GYALWA PUKANG MONASTERY'S RETREAT CENTER
Rim Nyi Samten Chöling
The prayer which is the Source of All True Realization
By Mipam Rinpoche
"To the eight manifestations of Guru Rinpoche. The eight great accomplished vidyadharas,
The eight great bodhisattvas, The eight mandalas of Kagy’e with all their deities,
To you we pray-inspire us with your blessings! Dispel all obstacles outer, inner and secret!
Fulfil all our aspirations! Grant us attainments, ordinary and supreme!"
 At the retreat center of Pukang Monastery, fortunate students begin by studying the “mind training” teachings with a qualified spiritual guide, a necessary condition for the spiritual path. Having used these teachings to develop renunciation and bodhichitta, they then move on to a course of practice based on the tradition of Okemin Orgyen Mindroling Monastery. Emphasizing the vast teachings of the Collected Tantras and the profound teachings of the Collected Sadhanas, students complete the practices of a number of supreme yidam deities, inclusive of the approach, accomplishment, and activity aspects of their respective practices. In reliance upon the two stages (development stage and completion stage), the short path of the Secret Mantra Vajrayana, an uninterrupted stream practice continues year in and year out. 
Rigzin Terdag Lingpa was the speech emanation of the great translator Vairocana. At the request of the dakinis, the body of his pristine cognition assumed the form of Heruka and Terdag Lingpa, accompanied by rainbows and various wondrous omens, was born on Monday, March 26, 1646 (tenth day, second month, fire dog year).
 His mother was Yum Lhandzin Yangchen Drolma, who was herself a direct descendent of the Chögyal Dynasty of the great kings Songtsen Gampo and Trisong Deutsen.
His father, Sangdak Thrinley Lhundrup, was the reincarnation of Nubchen Sangyay Yeshe, one of the twenty-five disciples of Guru Padmasambhava. Sangdak Thrinley Lhundrup himself, born at Chak Jangchubling in 1611 (iron female pig year), was the son of Khedrub Don-Nga Tenzin, a learned and accomplished teacher of the Nyö clan. Sangdak Thrinley Lhundrub was a renowned scholar and teacher who studied wwith more than 30 highly accomplished masters of the time. He then bestowed these profound and vast teachings on his supreme spiritual son of body, speech and mind, the great treasure finder Chögyal Terdag Lingpa Rigzin Jurme Dorje.
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