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2025 Onsite Silent Dzogchen Practice Retreat

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

September 30 - October 5, 2025

Date and Time Details: September 30–October 5, 2025

Location: Serenity Ridge Retreat Center

Address: 560 Drumheller Lane, Shipman, VA, USA

  • Commuter w/Teachings + All Meals – $425.00
  • Tent Site – $510.00
  • Single Room w/shared bath – $745.00
  • 3rd Floor Single Room w/semi-private bath – $795.00
  • Double Room (2 Twin beds) w/shared bath – $860.00
  • 3rd Floor Double Room (2 Twin beds) w/semi-private bath – $910.00
  • 3rd Floor Queen Bed Room w/semi-private bath – $945.00
  • Private Queen+Twin Room w/ensuite bath – $1,195.00
  • Private Queen/Queen Room w/ensuite bath – $1,295.00
  • 3rd Floor Queen/Twin Room w/ Ensuite bath – $1,370.00
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Silence is a powerful tool. Sitting in stillness and resting in silence, the mind can grow more calm and our awareness more luminous. Silence helps us to open the heart and let go of the stresses of daily life. It is not always an easy practice, but it is a powerful tool for personal transformation and expanded awareness. 

Come join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for his first silent retreat in many years! He will support us in finding a deep connection to our inner stillness, silence and spaciousness. This is not a strictly silent retreat. Once per day Rinpoche will provide instruction and there will be opportunities to ask questions about practice, and there will be time for connecting with other retreatants on the last day. The rest of our time in and out of the meditation hall will be spent in noble silence. 

We offer free lodging on Sunday and Monday nights (October 5 & 6), between the end of the silent retreat and the start of the Serenity Ridge Dialogues as well as breakfast on those days at no charge if you register for both events. 

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About the Teacher

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha International, is one of only a few masters of the Bön Dzogchen tradition presently living in the West. An accomplished scholar in the Bön Buddhist textual traditions of philosophy, exegesis, and debate, Tenzin Rinpoche completed a rigorous11-year course of traditional studies at the Bönpo Monastic […]

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