Ligmincha Texas

Warrior Syllables and The Five Wisdoms with Special Guest Teacher Marcy Vaughn
2025-11-22 10:00 - 2025-11-23 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Ligmincha Texas Center & Online via Zoom, 5316 Bellaire Blvd, Bellaire, TX, 77401, United States
Warrior Syllables and The Five Wisdoms
with Marcy Vaughn
November 22-23, 2025
The five Warrior Syllable practice describes a clear path from openness to
action. Please join Marcy in a meditation retreat to explore our inherent
capacity to transform confusion into wisdom and to awaken the inspiration
to bring benefit to oneself and to others through our actions.
“The reason these seed syllables are called warriors is because they are powerful and indestructible. They are associated with the Five Wisdoms—and it is wisdom that is able to penetrate fear and ignorance to cut the roots of samsara.” —Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Schedule – Saturday and Sunday CST

Session 1
10:00-11:15 am

Break
11:15-11:30 am

Session 2
11:30-12:30 pm

Meal Break
12:30-2:00 pm

Session 3
2:00-3:30 pm

Retreat teachings and practices will be taught in English.
Live translation will be available in Spanish.
Written translations will be available in Spanish.

REGISTRATION:
Complete payment below. After payment is complete, you will receive an email with links to the Zoom Registration and the Handouts. All recordings will be made available to registered participants after the retreat is over at the same link as the Handouts.
There is early bird pricing available until noon the Saturday before the retreat.
Financial hardship need not prevent practitioners from attending Zoom teachings. If you need assistance, please inquire about available scholarships by emailing info@ligminchatexas.org. This must be done at least 1 week prior to the retreat.
We have switched to using Zeffy. This allows us to keep 100% of your donations and registrations, as Zeffy does not charge us any payment processing fees. They do, however, ask you to make a donation to them. If you would prefer not to donate to Zeffy, in the Donation Box at the bottom, select “Other” from the Drop Down Box that is prefilled with a percentage and dollar amount , and leave the Contribution Box empty.

Marcy Vaughn has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for over 50 years, is a Senior Teacher of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and is Board President of The 3 Doors Academy. She graduated in the first class of the master’s program in contemplative psychology at Naropa University, where she also worked as Director of Admissions. Marcy is a counselor in private practice, offers both online and residential meditation groups and retreats, and teaches internationally throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In partnership with her husband, Gabriel Rocco, they designed and launched the 9-month Compassion Project, which explores meditation as a path to compassion for self and others. It is now offered internationally in multiple languages.
She has edited the books Awakening the Sacred Body, Tibetan Sound Healing, Awakening the Luminous Mind, and Spontaneous Creativity: Meditations for Manifesting Your Positive Qualities, all written by Tenzin Wangyal. She narrates the audio versions of his books available on Audible.

The Four Wheels of Yungdrung Bon with Drubdra Khenpo Rinpoche
2025-12-06 09:00 - 2025-12-07 11:30 | Zoom, United States
The Four Wheels of Yungdrung Bon
and Dzogchen Meditation
Retreat with Drubdra Khenpo Rinpoche
Abbot of the Meditation School at Triten Norbutse
This teaching is the essential foundation for the methods and practices in Yungdrung Bön. Drubdra Khenpo Rinpoche will teach and guide us in this precious retreat.
The Four Wheels
View from above: The philosophical view or wisdom perspective originates from the highest level – the ultimate truth, emptiness, or the nature of reality as seen by enlightened beings.
Conduct ascends from below: Our actual practice and behavior must start from the ground level and progress gradually upward.
The foundation is great compassion: Great compassion (mahākaruṇā) serves as the essential basis and motivation for the entire path. This is the heartfelt wish to free all sentient beings from suffering without exception.
The means are the ten pāramitās: The skillful methods for actualizing enlightenment are the ten pāramitās: generosity, ethical discipline, patience, diligent effort, meditative concentration, wisdom, skillful means, aspiration/prayer, spiritual power, and primordial wisdom. These are the concrete practices that bridge our compassionate motivation with the ultimate realization.
Schedule – Saturday and Sunday CST

Session 1
9:00-10:15 am

Break
10:15-10:30 am

Session 2
10:30-11:30 am

Retreat teachings and practices will be taught in English.
Live translation will be available in Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.
Written translations will be available in Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.

REGISTRATION:
Complete payment below. After payment is complete, you will receive an email with links to the Zoom Registration and the Handouts. All recordings will be made available to registered participants after the retreat is over at the same link as the Handouts.
There is early bird pricing available until noon the Saturday before the retreat.
Financial hardship need not prevent practitioners from attending Zoom teachings. If you need assistance, please inquire about available scholarships by emailing info@ligminchatexas.org. This must be done at least 1 week prior to the retreat.
We have switched to using Zeffy. This allows us to keep 100% of your donations and registrations, as Zeffy does not charge us any payment processing fees. They do, however, ask you to make a donation to them. If you would prefer not to donate to Zeffy, in the Donation Box at the bottom, select “Other” from the Drop Down Box that is prefilled with a percentage and dollar amount , and leave the Contribution Box empty.

Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Rinpoche
Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin was born in Yetha in the Hor region of East Tibet (Kham) in 1968 to a family of nomadic cattle herders. When he was nineteen, he entered the Lungkar Monastery, where he received teachings from lamas such as Uri Lama Nyima Lodrö and Lopön Drangsong Yungdrung. During this time, Tsultrim Tenzin completed the traditional preliminary practices, studied Tibetan grammar and poetry as well as various aspects of Bönpo philosophy. Tsultrim Tenzin served as umze, chant master, for three years in the Lungkar Monastery.
At the age of twenty-five, he moved to Menri Monastery in Central Tibet where he studied with Pönlob Kalzang Nyima from whom he received teachings on Denö Dzö authored by Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen Rinpoche (1859-1935), and the A-Tri Bönpo Dzögchen manual, and gained the experiential understanding of the Great Perfection. In 1993, Tsultrim Tenzin made the arduous journey to Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, to study intensively with his root Master Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, under whose guidance he deepened his knowledge of Sutra, Tantra, and Dzögchen. He also learnt astrology, traditional Tibetan medicine, and Sanskrit.
While studying, Tsultrim Tenzin served as the monastery’s chant master for six years, and as Gekkö (master) disciplinarian for three years. After completing the 14-year study program, he passed the Geshe examination in 2001 and received his Geshe degree (roughly equivalent to Doctor of Philosophy).
The following year, in 2002, Tsultrim Tenzin was appointed by Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche as Drubdra Khenpo, Abbot of the Meditation School, in Triten Norbutse Monastery. Since then, he has been teaching Dzögchen in the meditation school there as well as Sutra, Tantra, Dzogchen, astrology, and mandala painting in the monastic dialectic school.
Alongside teaching, Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Rinpoche has been practicing Dzögchen meditation and Ma Gyud Tsa Lung, Trul Khor, and Tummo for two hours every morning. He travels to Tibet, China, Japan, Europe, and England to teach Dzögchen, Tantra, and Tsa Lung.

Ransom Ceremony
2026-02-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Ligmincha Texas, Inc., 5316 Bellaire Blvd, Bellaire, TX, 77402, United States
Ransom Ceremony
Monday, February 16, 2026
Ligmincha Texas Center
6:00 pm CST in person only
Geshe Denma will hold a cleansing Ransom Ceremony at our center. At that time, we will use this opportunity to cleanse ourselves spiritually, to be ready for the New Year. Geshe Denma will give us blessing water. We will think about releasing all the negative things that happened in this year and the karmic traces so they will not be carried into the new male Fire Horse year. All are welcome to come and bring anyone who is interested in this beautiful experience. Before the Ransom Ceremony, in anticipation of the new year, we need to cleanse ourselves externally, by cleaning our house, office, car, and finishing projects. Take this time to prepare for a clean start in the next year, leaving all negativities and unfinished business in the old year.

Losar Tibetan New Year 2026
2026-02-18 | From Home, Houston, United States
Ligmincha Texas will not be celebrating Losar Tibetan New Year in 2026 on February 18, 2026.
In the year 2025, our benevolent root lama, His Eminence, the supreme Menri Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, attained the body of enlightenment. On the first day of the Tibetan New Year, we request that you recite the Prayer to Yongdzin Rinpoche, then meditate and receive the blessings from his enlightened body, enlightened speech, and enlightened mind to your body, speech, and mind.

The Invocation of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen One Day Retreat
2026-02-21 10:00 - 15:00 | Ligmincha Texas Center & Online via Zoom, 5316 Bellaire Blvd, Bellaire, TX, 77401, United States
The Invocation of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen
One Day Retreat
February 21, 2026
To prepare for this event, Geshe Denma Gyaltsen will hold a one-day retreat on February 21, 2026, on the Invocation of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen. He will review his biography and the importance of celebrating his birthday annually.

This one-day retreat will be offered in person and via Zoom. Language translation will be available in Spanish and Russian with the possibility of other languages. All are welcome to attend.

Retreat teachings and practices will be taught in English.
Live translation will be available in Spanish and Russian.
Written translations will be available in Spanish and Russian.

REGISTRATION:
Complete payment below. After payment is complete, you will receive an email with links to the Zoom Registration and the Handouts. All recordings will be made available to registered participants after the retreat is over at the same link as the Handouts.
There is early bird pricing available until noon the Saturday before the retreat.
Financial hardship need not prevent practitioners from attending Zoom teachings. If you need assistance, please inquire about available scholarships by emailing info@ligminchatexas.org. This must be done at least 1 week prior to the retreat.
We have switched to using Zeffy. This allows us to keep 100% of your donations and registrations, as Zeffy does not charge us any payment processing fees. They do, however, ask you to make a donation to them. If you would prefer not to donate to Zeffy, in the Donation Box at the bottom, select “Other” from the Drop Down Box that is prefilled with a percentage and dollar amount , and leave the Contribution Box empty.

670th Birthday of Nyamme Sherap Gyaltsen
2026-02-22 11:00 - 17:00 | Private residence, Galveston, United States
On Sunday, February 22, 2026, at 11:00 am CST, we will celebrate the 670th
birthday of Nyamme Sherap Gyaltsen. We will offer a Sangchö fire ritual
and a fish release ritual in Tibetan and English. These are special
spiritual experiences that bring blessings and merit to those who
participate. After, we will share a meal together. We will meet at the
home of Jackie Cole and Harvey Rice in Galveston TX.
Contact Jackie Cole for directions at jackie.cole001@comcast.net.
