeshi Rinpoche

Sunray Peace Village | Lincoln, VT & Online

June 26-28, 2026

Dear Dharma Friends,

Drikung Dzogchen Community Vermont warmly invites you to join us June 26-28 for a three-day Yangzab Dzogchen retreat in Lincoln, Vermont and online. We are honored to welcome accomplished scholar and practitioner Ven. Khenpo Yeshi Rinpoche to offer these profound teachings.

The Yangzab treasure teachings are unique to the Drikung Kagyu lineage, revealed as an earth treasure by Drikung Tertön Rinchen Phuntsok. Padmasambhava prophesied that these teachings would be especially effective at cutting through spiritual darkness in difficult times, leading to swift and complete realization.

Venerable Khenpo Yeshi Rinpoche will guide us through The Completion of Primordial Wisdom, the root Dzogrim text of the Yangzab cycle. Over the course of this very special retreat, Khenpo will provide teachings on core Yangzab Dzogchen practices. Transmissions will include Yangzab Padmasattva, a foundational Guru Yoga practice for purification and preparation for higher practice, and completion-stage Dzogchen practices including Trekchö and Thögal.

We hope you will join us for these precious teachings!

About Khenpo Yeshi Rinpoche

Ven. Khenpo Yeshi Rinpoche was born in Nakchu, East Tibet, in 1969. He showed a deep devotion to the Dharma from early childhood, and at thirteen received empowerments, transmissions, and oral instructions in the Longchen Nyingthig cycle from His Eminence Lungtok Rinpoche and His Eminence Nidrag Khenpo Konchok Gyaltsen.

At twenty he traveled to South India, where he trained across the Geluk, Kagyü, and Nyingma traditions at Sera Monastery, Dzogchen Monastery, and Drikung Jangchup Ling, excelling in both sutra and tantra. He studied closely with more than two dozen eminent masters and received the kama and terma transmissions of the Nyingma tradition from teachers including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche, and His Holiness Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche.

In 1993 he entered an intensive three-year retreat in Nepal under the renowned Dzogchen master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who granted him special Dzogchen teachings and personal instructions at the Asura Cave Retreat Center in Pharping. He went on to teach at Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling and Rangjung Yeshe Institute, helping shape monastic and international curricula still in use today. His connection with His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, beginning in 1998, eventually brought him to reside in the United States.

Khenpo Yeshi Rinpoche holds a PhD in South and Southeast Asian Studies from UC Berkeley and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford University.

You can learn more about Khenpo Yeshi at khenpoyeshi.com.



Schedule

Friday, June 26

6:30 PM

Yangzab Padmasattva transmission and teachings

Saturday, June 27

9:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Dzogchen teachings on Yangzab root treasure text The Completion of Primordial Wisdom

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Dzogchen teachings on Yangzab root treasure text The Completion of Primordial Wisdom

Sunday, June 28

9:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Dzogchen teachings on Yangzab root treasure text The Completion of Primordial Wisdom

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Dzogchen teachings on Yangzab root treasure text The Completion of Primordial Wisdom

Transmission for Yangzab Trekcho and Thogal root treasure texts

Retreat Details

Date

June 26-28, 2026

Location

Online & In Person

Sunray Peace Village

2202 Downingsville Rd

Lincoln, VT

Nestled in Vermont’s Green Mountains at the foot of Mount Abraham and near the headwaters of the New Haven River, Sunray Peace Village is recognized by native and Tibetan Buddhist traditions as a place of natural beauty and spiritual power.

Suggested Donation

$140 In person | $120 Online

Please contact us at ddcv@gmavt.net if you need work study or a scholarship. If you feel a connection to these teachings, please don’t hesitate to come. No one will be turned away for financial reasons.

Click the "Register Now" button to register for the event. If you have any problems with our online registration, please contact us and we will take care of it for you. It is preferable if you register in advance, but you can also register when you arrive for the event.

Online Attendance

Zoom links will be sent to all registrants one day prior to the retreat.

If you have to miss any sessions, recordings of the teachings will be available at no cost after the retreat.

Accommodations

Limited housing with local community members is available for $25/night. Please contact us to arrange community housing: ddcv@gmavt.net or 802-349-7778.

On-site camping at Sunray Peace Village is also available. Sunray offers a variety of camping accommodations, from space to pitch your own tent to "glamping" tents with beds and linens. Please contact Sunray directly to reserve space.

You can learn more about camping options at sunray.org.

For a list of local inns and other lodging resrouces, please visit our website.

If you need help with anything or would like more information about the retreat, please don't hesitate to contact us at ddcv@gmavt.net or 802-349-7778.

Drikung Dzogchen Community Vermont

Celebrating 25 Years of Dharma, 2001-2026

www.ddcv.com