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SAVE THE DATE: LAMA CHÖKYI GYALTSEN ONTARIO TEACHING VISIT – FALL 2026

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The Namgyal Yangzab Buddhist Community of Canada

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Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen Ontario Teaching Visit • Fall 2026

The Namgyal Yangzab Buddhist Community of Canada (NYBCC) is delighted to welcome Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen for a series of teachings, empowerments and urban retreats this fall in Toronto and at the Dharma Centre of Canada.

At a Glance:

  • Sept 28 – Oct 6 — Toronto Urban Retreat, Session 1 Course Fee: $450 ($50 per day)
  • Oct 10 – 12 — Dharma Centre of Canada, Kinmount retreats@dharmacentre.org
  • Oct 15 – 18 — Toronto Urban Retreat, Session 2 Course Fee: $200 ($50 per day)
Stay tuned for a Zoom announcement

Registration for Toronto Urban Retreats

Registration for Dharma Centre of Canada

Toronto Urban Retreats — The Five Essential Realizations

Both Toronto sessions (Sept 28 – Oct 6 and Oct 15 – 18) focus on the Five Essential Realizations of Buddha Dharma.

“These five increasingly profound realizations are indisputable, unshakable and adamantine. They bridge the mundane experience and the unchanging transcendent nature of all beings and all their experience.” — Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen, The Five Essential Realizations of Buddha Dharma, August 2025

Lama Gyaltsen will draw from the three major cycles of the Buddha’s teaching — from the first turning of the Wheel of Dharma through to the ultimate view and activities of the third turning, Vajrayana. He will also teach the foundational recognitions and wisdom understandings that build a sturdy basis for these realizations — especially:

  • Causality (karma)
  • Naming and experience
  • Bodhicitta

Recognitions, guidance and practices will all be given, alongside reading transmission, commentary and meditation on:

  • Ju Mipham’s text, Profound Instruction on Śamatha.
  • Longchenpa’s Precious Treasury of Phenomenal Space — the root text for his Seven Treasures.
  • The Mahāmudrā, Eliminating the Darkness of Ignorance by the Ninth Karmapa, Wangchug Dorje.

For experienced practitioners only:

The Drikung Yangzab Empowerment of Hayagriva Kilaya and practice instructions — an extraordinarily powerful means of removing and averting obstacles and obstructions and clearing arrogance and impediments. Open only to mature, experienced practitioners of Vajrayana. Time, date and location to be announced.

For more information contact namgyalyangzab@gmail.com

The Dharma Centre of Canada, Kinmount — Oct 10–12

  • Oct 10 — Wisdom and compassion: Karma Pakshi empowerment & Dzogchen practice. A profound Guru Yoga for the cultivation of mental strength, protection of the Dharma and the realization of Wisdom and compassion. Prerequisite: completion of 100,000 mantras of Chenrezi or another Yidam.
  • Oct 11 — White Mañjuśrī empowerment. The utterly profound practice of a White Mañjuśrī and Sarasvati mandala from the collected direct instructions (Upadesha) of Gyalwang Rinchen Puntsok (16th century) for a celebration and recollection of Ven. Dorje Namgyal Rinpoche’s great gifts to countless beings. Also, a pith Guru Yoga practice of the Union of Guru Rinpoche–Namgyal Rinpoche as revealed to Lama Gyaltsen. All are welcome to attend!
  • Oct 12 — To be announced.

Registration for the Dharma Centre of Canada Contact: retreats@dharmacentre.org / www.dharmacentre.org Address: 1267 Galway Rd, Kinmount, ON K0M 2A0, Canada

About Lama Chökyi Gyaltsen Lama Mark Webber (Lama Yongdu Chökyi Gyaltsen)

Lama Mark Webber (Lama Yongdu Chökyi Gyaltsen) has been studying, meditating, and teaching Buddha-dharma for fifty years. For thirty years his main root teacher was the late Ven. Dorje Namgyal Rinpoche, who taught all three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings including Shamatha, Vipassana in the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw, generation and completion stage practices of the Tantrayana and Mahamudra/Dzogchen of many lineages, especially of the Karma Kagyu and Sakya.

Under the guidance and transmissions of the late Drikung Lho Ontul Rinpoche and requests of H.E. Lho Karma Ratna Rinpoche, Lama Webber has been teaching principally the richness of the Drikung Mahamudra, Drikung Dzogchen Yangzab and Orgyen Nuden Dorje Dzogchen traditions, transmissions of pith texts of Padmasambhava, Je Gampopa, Jamgon Ju Mipham, Dza Patrul Rinpoche and Shantideva’s Bodhisattvacaryavatara, a transmission from Amnyi Trulchung Rinpoche.

He has a deep and long-term interest in the sciences and collaborates in marine biology research and the arts which he integrates with the teaching of Buddhism. Lama Webber is a founding board director of the national ecological research institute IMERSS (imerss.org). Lama Webber’s compassionate activities demonstrate a profound commitment to freeing beings from innumerable suffering states. His emphasis with practitioners and students is on uncovering pure Dharma to reveal its extraordinary benefits and share the great joy of its deep study, meditative practices and integration into all aspects of our lives.