WISDOM CENTER
OF SANTA CRUZ
Drubpon Pema Rigdzin has trained in Tibetan Buddhism for thirty years and completed extensive Vajrayana retreats under Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. Drubpon is a lead ritual chanter (umdze) at the Vajrayna Foundation, and teacher for Drub Nyiy Döjö Gatsal, our Three-Year Retreat Center. He is also a Chaplain with Stanford Health Care and the Hospice of Santa Cruz County, an acupuncturist with a BA in Physical Therapy and a keen researcher of ancestral forms of healing.
Torma Cha Sum
The Threefold Torma
with Pema Rigdzin
Thursday, January 30, 2025, 6 pm pacific time
In Person at the Wisdom Center or Online
When we deepen our awareness and understanding of the natural world and its unseen inhabitants and cultivate respectful and positive relationships with those beings and places, healing of our body, mind, and environment begins to unfold.
In the Tibetan healing tradition, the Torma Cha Sum ceremony serves as a profound practice to eliminate obstacles in our lives and our spiritual journey. Performed to aid those who are ill, particularly illnesses believed to stem from disturbances caused by various classes of spirits, it pacifies and restores balance and harmony with the environment.
This specific ritual was composed by Terdak Lingpa Gyurme Dorje (1646–1714), the founder of Mindroling Monastery in Tibet and it comes from the outer tantras.
$40 Support; $20 low income.