Rigpa Melbourne

Rigpa Melbourne

Our experienced instructors guide students in meditation sessions, applying proven Authentic Tibetan Buddhist skillful methods taught over 2000 years.

The most profound teachings are shared in a way that are practical and easy to understand, and which are most helpful to your life.

We further provide a clear authentic Buddhist path for people who want to go deeper into spiritual practice and explore the deeper meaning of life.

We are open to all schools and traditions of Buddhist wisdom, and with the guidance and gracious patronage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Sogyal Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Rigpa, an international network of 130 Buddhist centres spread across 41 countries. He has been travelling to and teaching in Australia for over 30 years.

A world-renowned Buddhist teacher from Tibet, Sogyal Rinpoche is also the author of the best seller and highly acclaimed, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying which has sold over 2 million copies. His linage masters include Jamyang Khyntse Chokyi Lodro, one of the most outstanding spiritual masters of the twentieth century and also teacher to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, and Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche also renounced as most outstanding spiritual masters.

Rigpa is a Tibetan word, which in general means "intelligence" or awareness. In Dzogchen, however, the highest teachings in the Buddhist tradition of Tibet, Rigpa has a far deeper connotation, "the innermost nature of the mind". The whole of the teaching of Buddha is directed to realising this, our ultimate nature, the state of omniscience or enlightenment - a truth so universal, or primordial that it goes beyond all limits, and beyond even religion itself.





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