United States Retreats

Crestone introductory and advanced retreats are recorded for release to qualified students as Youtube delayed broadcasts. These broadcasts are available for a specific amount of time, usually for one year from the day they are recorded.

Two kinds of online retreats are offered:  Practice Questions and Answers, and YouTube Broadcasts.

Practice Questions and Answers:  To attend online retreats, you must be a student of a qualified Vajrayana or Dzogchen master. Pointing out instructions are not necessary for these teachings.

YouTube Broadcasts:  Advanced retreats require students to be a student of a Vajrayana and/or Dzogchen master and having received pointing out instructions.

If you did not receive pointing out instructions from Tsoknyi Rinpoche, you are asked to watch an open retreat teaching. This will help you become more familiar with his use of terms and style of teaching before attending the retreat. Once you register, a link will be sent to you by the Registrar.  

Please contact the Registrar if you have any questions regarding the above. ([email protected])

Once the broadcast period ends, you must be registered in the Pundarika Membership Program to view these teachings. Please go to: https://tsoknyirinpoche.org/membership/ if you would like to become a Pundarika member.  

Please note: these broadcasts are only for the use of the qualified person.  

View as Vast as Sky, Conduct Fine as Barley Flour: Introductory Streamed Retreat

With Tsoknyi Rinpoche

August 16 - 18, 2022

Live, online broadcast from the Garrison Institute

** PLEASE NOTE: For your planning and to give Rinpoche the flexibility he may need for the introductory teachings, we have only a provisional end date of August 18. This…

View as Vast as Sky, Conduct Fine as Barley Flour: Advanced Streamed Retreat

With Tsoknyi Rinpoche

August 16 - 22, 2022

Live, online broadcast from the Garrison Institute

This teaching will focus on how to establish a living and vital connection between the view of Dzogchen and its natural expression in our daily lives. This is a live,…

Dreamlike Enlightenment: Introductory Streamed Retreat

With Tsoknyi Rinpoche

September 6 - 8, 2022

Live, online broadcast from Crestone

** PLEASE NOTE: For your planning and to give Rinpoche flexibility he may need for the introductory teachings, we have only a provisional end date of September 8. This teaching…

Dreamlike Enlightenment: Advanced Streamed Retreat

With Tsoknyi Rinpoche

September 6 - 11, 2022

Live, online broadcast from Crestone

Tsoknyi Rinpoche often quotes an ancient teaching of the Buddha:  "My dreamlike form appears to dreamlike beings to show them the dreamlike path that leads to dreamlike enlightenment."   (Bhadrakalpa Sutra)…

Dzogchen Practice Intensive: Advanced Streamed Retreat

With Tsoknyi Rinpoche

September 13 - 18, 2022

Streamed from Crestone

The profound teachings of Dzogchen help us to directly discover our primordially pure nature, allowing our confused concepts and emotions to be naturally liberated. This direct and non-conceptual knowing is…