Neding
Located in the sacred hidden land of Yolmo in the hills northeast of Kathmandu, Neding is a retreat place founded by the great Nyingma master Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche (1913–2015), one of the most revered Dzogchen yogis of the twentieth century. He gave this place its name: Yang khrod kun bzang chos gling — the Upper Hermitage, the Garden of Dharma of Samantabhadra, where everything is good.
History
Neding was formally inaugurated by Chatral Rinpoche in 1988 with the start of the first three-year retreat. Over the years, Chatral Rinpoche bestowed a remarkable treasury of transmissions on large gatherings of practitioners including the Longchen Nyingthig, the Düdjom Tersar, Jangter, and Rigdzin Sogdrup (klong chen snying thig, bdud ‘joms gter gsar, byang gter, rig ʼdzin srog sgrub), complete with their empowerments, reading transmissions, and oral instructions according to the hearing lineage.
Neding today
Neding continues as a retreat place under the care of Khentrul Ngawang Lhundrup Rinpoche, who carries forward the vision and legacy of Chatral Rinpoche with unbreakable dedication. Since 2011, in accordance with the wishes of both Chatral Rinpoche and his daughter Seymo Saraswati, Khentrul Rinpoche has been entrusted with the stewardship of this place.
Planning a Retreat in Neding
Khentrul Rinpoche warmly welcomes practitioners and visitors from around the world to Neding to receive the blessings of this consecrated place, to enjoy a simple and unhurried life amid the natural beauty of Yolmo, to meditate in a retreat environment that has been hallowed by the practice of countless meditators, or to contribute their time and energy to the construction, renovation, and care of Neding’s retreat facilities.
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The Dhāraṇīs that Encapsulate the Essence of the Kangyur
The dhāraṇīs that encapsulate the essence of the Kangyur, the collected canonical words of the Buddha. They were written down by the great Guru Padmasambhava before…
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Constructing a Cemetery according to the Method of the Noble Wrathful Black Ḍākinī, Tröma Nagmo, to Offer Refuge to the Protectorless
རྗེ་བཙུན་ཁྲོས་མ་ནག་མོའི་སྒོ་ནས་བཅོས་མའི་དུར་ཁྲོད་སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཐབས་མགོན་མེད་སྐྱབས་སྦྱིན། (rje btsun khros ma nag mo’i sgo nas bcos ma’i dur khrod sgrub pa’i thabs mgon med skyabs sbyin) by འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་ revealed by ཉང་རལ་ཉི་མ་འོད་ཟེར་ in the cycle ཉང་གཏེར་སྨིན་གླིང་ལུགས་ཁྲོས་མ་ནག་མོ་…
Teachings & Translations
Khentrul Rinpoche received a thorough and wide-ranging education under the guidance of numerous distinguished masters, among them Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche, Tsetrul Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche, H.H. Dalai Lama, Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Khenchen Rigdzin Dorje, Namkhai Nyingpo Rinpoche, Nyungne Lama, and, most centrally, Chatral Rinpoche himself. He shares this inheritance generously with students from many countries. A selection of his teachings, available in translation, can be found on this website; further teachings may be requested directly.
Tibetan Texts
Khentrul Rinpoche has dedicated considerable effort to transcribing texts from manuscripts that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to access — among them works printed in archaic block-print editions, texts dense with abbreviations, documents written in dbu med script, and materials unavailable through conventional channels. A selection of these transcriptions is shared here.
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The Terma Collection of Jatsön Nyingpo (‘ja’ tshon snying po)
Jatsön Nyingpo (འཇའ་ཚོན་སྙིང་པོ་, 1585–1656) is a famous terton. His termas are collected in six volumes—the Jatsön Pö Druk (‘ja’ tshon pod drug) “Jatson Nyingpo spent seventeen…
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A Letter Addressed to All the Gods and Humans of Tibet: The Mirror That Distinguishes Virtues from Faults
༄༅། །བོད་ཁམས་ལྷ་མི་ཡོངས་ལ་ཆེད་དུ་སྤྲིངས་པ་སྐྱོན་ཡོན་མ་འདྲེས་འཆར་བའི་མེ་ལོང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། by Chatral Rinpoche །འདི་ཁོ་ནའོ། །འདྲེན་མཆོག་ཤཱཀྱའི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་བཀའ། སྔགས་འཆང་པདྨ་ཐོད་ཕྲེང་གི་ལུང་། རིག་འཛིན་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་པ་ཁྲོ་རྒྱལ་སངས་རྒྱས་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཚིག This is all there is to say. It is the command of the king of the Śākyas, the supreme…
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Longchen Nyingtik Chod Practice
klong chen snying gi thig le las gcod yul mkha’ ‘gro’i gad rgyang The Ḍākinī’s Resounding Expanse Chöd Practice, from the Heart Essence of the Vast…
News & Activities
Khentrul Rinpoche’s Activities
Beyond his stewardship of Neding Yangtro Choling, Khentrul Rinpoche’s activities span a wide range of Dharma engagements: performing consecrations, healings, and protection ceremonies, offering predictions, conducting fire pujas, overseeing the construction of stupas, designing new retreat facilities and statues, and attending to the many other responsibilities that fall to a teacher of his standing.
A selection of news and updates from these activities is shared here.
Khentrul Ngawang Lhundrup Rinpoche
A collection of autobiographical stories told by Khentrul Rinpoche
As the Jātakas state:
“One should follow many learned masters as one’s teachers, listen to diverse Sūtra and Tantra teachings with both reasoning and intuition. To guide others, one must rely on the Sūtras. Without mastery of the five sciences, enlightenment remains as distant as the horizon.”
