The All Encompassing Path
2025-12-31 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Exploring compassion practices set within the context of the Vajrayana preliminaries, the ngöndro, in a fresh and meaningful way.
Online
Thursday evenings

The All-Encompassing Path to Enlightenment (AEPE) is the main study programme in Rigpa, for students of all levels: new, more advanced or in-between. This year, the AEPE will focus on compassion practices. These will be set within the context of the vajrayana preliminary practices, called Ngöndro in Tibetan.
Rigpa’s most experienced teachers will guide us through the key principles of the Ngöndro, helping us to explore these principles in a fresh, up-to-date, real life way, while preserving their authenticity. These practices are a complete path in themselves and also the foundation for Vajrayana and Dzogchen practice, encompassing all the elements needed to prepare us to fully receive the Great Perfection teachings of Dzogchen, the highest and most direct stream of wisdom within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. So no matter where we are on our path, the AEPE will support us in taking it to completion.

Online
When: Thursday evenings, all year
6:00-7:30pm AEDT (8:00am CET, 2:00am Mon US East)
Where: Online via Zoom
Pricing: free for Rigpa subscribers
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The Home Retreat
2025-12-31 08:00 - 2026-12-31 17:00
A weekly online study program
This seven-year program is a comprehensive, authentic program of study and practice embedded in the Longchen Nyingtik lineage and Sogyal Rinpoche’s Dzogchen teachings.

The Home Retreat is one of the most comprehensive and authentic Tibetan Buddhist teaching and practice programs offered anywhere in the world.
The Home Retreat is an on-line study and practice program intended for Rigpa students who wish to follow the vast and unique teachings of Sogyal Rinpoche. It incorporates all of the teachings from Sogyal Rinpoche’s 2006 Three-Year Retreat plus some additional topics.
The Home Retreat is embedded in the Longchen Nyingtik lineage and the teachings of the ‘Great Perfection’, Dzogpachenpo, a dynamic, unbroken, living lineage of wisdom and compassion that leads us on a journey through the three yanas.
In addition to the weekly on-line study program, the Home Retreat offers regular Zoom study sessions and monthly Zoom group gatherings. The Home Retreat does ask that you maintain a stable commitment to your study and practice each week.
(Completion of all Home Retreat modules, and 50 percent of the Ngöndro accumulations is a prerequisite for entry into Rigpa’s Dzogchen Mandala.)
This exciting and dynamic seven year program is open to all Rigpa Mandala students. It is anticipated that our next intake into the Home Retreat will occur in May 2027.
If you are a Rigpa mandala student who is interested in applying for the Home Retreat program, please email rigpa.australia@rigpa.org.au.
