Online - Annual Phowa Daylong Meditation Retreat

With Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche

January 24, 2026

Date and Time Details: Saturday, January 24th, 2026, from 10am - 4pm Pacific Time

Location: Online via Zoom

Contact: Pristine Mind Foundation
info@pristinemind.org

Payment Options: No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please contact us if you need to make special arrangements.

Prices
  • $50.00 – Program Price
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  • $51.00 to $250.00 – Program Price + Donation
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  • $10.00 to $49.00 – Scholarship Rate
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Registration for this program will be open soon
Registration for this program will be open soon

Saturday, January 24, 2026
Online from 10:00am – 4:00pm Pacific Time

This retreat will be held online only.

In order to live comfortably and enjoy life, you need to feel comfort with the inevitability of death. Phowa, the meditation practice for transferring consciousness to the enlightened state at the time of death, is the key to living joyfully and dying fearlessly.

If you are free from fear, concern, and worry about death, you enjoy life more. Phowa meditation allows us to have a beautiful journey at the time of death and to live life joyfully and free from worry about death. In this way, Phowa helps us both at the time of death and during our lives. This has been the experience of many past meditation practitioners.

Each year, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche holds an Annual Phowa Meditation program as a way to help students to learn about and refresh their familiarity with this practice.

In this Annual Phowa Daylong Online Meditation Retreat, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche will teach on these practices for transferring consciousness to the enlightened state at the time of death and will provide guidance in this meditation practice based on a practice manual from the Longchen Nyingtik tradition that Rinpoche has translated into English.

This retreat is open to anyone interested in these types of meditation practices that include visualization and mantra recitation. The practices and teachings of this retreat will particularly resonate with those who have practiced Phowa, Ngondro, or other Vajrayana practices.

The Annual Phowa Daylong Meditation Retreat will be held Online on January 24th and will include live streamed video and access to on-demand recordings.

The PDF of the practice text will be provided to all participants prior to the start of the retreat. We will send more information on the practice text when it becomes available.

If you have a different time zone, convert the time to your local time here.

Prerequisites:

  • There are no prerequisites and anyone with a background with or interest in meditation is welcome to attend.

Live Stream and Recording:

  • The Retreat will be live-streamed on Zoom for participants attending Online.
  • Video recordings will be available for all participants (In-Person and Online) approximately one week after the retreat. The recordings will be available for 1 month.

Additional Notes:

  • If you have a different time zone, you may convert the time to your local time here.

About the Teacher

Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche

Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche is a meditation master and teacher residing in the San Francisco bay area of California. Rinpoche began his studies in Tibet with the great Jigmed Phuntsok Rinpoche, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of the twentieth century.

Learn more about Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche

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