100 Handprint Healing Chöd Ritual with Lama Tsering Wangdu
The Changbu Gyatsa (100 Handprint) Puja is a special chöd practice from the Longchen Nyingthig tradition especially used for healing. Lama Wangdu Tsering Rinpoche will perform this practice for the benefit and protection of all beings during this Covid-19 pandemic and to help to restore balance to the environment. This is a very rare practice performed by a great master.
If you have received this practice from Lama Wangdu Rinpoche and would like to practice along with him, you may do so, but all microphones will be muted except for Rinpoche’s in order to create a better listening experience for all. Alternatively, if you would like to receive this puja for your own healing, simply lie down on your right side and listen while Rinpoche performs the practice on your behalf.
This event is offered free of charge, however if you would like to make a donation to support Rinpoche and his work, please do so via the button below. 100% of donations will go to Lama Wangdu Rinpoche to support the projects of his choice.
About Lama Wangdu Rinpoche:
Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche is a lineage holder of the Longchen Nyingthig, Shije, and Chod traditions. Born in 1935 in Tingri Langkor, Tibet, he received transmission and training from his root Lama, Naptra Rinpoche, and completed the traditional 108 charnel ground Chod pilgrimage before he was twenty. Naptra Rinpoche sent Lama Wangdu to Nepal on pilgrimage shortly before the Chinese closed the border in 1959. A well-trained and experienced yogi, he has lived in Nepal ever since, spending much of his life in retreat and serving the Tibetan refugee community.
In Nepal, Tibet, and China, Rinpoche is well known as an accomplished Chod practitioner and healer. Until 2018, he was the Abbot of Pal Gyi Langkor Jangsem Kunga Ling Monastery in Boudha, Nepal, which he founded in 2000. Today he is mostly in retreat or teaching and leading practice communities in the United States.
Rinpoche’s style is, in the yogic tradition, simple and direct. Though he often teaches by telling stories of yogis and yoginis, he encourages people to focus on practice rather than discussion and his retreats reflect his confidence in experiential realization. Chod is Rinpoche’s heart practice. He received the empowerment to practice Chod soon after meeting Naptra Rinpoche and spent many years practicing in retreat in Nepal and Tibet. Machik Labdron and Padampa Sangye, the founders of this tradition, lived and practiced in the same valleys and mountains and left behind a rich tradition that he now holds.