Online Teaching
About this event
When we visualize the deity, we are not imagining an external Buddha or Bodhisattva. We are awakening the innate Buddha nature and primordial wisdom already present within us.
In the deity practice, one must train in the development stage. The development stage is not about creating illusions — it is the process of allowing the mind to return from conceptual elaboration to its original nature.
Through visualizing the deity, mantra, mandala, and the emanation and reabsorption of light, we learn to dissolve body, speech, and mind into awareness. This practice guides the mind from fabrication back to the primordial purity that underlies all appearances and experiences — the Buddha nature. This is a journey of returning to the creative power of the mind. When you visualize the deity — the pure expression of awakened nature — you are directly recognizing the luminous essence of your mind.
The White Tara practice in the Path of Liberation Level 5, as taught by Venerable Mingyur Rinpoche, unites the deity practice with the path of liberation. Therefore, these eight sessions taught by Khenpo Kunga, who has just completed his three-year retreat, will guide you in recognizing the nature of mind as the deity through the development stage practice. Do not miss this profound opportunity.
What is included in this event?
- Eight sessions over four weekends
- Guidance in recognizing the nature of mind as the deity through development stage practice
- Training in visualization of the deity, mantra, mandala, and emanation/reabsorption of light
- Online access via Zoom (1.5 hours per session)
About Venerable Khenpo Kunga
Khenpo Kunga's first teaching after completing his Three-Year Retreat — a rare opportunity! Teaches in the lineage of Venerable Mingyur Rinpoche.
Khenpo Kunga is a Senior Tergar Lama. He became a monk at a young age and began his education at Tergar monastery, where he studied the rituals, prayers, and other traditional practices of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. At fifteen, he entered an extended meditation retreat and spent three years mastering the profound contemplative practices of the Kagyü lineage.
Following this period of intense meditation practice, he entered the renowned Dzongsar monastic college near Dharamsala in Northwest India. After studying there for eleven years and receiving his Khenpo degree (roughly equivalent to a PhD), he taught at Dzongsar college for three additional years. Khenpo Kunga’s primary teacher is Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, though he has studied with many other revered masters as well.